Poll: Damn,2012 is becoming true..Or is it...
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you know i have a calendar that also abruptly ends at december 31st. its called a gregorian calendar and just because it ends doesnt mean the world ends it just means it starts a new calendar.
Actually the mayan calender and Nostrodamus don't say the world will end. Just that it will change. Astrologically (which okay isn't exactly the most scientific basis *snort*) its the end of the age of pisces (the fish) which has been widely recongnised as the age of christianity. It's going into that of Aquarius which symbolises wisdom and free thinking. To me it looks almost like just the internet is already causing alot of changes. Basically brace yourself guys, the age of the geeks inc. 
In the end at least I'll have a year or so to play Skyrim which is the important thing.
In the end at least I'll have a year or so to play Skyrim which is the important thing.
ugh. he hasn't done as much good as everyone hoped. i just don't want a ton of massive mistakes...i just subconsciously assume that he'll cause a lot of it if he gets another term lolSkratt said:
im LDS, so im expecting shiz to hit the fan big time in the next 15-20 years max, but its just a "we'll see what happens when it happens" thing; i just guess, i don't have any knowing about it. but i keep an open mind to HOW things might happen.
btw, the pic rocks!
To the best of my knowledge, the Mayans didn't so much say "the world will end in 2012" as "some time before 2012 we should really get cracking on a new calender."
There have been earthquakes before, and stars going supernova before, as well as volcanoes, tsunamis, dust storms, floods, the Black Death, world wars, and so on (not to in any way minimize the tragedies that have recently befallen Japan.) People have believed the world was coming to an end many, many times before, under all manner of desperate calamities.
There will be "apocalyptic" disasters in the future as well. But they won't necessarily be harbingers of an actual apocalypse. Honestly, I'd be more worried about the rise in grain prices and petroleum- quieter than earthquakes and tsunamis, certainly, but far more likely to cause long-term devastation to our civilization as we know it.
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There have been earthquakes before, and stars going supernova before, as well as volcanoes, tsunamis, dust storms, floods, the Black Death, world wars, and so on (not to in any way minimize the tragedies that have recently befallen Japan.) People have believed the world was coming to an end many, many times before, under all manner of desperate calamities.
There will be "apocalyptic" disasters in the future as well. But they won't necessarily be harbingers of an actual apocalypse. Honestly, I'd be more worried about the rise in grain prices and petroleum- quieter than earthquakes and tsunamis, certainly, but far more likely to cause long-term devastation to our civilization as we know it.
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I believe something will happen in 2012, like maybe a major earthquake or devastating disaster but not the end of the world.
I hate when you fanatics start saying that it's the end of the world in 2012, you're all wrong. Your kind of people (the kind that are obsessing) just come off as stupid to me.
And for future posts, how about you click the "Preview" button and take time to edit. Your spelling and grammar is awful and if you want to be taken the slightest bit seriously, improve on those points.
I hate when you fanatics start saying that it's the end of the world in 2012, you're all wrong. Your kind of people (the kind that are obsessing) just come off as stupid to me.
And for future posts, how about you click the "Preview" button and take time to edit. Your spelling and grammar is awful and if you want to be taken the slightest bit seriously, improve on those points.
Earthquakes happen all the time and it's no surprise that when an earthquake hits an area with a nuclear power plant, the plant gets damaged and they have to worry about radiation leaks. As for the star explode, once again, these happen all the time, it's nothing to get overly paranoid about.
People have been preaching that its the end of the world for probably about as long as they realized that their world could end. So far not one of them was right.
Edit: Actually come to think of it, if we just noticed a star exploding, it only means the light from the explosion is just reaching us. That star's been gone for some time now.
People have been preaching that its the end of the world for probably about as long as they realized that their world could end. So far not one of them was right.
Edit: Actually come to think of it, if we just noticed a star exploding, it only means the light from the explosion is just reaching us. That star's been gone for some time now.
How does a star exploding signal the doomsday? Stars explode often enough, we probably just dont notice it. I mean, its not like a star's never exploded before.I am 2 cool 4 anime said:
OT: No, I dont think it is. Especially since the Mayan Calendar resets, and goes to something like the 5th millenia.
I gave the "maybe" response, like I usually do, because I feel both sides of this "debate" are being foolish. Simply put the 2012 stuff has been a subject of analysis for a long time, they were doing "ancient mysteries" type stuff about this since I was a kid. People are simply paying so much attention to this one because of the disasters, and the approach of the date.
The thing is that there is little to nothing normal people can do in such a situation, or else it wouldn't be much of an apocolypse or "end of everything", as such there is little reason to worry to begin with.
The supporters of the idea tend to read too much into random events, those who argue against it are full of just as much disinformation. With so much attention on the subject we have "debunkers" coming out of the woodwork, and really decades ago people were looking at things far more objectively due to the distance of the events and lack of recent events, and seem to have contridicted a lot of current claims.
Overall *IF* the Mayan prophecy is true, it is by definition going to be a supernatural event in overall cause and effect. That is to say that "logic" will have nothing to do with it, despite there perhaps being some effects we can understand to an extent. After all we're dealing with a group of people telling the future, and by definition that should be impossible, especially by their tech level, which raises questions as to how it happened (assuming it did) and if there was some motivation involved on the part of a being sharing that information (if it was some kind of divine intervention), which might explain why it ultimatly had nothing to do with the end of their civilization. I mean if the Mayans believed they were the do all and end all of the world (and keep in mind these guys didn't have ships or colonize very wide area) and asked some divine being (just bear with me, yes I know how this sounds) about the end of the world, an accurate answer, and one that might even satisfy them, would probably have little to do with the end of their own civilization given their general lack of relevence in the big picture.
On top of this, there are questions about the disapperance of the Mayans, that's another whole area of ancient mysteries. People have theories about that, but and there are people claimed to have solved the mystery conclusively, but in reality it's never happened.
The Mayans being one case of the so called "White Effect", that is to say cases where groups of people simply vanish. A famous example would be the Roanoak colony, but through history there have been numerous examples of entire communities just vanishing, and things looking like the people there just walked away or vanished in the middle of what they were doing. There are also cases of individual disappearances that have never been solved when there were individuals of note involved, and countless more of "insignifigant" people vanishing.
The point is that it's more or less irrelevent, the only way we'll know is when the date arises. Overall I'm not betting on the world ending because I'm pretty rational and it doesn't make much sense (and the people against it are right about that). At the same time, there is plenty of wierd crap out there and let's just say that I'm jaded enough where little would surprise me.
The world being a really messed up place though, I kind of expect our end will come (if it ever does) rather unexpectedly, and either with a roar or a whimper a lot of the last people will be thinking "WTF happened".
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The thing is that there is little to nothing normal people can do in such a situation, or else it wouldn't be much of an apocolypse or "end of everything", as such there is little reason to worry to begin with.
The supporters of the idea tend to read too much into random events, those who argue against it are full of just as much disinformation. With so much attention on the subject we have "debunkers" coming out of the woodwork, and really decades ago people were looking at things far more objectively due to the distance of the events and lack of recent events, and seem to have contridicted a lot of current claims.
Overall *IF* the Mayan prophecy is true, it is by definition going to be a supernatural event in overall cause and effect. That is to say that "logic" will have nothing to do with it, despite there perhaps being some effects we can understand to an extent. After all we're dealing with a group of people telling the future, and by definition that should be impossible, especially by their tech level, which raises questions as to how it happened (assuming it did) and if there was some motivation involved on the part of a being sharing that information (if it was some kind of divine intervention), which might explain why it ultimatly had nothing to do with the end of their civilization. I mean if the Mayans believed they were the do all and end all of the world (and keep in mind these guys didn't have ships or colonize very wide area) and asked some divine being (just bear with me, yes I know how this sounds) about the end of the world, an accurate answer, and one that might even satisfy them, would probably have little to do with the end of their own civilization given their general lack of relevence in the big picture.
On top of this, there are questions about the disapperance of the Mayans, that's another whole area of ancient mysteries. People have theories about that, but and there are people claimed to have solved the mystery conclusively, but in reality it's never happened.
The Mayans being one case of the so called "White Effect", that is to say cases where groups of people simply vanish. A famous example would be the Roanoak colony, but through history there have been numerous examples of entire communities just vanishing, and things looking like the people there just walked away or vanished in the middle of what they were doing. There are also cases of individual disappearances that have never been solved when there were individuals of note involved, and countless more of "insignifigant" people vanishing.
The point is that it's more or less irrelevent, the only way we'll know is when the date arises. Overall I'm not betting on the world ending because I'm pretty rational and it doesn't make much sense (and the people against it are right about that). At the same time, there is plenty of wierd crap out there and let's just say that I'm jaded enough where little would surprise me.
The world being a really messed up place though, I kind of expect our end will come (if it ever does) rather unexpectedly, and either with a roar or a whimper a lot of the last people will be thinking "WTF happened".
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We are all going die due to gasoline prices anyway.
Stop worrying about shit you can't do anything about, goddammit.
Stop worrying about shit you can't do anything about, goddammit.
heh, thanks.General BrEeZy said:
I have a hard time blaming any president when it is congress and the senate that we elect to pass all of the laws. Besides, Obama has been in office for 2 years, his predecessors had DECADES to fuck shit up. You can't fix in two years what it took decades to fuck up, even if you did have the full cooperation of the legislative branch - which Obama doesn't. Our country is so fundamentally split down the middle on ideological lines and the polarization is only getting worse. The viewpoints have gotten so polar opposite, it's almost like we are two separate countries mixed together.
Shit needs to hit the fan and ALL the ideological crazies on both sides of the aisle need to be put out to pasture if you ask me. Hey, maybe that is what will happen in 2012?
No one knows when the world will end. Maybe in our life time, maybe not. So as for 2012, no it's not becoming true. Yeah, there are more disasters but no, the world will not end on December (whatever date it is) 2012.
Well, as far as I'm informed, it was either the Mayans or the Aztecs, but one of them believed that, in short, sacrifices are necessary to power their Gods and the greatest sacrifice they could make was blood and/or the human heart. They believed that if they didn't do it, the sun would go out and the world would end.Jewrean said:
I can't jump back in time, but without the scientific theories that are common knowledge today, religious myths were the theory closest to the truth for them, so they took their religion really damn serious.
Not that this changes anything about this hilarious "prophecy", just thought I should point out a few things. I think it's hard to grasp for people nowadays just how important religion and religious answers to questions were without a real alternative theory that science gives us today (and for a lot of people it already mainly defines their worldview instead of religion).
