Same sort of thing happened twice to me, I missed Y2k and I missed out on when we were going to get sucked into a blackhole from the LHC. Damn, here's hoping the Mayan's got it right.Good morning blues said:
Poll: December 21,2012. What do you think will happen?
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Loljuandonde said:Skynet will become self aware and begin it's plan to exterminate the human race.
But seriously, what most people fail to realize is that the Mayan calender system was cyclical, so that on december 22, 2012, it would simply become january 1, 0000 on a mayan calender
while our years may keep going up like 2012 2013 and so on, our own calender cycles through every 400 years.PsyberGoth said:Loljuandonde said:Skynet will become self aware and begin it's plan to exterminate the human race.
But seriously, what most people fail to realize is that the Mayan calender system was cyclical, so that on december 22, 2012, it would simply become january 1, 0000 on a mayan calender
i realize this, i was just remarking that the perceived end of the world as "predicted" by the mayan calender was merely a clerical decision.darkstone said:
I cant say but if we are to come to our inevitable doom on this date I can tell you were you can find me.....drunk in a strip club...or drunk in a lawn chair in my front yard waiting for all hell to break loose.
No they don't, but it is rather disturbing to see that a calendar that can accurately predict them centuries before they happen abruptly ends on December 21, 2012.meatloaf231 said:
Oh, and by the way, I'm one of those "maybe" people, but I just like to try and justify the other side of the argument.
Why precisely does the end of a calendar mean the end of the world? The Mayans, as a culture, claim to have lasted through three distinctly different "ages of the earth". The fact that there calendar ends on Dec 2012 just means that thats when they were expecting the next one.
And, from a completely pointless astrological perspective (I can't even help myself), we are right at the end of the age of Pisces moving into the age of Aquarious so you could argue that they have a point.
And, from a completely pointless astrological perspective (I can't even help myself), we are right at the end of the age of Pisces moving into the age of Aquarious so you could argue that they have a point.
Just noticed that post, you know that the Mayans were long gone by the time Europeans ever set foot in the Americas right? The Aztecs may have been what you were thinking of, or possibly the Incas.tijuanatim said:
Eclipses run on a cycle. The Mayan empire existed from about 600-1500 AD. You'd think they'd have enough time to figure out the pattern.Dancingman said:
I heard Sarah Palin is going to run for president in 2012. If that doesn't trigger the apocalypse, I don't know what will.
Imagine a boot stomping on the face of all humanity forever.
That's not what's gonna happen. Not even close.
It's just gonna be another day...Only there will be a few less people outside because they'll be busy waiting for the world to end.
Apologies for giving you hopes up. It just makes sense to me that any doomsday prediction is going to be wrong because they've all been wrong up until now (the only exception being if someone is threatening to destroy the world, but we wouldn't know about that).
That's not what's gonna happen. Not even close.
It's just gonna be another day...Only there will be a few less people outside because they'll be busy waiting for the world to end.
Apologies for giving you hopes up. It just makes sense to me that any doomsday prediction is going to be wrong because they've all been wrong up until now (the only exception being if someone is threatening to destroy the world, but we wouldn't know about that).