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12/21/2012

What do you think 12/21/2012 represents?

  • The world will end

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  • Aliens "return"

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What do you believe? Will it be the end of the world? Does the end of the Mayan calendar signify the return of "our alien creators/rulers/gods"? Is it just another day?
 
Just another day in paradise. The Mayan long count calendar 'resets' to zero every 1,872,000 days... December 21, 2012 is the next calculated reset.
 
Trogdar will arrive to burninate the world!

 
Gozer the Gozerian will arrive.

He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
 
I don't see why this should be a cause for concern even if the Mayan calendar actually predicted the world would end in 2012. Why would we trust an ancient Mayan prophecy? The Mayan didn't predict the coming of Cortez, that is an apocryphal myth that originated long after the arrival of the Spanish to the new world. So if there was a Mayan doomsday prophecy, it would be no different than any other myth.

But that's beside the point. There is, in fact, no such prophecy. The end date of the Mayan longcount calendar doesn't mean that the world will end, just that the calendar flips over into the next epoch.
 
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

Beware the Gatekeeper. Glad to see we're on the same page.
 
I don't see why this should be a cause for concern even if the Mayan calendar actually predicted the world would end in 2012. Why would we trust an ancient Mayan prophecy? The Mayan didn't predict the coming of Cortez, that is an apocryphal myth that originated long after the arrival of the Spanish to the new world. So if there was a Mayan doomsday prophecy, it would be no different than any other myth.

But that's beside the point. There is, in fact, no such prophecy. The end date of the Mayan longcount calendar doesn't mean that the world will end, just that the calendar flips over into the next epoch.

Pretty sure that's what I said...lol.
 
This just in: 2012 isn't even the end of the 13th baktun:

wikipedia said:
A baktun (properly b'ak'tun) is 20 katun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equivalent to 394.25 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle. The current (13th) baktun will end, or be completed, on 13.0.0.0.0 (December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation). This also marks the beginning of the 14th baktun, as such a term is usually used among Mayanists.
J. Eric S. Thompson stated that when a Long Count of, say, 9.15.10.0.0 is placed in the 9th baktun, we are almost certainly committing an error, like placing the year 2009 in the 2nd millennium. However, that practice is so well established among Maya epigraphers and other students of the Maya that to change it would cause more harm than its perpetuation.

The great cycle takes 13 full baktuns. So we've got one more baktun to go before this even becomes an issue. 2012 is not the end of the great cycle, it's the beginning of the last baktun in the cycle, not the end!

Just when I thought the 2012 doomsayers couldn't be more wrong, they are. This is priceless.
 
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Some people may panic like Y2K, but alas, the day will pass just like any other day, with the same chance of something spectacular happening that day as any other day.
 
Nothing will happen just like on the other 40+ Armageddons that were predicted.
 
Absolutely nothing will happen because I'm all set to destroy the world with my apocalypse-inducing WMD made of rubber bands, silly putty and frozen peas on 12/12/12*.



*Warning: apocalypse may not be suitable for younger viewers
 
*Warning: apocalypse may not be suitable for younger viewers

I would guess Apoc is good with kids from his posting. It's adults that he scares.
 
just in case. all you attractive, single females come over to my place for a wild end of the world party.
 
What do you believe? Will it be the end of the world? Does the end of the Mayan calendar signify the return of "our alien creators/rulers/gods"? Is it just another day?
If I haven't got my Christmas shopping by 12/21/2012, I better get my rear-end in gear.
 
It will be just another day, that's all. The good news is that Obama will be out of office that year! Yahoooo by golly!!!!! :lamo
 
I haven't decided yet whether I will save the world by taking my time-displacement device to the land of the Mayans and resetting their calendar back several thousand years... keeping the rest of the universe safe in a time envelope, or whether I'll just take my new Tranjek 4000 Space Jumper to a far more interesting planet to watch the Earth's destruction on big screen TV.
 
Just another day as far as I'm concerned. :shrug:
 
I predict I will wake up and be annoyed with myself because some of my vacation is about to expire and theres not enough days left in the year to really use it.
 
I haven't decided yet whether I will save the world by taking my time-displacement device to the land of the Mayans and resetting their calendar back several thousand years... keeping the rest of the universe safe in a time envelope, or whether I'll just take my new Tranjek 4000 Space Jumper to a far more interesting planet to watch the Earth's destruction on big screen TV.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
 
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

If you keep quoting the 10th Doctor Im going to shave your eyebrows :bringit
 
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

You are correct. It's kind of like jello. And I like picking up the plate, shaking it, and watching it wiggle. :mrgreen:
 
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