The Year 2012 (Merged)

[C.F. Kane]

Because 2012 is the year aliens will destroy earth.

And this, my friends, is The Truth That Is Out There.

Use your time wisely.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Is this a thread about Apocalypto 2?

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

Art Belle came home!

With his 22 year old PREGNANT wife!

 

[Sam Fisher]

With his 22 year old PREGNANT wife!

Yeah really

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

That old hound dog

 

[PWN3R]

We only have 1822 days left. Oh noes.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Put a bucket on your head. It will help when you get konked in the head by flying pink space junk.

 

[swifty]

I'm frankly sick of hear about that mayan calander thing, the History Channel airing a special about it was the last straw. Why the hell do some people prance around acting like the Mayans knew? Being able to predict a solar eclipse is totally differnt than predicting the end of the world.

dang! I missed it, when will the History channel air it again? what's the title?

 

[Corinthian™]

Many were, and the Spanish did a number on their culture, but as a people their ultimate fate was intermixing with the European settlers, and breeding into and being lost in the colonial society. Most Mexicans today have at least some Mayan or Aztec ancestry.



I personally think they were just calculating as far ahead as they could at the time. With their level of sophistication today they could probably calculate to 2400 or something.

The True Mayans of the Pre-Classic and Classic era were long gone when the Spaniards came.


And the Calendar of the Mayans end on the solstice of 2012, well, imagine that the Mayan calendar is a huge clock and the solsitice of 2012 is the 12 hour mark. It's just the end of one cycle and the begining of another one

However, many believe that this cycle will be marked by the "awakening" of the Humans of some sorts. From crazy people to a couple of people that I know that practice Reiki believe that something will happen...

I'm just standing there to see what happens

 

[Tempest19]

The world is not about to end, trust me dude I've lived through far too many apocolypses than I can count. Want to know what happens? Here's the story- you rant and cheer and laugh about it for a day and go to sleep saying, "it's the end of the world- at least it was a life well spent." Then you wake up the next morning laugh it off and say "that was fun." They're media stunts. So, we've been through many "end of days" scenarios already and each one has had scholars, books, etc. you name it. News is designed to scare people because that's what gets them the big bucks, it's all orchestrated.

That speech Justin Long's character gives in Die Hard is awesome, because that is the absolute truth of news today.

2012 is not the end of the world, it's the day that consumers continue buying into what the news tells them and thus allowing people to get richer and others to get poorer. That's all this is. 2012 is not end of the world, it's pay day.

 

[The Question]

Since the Mayan calandar references dates as lat as 3,400, I think people are blowing things a bit out of preportion.

 

[Speedball]

whats the difference between the aztecs and the mayans??

They're geographical location and the time their civilizations existed. We really don't know what caused the fall of the Mayans, but we know what happened to the Aztecs.

 

[unstoppable]

whats the difference between the aztecs and the mayans??

different shaped pyramid

 

[Tempest19]

But, hey with global warming we could all be entering this day:

I doubt that the Mayans could have predicted that since it's largely our fault over time due to the industrial revolution. But, it might happen in my lifetime (I'm only 19), so who knows?

All I know is at 2012 I'll be partying with my friends on new years and make a sarcastic toast, "to the end of the world, drink up my harties yo ho", because 2012 is- imo- pay day, not end of days. And I only believe that due to experiencing and witnessing freak weather anomalies recently.

 

[Apollo]

But! But! But!! Its the Mayans!!!

 

[SpiderB]

I'm frankly sick of hear about that mayan calander thing, the History Channel airing a special about it was the last straw. Why the hell do some people prance around acting like the Mayans knew? Being able to predict a solar eclipse is totally differnt than predicting the end of the world.

Well, to be fair, there are two things that make it a little creepier than the average doomsday date:

1. The Mayans' knowledge of astronomy was so advanced, how they obtained it in such a primitive time is still a mystery to our scientists today. We still don't have these people completely figured out yet.

2. The Mayans weren't the only ones who predicted 2012. The same date shows up in other cultures as well. And for such a precise date, it seems a little too far outside the realm of coincidence to me.

Bottom line, the Mayans knew their ****. And since there's actual science involved here and not just superstition(like the Y2K crap), I'd say 2012 isn't one to just brush off as nonsense...

 

[Jack Rabbit]

 

[Tempest19]

Aliens? Aliens have been here since the start of man. There's even some freaky and horrifying portraits to prove it. Cave paintings, portraits of Jesus' birth with flying saucers hovering behind him. Really cool stuff, there's also passages in the bible- believe it or not- that refer to aliens.

They're "gods" may have been aliens. The story of Prometheus, for example, things that date so back that we can't understand or grasp how they come to reach a conclusion that they did. Might account for some of the ancient 'discoveries'.

And I know just for stating some of these theories you guys are probably going to think I'm out of my mind. Just search youtube, alot of fascinating documentaries are on there.

But, I actually still don't believe that aliens- if they actually did make contact that long ago- came and just said, "your world will end 2012" or "we will come back to invade your planet 2012." Invasion is always a fighting word.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I'm frankly sick of hear about that mayan calander thing, the History Channel airing a special about it was the last straw. Why the hell do some people prance around acting like the Mayans knew? Being able to predict a solar eclipse is totally differnt than predicting the end of the world.

The Maya were one of the greatest civilizations of all time,they are important..your thoughts..not important.

 

[X-Punisher]

I'm frankly sick of hear about that mayan calander thing, the History Channel airing a special about it was the last straw. Why the hell do some people prance around acting like the Mayans knew? Being able to predict a solar eclipse is totally differnt than predicting the end of the world.

Those specials make great ratings. People like being scared by a reliable source. LIke this one they said a commet is going to strike earth in 2033 or something.

 

[Kritish]

Oh lord, how drunk was I when I made this thread?

 

[Matt]

Its really going to get annoying in 2012. Every little thing that happens people are going to cite as a sign of the apocolypse.

 

[Tempest19]

It's not a sign of the apocolypse, it's a sign of Global Warming. But, the Mayans couldn't have predicted global warming since that is on a LARGE part due to the industrial revolution.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

AIM SN: Finale2012

 

[Ghostvirus]

why did they make a calender that went that far in to the future? what appointments could they possibly need to plan that early for?

Evidently the end of the world.