The Year 2012 (Merged)

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[X-Punisher]

again, not likely not going to happen. yet again, i wouldnt be suprised that society would crumble in the near future.

 

[7alex]

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This is really serious stuff, if you want awareness, you just got it.
Please re-post on bulletins, and send to your friends and to repost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPiqhN_Ns

 

[huskerwebhead]

That chick is hot...nice cleavage. They should keep the camera on here while those nerds are talking.

 

[Immortalfire]

I can't watch that video without gnawing my leg off.

No thank you.

 

[Raiden]

That chick is hot...nice cleavage. They should keep the camera on here while those nerds are talking.

Yeah, talk about beauty and the geeks.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

What better way to make my 12 121st post than to post in this thread? I personally believe this whole 2012 thing is BS.

 

[A&W]

Hi guys

You know what this has me thinking about? The Noah's Ark story and the fact that so many religions around the world have a flood story.

Can somebody tell me how often this alignment between the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy occurs?

 

[chaseter]

I will bet anyone $1000 that 2012 will not happen. Sign up. You have the potential to make millions if you think 2012 will happen!

You can make multiple bets.

 

[A&W]

I've just been wondering, what if what happened in the movie

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with the arks

actually happened and by stories gradually changing over time, we ended up with the religions that we have today. All of them talking about a flood, and a few in particular talking about building giant arks for the purpose of bringing aboard humans and animals and plants to recolonize the world afterwards. What if there was already a civilization before this one, and most of it was wiped out, minus those that were lucky enough to

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be aboard the arks

.

what if the first mayans were people from that lucky group and they tried to leave a warning so we'd be better prepared this time.

 

[A&W]

I hope I don't sound like a lunatic. LOL

 

[Paroxysm]

i predict a few mass suicides, lots of people going on benders.

 

[The Battousai]

Hi guys

You know what this has me thinking about? The Noah's Ark story and the fact that so many religions around the world have a flood story.

The most likely reason that different groups and religions around the world have stories related to some sort of flood is that floods are natural disasters that occur almost everywhere from time to time and that larger, more damaging and deadly ones are capable of occuring in most places - especially where people make settlements; the only notable exceptions being those who live on mountains and the like. What's more is that - in earlier times before people had the kinds of luxuries we do in regards to safeguards against disasters and for preserving health - it doesn't take that big of a flood to destroy settlements and kill a sizeable amount of people.

Can somebody tell me how often this alignment between the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy occurs?

This alignment is purely arbitrary. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that such things can have any impact. The best you can hope for is that a large enough object in space being within a certain distance of another will exert a certain amount of gravity depending on the distance between them.

Simply put - to illustrate the problem with this kind of ridiculousness - we can draw seemingly endless lines through stars, planets, galaxies, etc. and say they're alignments mean something.

 

[The Battousai]

what if the first mayans were people from that lucky group and they tried to leave a warning so we'd be better prepared this time.

The Mayan civilization died out ages ago, unexpectedly.

If they were able to predict a catastrophic event that would destroy the world, why couldn't they predict their own demise?

 

[Captain Planet!]

Maybe the calendar guy just took a lunch break, And then the Mayans died and nobody ever finished the calendar.

 

[Paroxysm]

The Mayan calendar was designed to be cyclical, so the fact that the long count comes to an end in December 2012 is really of no consequence, according to Martin. Simply, it is the end of great calendar cycle in Mayan society, much like our modern society celebrated the new Millennium. It does not mean that the "world will end." In fact, the Mayan calendar does not end then and there is no evidence to suggest that the Mayans -- or anyone for that matter -- has knowledge for the world's demise.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091113122958.htm

 

[Kane52630]

looking forward to this thread when it gets near 2012
*subscribed*

 

[-Arya-]

Oh, why can't this thread just die in peace?

 

[C. Lee]

Oh, why can't this thread just die in peace?

It will.....in 2012.....

 

[-Arya-]

It will.....in 2012.....

Ugh

 

[Kane52630]

are you paranoid or are you just fed up hearing about it

 

[A&W]

The most likely reason that different groups and religions around the world have stories related to some sort of flood is that floods are natural disasters that occur almost everywhere from time to time and that larger, more damaging and deadly ones are capable of occuring in most places - especially where people make settlements; the only notable exceptions being those who live on mountains and the like. What's more is that - in earlier times before people had the kinds of luxuries we do in regards to safeguards against disasters and for preserving health - it doesn't take that big of a flood to destroy settlements and kill a sizeable amount of people..

I've definitely thought of these things from that angle. I am an atheist who has argued about that kind of stuff for a very long time.

This alignment is purely arbitrary. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that such things can have any impact. The best you can hope for is that a large enough object in space being within a certain distance of another will exert a certain amount of gravity depending on the distance between them.

Simply put - to illustrate the problem with this kind of ridiculousness - we can draw seemingly endless lines through stars, planets, galaxies, etc. and say they're alignments mean something.

that was what I actually said when I had first heard about this, and I had no idea they were talking specifically about the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy all ligning up. However the astronomical coincedence of the timing of this right along happening at the same time as a solar peak and then again at the same time that the mayan calendar ends just seems so incredibly astronomical. It's like winning the lottery three times in a row.

The thing is that the center of the galaxy is the highest concentration of gravity in the entire galaxy. I'm no physics expert and I doubt any of us hereare, so were kind of left to take "their" word for it, and we know they wouldn't tell us.

The Mayan civilization died out ages ago, unexpectedly.

If they were able to predict a catastrophic event that would destroy the world, why couldn't they predict their own demise?

the two aren't connected. the U.S. government has the ability to calculate cellestial events, but we didn't see Great Recession of 2008, untill 2008. I'm not suggesting the Mayans were prophets or phychic. I was raising the possiblity that they descended from an advanced civilization that was wiped out ages ago. It would take very little technological advancement to know when this allignment would occur. Adcanced computers, mathmeticians, and telescopes. That's it. Humans today already know this alignment will occur. But WE DON'T KNOW WHEN OUR DEMISE WILL BE. Therefore the Mayans being un able to predict their own demise has no bearing or relevance to how signifigant anything else they believed should be regarded.

I'm not saying I believe this. I dismissed it originally as religous superstition. I compared the Mayans to NOstradomus and Pat Robertson who predicted the world would end in 1982. but after getting home from seeing th emovie last night, while channel flipping I saw something talking about solar cycles and we are going to experience a large increase in solar flares that year, which is so incredibly coincedental.

they said it would disrupt satelites, televisions, computers, cell phones, possibly the electrical grid etc. the show had nothing to do with the 2012 prophecy.

That was what got me thinking about the Noah's Ark story. It's almost identical to the movie.

This is just so many coincedences.

 

[C. Lee]

Ugh

Loosen up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNa0gRferZI

 

[A&W]

It will.....in 2012.....

I hope your right.

 

[-Arya-]

Loosen up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNa0gRferZI

No I won't.

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