I can't wait for the Y2K like hysteria when it's about to turn 2012.
The movie trailer is hilarious by the way. It says "what will we do when the world ends? Nothing", and then says "find out the truth" as the tagline at the end. I laughed in the theater. They are trying to scare people into seeing that movie.
As far as I know, all that happens is the Mayan calendar resets. That's all.
I'll be pissed if I have to go to more than one store just to find a gallon of milk around that time. You think people stock up before a possible snowstorm, just wait until a possible doomsday enters their minds...
Like most conspiracy or wacko-pseudoscience theories of aliens, time warps and DNA-tracking pennies, I don't believe in any of that silliness, however I enjoy the fable around them. In other words, I enjoy believing in the idea of them, but not actually in them. 2012 is no different. Wouldn't it be neat if there was some truth to the prediction? But, of course, it's all a pile of rubbish...but it'd be cool if it wasn't.
The human races is a bigger threat to itself than communism, terrorism, and religion combined! Religion is the second most evil invention of man only second to money!
THE TIME HAS COME... THE END IS NEAR... REPENT AND ASK THE LORD FOR FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS...LOVE THY NEIGHBOR... ... [more]
Good, while your repenting I will be boozing, **** to hard craw prawn and having a good time. You will be freaked out then you will find that nothing will happen. The church 'predicts' the end of the world at least twice a year and this will be no different. When the Israelis went to war on June 5th 1967 everyone in the United States thought it was the end of times and jesus would return on the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 1967. Nothing happened.Who let fear mongers on this site?Religion is more dangerous than Kim Jung Il with his nukes.
Apparently the mayan calender stops on dec. 21(?) 2012 so the real question: Is that because there is an end of the world prophecy? or has the other part of the calender not been found yet?
Either way, most end of the world theories are jibberish, although I can see there being a war of some sort.
No, and here's why.Common human species as known today are believed to be something around 200,000 years along. Before that, ... [more]
More accurate numbers are actually at around 100,000 years ago. Ironically out of about the ~50 billion species that is thought to have come and gone (or is still in existence) here on earth, the average life expectancy of a species is ~100,000 years keeping in mind that humans aren't even close to being the most successful species in terms of survival.
I believe it was Ernst Mayr who pointed out that this historical record of species on earth has proven that it is better to be stupid than smart as evidenced by humanities inexplicable insistence to destroy itself and much that is around it.
Basically I'm saying 2012, 2013 etc. it doesn't really matter. We're teetering on global collapse, politically, economically and socially. Not to mention we're about to find out what the effects of climate change are really going to be in the next 30-50 years. Personally I give mankind less than 100 years.
Terence McKenna was convinced that humanity would cease to exist in its current form when in December 2012 the passage of time, as measured in fractal patterns, hits "timewave zero" and goes off the scale completely.
Then again, the guy was also convinced that magic mushrooms were the cause of human evolution. He took a lot of drugs...
No. 2012 is a myth generated by a collaberation between Islamic terrorists and John McCain.
On the date of the so called "apocalypse" the terrorists will finally use the millions of WMDs they've been hiding, causing mass confusion. Then, while the US is in panic, John McCain will lead a vietnamese army to the Whitehouse and claim rule over the nation. McCain will proceed to raise taxes slightly and force a marginally more strict policy on drugs.
As far as I know the Mayan calendar just starts from the beginning again in 2012. So it's just natural for a bunch of superstitious tribees to think that a new age will begin when that happens. It's just like we would say our year count starts at 0 again after it has hit the 9999 year mark and that will cause a new age. People can be so simple minded.
no because people have been saying the world is going to end since people have been around. guess what the world is still here. common sense people, common sense.
Y2K did have an impact. I was in the middle of a dispatch center that started wigging out because of crappy software fixes. The only reason there wasn't more of an impact is because people had ample time to fix their software...
Kind of weird to compare a computer problem with some random prediction from the apocalypse-of-the-year club.
I can only imagine what went through the head of whoever wrote out their own respective calendar millenias ago if their only reason for stopping was a sore wrist. "It's not like any of us are gonna be alive that long."
I suggest the name of the thread by changed to "Are you Mentally Challenged?" 2012 theory? By calling it a theory you would have to answer "yes" in your own thread if it was renamed to what I suggested.
"The Mayan claendar does end in 2012 but that does not mean the end of the world. They didn't believe that, some asshole made it up, this asshole in fact:
Yeah well you know what? The calendar in my cellphone ends on the 12th oh December in the year 2099. That must mean that the worlds ends in 2099, right? It's scientifically proven.
I'm not really too sure, but the evidence does seem quite lacking. The Mayans themselves have responded to it, saying they are offended that such a theory would arise. They say it is not the end of the world, but a time when the world will change.
Not a chance. When they were creating the calender we use they messed up and we're actually four years ahead of where we think we are. So it's actually 2013 right now and we're still alive.
"Nah, the world is not going to end. Apparently the mayan calender stops on dec. 21(?) 2012 so the real question: Is that because there is an end of the world prophecy? or has the other part of the calender not been found yet? Either way, most end of the world theories are jibberish, although I can see there being a war of some sort."
No, this is all complete bullshit.
It doesn't just end, it resets, in much the same way the chinese calender resets after X many years, or the turning of a millenium. They never predicted the end of the world, in fact the even was going to be one of celebration for the coming of a new era.
Some asshole American made all this shit up to sell more stupid books.
i believe that everything's possible and i think that the people who are now acting civilized and calling those theories bullshit, they all shit their pants and turn to god in warm prayer if any of it happens.
im not saying im religious or believe in it, im saying everything is possible in this fucked up world.. we're God's puppets and he does as he pleases. that sick bastard..
so do i believe in it? not really. do i NOT believe in it? i think its possible just like any other goddamn freaky thing. this is all one big fucked up show
"Nah, the world is not going to end. Apparently the mayan calender stops on dec. 21(?) 2012 so the real question: Is that because there is an end of the world prophecy? or has the other part of the calender not been found yet? Either way, most end of the world theories are jibberish, although I can see there being a war of some sort."
No, this is all complete bullshit.It doesn't just end, it resets, in much the same way the chinese calender resets after X many years, or the turning of a millenium. They never predicted the end of the world, in fact the even was going to be one of celebration for the coming of a new era.Some asshole American made all this shit up to sell more stupid books. "
You're right in one sense, that they believed it was the coming of a new era. But the Mayans also believed in a cycle of death and rebirth, or mass destruction tearing down one age before another can begin. The real question is - are you even going to be alive to see the events of December 2012?
Don't be surprised if before then martial law is declared in America, vaccinations are forced on everyone, and suddenly there is a new draft because World War 3 has broken out, and Nukes are going off everywhere.
''No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.'' Matthew 24:36.
I'm not really suckered in by the whole 2012 theory because it sounds like the whole issue of Y2K. People hiding in their bunkers and slowly counting, 5...4...3...2...1...umm...no explosion...computer is just fine...ALRIGHT! LET'S PARTY!!!
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