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mapuc 11-01-09 08:20 PM

I just love those people
 
I presume you all have heard of this coming movie 2012?
I also presume that most of you know about this phenomenon 2012?

I have red page up and down, thousands of times, about this 2012.

I have come to this conclusion
one conspiracy, after it's other, is trying to be as terrifying as possible

So if one of those should be right in their prediction...that it is the end of the world, as we know it...what can we do then?

Not a s**t

I'm not concern at all, if it happens, it happens

But me my self have this believe

The world will still be there, in the morning on the 22th of december

So somehow, I just love those guys/girls who pick something from the bible and something from an another book and so on, but just those things that make his or her conspiraty trustworthy as possible.

Markus

ETR3(SS) 11-01-09 08:24 PM

Did anybody stop to consider the possibility that maybe the guy making the Mayan calender got tied and just stopped once he got to December 22, 2012? And maybe he just made up some BS reason why he stopped? :06::haha:

Torplexed 11-01-09 08:29 PM

The 2012 prophesy is based on a misunderstanding of the significance of the Mayan long count calendar. No expert on Mayan history that I have ever read of attributes any world ending significance to 2012 based on the calendar. Maybe a good day to have a huge party if you were Mayan but nothing else.

However, the best response I would give to people who suggest that the Mayans predicted an apocalypse in 2012 is...

If you really believe that the Mayans had it right on, the best that we could do is to round up a large number of people, march them up a big pyramid and tear out their hearts to offer it to the Gods in order to stave off the disaster. I suggest we start with the people who keep going on about the 2012 disaster myth.

mapuc 11-01-09 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1197814)
The 2012 prophesy is based on a misunderstanding of the significance of the Mayan long count calendar. No expert on Mayan history that I have ever read of attributes any world ending significance to 2012 based on the calendar. Maybe a good day to have a huge party if you were Mayan but nothing else.

However, the best response I would give to people who suggest that the Mayans predicted an apocalypse in 2012 is...

If you really believe that the Mayans had it right on, the best that we could do is to round up a large number of people, march them up a big pyramid and tear out their hearts to offer it to the Gods in order to stave off the disaster. I suggest we start with the people who keep going on about the 2012 disaster myth.

I couldn't have said it better myself.
apart from this part thou
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march them up a big pyramid and tear out their hearts to offer it to the Gods in order to stave off the disaster. I suggest we start with the people who keep going on about the 2012 disaster myth
Markus

Torplexed 11-01-09 08:52 PM

The sad thing is I have a lot of friends and co-workers who get taken in by this nonsense. I think we're in for the biggest hysteria bubble since Y2K--and worse for having zero basis in actual science.

2013, get here already, so the fringe "scientists" and balloon boy losers can move the doomsday goalposts to 20xx or whatever...

antikristuseke 11-01-09 09:19 PM

So far doomsdays prophecies do not really have a good track record when it comes to accuracy, I am not worried.

Stealhead 11-01-09 10:33 PM

All these 2012 and Nostradamus "theories" it is a bunch of crap. Someone some where has been saying this day or that day is going to be the end of time since the second day of time.The whole idea is hogwash if you ask me.

I have some idiot co-worker that keeps talking about that 2012 movie and the end of time he really bugs me. Maybe on Dec. 23rd 2012 all of the idiots will be sucked into a massive black hole forever that would be nice.

The thing to me is this 2012 movie really looks very crappy I don't really see why it is getting so much hype of course both history and discovery channels have those stupid Nostradamus related shows I assume people watch them and because it is on a "science" channel they take it to be fact.Anyway I think it is safe to say we have a long long long time to go look at the dinosaurs they lacked human intelligence and they lasted several million years we should do fine so long as we don't nuke each other and even that would no kill everyone.It would set us back alot.

I bet ETR3(SS) is right the guys that where making the Mayan calendar likely just got tired of making the thing so they had to make it end at some point they where smart enough to figure that the Mayan civilization would be long gone by that date and that it might be a good business venture for some film company.

Or more than likely they saw that on that date every planet in the solar system would be aligned and this was something very strange to them based on their astrological knowledge of course I think that this aligning happens about every 10,000 years so that means we have survived it several times already.The Mayans simply did not have the data to know that this was not a "one time" event.

Oberon 11-02-09 10:50 AM

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/...lin-mayans.jpg

TLAM Strike 11-02-09 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1197814)
However, the best response I would give to people who suggest that the Mayans predicted an apocalypse in 2012 is...

If you really believe that the Mayans had it right on, the best that we could do is to round up a large number of people, march them up a big pyramid and tear out their hearts to offer it to the Gods in order to stave off the disaster. I suggest we start with the people who keep going on about the 2012 disaster myth.

I think I saw that episode of the reimagined "Twilight Zone"... :hmmm:

Kpt. Lehmann 11-02-09 01:25 PM

After 2012 comes and goes...

... I wonder what they/someone will set as the next date for the 'end of the world.' :haha:

Seems like that we get a new set of dates for the apocalypse every ten years or so.

Funnier still, "If you guess at the answer often enough... sooner or later you will be correct!"

My guess is that if we haven't already pushed the environment past its 'tipping point of no return' we'll eventually destroy the atmosphere enough to make the damage irreverseable... and life here will grind to a halt with a long-slow whimper over many years.

No supernatural involvement or catastrophic event is even required. We're doing a fine job of wrecking the planet without any dramatic assistance.

XabbaRus 11-02-09 01:28 PM

Nostradamus was stoned so I would not be surprised if it turns out the Mayans were on something aswell..

dude, 2021,...end of the world man.....

Biggles 11-02-09 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1197986)

I was certain it was all rubbish until I saw this. Then I had my doubts...:hmmm:

Rilder 11-02-09 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XabbaRus (Post 1198075)
Nostradamus was stoned so I would not be surprised if it turns out the Mayans were on something aswell..

dude, 2021,...end of the world man.....


Stoned?

No.

On Shrooms or at least Salvia? Yeah, could be.

Task Force 11-02-09 03:18 PM

LOL!!! Naa 2012 is a joke... Everyone knows that the guy who made the calandar ran out of room... He made the rest, Its just somewhere else...:rotfl2:

baggygreen 11-02-09 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1197823)
The sad thing is I have a lot of friends and co-workers who get taken in by this nonsense. I think we're in for the biggest hysteria bubble since Y2K--and worse for having zero basis in actual science.

2013, get here already, so the fringe "scientists" and balloon boy losers can move the doomsday goalposts to 20xx or whatever...

Sounds like global warming:D


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