2012?

[Tetra]

Anyone else think of "1999-2000" when they think of 2012?

Exactly. History is full of such unfulfilled prophecies and nonsensical end-of-the-world rubbish.

[Kyle|Lol The PK]

complete bullshit.just because people in loin cloth were too lazy to keep going doesn't mean it's over. also they sacrificed people to make the sun rise,rain, etc., they're not the most credible group of people.

[Tetra]

complete bullshit.just because people in loin cloth were too lazy to keep going doesn't mean it's over. also they sacrificed people to make the sun rise,rain, etc., they're not the most credible group of people.

True. The Mayans did not have, and could not enjoy, the modern comforts and luxuries which we possess - and their religious practices are quite unsettling and archaic. But, they were incredible astronomers and architects - even by today's standards. 

[~Rune]

Fuck. December 21? That's 2 days before I turn 18! /cry

[iz skill3d]

sad yeah i think its bull shit also

[Ikz]

MOVIE LOOKS GOOD.

[Mikey`]

I honestly don't believe it, but in the back of my mind, i have a small tiny feeling that it could happen, and i'll prolly be a little nervious the night of Dec 20, 2012

[IPhroznI]

I honestly don't believe it, but in the back of my mind, i have a small tiny feeling that it could happen, and i'll prolly be a little nervious the night of Dec 20, 2012

Agreed, i don't believe it will happen due to the whole 1999-2000 thing, but its supposidly not like end of the world blow up, supposidly, we're entering a new dimension or something, like 1985 was the end of the fifth, and we're entering the sixth, and we'll be smarter and will have more senses etc. thats just something someone told me.

[Cj.]

this film is sick, the thoery is bs imo

[seth]

you know, if whe really would die in 2012 , then whe are allready 17 years dead...

the man who calculated which year it whas, did a miss-calculate and ended up 20 years diffrend...so whe live in 2029 now...

[ViBeZz]

Not too sure as it is the end of the calander could be possible but after all this bull shit about black holes and shit, no.

[HyPnO]

i'm keeping track of all the faggots buying into this shit, then i'm going to have my fun in 2013

[Nick.]

i'm keeping track of all the faggots buying into this shit, then i'm going to have my fun in 2013

That was uncalled for...

[Adolesc3nt]

people have bought bs like this before and given everything they owned to charity.

[Zero]

lol this 2012 is bs man

The Mayans stopped the calendar on Dec. 21st 2012, so automatically we assume the world is going to end. Complete bs...

What if the guy went on a lunch break and forgot to finish it? or went to start a new project?

[Clap_T0wn]

Its all bull.

If we die we die ohwell lol

Lol tho if runescape ends on the date the worlds meant to, then the world kind of did end ;)

[Melee Pure]

Its all bull.

If we die we die ohwell lol

Lol tho if runescape ends on the date the worlds meant to, then the world kind of did end ;)

roflmao @ ur post dude HAHAHA.

i did beleive in this the 1st time i saw it, but i don't get

how the mayan's could actually even predict it, & it's just a stupid old calender anyway it's ending on that date, mean's just get a new one,

but with that day i can't remember what though but it was said that something rose into the galatic centre & cause's a enlightment,

polar shift's will end up changing, i don't think in our time line anyway, it really doesn't matter i personally think december the month of that year for if it was true would be totally chaos, which would be the last spared moments the funnest of the time living.

Alot would die befor it happened too, also reason why im typing so much is because i suffered paranoia from this shit,

& it didn't make sense, & also why is it said that "nibiru" was suppose to hit earth the same day?

ALOT OF BULLSHIT, the 1 thing ill point out is, it can SMD, & when it bangs on my door & says boom then im dead till then i couldn't care less. only life, we die one day.

[d72]

Its all bull.

If we die we die ohwell lol

Lol tho if runescape ends on the date the worlds meant to, then the world kind of did end ;)

roflmao @ ur post dude HAHAHA.

i did beleive in this the 1st time i saw it, but i don't get

how the mayan's could actually even predict it, & it's just a stupid old calender anyway it's ending on that date, mean's just get a new one,

but with that day i can't remember what though but it was said that something rose into the galatic centre & cause's a enlightment,

polar shift's will end up changing, i don't think in our time line anyway, it really doesn't matter i personally think december the month of that year for if it was true would be totally chaos, which would be the last spared moments the funnest of the time living.

Alot would die befor it happened too, also reason why im typing so much is because i suffered paranoia from this shit,

& it didn't make sense, & also why is it said that "nibiru" was suppose to hit earth the same day?

ALOT OF BULLSHIT, the 1 thing ill point out is, it can SMD, & when it bangs on my door & says boom then im dead till then i couldn't care less. only life, we die one day.

It's not a stupid old calendar... The Mayans also predicted ON THAT SAME CALENDAR every solar and lunar eclipse to date. And they've been all accurate down to the last nanosecond so far. So those saying the Mayans were these primitive group of people you're sadly mistaken, and should definitely dive into further research to strengthen your stupid claims.

[Melee Pure]

MEXICO CITY – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

Or is it?

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"

It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades — the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.

One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn't survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

It's unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.

However — shades of Indiana Jones — erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."

Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

And anyway, Mayas in the drought-stricken Yucatan peninsula have bigger worries than 2012.

"If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea," said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. "That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain."

The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.

"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted."

If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off.

But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.

That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.

Another spooky coincidence?

"The question I would ask these guys is, so what?" says Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the "Bad Astronomy" blog. He says the alignment doesn't fall precisely in 2012, and distant stars exert no force that could harm Earth.

"They're really super-duper trying to find anything astronomical they can to fit that date of 2012," Plait said.

But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.

"If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal," said Jenkins.

As the Internet gained popularity in the 1990s, so did word of the "fateful" date, and some began worrying about 2012 disasters the Mayas never dreamed of.

Author Lawrence Joseph says a peak in explosive storms on the surface of the sun could knock out North America's power grid for years, triggering food shortages, water scarcity — a collapse of civilization. Solar peaks occur about every 11 years, but Joseph says there's evidence the 2012 peak could be "a lulu."

While pressing governments to install protection for power grids, Joseph counsels readers not to "use 2012 as an excuse to not live in a healthy, responsible fashion. I mean, don't let the credit cards go up."

Another History Channel program titled "Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days" says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a "pole shift."

"The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster," a narrator proclaims. "Earthquakes would rock every continent, massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe."

The idea apparently originates with a 19th century Frenchman, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, a priest-turned-archaeologist who got it from his study of ancient Mayan and Aztec texts.

Scientists say that, at best, the poles might change location by one degree over a million years, with no sign that it would start in 2012.

While long discredited, Brasseur de Bourbourg proves one thing: Westerners have been trying for more than a century to pin doomsday scenarios on the Maya. And while fascinated by ancient lore, advocates seldom examine more recent experiences with apocalypse predictions.

"No one who's writing in now seems to remember that the last time we thought the world was going to end, it didn't," says Martin, the astronomy webmaster. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of memory that things were fine the last time around."

idk was just having a look ^ probly some info on 2012.

[Alex|Clawz]

Sad blsht

[Torell]

i think 2012 is bs what about how in 2000 everything was supposed to turn off?

[To Idolize]

Yeah I think this 2012 stuff is complete BS. They've said something devastating will happen to the world many times before.

[d72]

But, however, those devastating claims have all been like what, months before the actual cause? As for Y2K I didn't hear about any claims of shit shutting off until like 2003 lol, as well as the whole 6-6-06 thing. Those were bullshit, but for some reason something's telling me something big's gonna happen on 2012. But regardless, I'll be sitting on my lawn drinking a beer that night.

[Jim]

But, however, those devastating claims have all been like what, months before the actual cause? As for Y2K I didn't hear about any claims of shit shutting off until like 2003 lol, as well as the whole 6-6-06 thing. Those were bullshit, but for some reason something's telling me something big's gonna happen on 2012. But regardless, I'll be sitting on my lawn drinking a beer that night.

I'm joining you. The first sign we get, we're going out RAPING!  :nice:

[To Idolize]

I'm gonna be 18 at that time so college parties will be ftw during the whole devastation theory.