The world ending in 2012

Who came up with this bullshit?

edited 9th Nov '11 4:56:34 AM by dRoy

I don't know, but I'm going to be giving out a lot of smug "I told you sos" in 2013.

Do people HONESTLY believe this?

the mayan calendar stopped at 2012
and roland emmerich made a movie out of it
so 2012 MUST BE TRUE

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

I admit that I'm a little wary (these sorts of things always make me a mite nervous) but I'm 82% sure that this is bullshit.

I highly doubt the Mayans were able to predict the future; if they could, I think it's about time we started making sacrifices to Tonatiuh.

It's basically the same thing as needing to buy a new calendar for the 1st of January.

In short, those who think the world will end are going to feel silly when the world is still here on the 21st.

edited 9th Nov '11 4:45:25 AM by Maralinga

Why the fuck do we give a damn about Mayans?

Well it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

Because them Mayans have knowledge that was supposed to be impossible for them to obtain due to their state of technology at that time.

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I say them scientist is saying our ancestors were stupid... But supposing what they say is true, then if they are smart enough, why did the Mayans stopped their calendar at that date? If they are foretelling their doom, they could have just stopped their calendars at an earlier time, since they died out years earlier. Did they just say at that time they were making the calendar, "Hey! There are a lot of rocks around, let's continue..." and they run out of rocks after and said "Hey! This is when the world ends: when we ran out of rocks..."

Stupid people do. And unfortunately, we have a surplus of such people.

Everything laughable doomsday prediction has at least some serious followers, including the jackass that said the world was ending earlier this year because he calculated numbers he acquired from his anus.

A part of me actually wants the world to end, that way I won't have to go to college and deal with all that crap.

But a part of me also doesn't want it to end because I want to become rich and famous.

I'm conflicted.

I have too many series to watch/read/play to want the world to end.

The world is supposed to end a few days before I turn 21. Fuck that shit. There's no way my luck is that bad.

*sigh* It is merely the end of a CYCLE. It begins anew when the previous one ends. Just like how (as mentioned) the cycle of months in our calendar goes back to January after December ends. Or do we all just die at the end of every year?

So basically, no, the Mayan Calendar is not and was never intended as a Doomsday Clock (patent pending).

edited 9th Nov '11 11:23:40 AM by 0dd1

Well, actually, yes, we do die at the end of every year. It's just that the world actually began last Thursday.

Or maybe they just got bored with calculating dates 500 years in the future.

Or maybe they really did know what was going to happen, including the virtual end of their culture and all, and did this just to troll our generation.

Something Something Leonard Bernstein?

What 0dd said. It's not the end of the calendar, just the end of a very long time unit, something like a precessional year (~26000 solar years). It's another cycle, and they probably thought there would be change, but it's not the end of the world.

Speaking as someone who hates the world and all its inhabitants, I can safely say that I think the world ending in 2012 is absolute BS.

I do hope we get something cool out of it. Like the discovery of magic and superpowers. That would be awesome.

Considering how the Maya really felt about the 13th b'ak'tun ending, wouldn't it be more appropriate to have a gigantic worldwide New Year's party than mither about the End of Days?

My views on the matter can be summed up by 0dd1, Tzetze, and JHM's posts, basically. People will look for anything to twist into some crazy apocalyptic thing. Doesn't mean it'll happen...I mean, think of all the doomsday predictions that have come before! People believed those, often, and then of course nothing happened.

The move 2012 did not help things at all, because it kind of super-mainstreamed the idea.

Why is it that all these doomsday believers never take into account that if these predictions were true, the people that foresaw them would probably have left a clear note stating the world's gonna end rather than all this mystic ambiguity. Of course, I may be mistaken for thinking language and basic communication skills actually helped in these kinds of issues