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Mayan End of the World 2012. According to the Mayan calendar on Dec. 21, 2012 Ends Great Cycle, which was called "The Fifth Sun".
Cycle had 5126 years length, and began on 13 August 3113 BC. Some claim that in this year Mayan calendar ends,
which could mean the end of the world. In fact, after attending the next cycle of the Mayan calendar going to be, "The Sixth Sun" or "Sixth Age of Creation"
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so are you asking for peoples views on this? or just stating that
Everyone seems obsessed with the idea of 2012 being the end of the world. In fact the Mayan calender refers to 2012 as a new era of human existence and divinity. A new age of human civilisation, not the destruction of the world. Why does everyone have to be so apocalyptic about everything these days?
the literal translation is "THE day of great change"...Quote:
Originally Posted by TCWNME
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Originally Posted by LolRk8
Don't all calendars end... then start back over.....?
The world will end when Skirata hits the reset button and no sooner.
Arghh this thread gets made like every 20 days for the past 12 months... EsPo0kY!:duh:
:flame:Im not letting the world end till i get my christmas presents!:flame:Quote:
Originally Posted by LolRk8
Here you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost101
http://cultsha.com/wp-content/upload...al_400x266.jpg
okie, we may now proceed to destruction
Just one problem, though ... someone had haxxored the source code for destruction2012.com ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost101
wow ... I looked up the said domain and it took me to a pink-colored French website. o_0 ... Banner says: "Oui! a une destruction massive!"
Easy fix, someone arrest LordArumen and threaten to shoot his lolcats if he doesnt fix the aru-h4XQuote:
Originally Posted by Ravenwings
Wait i need mai cookies before we haz teh end!!!
Go poke crip awake, he is hogging teh cookiesQuote:
Originally Posted by Asmo
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I have a feeling at everyone on this thread (including me) is going to get an infraction... =\
As soon as someone mentions they beleive the stupid 2012 myth, I lose all respect for them. It's one of the stupidest things on the planet.
I honestly had no idea that this was a spambot thread till too late :/ so i just went along with the flowQuote:
Originally Posted by joemanf
Look if The End comes in 2012, I will Rep you like mad. But if it did, I would be dead and would not be able to Rep you, and if i didn't die you would! So it works for me in both ways!Quote:
Originally Posted by scoompomfroro
Aru h4xed them into extinction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigilstone17
Never did they even say that the world will end, just like TC said. If you read their calender, which about 95% of people didn't, they didn't even state that the world will 'supposedly' end at 2012. It is a matter of change they said. Just like when the world was 'supposedly' supposed to end at 2000... didn't happen did it?
dude, that was supposed to be the destruction of all of the computers. uber overload.
the calender had to end sometime. They probably just got bored or something...or killed.
http://befitandstrong.com/wp-content...n1-297x300.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Asmo
LOL reset.... dang I hate when it wont let me rep!
Actually they were extinct before the spaniards came on over, you are thinking of the Aztecs :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigilstone17
...and i heard a monster coming and its hungary.No i heard that 100s of years ago they hid the most powerful bomb and they set it to explode 2012
People have been predicting the end of the world since the world began. From Nostradamus to Al Gore, the one thing all of them have in common is that they've been wrong. Anyone who thinks the Mayans are different should ask themselves why people who could see the future are now extinct.
Why is everyone so obsessed about the Earth being destroyed? It's Mars i'm concerned about.
Actually no, this is incorrect. You're thinking of the Calendar Round, which lasted only 52 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by scoompomfroro
Unfortunately I know the details only from an Aztec PoV, but allow me to indulge:
The calender was divided into 365 days, eighteen months of twenty days, with five "nameless days" tacked on the end. These five days, of which "technically" didn't exist (due to being between yearly cycles) was a period of fear and worry for the Nahua people, who believed they were lost to the eyes of the gods and were vulnerable to demons that would destroy them upon discovery. Thus, the Nahua people spent these days hiding their existence from the demons. They would leave no house, light no torches, speak no words, and engage in no revelry, lest they draw the attention of fel beings which would surely destroy them.*
They believed each cycle of time lasted 52 years, and would perform the New Fire ceremony at the end of each 52 years, to bind the 52-year cycles together to prevent the end of the world. The success was determined by the rising of the sun the next dawn.
Mayans followed the same sort of calendar, though I think their beliefs were slightly different (though largely similar) to the Aztecs. I'm not entirely familiar with it though.
The Mayan Calendar has the Long Count system in addition to the Calendar Round, of which December 21, 2012 is simply the beginning of the 14th cycle of b'ak'tun, a cycle of 144,000 days, or 20 ka'tuns, of which itself is only a milestone to the first cycle of piktun (or something), which takes 20 cycles of b'ak'tuns. And BTW, 14 cycles of b'ak'tun is closer to 5520~ years or something, not 5126.
Fearing that to be the end of the world would be similar to me fearing the end of the world will come at 11:59:59 of December 31st, 2010, because that's where my calendar ends (actually it has a small cliffnote box showing up to January 31st, 2011, but whatever). There's no such physical manifestation of a perpetual calendar, and thus, all calenders are going to be marked off at one completed cycle or another. Chances are, the Mayans simply couldn't be arsed to carve another b'ak'tun cycle when they had some 2000~ years to procrastinate. And rightly so.
Seeing how the world has gone on for nine and a half 52-year cycles without the last New Fire ceremony, and we've spent each December 26-31 partying and all that nonsense directly in front of foul demons without being devoured, I think it's safe to say that, at least according to Aztec and Mayan beliefs, the proposed end of the world hasn't and won't come.
*My recollection of this is somewhat blurry, but I think it's close enough.
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You, good sir spambot, are horribly misinformed and superstitious. Your programmer should be ashamed.
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Originally Posted by Alusair
Dangit! I should have programmed him to talk about secret crocheting and knitting circles instead!
Maybe the Mayans knew they were going to die and just accepted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawnseeker
Except they disappeared and abandoned their cities for no reason. Almost like they were paranoid about something that never happened. Like the end of the world? I'm so confident the Mayans are wrong, that I will bet anyone $1,000 that the world does not end in 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skirata
I'll add $1000 of my own on his side. And while I'm at it, I won't watch the movie 2012 until 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawnseeker
That's a horrible bet. If I were to win, I wouldn't get to use that money....Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawnseeker
They were getting ready for Y2K.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawnseeker
The point; you've found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skirata
Yes, its the end of a year on the mayan calendar. so, everyone knows the world ends at the end of every year on our calendars too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by scoompomfroro
This pic is sorta on-topic....
http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/060625.jpg
God knows when the world will come to an end nobody knos it .
Someone needs to put it on the Forum Calendar.