2012 the end is near is it?

[TenThousand]

do you think some thing is going to happen to us on 2012 or are we to be still here tell me your opinion ;D

[Falydavia]

I´m pretty sure there´s gonna happen something.But the world as we know isn´t gonna collapse.
Approximately at the 20th of december in 2012 the sun will have some changes inside of her,
what makes her slightly hotter and more intensive.For us , it´s not going to be such a big deal.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

This is an interesting article from today.

[Wordy]

I want to say I have no comment on the Improving translations of the Wordy Mayan Calendar.

[Walabamba]

NO the end is near!!!

[Falydavia]

The global warming is about to strike TWO DAYS BEFORE the day after tomorrow! *OMG*

[Cerb]

Yeah, they are gonna figure out that the Mian calendar maker did himself out of a job by selling several hundred years worth in one go.


But, if it turns out that it is the end of the world, I'll kill myself.

And I'll take everyone else with me.

[Silvermain]

The end is near...er?

[Falydavia]

The end is so close , we did just not see it.Maybe.In some way.Somehow.Anyways.

[Guy]

Jul 3, 2010 12:13:01 GMT -5 Falydavia said:

The global warming is about to strike TWO DAYS BEFORE the day after tomorrow! *OMG*

Global warming is already here.

@grub, nice try, you ain't fooling me

[Yaramana]

Well, I don't believe in all this shrubbery about great change for better or the end of the world. People always inventing more and more ends of the world, which does not fulfill. Anyway, everyone has right to their own beliefs.

But yes, world slowly drifting towards chaos~

[Enigmatic]

People have been predicting the end of the world since the world began. Every time someone tries to put a date on it the day passes and nothing happens. 2012 will be no different. If something does happen that significantly alters the world, I'll eat my shorts.

[Silvermain]

I hope that nothing happens. I'm sure eating your shorts can't be good for you, Enig.

[Kranusilika]

I agree, predictions of the End of the World are always out there. Bottom line, when it comes it comes...I am not going to spend my days worrying about it. Live today, like it is your last, because it just may be.

[Enigmatic]

Jul 5, 2010 14:17:29 GMT -5 Silvermain said:

I hope that nothing happens. I'm sure eating your shorts can't be good for you, Enig.

Actually, it's very healthy. They're high in fiber. ;D Badum-CHING

[dels]

Jul 3, 2010 3:43:47 GMT -5 Wordy said:

I want to say I have no comment on the Improving translations of the Wordy Mayan Calendar.

[Cerb]

I actually don't think the world is getting more chaotic. I think the chaos gets better reporting.

For each generation, some kind of chaotic trauma happens. Be it the great depression Mark II, vietnam, korea, WWII,Great Depression Mark I, WWI, Spanish American War, US Civil War, Crimean War, War of Independance, Napoleonic Wars... the list is endless.

Bad things happen, continuously. Political scandal, financial crisis, war, and epidemics are nothing new.


Who knows, maybe the Mians are right, but who's to say that their predictions aren't local. The big one might strike, that'd be the end of the world for a lot of people on the West Coast of the US.

I personally think that we just have a lot more time to worry about this stuff now. When our pincipal industry was farming we didn't have time to ponder much more forward than the next two plantings. If you heard of a disaster it was far away, maybe 20 miles away even.

And finally, if the end of the world is complete extenction, then the problem will simply go away and we won't have to worry about it.

[Lakenburgh]

I vote for a Meteor impact, heard a scientific discussion not long ago and they stated quite clearly that things like in the Bruce Willis film of destroying meteors, komets whatever is nice in theory but doesn't make much sense. Simply because we don't have the necessary rockets, the necessary methods of pulverizing one (splitting him up just widens the radius of destruction) oh and not to mention the little fact, that we would know about it around 2 seconds before impact, when it crashes through the atmosphere, since we don't really watch the universe that much. On the positive side at least noone in that area will have enough time to think about it before being instantly incinerated.. so thats a plus I guess.

Or you could argue we reached the "point" already. Look around you, every treaty to support the environment fails miserably due to profit interest, BP is doing it's best to get as much oil in the ocean as possible, after 5000 years we still can't find a way to life in peace and the highest paid jobs are shared between sportsmen, filmactors and financeguys destroying healthy firms for money, nicely shows our priorities. Do we really need more to fulfill any doomsday prophecies?

[Shadowtech Demons]

I agree with Lakenburgh. With all the damage humanity has done to the environment, I'm surprised that we still have an ozone layer. We should be concentrating on making factories, cars and other pollution producers cleaner.

[Kranusilika]

100 years ago no one cared, because no one knew about the damage we are/where doing.
Today we worry about everything.

[Guy]

People often bring up the argument that it happened before. Well, yes, but much more slowly. And mass-extinction accompanied the warming.

[Wyvernspire]

Personally, I just think that time, erosion, and the invasion of the Spanish destroyed the small stone note at the end of the Mayan Calender saying "Acan, I only got to [mayan equivalent of 2012], we need to get more granite"

[Empierium]

They only believe the world ends in 2012 because thats when the Mayan calander ends (Big deal)

[Inutoland]

Why does the ignorant "everyone" suddenly seem to think the Maya had an inside track on the End of the World?

OK, they had a sophisticated calendar. They also practiced human sacrifice and hadn't discovered the wheel. So why do people suddenly think they knew?

[Pompadoodle]

Jul 16, 2010 7:23:33 GMT -5 Inutoland said:

Why does the ignorant "everyone" suddenly seem to think the Maya had an inside track on the End of the World?

OK, they had a sophisticated calendar. They also practiced human sacrifice and hadn't discovered the wheel. So why do people suddenly think they knew?

Short answer: Because they're gullible.

People believe in all kinds of weird stuff- crystal healing, ley lines, alien abductions...you name it.

The whole mayan caledar nonsense is just another one of those kooky beliefs.

Thats not to say that we don't have some very serious problems. We're screwing up the planet big time, with global warming being the worst example. We're going to hit the crash barriers sooner or later, and it won't be very nice. The worst case warming scenarios would almost certainly lead to the collapse of civilization (although not the extinction of humanity- we'd survive...in caves). How likely those scenarios are, no one knows. Myself, I tend towards pessimism.

[bashia]

The mayan calendar predicted like 700 years of the heaavenly bodies. What happened is they went far enough and then let us do the rest

This is the same thing as when everyone was freaking out about Y2K

[American Federalist]

The Mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012. The current counting period does and a new one begins at that point. The idiots who came up with this conspiracy theory failed to research how the Mayans actually kept time. Its their version of the end of a century, a new counting period begins in December 2012.

[Lakenburgh]

Psst don't you dare to destroy our last hope of some cataclysmic event, so in a hundred years from now we can blame it, if the earth it ruined and full of toxic gases?

[Bigfist]

Personally I don't believe in this junk. This guy that predicted this stuff had over 5 different predictions that the world was going to end. All of them proved wrong. I am religious and people I know say that 2012 is when Jesus is coming to take us. They say Revelations is predicting what will happen. That might be true but all of this stuff is just theory. So in regard to this debate I'd probably say it won't happen in the blink of an eye.(If it happens at all) However this is an interesting debate because you really have know proof if anything will happen.

[Bigfist]

Oops I put know instead of no. This is what it should look like






because you really have no proof if anything will happen.