2012 - The End?
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So much myth and misinformation is spread regarding the ending date of the Mayan calendar. It's like wondering what sort of ominious events will happen January 1st, 2009 simply because I haven't bought a calendar for that year yet. In short, there are no Mayans around to make the new calendar so there isn't one. Wikipedia has a relatively short but interesting article on the calendar itself.
As to the "Age of Aquarius" it doesn't actually start for nearly 600 years. Wiki has an article for it as well.
As to the "Age of Aquarius" it doesn't actually start for nearly 600 years. Wiki has an article for it as well.
Were you just going to throw that out there to see if anyone noticed?Blue said:
I wanted to patent "dehydrated water", or maybe some kind of "gassified" water.
I figured there'd be an incredible number of dumbfucks who'd buy it...
"just add water".
:rofl:
jim-00-4.6 said:
I'm working on purified water with a fancy label depicting protons, neutrons, and electron orbits and proclaiming the contents to be "Advanced Dihydrous Oxide". Of course it will just be me filling up recycled plastic water bottles from my kitchen tap as fast as I can.
Didn't you guys see the headline in the New York Times?
"World to End Tomorrow - Women and Minorities Hit Hardest"
"World to End Tomorrow - Women and Minorities Hit Hardest"
wooderson said:
X2. i learned a long time ago that your information will not be read as credible if you source from wikipedia.
Actually, given the way Wikipedia works (rather like a peer review journal) it can be an excellent, short and concise first source for information. If one is doing research it should not be by any means the sole reference, but is a good place to begin. Also I find it very useful in situations such as this where in depth material would be simply ignored. One might wish to read the article before calling idiotic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_calendar
MY theory on the whole "Mayan Calender" is simply this:
The Mayans spent a long time putting this calender together, with a lot of hard work and small intricacies. At one point during the calender creation, one Mayan dude got up and grabbed a round of drinks for the workers. The drinks were good.....damn good. The Mayans decided to make it a party, and that they would finish the calender in the morning. The Mayan people awoke the next morning to severe hangovers (And not the hangovers you get after a night of a few beers and shots. Im talking that New Years Eve hangover that had vodka mixed with champagne mixed with tequila mixed with schnapps)
So the Mayan people spent another day sleeping it off. When they returned the following day to finally finish the calender, they still werent quite up to par, but decided to push on through and finish that bitch. It was then that an educated Mayan from the group produced what he called "The Cure to Hangovers." It was a pipe. But this was no ordinary pipe. This pipe contained hashish and other goodness harvested from their rich land and notably fertile soil. So now you have a group of hungover Mayans getting higher than shit while trying to make a calender. Then piped up the "asshole trickster when high" Mayan dude, and he shared with others his idea of a scheme. He thought it would be funny to abruptly end the calender in such a way that they did to leave us later generations debating our future in online chat boards.
Thats just how I see the whole thing as having gone down. My $.02
The Mayans spent a long time putting this calender together, with a lot of hard work and small intricacies. At one point during the calender creation, one Mayan dude got up and grabbed a round of drinks for the workers. The drinks were good.....damn good. The Mayans decided to make it a party, and that they would finish the calender in the morning. The Mayan people awoke the next morning to severe hangovers (And not the hangovers you get after a night of a few beers and shots. Im talking that New Years Eve hangover that had vodka mixed with champagne mixed with tequila mixed with schnapps)
So the Mayan people spent another day sleeping it off. When they returned the following day to finally finish the calender, they still werent quite up to par, but decided to push on through and finish that bitch. It was then that an educated Mayan from the group produced what he called "The Cure to Hangovers." It was a pipe. But this was no ordinary pipe. This pipe contained hashish and other goodness harvested from their rich land and notably fertile soil. So now you have a group of hungover Mayans getting higher than shit while trying to make a calender. Then piped up the "asshole trickster when high" Mayan dude, and he shared with others his idea of a scheme. He thought it would be funny to abruptly end the calender in such a way that they did to leave us later generations debating our future in online chat boards.
Thats just how I see the whole thing as having gone down. My $.02
i believe in the calender. this is not the end but a 'change.'
the alignment has happened before. the gravitational forces implied on our planet at that time = unimaginable. i hope for the best: high tides, some large scale disasters, as usual. it could be worse, a total shift of our planets wobble. some say this could have a very bad result, life could depend on the fact that we spin just right. you change that and some crazy shit might go down. 2012 a superstition? i guess if you put astronomy and physics into that same book you keep full of superstitions then you'll be one of the first to go. i have one bit of advise, be ready for anything. we might just end up living like mad max for awhile.
as for the calender we use today, isn't this still the gregorian calendar!!! made by the F-ing church to aid in tossing out the old school pagan calenders? the mayan calender is in another league i'd say. just look at it. although some germans are saying that they invented the first accurate calendar, but didn't they make everything first? they are perfect, right himmler?
this is the end, my only friend.
the alignment has happened before. the gravitational forces implied on our planet at that time = unimaginable. i hope for the best: high tides, some large scale disasters, as usual. it could be worse, a total shift of our planets wobble. some say this could have a very bad result, life could depend on the fact that we spin just right. you change that and some crazy shit might go down. 2012 a superstition? i guess if you put astronomy and physics into that same book you keep full of superstitions then you'll be one of the first to go. i have one bit of advise, be ready for anything. we might just end up living like mad max for awhile.
as for the calender we use today, isn't this still the gregorian calendar!!! made by the F-ing church to aid in tossing out the old school pagan calenders? the mayan calender is in another league i'd say. just look at it. although some germans are saying that they invented the first accurate calendar, but didn't they make everything first? they are perfect, right himmler?
this is the end, my only friend.
Wikipdeia is correct on occasion at best. period. I finished up my grad work 2 years ago and i had a professor that FAILED a grad student for siting wikipedia as a source. He then gave a 20 minute lecture on wikipedia that i am not going to recite for you, but it convinced me.
Skakaramunga: you are very close on what the Mayan's "saw" coming. No one knows, or do they? They? Well, "they" could be governments, space agencies, universities, etc. Well why doesn't someone speak up and warn the masses? No one wants chaos and hysteria to overcome proactive thining, etc. Again, nothing may happen. Or, polar shift, space time continium collapse, enlightenment, nuclear war, mass hysteria from media misinformation, Nibiru (planet X) takes us out.......anything could happen.
Just don't forget the sceince - and remember this is about the calendar and why it ended at 2012. it is not about modern day conspiracy theories.
Skakaramunga: you are very close on what the Mayan's "saw" coming. No one knows, or do they? They? Well, "they" could be governments, space agencies, universities, etc. Well why doesn't someone speak up and warn the masses? No one wants chaos and hysteria to overcome proactive thining, etc. Again, nothing may happen. Or, polar shift, space time continium collapse, enlightenment, nuclear war, mass hysteria from media misinformation, Nibiru (planet X) takes us out.......anything could happen.
Just don't forget the sceince - and remember this is about the calendar and why it ended at 2012. it is not about modern day conspiracy theories.
I will add one more theory to the mix.
I was in Mexico this past spring and visited in Chichen Itza. We had a really cool guide that was a professor before the riches of guiding tourists pulled him away. In his opinion and his studies he claims the calendar does not represent the end of the earth rather the end of a cycle, similar to completing a circle. The Maya were great astromers, check out the link below for cool video representation. A snake appears every equinox on the side of the main pyramid/temple at Chichen Itza. They studied the stars and mapped out patterns, thus the end of the calendar was the full completion of a pattern.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsqpG0XN0g
I was in Mexico this past spring and visited in Chichen Itza. We had a really cool guide that was a professor before the riches of guiding tourists pulled him away. In his opinion and his studies he claims the calendar does not represent the end of the earth rather the end of a cycle, similar to completing a circle. The Maya were great astromers, check out the link below for cool video representation. A snake appears every equinox on the side of the main pyramid/temple at Chichen Itza. They studied the stars and mapped out patterns, thus the end of the calendar was the full completion of a pattern.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsqpG0XN0g