2012 Doomsday Predictions (Local Documentary)

[grammafreddy]

Neither the Dresden Codex, nor the Mayan long count calendar have ever foretold the end of our world. However, they do associate every turning of the 13.0.0.0.0.0 cycle with great change and upheaval

Like what from the past?

[kompili]

Like what from the past?

yes

[hardnut]

Not to mention that the long and sticky math involved behind their gigantic count on stela 1 at Coba may correlate with how long it takes to spiral quite a few full revolutions around the super massive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy (going 41,943,040,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years into the past).

Interesting, considering that the current best guess on the age of the universe is 13.75 billion years - that's 13,750,000,000 years.

[grammafreddy]

Like what from the past?

yes

Cripes, that wasn't a yes or no question. It was a givemesomeexamples question.

[Fancy]

Like what - from the past?

kompili says "yes"

Instead of: like - What from the past? At which time kompili will post something that still will befuddle you.

[kompili]

Cripes, that wasn't a yes or no question. It was a givemesomeexamples question.

Here is a site you can look at, maybe it will give you some answers, it is to long for me to explain

http://mayan-calendar.com/ancient_longcount.html

[Fancy]

Guess no Reader's Digest version?

[Fancy]

The Maya recorded time in a series of cycles, including 400-year chunks called baktuns. It's these baktuns that have led to rumors of an end-of-the-world catastrophe on Dec. 21, 2012 — on that date, a cycle of 13 baktuns will be complete. But the idea that this means the end of the world is a misconception, Stuart said. In fact, Maya experts have known for a long time that the calendar doesn't end after the 13th baktun. It simply begins a new cycle. And the calendar encompasses much larger units than the baktun.

"There were 24 units of time they actually could have incorporated into their calendar," Stuart said. "Here, we're only seeing five units and they're still really big."

http://news.yahoo.com/nevermind-apocaly ... 38279.html

No worries - hope people aren't listening to rumours.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... apocalypse

[goatboy]

And as far as "significant changes will come" as the cycle changes is also a bogus argument. You can point to thousands of things that have happened over the last 500 years that you could call "significant change" so the chances of something else happening within a reasonable time of this change of cycles is pretty good and will be used as proof by those that would have you believe yet will be have no correlation to this calendar but will simply be time moving forward.

[zzontar]

It's a given that we will continue to pollute the planet, use up the resources, and create wars. It's also basically inevitable that there are many more inhabited planets with life much more intelligent than us, and that the odds are we have been and/or currently being visited by some. As the Earth is a plethora of resources and would make an ideal oasis for interstellar travel, at what point do you think a more intelligent race will step in to prevent their oasis from being ruined? It might seem wacky, but it's something we would probably do and it seems the odds are in favor of this happening at some time.

[goatboy]

It's a given that we will continue to pollute the planet, use up the resources, and create wars. It's also basically inevitable that there are many more inhabited planets with life much more intelligent than us, and that the odds are we have been and/or currently being visited by some. As the Earth is a plethora of resources and would make an ideal oasis for interstellar travel, at what point do you think a more intelligent race will step in to prevent their oasis from being ruined? It might seem wacky, but it's something we would probably do and it seems the odds are in favor of this happening at some time.

The Fermi paradox is an interesting look at extra terrestrial life and the lack of concrete evidence that it exists.

An interesting read that will pose interesting questions for you to ponder, both for and against life outside our own visiting earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[zzontar]

The Fermi paradox is an interesting look at extra terrestrial life and the lack of concrete evidence that it exists.

An interesting read that will pose interesting questions for you to ponder, both for and against life outside our own visiting earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

You're talking to the wrong guy, there's nothing for me to ponder any more than you would have to ponder whether deer exist.

[Frisk]

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[goatboy]

I hate to say it, but you know if the shooting in Newtown had happened on the 21st, Kompili would have been saying, "told you so". Just be prepared that anything bad that happens from that day forward will be a "sign"!