Nostradamus is so fucking vague he can predict anything you want him to.
The Mayans didn't 'predict' it, thats simply where their calendar ends.
Although they did have myth of multiple worlds being created and destroyed, there is no evidence pointing towards the 'end' of the world at the end of the calendar.
Stop reading new age books and watching the sci-fi channel.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in. ... But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be.
Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point."
- (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm)



Nice Magus avatar from Chrono Trigger. :]

This post was edited by AEtheric on Feb 10 2009 07:35pm

bump.

lol this 2012 stuff is funny. I always hear people at school talking about it, and they go ON AND ON like they know everything that's going to happen. It's hilarious.




Sorry folks but the human race will be around for quite awhile. Unless we get Meteor owned, or a Supervolcano erupts or something.

Sigh.

People believe everything without researching it first. Don't take someone's 2nd hand information and repeat it, do the research yourself and see what you come up with. it's the only way to truly learn about something.

As long as people don't read new-age books about the mayan propehcy of 2012, that's fine with me.

There have been doomsday theories for centuries, what makes this one so different?

This is close....

The Mayan Calander on Dec 21st 2012 Pricisely predicts the alignment on Our Solar System on the "Galactic Equator" at the same time our sun will be in an exact alinment between Earth and the Center of the Galaxy. This occurrence is thought to happen once every 65,000 years. The Mayans writing suggest ehy Believed this would open some kind of gateway for them, Since it was the first time it thier existence that this event was to occur.



Of course it did. Where where you?



Nostradamus didnt Predict this.... He Said the world would end in like 3725 or some thing.......

And Yer rapture comment?? LOL, Translation: "If I were a lobster in a boiling pot I'd laugh at the other lobster boiling that though he was not going to be dinner. Good Thing I don't believe in Boiling water"

This post was edited by FullArcFG on Feb 17 2009 01:10am

KFC will go bankrupt, niggers will riot

My 2 cent:

From a christian stand point...12/21/2012 cant be the final day b/c "I will come like a thief in the night" or so it is translated. So if you are a christian, you can't believe both the bible and the doomsday prophecy.

From an agnostic/aetheist stand point there arent any controlling factors so to end on 12/21/2012 would have to be random chance and the odds of that are massive ("so you're saying there is a chance" -Dumb and Dumber)

From the astrologist (the ones that read the starts, not Astronomers who look for new stars and such) it's the end of the current period we're in and the beginning of a chaotic period (I guess it could mean the end of the world as we know it)

As for everyone that doesnt fit into those, believe what you want. Its like any future event, we can speculate and even approximate the outcome of our actions today but we've never been able to 100% predict the future. Anyone who believes with 100% certainty that they can, is a goof and should be treated as such.

The world will end when god chooses.

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