2012

[vedek]

Roland Emmerich's "2012" is due out in November 2009. The story is about a small group of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic world. What do you think about all the hype surrounding the year 2012? Is this another Y2K farce, or is there credible evidence of a possible disaster? Share your thoughts....

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Roland Emmerich's "2012" is due out in November 2009. The story is about a small group of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic world. What do you think about all the hype surrounding the year 2012? Is this another Y2K farce, or is there credible evidence of a possible disaster? Share your thoughts....

Another Y2K farce. The "Long Count" has turned over before. 2012 is just an odometer number on the Mayan calendar.

 

[TIN_MAN]

It's not just the Mayan calender, it's also the Tibetan Kalichakra calender and the I Ching calender, all these end on the same date! The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Even more shocking is that all calenders end on the same date...December 31st!!*

*All you 16 months calender twits can get bent.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

Whaaaaat???

 

[bigdaddy]

It's supposed to be the end of one cycle of life and thinknig. The "end of the world" as we know it and a new era of peace and love and blah blah blah.

I still don't get why 2012 is come out in 2009....

 

[Mistral]

I know exactly what 2012 is. Its the year after 2011. Any further significance is a product of fevered minds desperately yearning for meaning in a random and chaotic existence.

 

[Klaus]

I know exactly what 2012 is. Its the year after 2011. Any further significance is a product of fevered minds desperately yearning for meaning in a random and chaotic existence.

QFT!!

 

[Aragorn]

Well everyone knows that the Mayans were evolved dinosaur space travelers from the future, so naturally their calendar means EVERYTHING to humanity.

 

[Ethros]

The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

Whaaaaat???

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind

 

[iguana_tonante]

Roland Emmerich's "2012" is due out in November 2009. The story is about a small group of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic world. What do you think about all the hype surrounding the year 2012? Is this another Y2K farce, or is there credible evidence of a possible disaster? Share your thoughts....

Bullshit.

It's not just the Mayan calender, it's also the Tibetan Kalichakra calender and the I Ching calender, all these end on the same date! The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

Bullshit.

The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

Whaaaaat???

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind

I just hope it's not the year the Great War came upon us all!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It's not just the Mayan calender, it's also the Tibetan Kalichakra calender and the I Ching calender, all these end on the same date! The really interesting thing is, there are genetic correspondences as well, suggesting that some kind of evelutionary "quantum leap" is going to occur?

As someone who has regularly used the I Ching for well over a decade, I'm calling bullshit. There is no such thing as "the I Ching calendar."

 

[Ethros]

Whaaaaat???

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind

I just hope it's not the year the Great War came upon us all!

It was the year of fire. The year of destruction...

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Well, at least we will get to take back what was ours.

 

[Ethros]

And there'll be a rebirth

 

[iguana_tonante]

^^^ This is why I love this board.

 

[Samurai8472]

Well, at least we will get to take back what was ours.

This time........they fight back!

 

[Admiral_Young]

The year the Great War came upon us all? Nah...that isn't until 2260, a few years from 2012 last time I checked. Besides which the World doesn't end until the year 5.5/Apple/26

 

[Trekker4747]

Roland Emmerich's "2012" is due out in November 2009. The story is about a small group of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic world. What do you think about all the hype surrounding the year 2012? Is this another Y2K farce, or is there credible evidence of a possible disaster? Share your thoughts....

At least the Y2K thing has some "merit" to it. There *was* a problem in computers and it may very well have been a problem if we didn't work to fix it.

The 2012 thing? "Ummm. Some Myans a few thousand years ago made it a calendar. We think it ends in 2012. Doom will happen!"

Yeeeeeah.

The movie? Sure to be Roland Emmerich crap.

 

[TIN_MAN]

Well, the quantum leap in evolution thing was just my two Quatloos worth, so that might very well be BS, but there is a method to my madness. Allyn Gibson is technically correct, officially, there is no such thing as an I Ching calender, but, I was refering to the research of Terrence & Dennis McKenna and their book "The Invisable Landscape" In which they analyzed the "King Wen" sequence of the I Ching, and discovered it was based on a lunar calender, from which they found they were able to 'map' history with. It ends, of course, on 2012, only later did they find out this was also the end date for the Mayan calender! For those who are interested, the connection between the I ching and the DNA is found in the book "DNA and the I Ching" by Johnson F.Yan. Another good book connecting all the above together is "The Mayan Factor" by Jos'e Arguelles. So there is lots of info out there for those interested. Actually the fact that all these calenders often begin and end at the same time isn't all that mysterious, because they're based on natural cycles and rythyms such as days, years, solstices etc. even sunspot cycles, so it'd be surprising if they weren't coinciding.