2012

[Herkimer Jitty]

If I may add my two cents to this whole 2012 thing.

The Mayans, and many other Central American civilizations IIRC, believed that the world operated in cycles. Different epochs that began and ended with great big, ground-shattering events. This isn't a considerably unreasonable belief, at least with regards to the past. Ancient accounts from all over the world attest that before (or duirng) the dawn of civilization, lots of bad shit happened. We're talking fire, brimstone, massive storms, floods and shitloads of stuff freezing over. Yeah, they're definitley right in a way to think the world works like that.

Let's not forget that Central America went through civilization like socks. And through minor to moderate natural disaster like any civilization. But practically ever religion in the region was superstition and paranoia taken to an extreme. It is to be taken with a grain of salt. A massive grain of salt.

Nothing is going to happen in 2012. And a lot of people are going to feel silly.

 

[john titor]

America will wage war on Iran, they're already preparing. This will escalate into a global crisis with further wars. First contact with an alien species will be made in 2012 (it will have something to do with CERN).. Humanity will avoid self destruction and enter a new phase in its evolution.

Could you put me in touch with your pusher? He apparently has really good stuff.

I am from the fewtore

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

How's that IBM 5100 workin out for you, Johnny? Save the world yet?

 

[Silent_Bob]

If I may add my two cents to this whole 2012 thing.

The Mayans, and many other Central American civilizations IIRC, believed that the world operated in cycles. Different epochs that began and ended with great big, ground-shattering events. This isn't a considerably unreasonable belief, at least with regards to the past. Ancient accounts from all over the world attest that before (or duirng) the dawn of civilization, lots of bad shit happened. We're talking fire, brimstone, massive storms, floods and shitloads of stuff freezing over. Yeah, they're definitley right in a way to think the world works like that.

I'm going to add my two cents, or 40 pence or whatever.

I studied Archaeology at University, and this very subject came up. The current (at least it was in '05) thinking of the archaeological community was that the whole "End of the World at the End of the Calender" thing is actually a misinterpretation.

As many of you probably know, the Mayans relied on Pictographs to record their history. The End of the World stuff comes from a series of pictographs showing the arrival of a stranger, during a period of massive unrest and destruction, which would lead to a new order being imposed after this period of strife. So all well and good for those wanting to predict the end of the world.

The problem is however this series of pictographs does not belong at the end of the Mayan calender, it belongs at the beginning. The tales of an end of the world scenario are actually the story of how the Mayan civilization was founded. It is detailing the fall of the Zapotec's not the Mayan's own eventual demise.

The Mayan calender is not predicting the end of anything beyond the end of another cycle.

This is all based on what i was taught in the summer of 2005, by Prof. Jon Trigg of the University of Liverpool, England. Just in case you want to check his credentials. He's the guy with the tremendous beard.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

2012 will be just like any other year.

Well, there is this pesky little thing we call an ''ELECTION'' happing in that year, you ever heard of it?

Elections happen all the time. The fact that 2012 will have a Presidential election is hardly earth-shattering. You vote, your candidate either wins or loses, life goes on. NEXT!

As I said, I care more about the new Marlins ballpark (which will have a more direct impact on me, given that I'm a baseball fan) than I do about the '12 election. Baseball is what 2012 will mean to ME.

 

[Silvercrest]

It's also a hundred years before 2112. That has to be significant.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

 

[Klaus]

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

...of course they will. They wouldn't dare refuse it.

 

[Deckerd]

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.

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius?

 

[Mistral]

It's also a hundred years before 2112. That has to be significant.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

In 6ft by 3ft plots.

 

[Samurai8472]

Conan O'Brien will lose his legs in the War of 2012

I come from future, Colonel Leno just told us to bomb a harvesting facility. Humans are being converted into batteries!