December 21st, 2012

[Chief Walking Stick]

Anyone actually believe this shit? I know the Mayan's long count calendar has been pretty good... but come on.



What is everyone's take?



I find it very interesting actually....



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The Bible has been predicting a lot of shit we're going through and a lot of shit we're looking to be headed as a society.



I thought his comment on a polarity shift was interesting... he said that if the north and south poles flipped there would basically be no affect on climate.... WHAT?!?

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

It would be kind of a jerky move ending the world on a Friday anyways.

 

[bri]

I think that there is not a damn thing anyone can do if it does. I have may too many things to worry about now so I'm not going to add it to my list. I don't plan that far ahead. I just worry about getting through tomorrow.

 

[TSD]

Anyone actually believe this shit? I know the Mayan's long count calendar has been pretty good... but come on.



What is everyone's take?



I find it very interesting actually....



[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtsmjXiMPQ[/media]





[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4VuAeUO6yI[/media]



The Bible has been predicting a lot of shit we're going through and a lot of shit we're looking to be headed as a society.



I thought his comment on a polarity shift was interesting... he said that if the north and south poles flipped there would basically be no affect on climate.... WHAT?!?

No on 2012, First of all, the mayans never predicted ANYTHING people in modern times created the doomsday theory, nothing is going to happen. As far as the bible predicting "things going on right now" you can point to many other points in history where the same can be said war, disease, climatic events etc etc (far more catastrophic in most respects) and the world didn't come to an end.

 

[the canadian dream]

It's pretty fun to listen read and watch the theories and prophecies etc. I am a self admitted History Channel nutt job and they are always showing programs on this stuff. It's fun to watch if you are a nerd like me.



Here's what turns me off though. Everything is so riddled in western bias and so self serving to the west that it ends up losing validity.



For example when a prophecy claims something along the lines of "the water will be a fire" then examples are always brought up of oil spills off Alaska (or something like that). Or when one claims "The waters will fill the land" examples of New Orleans are brought up. Etc etc etc. "Fire in the sky and bodies falling to earth"..911. 911 is used a lot to try and validify prophecies of destruction or chaos etc etc. It's actually rather sickening.



At that point the prophecies are all twisted up and played with until they fit into an event we in the west can relate to on a personal level. It's just mind tricks. But it's fun mind tricks. And it's a good challenge for critical thinking.

 

[howcho]

And the monkey Spinque, spanked spunk

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

It's pretty fun to listen read and watch the theories and prophecies etc. I am a self admitted History Channel nutt job and they are always showing programs on this stuff. It's fun to watch if you are a nerd like me.



Here's what turns me off though. Everything is so riddled in western bias and so self serving to the west that it ends up losing validity.



For example when a prophecy claims something along the lines of "the water will be a fire" then examples are always brought up of oil spills off Alaska (or something like that). Or when one claims "The waters will fill the land" examples of New Orleans are brought up. Etc etc etc. "Fire in the sky and bodies falling to earth"..911. 911 is used a lot to try and validify prophecies of destruction or chaos etc etc. It's actually rather sickening.



At that point the prophecies are all twisted up and played with until they fit into an event we in the west can relate to on a personal level. It's just mind tricks. But it's fun mind tricks. And it's a good challenge for critical thinking.

+1



I would like to see people dig up facts/videos/stories about the Mayan Long Count. They have been pretty good up til now... but I am not buying into 12/21/12.... OMG LETS READ INTO THE DATE!!!!!!

 

[roshinaya]

Absolute nonsense. There is no evidence of the Mayans having any doomsday predictions surrounding the end of the long count. It's all New Age mumbojumbo.

I doubt there will be a single swift cataclysmic event that would end us all. We are slowly going to kill ourselves because our own stupidity.

 

[Bringmepie]

When Harold Camping claimed the end was nigh last year it was laughable but a long dead civilization not bothering to extend it's calendar more than several hundred years into the future is cause for concern. It's a fine line between stupidity and genius.

 

[LordKOTL]

The only thing I've heard about the Mayan calendar is that it just happens to end on that date. It's kinda like this trick I know we were all told as kids where if you take your burthday, and do some simple math to it, you can predict the exact day of the week tyou were born (or the exact day of the week of any day within the 1900's). Naturally, the math is no good in the 2000's. I think nothing will happen.



Oh, and as for the magnetic reversal of the poles? I saw a documentary on it awhile back--it shouldn't have much affect on the climate, the last flip didn't. There may be a *slightly* higher risk of cancer as the magnetic field is weakened and all haywire, and aurora may happen at all latitudes, but that's about it. If there was any extreme climate changes, therew would have been more extinction episodes coinciding with magnetic flips.

 

[winos5]

You'll all be singing a different song when the end of days is upon us. I'll be laughing as the aliens fly me away, and the man from mars picked up all my guitars and played me a travelling song....





























































Really this is just bullshit.



On a side note the "Ancient Aliens" dude with the unpronoucable greek name and wierd accent has some fucked up hair.

 

[TSD]

When Harold Camping claimed the end was nigh last year it was laughable but a long dead civilization not bothering to extend it's calendar more than several hundred years into the future is cause for concern. It's a fine line between stupidity and genius.

What happened to that guy after his october prediction flopped too?

 

[bri]

What happened to that guy after his october prediction flopped too?

He's probably off coming up with some new crackpot theory to get people to turn all of their money and worldly possessions over to him.

 

[jakobeast]

Really Mayans? The day before my birthday? *******.

 

[supraman]

The only thing I've heard about the Mayan calendar is that it just happens to end on that date. It's kinda like this trick I know we were all told as kids where if you take your burthday, and do some simple math to it, you can predict the exact day of the week tyou were born (or the exact day of the week of any day within the 1900's). Naturally, the math is no good in the 2000's. I think nothing will happen.



Oh, and as for the magnetic reversal of the poles? I saw a documentary on it awhile back--it shouldn't have much affect on the climate, the last flip didn't. There may be a *slightly* higher risk of cancer as the magnetic field is weakened and all haywire, and aurora may happen at all latitudes, but that's about it. If there was any extreme climate changes, therew would have been more extinction episodes coinciding with magnetic flips.

Doesn't it flip about every 10k years?



Also aliens were at the first thanksgiving.

 

[bri]

Really Mayans? The day before my birthday? *******.

Screw them. How do people know that they just didn't get tired of making the calendar and quit.

 

[LordKOTL]

Doesn't it flip about every 10k years?



Also aliens were at the first thanksgiving.

Give or take. The last reversal was about 780k years ago. The Wikipedia article and the documentary I watched have said it was pretty random.

 

[MassHavoc]

From the looks of some of the threads on this board, you'd think the world was already ending... hiyo!

 

[BigPete]

So I get it and agree that doomsday predictions are completely and utterly just-a-guess. But, you can easily see why people start to believe them.



It is the middle of January and here in St. Louis I was standing on my deck in shorts and a tshirt and then in the middle of the night a tornado tore up some buildings 4 miles west of my house. 4 years ago I was skating on the frozen pond in my backyard on January 16th.



It makes you wonder...

 

[LordKOTL]

So I get it and agree that doomsday predictions are completely and utterly just-a-guess. But, you can easily see why people start to believe them.



It is the middle of January and here in St. Louis I was standing on my deck in shorts and a tshirt and then in the middle of the night a tornado tore up some buildings 4 miles west of my house. 4 years ago I was skating on the frozen pond in my backyard on January 16th.



It makes you wonder...

IMHO not really. Right now it's snowing here which is an anomaly but the weather is like that. Wasn't it about 5 years ago that we had a record hurricane season and everyone was freaking out and blaming global warming, and I can't even remember more than maybe 2 landfalling hurricanes this past year.