2012

Do you believe that December 21st 2012 is actually going to be doomsday? there are lots of information out there about it. Chinese guessed it, The real merlin guessed it, many people around the world profecised it, new technology guesses it, the bible relates to the profecies, and the well known - not really - Aztecs or Mayans. Their calander ends at the time but that doesn't mean that that is doomsday. Also all the planets are supposed to perfectly align on that exact date. I know this is not really related to going green but that is related to global warming and global warming is supposed to destroy our earth.

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Permalink Reply by Lamp Post on August 5, 2009 at 3:10pm: Where did you get June?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jasper Hale.(The geek) on August 7, 2009 at 2:58pm: Where did you get the worlds gonna freaking end?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by XxmajicxX on August 9, 2009 at 2:03pm: those previous thoughts were my dumb sister but she would have had the same thoughts as me; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Harrison Chea on August 11, 2009 at 11:50am: god eh? well i myself dont believe in the whole 2012 crap, im not really a fan of god either. although it really depends on my mood; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lamp Post on August 11, 2009 at 12:49am: Not everybody is religious, thus not everybody will think this true.
Proof?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SWEET N' SOUR on August 11, 2009 at 7:41am: wat! that's the first i've heard of dooms day!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Harrison Chea on August 11, 2009 at 11:50am: true that; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lamp Post on August 12, 2009 at 1:40am: That's not proof.
Basically you're just saying 'I'm right' and not accepting other views.

*laughed at the 'snooty criticism' comment*; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lamp Post on August 13, 2009 at 12:50am: Yes, we're the morons, and you're the one not backing up anything with fact.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lamp Post on August 13, 2009 at 12:55am: Eh, if you can't take other opinions and others questioning your opinions, than you probably shouldn't be on any forums/discussions in general; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Harrison Chea on August 11, 2009 at 11:42am: seriously? people have been talking about doomsday about, summ, say a few dozen times. first in the "1600's, thes in 2000, 2002, 2006, now 2012. And that movie coming out called"2012" (snorts in disbelief) isnt helping either; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marx on August 12, 2009 at 1:45pm: "For starters i did NOT write this but i was looking it up and it should explain your question, only in like ten paragraphs" and here is the URL
http://my.opera.com/arnab23/blog/maya-civilization-2012-dec-31th

The Mayan people were obsessed with time, dates, and predicting the cycles of the seasons, planets, and the sun because they wanted to accurately be able to predict the development of their crops in order to survive. Because of this, they perfected the accuracy of time to the point that they were only off by one day every 6000 years, which is exceedingly more accurate than our own Gregorian calendar!!! The main calendar used by the Mayans was called the Tzolkin. This calendar consisted of 260 days which used two different cyclic systems of 13 numbered days and 20 named days which corresponds to the 26,000 year cycle of the Pleiades constellation, the 260 day cycle of the human gestation period, and the 13 moons that exist in a solar year. This calendar was able to predict individual day to day cycles as well as long ranging cycles far into the future. This is where we get the predicted end date for all of time which ends on or around (depending on who you ask) the 21st of December 2012. This is said to be the end of a 5,125 year galactic cycle where the earth, the sun, the galaxy, or the universe itself will either be destroy or will enter a new age of enlightenment, depending on whether you’re a pessimist or an optimist. This is because the Mayan calendar’s start date was August 11,3114 B.C. which was written as 13.0.0.0.0 in Mayan. The December 2012 date will once again return to the 13.0.0.0.0 date, indicating that a new cycle will begin again. (most classic mayanist scholars believe this ...but there is a growing division about the meaning..and the lack of information on incomplete glyphs that were partially destroyed or lost!)

also, other information:

As you may already know, according to the Mayan calendar, the world is scheduled to end at precisely 11:11 GMT on December 21, 2012. Beyond that though, what exactly do you know about the Mayans, their famous calendar, and all of this apocalypse talk?

The Mayan’s were an ancient civilization that developed in the Yucatan (Mexico) around 2600 B.C. During these early days of the Mayan civilization, they began developing what would ultimately become highly accurate methods of mathematics, astronomy, calendars, farming, and writing. During the Mayan Classic period (300-900 A.D.), the Mayan’s were at their height of civilization. They built enormous pyramids, developed sophisticated astronomical charts, invented the concept of the zero in mathematics, created words for such large numbers that today we don’t even have names for, developed a highly complicated alphabet, wrote detailed histories or their culture, and perfected the calendar to a precision that our own Gregorian calendar lacks. Sometime between 800 and 900 A.D., the great civilization that was the Mayan people suddenly disappeared, seemingly without a trace. Their cities were abandoned and all development ceased. No one is sure if they were destroyed, dispersed, or just disappeared. Unfortunately, most of the written records that the Mayan’s kept were destroyed in 1562 with the invasion of the Spanish, so any explanation for their disappearance that may have existed at one time was burned to ashes. While some so-called Mayans still exist today, their highly developed civilization mysteriously and suddenly stopped moving forward as great mathematicians, builders, writers, and artists after 900 A.D

Many people believe that the Mayans were so advanced that they developed the ability to travel through space or through time and decided to finally up and leave this planet or time period of their own volition due to other cultures continually trying to invade their own. Pacal the Great ruled the Mayan civilization for much of the later part of 600 A.D. and commissioned many of the great classical works of architecture and art of the time. Today, he is most famous for the image that was found on his tomb that is often referred to as the Maya Astronaut. In the tomb carving, Pacal is seen in what many interpret as an ancient spaceship or time machine. He is sitting it something that could be interpreted as a cockpit, his hands are turning instruments, his foot appears to be on a pedal, a tube is inserted into his nose as if he is receiving oxygen, and wisps of smoke or exhaust appear to be shooting from the bottom of the ship.

The Maya reckoned their chronology in great cycles of 13 baktuns (about 5,128 solar years), with the beginning of the current cycle 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumku corresponding to a day in 3114 BC. This establishes the relationship between the long count and calendar round numbering.

The generally agreed upon correlation between the Gregorian and Maya calendars is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation, which places the long count katun ending 11.16.0.0.0 13 Ahau 8 Xul on 14 November 1539 (Gregorian). While the GMT is convenient for calendric calculations, it should be noted that the Gregorian calendar has itself existed only since 15 October 1582 as proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII.

There is some science and suggestion that the mayans did in fact create/devise
14 Baktuns and/or more....much of the glyphs describing some of this physical evidence (incomplete/lost/patrially destroyed) is unfortunately vague and open to imagination. The "end" is not necessarily a proper interpretation of the 13 Baktun, is what I am believing...In the larger chronology of the life cycle of this solar system...and the larger galaxy, it would only seem fair to believe that the calendar developed encapsulated only a small brief segment of time.space.

However, it is also a proper interpretation that the end of the 13th Baktun has significant meaning and the risks described cannot simply be imagined away, or ignored...Remember that the calendar was asbsolute in measurement and thus predictions in it were in fact realized...This should give rise to a serious threat to life on earht as we know it if you read the intepretations, regardless if you believe the cycle will "reset", continue to a 14th and beyond, or stop....

Consider for a moment the precision in which they measured time and space! In a vigesimal base 20 predicative system of number that described zero!!!! A predicative system that deals in absolutes! (I am simplifying the base 20 scheme, but it is clear it was highly modified....and how that was known..is well beyond today's top minds or science!)

bear in mind that the 13 baktuns "known" are contained within the larger "long count" composed of 3.1 megayears! We are talking about a "start date of August 11, 3114 BCE. (not coincidentally, construction of stonehenge and other astro time pieces and artifacts have been measured to have been under construction at or very close to this same date/time! The period is very significant for construction of similar time peices and calendars...many of which contain serious and dire glyhps, and inscriptions about the near future!); ▶ Reply to This