12 - 21 - 2012 ... Believe it?

[Petoux]

Is the end of the world REALLY 12 - 21 - 2012?

You never know ... we did think the world was going to end Jan 01 2000 too but it didn't.

That was our own silly prediction though, with 12/21/2012 ... the mayans predicted it in like 5000 BC (before Christ / Year Zero {0} ) or so, so why 2012 out of any other year?

They must have had some reason to it.

Thoughts?

[Letho]

I chose the fourth option, but mostly because it's closest to what I believe. I think I watched a documentary or read an article or something on this and someone said that it wasn't that the Mayans predicted the end of the world or anything akin to that. It was simply the way their calendar was constructed, and that after 12-21-2012 it simply restarts from zero. People just chose to give it apocalyptic connotations, because that's what people do. Seemed like a good explanation.

[Vigil]

No. And I enjoy watching these doom prophecies and their messiahs wither and die when it comes time to collect.

[Petoux]

Restarts back to zero huh?

Almost sounds like a Time Warp or Loop ("Back to the Future" much? :p ).

So if everything starts back at zero ... then everything on their calender repeats itself at the exact same time?

History does repeat itself after all!

Or, what would be cool ... is when 12 - 21 - 2012 hits, everyone's minds will be wiped clean to start anew ... then we might actually make this planet worth living in.

Or maybe greedy corporations will rule all lol

But, I do know this ...

I guarantee you to expect massive amounts of crimes, suicides, murders, robberies, you name it happening 12 - 20 - 2012 and 12 - 21 - 2012 ... you watch.

[Enigmatic Immortal]

I voted for baked potato. It seemed like the best option for what I believe. Honestly I couldn't care less what people think because whatever happens will happen.

My opinion coincides with letho's. Come on and think about it. After sitting on your ass carving this shitty calendar for several months/years wouldn't you be a little tired to finish it as well? I think they just got tired of making the calendar and called it a night, then he calendar man was run over by a dung cart and thus couldn't finish

[Petoux]

Assuming they got tired of it .. wouldn't they have finished it earlier?

I mean assuming it was made in 5000 BC , and that's when the calander started it ... if they were really tired of it, why spend time writing 7012 years worth?

That's a big calander lol

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

My calendar ended yesterday. Did the world blow up then?

Pffft.

[MetalDrago]

2012 is about as real as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[Enigmatic Immortal]

That's exactly the point petoux. That's 7012 years worth of calender days. They probably figured they could take a break for a couple hundred years, then they got visited by the Spanish and well...the rest is history.

[Jasmine]

Baked potatoes are awesomeness. especially with the works (sour cream, cheddar cheese, bacon bits and...oh yes! broccoli!)

that aside, given my belief that the only being that knows when the world is going to end is God, and that he hasn't even told Jesus when that day is, i really, REALLY don't believe an ancient mayan calendar knows when the world will end. Personally, i think there's a heck of a lot of other stuff that's gonna happen first before the world ends.

[Amber Eyes]

2012 is about as real as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

What? The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't real? You just ruined my entire childhood! :P

[Elrundir]

This 2012 nonsense is just that. December 21, 2012 is just the first day of one of many cycles in the Mayan calendar (they had all kinds of cycles, and that will be the start of the 14th of the longest type of cycle or some such confusing thing). Anyway, the point is, "December 21, 2012" has happened 13 times before and the world hasn't ended yet, so there's no reason to expect that it will end this time. For the Mayans, reaching the end of such a cycle would probably be the equivalent of what we'd consider reaching the end of a millennium.

All this apocalypse stuff probably appeared just because a) we have a fetish for the apocalypse and b) 12/21/12 sounds cryptic and (sort of but not quite) symmetrical or some crap like that.

[MetalDrago]

Terrible Twenty Twelve. Try saying that three times fast

[Petoux]

12 - 21 by itself ( no matter what year it is ) marks the first day of Winter. I wonder if that plays a part in it.

Because if it was cryptic or symmetrical ... it would have been 12/12/12 right?

Maybe the end of the world will be a giant baked potato since that is the most popular answer.

:p

[Tainted Bushido]

This 2012 nonsense is just that. December 21, 2012 is just the first day of one of many cycles in the Mayan calendar (they had all kinds of cycles, and that will be the start of the 14th of the longest type of cycle or some such confusing thing). Anyway, the point is, "December 21, 2012" has happened 13 times before and the world hasn't ended yet, so there's no reason to expect that it will end this time. For the Mayans, reaching the end of such a cycle would probably be the equivalent of what we'd consider reaching the end of a millennium.

All this apocalypse stuff probably appeared just because a) we have a fetish for the apocalypse and b) 12/21/12 sounds cryptic and (sort of but not quite) symmetrical or some crap like that.

Actually the Mayan calender marks the end of an age. It's the end of Life as we know it, which is often prophecized as some great tragedy, but that doesn't mean so. it could also mean a change for the better. It's life as we KNOW it, not just LIFE.

[Duffy]

That can only mean one thing...

A female President!

[Petoux]

Maybe it will be the age where we actually except everyone as equals for once irregardless of who they are or how they dress, etc. That'd be nice.

[SirArtemis]

actually the mayan calender marks the end of an age. It's the end of life as we know it, which is often prophecized as some great tragedy, but that doesn't mean so. It could also mean a change for the better. It's life as we know it, not just life.

On December 12, 2012, the internet was invented! Life changed as we knew it!

You see what I did there? With the past/present?

[Elrundir]

Actually the Mayan calender marks the end of an age. It's the end of Life as we know it, which is often prophecized as some great tragedy, but that doesn't mean so. it could also mean a change for the better. It's life as we KNOW it, not just LIFE.
If that's the case, they were pretty bad at predicting it because it happened 13 times before (at least, 13 times during human history) according to their way of calculating things. :\ And apparently they had huge celebrations each time they reached the end of one of these things. Now, if their civilization happened to end on one such date, maybe it would have some credence. :p

[Jack Frost]

I really hope not, that means I won't get to turn 18....

[Hysteria]

That can only mean one thing...

A female President!

My country is trying that now, eh its pretty average.

[Petoux]

If we did have a female president, things wouldn't be so f*cked up to begin with. We seem to always screw it up ... lol

[Elrundir]

Well, shit. Apparently we were worried about 2012 for nothing. We've got even less time than we thought we did (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885541/ns/us_news-life/?gt1=43001)!

[Letho]

No, May simply doesn't seem plausible. Mass Effect 3 won't be out until late 2011 and it would be a sin not to play it. I'm pretty sure Jesus agrees.

[Hysteria]

That reminds me of the simpson's episode where Homer does numerology.

[Wynken]

I had a Dilbert desk calendar that ended 5 days ago...

[Petoux]

By the way .. I wasn't making up the 2762 asteriod hit. It was on the Discovery Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw

Video of an estimation of what MIGHT occur in 2762^

Luckily none of us will be alive in 2762 ... we'll be gone in 2012 ... maybe :p

[Scrotus]

Doubt it, but I'm not worried regardless. It'll take a meteor, from the sky, that's three times the size of Texas to take me out, and even then we still have Bruce Willus and Michael Clarke Duncan to protect us.

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

Doubt it, but I'm not worried regardless. It'll take a meteor, from the sky, that's three times the size of Texas to take me out, and even then we still have Bruce Willus and Michael Clarke Duncan to protect us.

Or, in a pinch, a little ten-year-old in a green tunic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LPj2MukZI&feature=related)

[Jack Frost]

Or, in a pinch, a little ten-year-old in a green tunic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LPj2MukZI&feature=related)

Ah the good old days...
When games weren't about graphics, they were about being awesome...

[Christoph]

Your mom. That is all. Baked potatoes can go to hell.

[Hysteria]

Or, in a pinch, a little ten-year-old in a green tunic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LPj2MukZI&feature=related)

fricken weird looking giant-things.

[Petoux]

What NASA had to say about 2012:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhEigdFFyI