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So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
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I don't think the Mayans said it was the end of the world, just the end of the calendar. It's these other idiots that have heaped apocalyptic significance upon it.
Or perhaps that there was a mistranslation someplace and the Mayan's were really just celebrating the end of an age (with a new one to follow) kinda how christian's believe that Jesus will return when he enters into the next house.. which is really a pagan symbolism for when the sun reaches the next zodiac position in the sky.
Then there's also the argument that Dec 21st was really the beginning of the end, a point of no return - such as the findings of climatologists who now say* that the world has reached a tipping point from whence there is no return... the globe will now heat up and have cataclysmic events on a global scale that are sure to follow. End of the world? Perhaps not, but what is certain, mankind has never been closer to its own extinction since the time of the Mayans.
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Bloodfrenzy187 wrote: So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
I saw a zombie...
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Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
Or maybe, just maybe, the Mayans used a cyclic calendar to mark different ages, and 21-12-2012 is simply the final day of the previous age. Oh, wait. That is the answer, and could be discerned with even a little academic research.
ENOZONE wrote:Then there's also the argument that Dec 21st was really the beginning of the end, a point of no return - such as the findings of climatologists who now say* that the world has reached a tipping point from whence there is no return... the globe will now heat up and have cataclysmic events on a global scale that are sure to follow. End of the world? Perhaps not, but what is certain, mankind has never been closer to its own extinction since the time of the Mayans.
1. Got a citation for those doomsday climatologists?
2. We are nowhere near as close to extinction as a species than we have been in the past. Modern medicine has ensured that outbreaks like Spanish Flu and Bubonic Plague don't create the threats that they used to, and the refinement of agriculture and transportation prevent us from strip-mining essential staples from the surrounding hinterlands.
Bloodfrenzy187 wrote: So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
The only joke here is modern society believing in this crap.
We trolled ourselves. Congrats 2012.
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The world didn't end on the 21st of December, because the 21st of December is Samuel L. Jackson's birthday.
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Bloodfrenzy187 wrote: So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
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The Mayan's never predicted the end of the world. It was simply the end of a calander. No different to what we do every Dec 31st. its just instead of being 365 days long their calander was over 5000 years long.
They actually abandoned this particular calander before Europeans arrived, which means some guy had the brilliant revelation that you really don't need to map out the days for several thousands of years. I'd like to think the whole 5000 year calander was some practical joke some bored Mayan scholar came up with that the entire civilization picked up and ran with.
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ENOZONE wrote:Then there's also the argument that Dec 21st was really the beginning of the end, a point of no return - such as the findings of climatologists who now say* that the world has reached a tipping point from whence there is no return... the globe will now heat up and have cataclysmic events on a global scale that are sure to follow. End of the world? Perhaps not, but what is certain, mankind has never been closer to its own extinction since the time of the Mayans.
1. Got a citation for those doomsday climatologists?
2. We are nowhere near as close to extinction as a species than we have been in the past. Modern medicine has ensured that outbreaks like Spanish Flu and Bubonic Plague don't create the threats that they used to, and the refinement of agriculture and transportation prevent us from strip-mining essential staples from the surrounding hinterlands.
First thing I found because I'm too lazy to go digging hard for the one that says we're already past the point of no return.
2. Unless you count the fact that TB now has resistant strains, HIV/AIDS remains incurable, cancer is already in epidemic proportions and rising due to lifestyle and our affair with petroleum products, and that ever present chance of Nuclear Annihilation - to name just a few ways of obliterating the human race from the globe.....
Bloodfrenzy187 wrote: So Dec. 21st has come and gone with no sign of asteroids, zombies, aliens or any other form of destruction on a planetary scale and it makes me wonder if maybe the Mayans were just playing some type of ancient practical joke.
I saw a zombie...
I did too, I was in the mall
Mine was a stumbling old drunk guy whose hands were all weirdly posed kinda like a zombie. My girlfriend legitimately freaked out over him after proclaiming how zombie ready she was. It was kinda great.
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As far as people saying it's just the calender resetting, you need to understand the term "Mayan Calender" is not particularly apt and the Mayans clearly did prophesise something happening on 21/12/2012 in one of their texts. The end of the world theories are drawn from that text with a contributing factor that the Mayans refer to no date after that.
However these are people who believed that throwing human sacrifices in their wells would save them in a period of drought and actually poisoned the little water supply they had doing so. They may as well be a homeless guy on the side of the street with a sign that says "the end is coming", i.e. not to be taken seriously.
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Pity nobody thought to read the inscription on the last tablet, which simply read...
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Perhaps the Mayan Calendar needed batteries into to perform an apocalypse. I know of clocks that can run their hand functions fine, but to make special chiming noises or blow up the earth, you need batteries for it to operate that function.
look why do you think the Mayan calender is a circle? if anything it signifies an eternal cycle, the exact opposite of an apocalyptic event. if anything the Mayan calender seems very optimistic: that the world will keep going in an eternal cycle. that's why it's a circle, because a circle has no beginning or end, we just keep going round and round.
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Like (for those of us old enough to remember them) "clocking" an arcade machine (racking up a score so high, that the counter had to reset).
It didn't signify the end of the world - in much the same way that your car's odometer resetting to zero doesn't mean you car will explode.
Too many gullible idjits in the world is all.
This is a statement I can get behind. I still can't believe the end of the world crap took off as hard as it did. Even by the people making jokes about it. I liken it to the equivalent of our 1 year calendar ending on dec. 31'st every year, how come no one screams end of the world then? Because we all know its not and the only that will happen is January first....
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