2012 -- end time or another load of silliness?

[lust4nutlessboiz (imported)]

Yeah...I'm with you on this one.

[IbPervert (imported)]

It does not mean the end of the world literally, but means the end as we know it!

2012 marks the beginning of a new way of thinking for mankind and it has already started! Mankind is throwing off the shackles of christian religious dogma (and other religions as well) and starting to accept other ways to worship Father God. As mankind becomes more open toward other ways of life we draw ourselves closer to Father God.

[Bagoas (imported)]

What is going to happen when the Mayan calendar winds down in 2012 is that the Mayans are going to start another calendar. BIG DEAL !

[A-1 (imported)]

yes, you only get screwed once in Pahrump!

Hey!

A Christmas Carol again... AGAIN!

Cum he told her Pahrump Pahrump PUM...

Let's see your eyes roll back Pahrump Pahrump Pum...

All ten toes curled up pahrum pahrump pum

Rump ah rump pum, Rump ah pump pum...

Ten nails dig in my rump pahrump pahrump pum

Rump ah rump pum, Rump ah pump pum...

...then we lit up a smoke pahrump pa pump pum... ...after she cum.

[IbPervert (imported)]

What is going to happen when the Mayan calendar winds down in 2012 is that the Mayans are going to start another calendar. BIG DEAL !

On Dec 22, 2012 the Mayan calendar basically starts over again. However, it does not start over in the typical way we normally think.

[chilliwilli (imported)]

On Dec 22, 2012 the Mayan calendar basically starts over again. However, it does not start over in the typical way we normally think.

Does this mean Dec 22 1212 we will get to see them roll all the captives down the steps of the Walmarts and Costco's? I can just imagine all the bummed faces when they leave w/o no goodies. China don't want to float our debt, gov can't afford to keep payin out, and Walmart's new policy changes from "Roll-Back" to "Roll-up"!

Wow the end of materialism...how scarry!

chilli-

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Hey!

A Christmas Carol again... AGAIN!

Cum he told her Pahrump Pahrump PUM...

Let's see your eyes roll back Pahrump Pahrump Pum...

All ten toes curled up pahrum pahrump pum

Rump ah rump pum, Rump ah pump pum...

Ten nails dig in my rump pahrump pahrump pum

Rump ah rump pum, Rump ah pump pum...

...then we lit up a smoke pahrump pa pump pum... ...after she cum.

Not bad. You are getting there. But I still wouldn't quit my day job if I were you.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Yep not a good time to sell off your stuff and party, however the 21st is on a Friday so you have the whole weekend to P A R T Y and then we can continue it on Monday for my birthday I will be 65 you know, I think you all should be throwing me a big party starting Friday, make it a 4 day holiday, oh yes, and if anybody is interested x-mas is Tuesday, how boring.

River

[Dave (imported)]

>>Here's the story of how to count the Mayan Calendar...

>>http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093

to quote:

Mayans had three calendars. They had a solar calendar that was 365 days long, and a ceremonial calendar that was 260 days long. These two calendars would synchronize every 52 years.

To measure longer time periods, they developed the "long count" calendar, which expressed dates as a series of five numbers, each less than twenty; something like the way we measure minutes and seconds as a series of two numbers each less than sixty. And, just in case this might seem too simple, for some reason the second to last number was always less than eighteen.

The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was expressed as 0.0.0.0.0, and by our calendar, this was August 11, 3114 BC. Every 144,000 days (or about every 395 years, which they called a baktun), the first number would increment, and a new baktun would start. Recall how we all got to enjoy the excitement on the millennium of watching the digital displays roll over from 12/31/1999 to 1/1/2000? Well, that's what's going to happen on December 21, 2012 to the Mayan calendar. It's going to roll over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0,

just as it has done each of the previous twelve baktuns. There's no archaeological or historical evidence that the Mayans themselves expected anything other than a New Year's Eve party to happen on this date: Claims that this rollover represents a Mayan prediction of the end of the world appear to be a modern pop-culture invention.

It's true that the Mayan carvings of their calendar only depicted 13 baktuns, but what did you expect them to do? Carve an infinitely long calendar every time they wanted to express a date? The explanation could be as simple as they didn't expect people in the 21st century to still be obsessed with their archaic calendar.

[IbPervert (imported)]

>>Here's the story of how to count the Mayan Calendar...

>>http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093

to quote:

Mayans had three calendars. They had a solar calendar that was 365 days long, and a ceremonial calendar that was 260 days long. These two calendars would synchronize every 52 years.

To measure longer time periods, they developed the "long count" calendar, which expressed dates as a series of five numbers, each less than twenty; something like the way we measure minutes and seconds as a series of two numbers each less than sixty. And, just in case this might seem too simple, for some reason the second to last number was always less than eighteen.

The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was expressed as 0.0.0.0.0, and by our calendar, this was August 11, 3114 BC. Every 144,000 days (or about every 395 years, which they called a baktun), the first number would increment, and a new baktun would start. Recall how we all got to enjoy the excitement on the millennium of watching the digital displays roll over from 12/31/1999 to 1/1/2000? Well, that's what's going to happen on December 21, 2012 to the Mayan calendar. It's going to roll over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0,

just as it has done each of the previous twelve baktuns. There's no archaeological or historical evidence that the Mayans themselves expected anything other than a New Year's Eve party to happen on this date: Claims that this rollover represents a Mayan prediction of the end of the world appear to be a modern pop-culture invention.

It's true that the Mayan carvings of their calendar only depicted 13 baktuns, but what did you expect them to do? Carve an infinitely long calendar every time they wanted to express a date? The explanation could be as simple as they didn't expect people in the 21st century to still be obsessed with their archaic calendar.

The inner calendar kept track of the days the middle calendar is equal to our months, and the outer was equal to our years. Our Calendar works in terms of 100 years the Mayan calendar worked in 50 years (or was it 52)