Dec 21st

Yitzhak Rabin

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

3DataModem

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

Yep. My kids are in a nativity play and I'm doing the 12 pubs later on.

Yitzhak Rabin

3DataModem wrote: »

Yep. My kids are in a nativity play and I'm doing the 12 pubs later on.

You'll definitely feel like the apocalypse is upon us the morning of the 22nd so:p

burgermasters

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

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Cookie_Monster

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

I expect lots of things will happen, the world ending is not among them however

Torakx

We still have a vague 300 year period as we cross into the next star sign.So i have a bit of a wait still

Berlin at night

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

Yes, I fully expect Xmas to happpen.

weisses

What do you think will happen?

Naid23

3DataModem wrote: »

Yep. My kids are in a nativity play and I'm doing the 12 pubs later on.

haha thanks, you just reminded me that I agreed to do the 12 pubs on the 22nd.. say there will be a few ppl around celebrating the 'Non end' of the world! Looking forward to this now:D

Yitzhak Rabin

weisses wrote: »

What do you think will happen?

I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary.

Ballybeggar

Nothings going to happen as the Mayan calender did not include leap years so this end of the world mumbo jumbo should have happened long time ago i think

Duiske

I predict that there will be many Earthquakes worldwide on 21st Dec, 2012, possibly as many as 100. There will be roughly the same number of quakes on 22nd Dec and this will continue daily for many years. There will be much damage and many deaths due to earthquakes over these years, and due to electromagnetic radiation many 100's of millions will see the effects of these disasters in their own homes. :eek:

Run_to_da_hills

shedweller

I'll be watching the sunrise on tv.

gnfnrhead

Nothing.

The Mayan calender counts differently but is essentially the same as our calender. When 1999 came along the world didnt end, it just went to 2000. The same happens with the Mayan version. It's even happened before but it's been a hell of a long time since then. December 22nd is simply the start of a new calender for them, like January 1st, 2000 was for us.

If the world ends, I'll buy a hat and eat it :pac:

Myrddin

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

No, nothing out of the ordinary anyway. Why would it?

Naid23

Its my mother in Laws birthday that day.. scary eh!? haha...

Aiel

I've been surprised that people i consider to be good mature and intelligent people are actually giving this date some attention and saying 2 Sun's are going to collide etc.I showed them a good NASA video on youtube about it saying its not going to happen.
Im going to see the Frank and Walters that night in The Roisin Dubh in Galway so i hope nothing happens till the concert is over:).

Cookie_Monster

Duiske wrote: »

I predict that there will be many Earthquakes worldwide on 21st Dec, 2012, possibly as many as 100. There will be roughly the same number of quakes on 22nd Dec and this will continue daily for many years. There will be much damage and many deaths due to earthquakes over these years, and due to electromagnetic radiation many 100's of millions will see the effects of these disasters in their own homes. :eek:

there are on average 1370 quakes a day on a normal day, 275 of which can be felt without instrumentation. so "possibly as many as 100" would only be unusual in that there would be so few...

AngryHippie

I predict that quite a few freaks will spend quite a bit of time freaking out about it, in a similar fashion to the Y2K nonsense, I happened to be in rural Montana at the time and the Couer D'Alene Militia were cruising around in their Humvees stockpiling generators and canned goods..... Bet you they felt foolish.

Outside of bizarre irrational human behavior, nothing will happen, the world will keep turning we will see sunrise and sunset and the universe will continue to ignore our sense of urgency about our impending fate.

Tzar Chasm

Torakx wrote: »

We still have a vague 300 year period as we cross into the next star sign.So i have a bit of a wait still

this is interesting, I thought we were much closer to the turn, like within decades, 300 years seems an awful long time for 2 different cultures to be out on their counts

Torakx

Cant remember which theory that belongs too.
But i remember someone doing one of those lectures on their theory and apparently there is a period of time between this age and the next, or something like that.
They were saying yes the mayan calendar ends but its not signifying death, but the end of an age.

I did a litttle search, couldnt find alot of info on that 300 years, but maybe this is a suitable explanation for the number.

http://www.agoyangyang.com/the_age_of_aquarius_1/the_age_of_aquarius_1.html

If you imagine two circles overlapping with each other, the shaded part representing the overlap of both circles represents the cusp.
During the year, cusp period between zodiac signs normally last 1 day, but for astrological ages, cusp period is much longer.

It lasts for approximately 3 to 300 years. Why is this so?

It’s because your popular calendar was changed in 1582 A. D. also prior to that not many records were kept, so you can’t be exact as to when the Piscean age actually began, nor the vast ages which come before it, which is also a long 2,000 year period

Tzar Chasm

yeah but i kinda presumed that the mayan calender was somewhat accurate in this front

Torakx

Even IF it was.Our calendar i believe isnt based off that one.
I dont even know if leap years would take that number way out again or if thats accounted for too.
I think in general there are alot of chances for the numbers to be off when you consider the timeline and factors.

The earth i think tilts 1 degree every 75 years for example.Something that the mayans may or may not have known.

Anyway an astreroid could come passing through at any stage and wipe us out regardless of calendars.
Carpe diem

doubletrouble?

it's not only about the Mayan calender you've also Nostradamus then you've got this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm
most people are saying the whole doomsday thing is bull but there is a small percentage that do believe something will happen, as for us. we're invited to a wedding that night and if the **** hits the fan we'll be right at home with the kids. sorry cuzz no wedding for us . i think for something like this there should be some sort of poll. if people do believe in it they certainly wont voice their opinions on here.

brianhere

I think the Garabandal warning might happen on that date, as you can read here: http://antilisbongroups.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=theology&thread=38&page=1 .

hooradiation

You know, end of the world believers love to look for patterns in order to derive (and justify) their insane theories.

And yet they always seem to miss the clearest, most direct, objectively true pattern that has existed throughout all of history with regards to every end of the world prediction ever made. The thing that has linked every single doomsday prophecy together through various cultures, eras, and locations:

Each and every one was wrong.

Of course this won’t stop them from making such predictions, nor will it stop others from buying into them.

Nothing will happen on December 21, 2012 because everything ever discovered in the history of the world has turned out to be not magic.

hooradiation

hooradiation wrote: »

Nothing will happen on December 21, 2012 because everything ever discovered in the history of the world has turned out to be not magic.

Unfortunately not even this will convince the people who believe.
Some people claim vague, airy and vapid stuff like "it will be the beginning of a new spiritual awakening". This is luckily undisproveable so those people won't have to worry.
Others are non-specific about what they claim, so when nothing happens they can claim that: "it's started and the effects would be felt soon". Or if something does happen, no matter how unremarkable or mundane, or completely contrary to the predictions, they could claim that's what they've always been predicting.
And then we have the people who will claim that they managed to avert the disaster by using their magic mind powers or by making the evil overlords think twice.

And then afterwards it will be forgotten, get added to the pile of failed predictions and used to point out how silly people are for taking the next prediction seriously.

What I'm worried about is the small minority of believers who will destroy their lives thinking that there won't be a world in January, like those who followed Harold Camping last year.

hooradiation

King Mob wrote: »

And then afterwards it will be forgotten, get added to the pile of failed predictions and used to point out how silly people are for taking the next prediction seriously.

Speaking of this is actually pretty amazing.

FISMA

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

Let's see, this month there are five Sundays, five Mondays, and five Saturdays:eek:.

Clearly, it is the end of the world!

monkeysnapper

Not much time left folks. I can't wait for dec 22nd so we can move onto the next date earth will be destroyed ect .

I watched a great documentary on climate change and the last ice age. Don't hold me on this but I think he said the next ice is due now. But cause of human factor the climate change will be slightly different.

harry21

Should I hold out on buying chritmas prezzies till the 22nd.:D

touts

If the world was about to end and there was some sort of conspiracy to cover it all up to prevent panic then I'd say the Reichstag would have given us a deal on the bank bailout just for a quite life in the last few days.

That said I would actually expect some pretty messed up things to happen that day. People who believe the world is ending often have ways to make it end for themselves and those around them. I would fear the news will be dominated by nuts with guns going crazy.

stuar

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

So we're a month away from the end of the Mayan long count calendar. Is anyone expecting anything to happen?

I'll probably be annoying the mod's, it's festive season after all, post first, think later (next day!);)

Hope 2013 is good to you and your's Shakey, but globally probably the most "eventful" in history!


Edit:
If Carlsberg could make years, it would probably be 2013!

morton

I predict that the average joe soap that applied for tickets to see the winter solstice at newgrange on December 21st, won't get a ticket and the place will be jammed packed with government ministers and local councillors as usual, blocking the ray of light.

stuar

morton wrote: »

I predict that the average joe soap that applied for tickets to see the winter solstice at newgrange on December 21st, won't get a ticket and the place will be jammed packed with government ministers and local councillors as usual, blocking the ray of light.

Which just gave me an idea!, I'm going to make "mini Newgrange's" with a compass on top and get them rolling in from China ASAP...

LeinsterDub

Why the world didn't end yesterday. 10 days in advance

nyarlothothep

I've built my life around it for the past 5 years. 2012 isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of the age of Bolon Yokte, the Mayan god of creation and destruction. This coincides with the true dawn of The Age of Horus, predicted by Aleister Crowley, an age which will give birth to new ways of thinking facilitated by increasingly complex forms of social organisation engendered in websites like Facebook which in turn relates to the development of the Noosphere, a global consciousness that constitutes the third tier of the overlapping environmental spheres of our planet, with respect to the magneto and bio spheres. 2012 is the turning point. The global depression, the rise of the internet as a real political force which governments are unable to control, the attempts to introduce a neo feudalist society, the increasing interdependence of nations on an international scale as a primitive prototype to the global unification of the human race, the rapid advances in technology which are soon to hit a wall, the depletion of resources and overpopulation, the conflicts between the strong yet decadently flaccid and the weak yet honourably ambitious; these are the tensions, yes these, that characterise the beginning of Bolon Yokte, once 2012 is over, expect these quiet tensions to erupt in a volcano of creation and destruction, with the birth of a new world. The question is are you ready for Bolon Yokte?

hooradiation

nyarlothothep wrote: »

The question is are you ready for Bolon Yokte?

No.
But I'm also not ready for the quickening, the coming of Gozer the Gozerian, the arrival of the reapers, the Day of Lavos or many other fictional events.

hooradiation

hooradiation wrote: »

No.
But I'm also not ready for the quickening, the coming of Gozer the Gozerian, the arrival of the reapers, the Day of Lavos or many other fictional events.

I get all of those references :pac:

nyarlothothep

nyarlothothep wrote: »

2012 isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of the age of Bolon Yokte, the Mayan god of creation and destruction.

No it's not. The Mayans never stated any such thing.

All of your predictions are meaningless, empty, unprovable waffle that you'll claim have happened even though nothing has actually changed.

gnfnrhead

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Why the world didn't end yesterday. 10 days in advance

Seen people going nuts about it yesterday. Idiots who couldnt tell the difference between a 12 and a 21 :pac:

Jayob10

classic debate on FM104 now about this, late night skanger style

Run_to_da_hills

I like his choice of 70's style wall paper.

"The 2009 sci-fi thriller 2012 showed that doomsday ships were built in China and this might be the reason we regularly see Chinese people spending their hard earned money and time in creating doomsday shelters. Just recently we reported about a Chinese man spending all his life’s savings to create a doomsday boat and today news has surfaced that a Chinese farmer has built a fleet of doomsday pods, he calls the Noah’s Ark.

Inspired by the Hollywood flick, Liu Qiyuan created airtight pods that can float and some even come with their own propulsion system. Each of pods has enough space for 14 individuals and come with oxygen tanks and seat belts. The fleet includes seven pods and are made using fiberglass installed around a steel frame. The life-saving shelters are designed to float on water and stay upright too.

While the Mayan doomsday prophecy is just a few days away, the Chinese farmer believes that if his pods aren’t used on 21st December 2012, the design could be adopted by government departments and international organizations for use in event of tsunamis and earthquakes".





http://www.ecochunk.com/4599/2012/12/13/chinese-farmer-uses-fiberglass-to-build-doomsday-ready-pods/

PandyAndy

Hmm...

21/12/12

2+1/1+2/1+2

3/3/3!

Half Life 3 confirmed!

Nuclear reactors the world over, CERN, Nuclear Missile Silos will all malfunction due to no one to maintain them because everybody will be too busy playing HL3. I can't wait!

Allan Blandford

There will be a timeline convergence , there are two timelines and they will merge into one timeline .

touts

Forget the 21st. According to "Slattery's Oil" who prepared a 2012 desk calendar on my desk the World will end on December 31st NOT the 21st! I mean it must. There is no January 1st on the calendar. You just pull off the last sheet on December 31st and then there is nothing. Everything is over. What more proof do you need than that.......

Aiel

My Boss in work has bought herself a gas canister,candles,sleeping bags etc as she thinks that "something will affect the Sun which will knock out power and communications" etc.Its cringe worthy to see the canister in work for the last few days.Shes taking it home this weekend to get set up.I cant believe shes been taken in by all the stupid talk.

seanmacc

Aiel wrote: »

My Boss in work has bought herself a gas canister,candles,sleeping bags etc as she thinks that "something will affect the Sun which will knock out power and communications" etc.Its cringe worthy to see the canister in work for the last few days.Shes taking it home this weekend to get set up.I cant believe shes been taken in by all the stupid talk.

There is a lot of talk about massive solar storms in the next year or so that may possibly knock out power grids, satilite communication and air traffic control. There are a lot of credible, well respected scientists and astronomers warning about this. Its not linked to the 21 December stuff. Apparently these storms hit every couple of thousand years as part of solar weather cycles. The past couple of years we have been in a very quiet time in the soar weather cycle which is supposedly the calm before the storm. Personally I don't know what to make of it myself but over the past few years since our extreme winters I've invested in a good few things like generators, torches, gas heaters and cookers ect. that will make life comfortable for myself should something like this happen. I suggest every household should do the same. If not for some doomsday prophecy but in preparation for crap winter or massive Eirgrid failure.

People like to mock people for being prepared for the worst but if you take our winters a couple of years ago, those who prepared for this sort of thing got on with life whilst others fell flat on their arses on the RTE news.

gnfnrhead

seanmacc wrote: »

There is a lot of talk about massive solar storms in the next year or so that may possibly knock out power grids, satilite communication and air traffic control. There are a lot of credible, well respected scientists and astronomers warning about this. Its not linked to the 21 December stuff. Apparently these storms hit every couple of thousand years as part of solar weather cycles. The past couple of years we have been in a very quiet time in the soar weather cycle which is supposedly the calm before the storm. Personally I don't know what to make of it myself but over the past few years since our extreme winters I've invested in a good few things like generators, torches, gas heaters and cookers ect. that will make life comfortable for myself should something like this happen. I suggest every household should do the same. If not for some doomsday prophecy but in preparation for crap winter or massive Eirgrid failure.

People like to mock people for being prepared for the worst but if you take our winters a couple of years ago, those who prepared for this sort of thing got on with life whilst others fell flat on their arses on the RTE news.

Wait until December 22nd, everything will be on sale :pac:

hooradiation

seanmacc wrote: »

People like to mock people for being prepared for the worst but if you take our winters a couple of years ago, those who prepared for this sort of thing got on with life whilst others fell flat on their arses on the RTE news.

Preparing for nebulous future events prevents you from slipping on ice?

Who knew!