Vultite 57 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) Everyone has heard "Oh shit, the end will be 2012 b/c bla bla bla" well, of course they put it into a movie....but it looks like it could be ok..... http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/2012-rolan...rich.html#watch Edited June 22, 2009 by Vultite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Azrial 1,091 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Sorry, but it smells like Bullshit to me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan12345 21 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 meh, the whole 2012 thing is all superstition and i'm getting real sick of all these disaster flicks shit, even the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, classic 50's/60's sci-fi, got turned into some pussy ass "go green/global warming is gonna kill us all" propaganda film Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kwicko 8 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I don't know if I'd say it's all "superstition", but it's NOT the "end of the world". According to many of the Aztec calendars (they have around 26 different ones, for different cycles), December 12, 2012 (I think it's 10:11am Greenwich Mean Time) will mark the end of one Great Cycle and the beginning of another. According to them, living through such a time was supposed to be cause for great celebration and great change. There ARE some things that are interesting about that date and time, though - but which merely show the Aztecs' accuracy in astronomy. The Winter Solstice falls on that date, and on that date, at that time, the sun, viewed from Earth, will align perfectly with the center of the Milky Way galaxy, something that would have been rather difficult for the Aztecs to know. I find it all intriguing, but I'm certainly not *worried* about the end of the world. I'll be planning a party. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sacsucks 3 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 2012, the new year 2000.......... Kwicko is right, it is not the end of the world, just the logical end of that calendar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vbrtrmn 167 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 If the world ends, who the fuck cares, we'll all be dead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan12345 21 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I don't know if I'd say it's all "superstition", but it's NOT the "end of the world". According to many of the Aztec calendars (they have around 26 different ones, for different cycles), December 12, 2012 (I think it's 10:11am Greenwich Mean Time) will mark the end of one Great Cycle and the beginning of another. According to them, living through such a time was supposed to be cause for great celebration and great change. There ARE some things that are interesting about that date and time, though - but which merely show the Aztecs' accuracy in astronomy. The Winter Solstice falls on that date, and on that date, at that time, the sun, viewed from Earth, will align perfectly with the center of the Milky Way galaxy, something that would have been rather difficult for the Aztecs to know. I find it all intriguing, but I'm certainly not *worried* about the end of the world. I'll be planning a party. The date is december 21, not 12 Yes, it's just superstition. All it marks is the end of the calendar, and a new "cycle" in the zodiac. If 12/21/2012 means anything at all, it's that ancient cultures had decent astronomy. But with that said, who else here wants to bet that the same idiots who jacked up gun/ammo prices after the election are going to jack them up at the end of 2012? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bayoupiper 738 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I'm not worried. Because in the event of TEOTWAWKI, I know I will be safe. That is because the Bug Out Whale will be coming to pick me and my friends up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Mark 2,452 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I read that the Mayan calendar was carved into a circular rock and they simply ran out of room at that date. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan12345 21 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 It should also be noted that ancient cultures were very much aware of the winter solstice, and the period following from the 21-25 of what we call december. For this period the sun "dies" in that it sits at its lowest point on the horizon. For ancient cultures, the "rebirth" of the sun and longer days mean that crops would once again grow, in other words, allow them to live on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clifton 354 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I read that the Mayan calendar was carved into a circular rock and they simply ran out of room at that date. OHh.. and I thought it was the rock that got carved into the calendar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Juggernaut 11,054 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 We should have burned the REST of the codecs from that heathen civilization.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janusthephoenix 24 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 According to the Hopi tribe in Arizona, the apocalypse already happened. Considering their point of view, I can see why. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
6500rpm 670 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Ask me on 2212 If it does I guess we'll never know and the History channel, Nat Geo, and Discovery can all say we told you so. As far as I'm concerned it's all hype for RUSH's come back tour. What I really want to know is which one of you jackasses are going to be running around shooting shit thinking the zombies are coming right before Christmas. Live every day like there's no tomorrow , one day you'll be right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bayoupiper 738 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 That would be 2112! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bean.223 365 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 We should have burned the REST of the codecs from that heathen civilization.... +1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fasdfs 5 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) Hocus pocus. Just to set the record straight, the world isn't going to end until it gets swallowed up by our sun when it turns into a red giant here in about 4 billion years. Global warming is a fraud. It's happening, granted, but it's 100% corollary with solar cycles. It's getting pushed so people in the US and Western Europe willingly decrease their standards of living in order to cushion our fall into the third world. Edited June 22, 2009 by fasdfs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
evildog 20 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I'll go see it, i luv disaster movies. Can't wait for it it looks cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kwicko 8 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 The date is december 21, not 12 Oooh, thanks. Good catch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sparky63 46 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 one of my favorite books is by James f David " judgment day " . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan12345 21 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 So, who wants to make predictions right now? December 5, 2012: Wolf .223 steel case 500 rds only $899 at cheaperthangold.com! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bigj480 203 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 http://www.cracked.com/article_17445_6-bes...l-bullshit.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
6500rpm 670 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) That would be 2112! See, Will just bought us another hundered years......... Edited June 22, 2009 by 6500rpm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twinsen 86 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I just watched the trailer, apparently the Mayans had the world's first civilization in 2000BC. Fucking morons. What was it, the 20th? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Azrial 1,091 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 We should have burned the REST of the codecs from that heathen civilization.... It more difficult to burn stone that most would think... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IndyArms 10,186 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 I am still hopeful that a nice small asteroid touches down in the middle of the Atlantic... Douching the entire eastern seaboard right off the planet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reverendfranz 160 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 (edited) We should have burned the REST of the codecs from that heathen civilization.... We (as in the spanish psuedo-catholic barbarians) did, ya dick. Only four Mayan codices survived the enlightment of european enslavement, and to this day we really dont know much about the entire culture and history of the region, because there isnt really enough writing left to formulate an understanding of what the little that did survive says, and the rest perished in the priest's fires. There were some well intentioned monks in the new world of course, the most notable of them being Bernardino de Sahagún, who wrote Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España which to this day is the best way for the nahuatl people still in mexico to learn anything about their own culture and history, but there was no interested parties in the mayan conquest, and practically nothing is known about the largest civilization to develop in the new world. Bookburning and other types of censorship are abhorrent affronts to the quest for knowledge, no matter who wrote the book, or who burned them. Edited June 23, 2009 by ReverendFranz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Vultite 57 Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 I'm not worried. Because in the event of TEOTWAWKI, I know I will be safe. That is because the Bug Out Whale will be coming to pick me and my friends up. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan12345 21 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Bookburning and other types of censorship are abhorrent affronts to the quest for knowledge, no matter who wrote the book, or who burned them. Well said. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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