December 21, 2012 Thread - Page 11
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
On December 14 2012 13:35 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote: Oh my god, why are people voting yes? Please tell me they're joking. Because it's true.My thermodynamics exam is on that day.It's a sign. | ||
Silentness
United States2821 Posts
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FinalForm
United States450 Posts
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Arkless
Canada1547 Posts
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hp.Shell
United States2527 Posts
I suggest focusing more on spiritual development. If you don't care about spiritual development, then all I can do is wish you luck. Failing the belief in luck or appreciation of the sentiment, I hope you get to laugh at all the idiots. | ||
Probe1
United States17920 Posts
That being said I fully encourage anyone that does believe in the end of the world stuff to post. | ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42206 Posts
On December 14 2012 12:04 padfoota wrote: Wheres the "I dont give shit" poll option?! Right next to the "Then don't post in this thread" option. Anyways, on topic: Obviously, there is no legitimate reason to believe the world is coming to an end. Here's an excerpt from a Facebook Note I wrote years ago on this topic: This. Is. A. Misinterpretation. Of. The. Mayan. Prophecy. This false myth arose from the fact that the Mayan calendar happens to reset on December 21, 2012. The significance of this cycle's end is NOT the destruction of... anything. Well, besides ignorance. The Mayan prophecy, which coincides with many other Native American tribal beliefs, is that we will reach our peak of enlightenment and consciousness on December 21, 2012. "We may thus liken the evolution of consciousness to the climb of a cosmic pyramid that took its beginning already at the Big Bang 16 billion years ago. This climb is designed to take us to the ninth and highest level where a non-dualist perception of the world will be brought to us. ... By October 28, 2011 all of these Underworlds will be coming to their completion and so there is every reason to believe that the year 2012 will be a year when a new reality settles, a reality where the experience of linear time has come to an end and the consciousness altering cycles that are still today driving the evolution of human history will come to an end. " ~http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_3_1.htm If you want information on how the Mayan calendar actually was created, check this site out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#Correlations_between_Western_calendars_and_the_Long_Count_calendar Basically, the year 2012 is the end of the 12th b'ak'tun, which is simply an interval of time for the Mayan calendar; every few b'ak'tuns represents a creation cycle. Once the 13th b'ak'tun starts (the end of 2012), it will represent an entire new creation cycle. This does NOT mean that everything will be *wiped out*; the cycle resetting is something that Mayans looked FORWARD to. ""For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."" ~http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm Think of it this way: The end of a b'ak'tun is like the end of a month or a season, and the end of a creation cycle is analogous to the end of a calendar year. After each calendar year, we make New Year's resolutions and *attempt* to work on our weaknesses and problems during the span of the next year. Similarly, the end of each creation cycle posits that we have been attempting to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves (i.e. working out our resolutions), and it's assumed that at the end of THIS cycle (2012), we will have actually reached enlightenment. No more New Year's resolutions are necessary! Here are very good references for those interested in learning more about the Mayan 2012 myth (besides the ones I've cited above): http://www.13moon.com/prophecy page.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm The (non-existent) Mayan destruction myth itself was probably a misinterpretation of the Mayan prophecy, coupled with the fact that some pretty cool astronomical phenomena might occur within a few years. And the fact that the Bible and other texts also prophesize an eventual cataclysm that will destroy everything. The Mayans did NOT prophesize a huge meteor crashing into Earth during the end of 2012, or anything like that. | ||
Probe1
United States17920 Posts
December 22nd man. That's the day I'm looking forward to. Every face on the news will have some smug shit eating grin that says "I told you we'd be fine" 24 hours after they spent the broadcast discussing every tantalizing detail of how the world will end. End of the world stories are the holy grail of fluff news. | ||
DarkPlasmaBall
United States42206 Posts
On December 14 2012 15:04 Probe1 wrote: DPB how old were you in 2000? Were you old enough to really remember how much the news hyped it? Y2K, doom doom sell your kids hide in the mountain eat goats. December 22nd man. That's the day I'm looking forward to. Every face on the news will have some smug shit eating grin that says "I told you we'd be fine" 24 hours after they spent the broadcast discussing every tantalizing detail of how the world will end. End of the world stories are the holy grail of fluff news. Yeah, I remember the Y2K hype. I don't remember how much of it was so easily refutable by the layman via simple research though, compared to this story (as that technology bug was during a time when people weren't as computer literate- or have as much access- as they do now). But yeah, I agree with you that people hype stuff like this all the time. But it's not really that hard to figure out this story is crap. | ||
Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
On December 14 2012 15:04 Probe1 wrote: DPB how old were you in 2000? Were you old enough to really remember how much the news hyped it? Y2K, doom doom sell your kids hide in the mountain eat goats. December 22nd man. That's the day I'm looking forward to. Every face on the news will have some smug shit eating grin that says "I told you we'd be fine" 24 hours after they spent the broadcast discussing every tantalizing detail of how the world will end. End of the world stories are the holy grail of fluff news. I remember the Y2K lol. The worst case scenarios were that nukes would go off and that 80% of the worlds wealth would reset and backtrack to the levels of the year 1900 since the stock market is completely based on computer systems. Here in Sweden they even gathered blankets and food to the elderly in case the government infrastructure would collapse. Good times. | ||
Sephiren
United States85 Posts
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Tiamat
United States498 Posts
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XaCez
Sweden6991 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States42206 Posts
On December 14 2012 16:56 Xacez wrote: Will there be a live report? I think a death report would be much more interesting. I wonder if any lunatics or fundamentalists would kill themselves or others in preparation for this day. | ||
YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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HotShizz
France710 Posts
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iFU.pauline
France1388 Posts
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hzflank
United Kingdom2991 Posts
I wonder if any nutjobs have moved to Hawaii to extend their lives by a few hours. | ||
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