2012 ... hype or possibility? NOT A DOOMSDAY RANT!

[Boyd]

July 29th 2010 is when I think it all starts. 250 million have spoken up and out already. the 20 million in question are actually caught between a rock and a hard place. How long before the UN gets involved and those who'd take us to our knees would attack during an outright civil war.....

Ok not exactly what I think but I thought I would throw that out for humor and consideration. I think how to screw up when making a cake is to let it all fall in from the middle.. Same thing with a democracy.

 

[Mahonri]

I'm with Terrie, no worries here.

No doubt, we live in troubled and turbulent times.

The one thing that can always be stable is the way we kindly treat others and seek peace in our own lives.

Polar shift? Hey, eventually....

Shift happens.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I'm not worried about it.

I was actually in Mexico this past winter at the Mayan ruins where the "2012 stone" was found. I learned that 2012 to the Mayans is like the year 2000 was to we who use the Gregorian calendar. I didn't die on January 1, 2000, so I'm not at all concerned about 2012. It makes me laugh that people have made money publishing books about "what will happen" based on some hokey "research" about it. There's always someone out there who will find a way to make money off of other people's fears.

 

[JetBlack]

1. Very few people freak out about our calendar ending every year. Some do.

2. If you make a calendar out of a circle, it has to "end" somewhere.

3. The CALENDAR ends. Not the world. I promise you, the Earth does not know about the calendar.

4. I bought my girlfriend an original Mayan calendar, carved in turquoise. She had no idea why I would go to so much trouble and expense.

December 12, 2012 is her birthday. She turns 40 the day the world... keeps going.

If I were smarter, I'd make another calendar, to replace the Mayan one. I'd make small ones that end every year and medium ones that end every 5,000 years, or so, and a HUGE one that ends in a few billion years. Then the panickers could be reassured that there is a big calendar, somewhere that doesn't end anytime soon. I'd machine the big one out of 316 stainless so it couldn't even be damaged with a cutting torch. Your house could burn down around it and you'd be able to go in later and buff it off and put it back on the new wall. When the sun goes nova, that calendar will still be there.... waiting.

Huh, that's kinda creepy.

 

[FluffyColor]

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[FluffyColor]

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AMEN, SISTER!!!!!!

 

[FluffyColor]

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Guess that means i dont have to be good then...

Oh yes you do.................... I'm going to be putting my ducks/chickens/peas to bed with a good heating pad, then I'm going to take a couple cookies that my mom baked with a glass of milk for Santa and carrots for his reindeer and go to bed and Santa will come with a pile of presents and set them down and the next morning me and Zeke will find our presents, like that lion figure Zeke saw back in 2010 or that Strawberry Shortcake doll.

So you better watch out, you better not cry,you better not pout, I'm telling you why, the world is not going to end! There'll still be Christmas!

 

[MaggieRae]

I don't consider it a possibility, but I haven't done any research on the subject other than what I've read now.

 

[RoninComputing]

What is funny is that there are several other mayan inscriptions that referr to dates after 2012,.
Like buying a 2010 calendar and predicting doom because 2011 isn't on it.
Maybe the templs should have bought a more recent calendar.

 

[Royd]

Nothing lasts forever.

Embrace the unknown.

Just an observation; Most of today's doomsayers and handwringers, whether they be the climate changers, the 2012ers or the giant asteroiders, are the same ones who mock and scoff at the Book of the Revelations, in the Bible.

Yet, we seem to be coming to some kind of a dramatic climax, politically and culturally, at an exponential rate. Our hand is being forced, in directions, which go against living a calm and solid life.

We are, now, to the point, where everything is run by computer and there is no analog backup, in case of a breakdown.

All it would take, in any given large city, is for a virus to infect the traffic control system, to create days of chaos. I doubt, very much, if layers of redunancy have been built into those systems.