2012??????

[SourRoses]

Some time ago.. I had missed seeing the 2012 movie, and mom said I just had to see it.. so I looked it up on Netflix, and we watched the movie on the tv.
It was going along, people were suddenly realising the weather was worsening, and then oops! The world stoped in it's rotation

That's right everyone, the world stopped turning, one side was plunged into darkness, the other left in light, all while the weather worsened and the scientists tried to figure out how to make the world start spinning again.

It was hilarious! Turns out the movie I selected was called '2012 - Doomsday Apocalypse' or something like that

It was full of a Christian-esque theme (and I'm very Christian but I found it funny) of everyone suddenly realising what their 'purpose' was and the reason everything had happened in their lives.. and I predicted the end halfway through the movie! I did, I did, I have a witness!

The preggers lady abandoned in her hut got picked up by the traveling figure-everything-out peoples, and they drive to the mayan temple they just haaad to go visit while the preggers lady goes into labor.. when finally they arrive at the temple they lay her down on one of the altar things, of course, where she gives birth and suddenly the earth starts turning again and the birds start chirping.. all because she gave birth to some un-known baby on the altar.
It ranks as the single most, funny-because-it's-stupid movie I have ever seen. We were in hysterics, and I couldn't even be insulted by it.

All of that aside... remember when you were 10, and trying to figure out how the world or you yourself would be when you were 20 or 25 or 30?
It must have been like that for those mayans... how to imagine the world... and really, who can imagine a point beyond 2012?
Duuuude, that's like, so far away, man!

I think it's fun to imagine what the world would be like after a major event.. and even make yourself prepared for it... but it's not gonna happen anytime soon.
My time on earth isen't gonna end until Jesus comes back to get me... I, for one, would like that to be soon.
Though for all my wanting, I can't seem to pull a date out of my derriere. Perhaps it if was the edible kind of date they would have more sucess?

 

[feather and mountain man]

As I said I don't believe it will end on that day. I can not predict it and no one else can either in my opinion. I am prepared spiritually as well as stocked up on food but in the event of a natural disaster that takes out our food supple we will still be fine. I say this with confidense as we have the knowledge to survive. Survival is not something you can just say well if this or that happens I will grow my own food. It doesn't work that way. You have to actually do it to know what to do. If everything we have is whiped out in one day I know how to survive. I can fish, hunt, gather, and I know what plants, animals, and insects are ok to be eaten. We feel prepared. I beleive the Mayans are correct on a few things it will be a time of great change. I think it will be a time when people change their way of thinking and living to restore our planet to a sustainable planet. Thanks so much for all your thoughts. I am printing this up for my son to reveiw. I will have to proof read it one more time to make sure I didn't miss anything I don't want him to read but I think it is fair to say the majority of people that responded do not believe in the end of days therories.

Oh and this is a link for the dehydrating food thing that someone pm'd me about.

http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/media.php

 

[WyandotteTX]

If I had to be self-sustainable it is within my means. I have firearms and know how to hunt with them. I have tools, i know how to dig the ground with them. I grew up with a 2 acre garden that had something growing in it year around. We also had 300 plus fruit trees that I know how to propegate or graft if need be. I may be living in the city now but in the case of something happening, I will be able to survive. Our farm is 120 miles from where I live and i have no problem walking there if I have to.
I just dont buy into irrational beliefs taken from animistic believers who thought that if blood was not offered each day the sun wouldnt come up.......
Lots of people and scholars originally thought the Mayan were peaceful people that were very in tune with the earth. BUT, the more that has been discovered and understood about their cultures in the past 30 years shows they were very much like the Aztecs in God structure. Only their main gods name was Kulkulkan, not Huitzilipochtli...but were the same god of purpose. Like another poster mentioned, if the Mayans were so smart....how come they used up all of their own resources to such a great degree that it destabilized all of the great city-states of the Yucatan? They became so large they ran out of food and water for themselves and had to disperse from their well developed urban centers. By the time the Spanish arrived and the Conquistador Orrellanna defeated what was left of the Mayans their culture in its greatness had long passed. Perhaps that is the Mayans greatest legacy to us, is the model of the downfall of their civilization, not a simple stone calendar that is very easily understood.