So is there anybody here who believes that the world will end this year?

[Cruel2BKind]

Um, yeah....okay.

I can explain it even simpler than that video did: What do we do at the end of our calendar? We go back to the beginning (January) and start all over again. In other words, we treat time as if it were circular, not linear, the way most think of time.

Guess what shape the Mayan long-count calendar is, boys and girls?

YES

I was in ancient peoples last semester. And the LAST time the mayan calander ended (yes, it has happened before) They had a bonanza where they sacrificed a metric shit-ton of captured enemy soldiers and switched gods.

And I say we continue the proud tradition. Next december, I will kill all of my neighbors and start worshipping buddha

 

[Stella_Omega]

YES

I was in ancient peoples last semester. And the LAST time the mayan calander ended (yes, it has happened before) They had a bonanza where they sacrificed a metric shit-ton of captured enemy soldiers and switched gods.

And I say we continue the proud tradition. Next december, I will kill all of my neighbors and start worshipping buddha

You would be worshipping Kali, who is Hindu goddess of death and rebirth-- or maybe you would be worshipping the Xtian/Muslim God, who often calls for mass murder.

Buddha doesn't require or wish for genocide.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, if there is anyone who believes the end of the world is nigh, feel free to divest yourself of all worldly dross in my direction and I will dispense it to the deserving . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

Well, if there is anyone who believes the end of the world is nigh, feel free to divest yourself of all worldly dross in my direction and I will dispense it to the deserving . . .

And in the event that the "anyone" is in the UK, feel free to use my good offices as a channel for the dispensing. . . .

 

[auslittaketwo]

Um, yeah....okay.

I can explain it even simpler than that video did: What do we do at the end of our calendar? We go back to the beginning (January) and start all over again. In other words, we treat time as if it were circular, not linear, the way most think of time.

Guess what shape the Mayan long-count calendar is, boys and girls?

That really has nothing to do with what I said. I didn't bring up the calendar. However years of lightness and darkness are also cyclic.

 

[auslittaketwo]

YES

I was in ancient peoples last semester. And the LAST time the mayan calander ended (yes, it has happened before) They had a bonanza where they sacrificed a metric shit-ton of captured enemy soldiers and switched gods.

And I say we continue the proud tradition. Next december, I will kill all of my neighbors and start worshipping buddha

This is a more crass version of what I was saying.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I told people a few hours ago when the new year officially started that I would like to see the faces of those people who wrote all those books and spend so much money and effort in that BS in January 2013 and laugh at them.

Come on, we have seen this a lot of times before. in the Late eighteen hunderds priests were saying that the world would end in 1900, believers actually sold everything they had and 1900 came and the world still carried on.

So then people started saying "1984, that will be it, we found this scroll and that description..." George Orwell even wrote a book about it. But 1984 went by without any notable global destruction.

So then people started going "1999, that HAS to be it, it says so in these inscriptions in a cave in that land..." 1999 came and went.

So then people started saying "It will be at the second of February 2002, 2-2-2002. Because we found this depiction of a disaster that will happen in a book in a library of that church..." 2-2-2002 came and went.

So now it's "2012, we're absolutely sure of it now, we found this Mayan stone which already predicted this and that and furthermore we found several unfinished essays by this historian which confirms it!"

Thing is, most people base those things on what the Bible says, but they overlook what the Bible also says that Christ warned against date setting in Matthew 24:36, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

And let's be honest, who are people thinking they are kidding by using ANCIENT inscriptions as proof? Did the people who made those inscriptions care about the future? They were talking about their own situations, the Mayan Society was ended by the Spanish invaders, that was the end of THEIR world.

Nope, the world will not end and I'm sure people are already thinking of a next date, what will it be? 2020?

Sorry about that, but the Maya Civilization collapsed around 900 AD, long before the Spanish arrived (though the Spanish did do in the Aztec civilization).
The Spanish, however, did destroy the great Maya library at Mani in 1521. The Maya people were still around then, and still are now, but their period of monumental architecture, power, and wealth came to an end as a result of climate, ecology, and internal warfare.

And there is no stone predicting the end of the world. The calendar goes through a complex cyclical process that results in different signiicant periods. The first significant large unit is the baktun, which lasts about 475 years. This year's winter solstice will be the end of a "long count" of 144,000 days, and signals a transformation of the world, not the end of it.