My friend came up with a theory that 2012 is impossible. His theory is that the Mayans started time in B.C. so their 2012 happened thousands of years ago. Because in B.C. time goes down to 0, and hits A.D. and goes back up, so the Mayans 2012 happened literally thousands of years ago. This might not make much sense because it's hard to explain through text.
P.S. I haven't been active because I was on a 2 and a half day field trip.
The myans dont even believe that BS. Remember y2k and 6/6/06? yeah look how that panned out
2012 is actally very possible. In fact, barring the universe unexpectedly ends in 2011, 2012 is guaranteed to happen. Play on words aside, the Mayans did not incorporate BC or AD in their time scale. They never new anything about Jesus, and his life and death had no impact on them whatsoever. The Mayans believed that time was cyclical. They had two calender systems, a short count and a long count. The long count consisted of 13(?) cycles. After the final cycle, something would happen. Whether that something was the end of the world, or just a reminder for the high priest to wind his watch is unknown. The whole end of the world thing is just the outcome that our fear-mongering society decided was the most entertaining, then people started taking the idea seriously. The reasons for this are largely attributed to a writing by Nostradamus that was later discovered to be a hoax, the astrological alignment of the constellation Sagittarius with the galactic core (from our point of view.) and a computer program designed by a marketing agency to predict future trends, which was applied to predicting the future by monitoring web searches (Because everyone else was searching for the 2012 stuff already, the computer naturally predicted the world would end in 2012). The supposed final nail in the coffin was of course the Mayans "long count" because everyone assumes that because they are ancient and mysterious they must know the future. (Just like that crusty carny that stole your wallet.)
My philosophy in all this is that the world will end when it ends and ther's nothing I can do about it, so why dwell on it? Honestly, the world ending in my time would be almost bitter-sweet for me. Sure, there's no future for humanity, but who else is going to get to experience something like that? So why not make the best of things and just see the beauty of ultimate destruction? It is quite literally a once in a lifetime experience.
wow! great read honestly thanks kuma
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DAMMIT JUSTIN! I know what that means now and it is not a bearded man with a top hat winking at me!
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Thank you. I appreciate it. ;)
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AWAGTTIAN? Are we all going to talk in abbreviations now?
The fact that their naked eyes rival our modern day telescopes makes me believe something is up. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I will agree with Kuma in everything he said, but do know this: Something is bound to happen on December 21, 2012. Like in the movie, it exposed to us how Yellow Stone is the worlds larges volcanoe, because of this type of bubbly gases it hold that can quickly cause an explosion (cant remember the name right now), and all those rocks that were flying everywhere are those supposely meteor showers that extinct the dinasours some thousand of years ago, it happened onced, and it can happen again....is just a part of nature and the human race is messing with it and instead of making things better everything is going to shits right now =/
I dunno about something happening on December 21, 2012 but I do know that we are long overdue for: A serious meteor strike, a global ice age (Suck it Al Gore) the eruption of one of our six active super-volcanoes (yellowstone is over 10,000 years overdue.),a mega-tsunami, Magnetic polar shift, a serious solar flare, a gamma ray burst, A major global war, a species destroying pandemic and so on.
last time the Mayans long count finished they vanished, perhaps this is the same thing that hapend to atlantis???? 
Actually I'm pretty sure the long count has finished twice since they vanished, and they didn't vanish so much as they were relocated. The Pueblo Indians are the descendants of the Mayans.
this is all confusing and kinda scary O_o In the end, no one really knows what will happen or when it will happen, the government holds so much shit from us already, I got nieces and nephews of 3 months to 3 years, i wouldnt want ANYTHING to happen to them, 2012 is pretty much around the corner and they would still be helpless.
Natural Disasters are caused NATURALY, the moving of tectonics plate is all natural, volcano exploding, natural, the ozone slowly vanashing from the earth is also something that happened before.... i think we should all watch that movie GLOBAL WARMING the one they showed in History channel (i just saw it a my university) man, i gotta stop listening to my environment teacher, cause she tells us all these things and when i try to tell ppl about it they just think i'm crazy. well i think there just scared of the truth....
is all wierd. and when i dont wanna think about these things i just think:
The Mayans was a tribe that would sacrifice people to the "gods" just so something that naturaly happens, like a sun rise for the next day or a little rain from the sky would happen again, what makes us think they know whats going to happen later on in the future? whether it be on 2012 or 2034, and if they predicted the end of all human civilization, why dint they predict the extinction of their people? EVEN if they did predicted that "spanish man will come" why not prepare for it? and EVEN if they did,.... yeah i got nothing -_- lol
Here is the opinion of a social peon of todays socity........ 2012 is just a year.... wait I know why is dooms day... I turn 21 and also have another superbowl birthday!
People Die Everyday..
why's that date more special than the people who die today?
One of my friends from the fire dept is turning 21 0n December 21, 2012. He actually has an account here now (Patrick_Titterness). We always joke that he's gonna get plastered and destroy the world.
I actually have a comment on the whole global warming thing: it's just a cycle. Anyone notice that it's finally getting cold again? Like, there's been snow in parts of California that hasn't had snow for 30 years? This is just a cycle, and it'll get really cold. Then people will start worrying that we're entering an ice age. After another 30 years or so, it'll get really hot again and people will once more get on a big spiel about global warming. It's gotten very hot, and then very cold many times in the past. Don't worry, lol ^.^ No one's gonna die from all this stuff.
As for 2012, I really don't think anything's going to happen...unless, of course, that just happens to be when a zed virus will be unleashed, lol! ^.^
Actually, we are headed for an ice age. The last century has been rather temperate, weather-wise. Scientists are saying that because of the recent behavior in ocean currents, we are due for an ice age starting around 2060. Al gore wasn't completely talking out his ass, but pretty damn close.
I saw the movie 2012 you werent really suppose to expect much out of it. but it was ok if you didnt expect an oscar out of it.
my 21st birthday
im going to get drunk and press the red button
why's that date more special than the people who die today?
thats true but people are born everyday too
the way i look at it, if everyone dies there are no people born which means it would make it special right.
Yes kuma they may be predicting that, but they also predicted holes in the ozone layer. That was predicted for at least a decade, it never happened. They said it was from global warming, but now the cycles turning, and going back to a colder climate. One more piece to my theory, if the last ice age was thousands of years ago this means we have no way to compare these suggesting ocean currents to the ones back then, we're technically making an educated wild guess. Thus making those methods open for much criticism on the true accuracy. As for a Z virus, highly unlikely, unless i or someone else decides to do a little experiment with rabies. We would have to modify the virus so it doesn't kill the host, and possibly mixed with a modified form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (so it doesn't kill the host either) both are deadly, but a modified for would be a Z virus, rabies makes people angry but paralyzes them, CJD pretty much gives the other symptoms, rabies is spread through bites, but takes a while to become noticeable, so an accelerator would be needed to infect individuals quickly. I personally have no clue how to modify a virus, kuma might possibly but i doubt he wants to create that, i sure as hell don't! but I'm sure there's someone else out there who knows how, can, and has figured out the same thing as me on how to create a Z virus. Therefor, I can't believe I'm saying this, it is possible to have mutated people that are more or less zombies.
Kuma knows
EVERYTHING
Yes, I do know the basic idea behind modifying a virus. We actually do it all the time for medicinal purposes. Basically what you do is remove the viruses original RNA or DNA and replace it with a segment of your choosing. This was one of the first steps towards nano-machines. If I remember correctly this is actually how they do genetic modification too.
Second, they actually can discern what the ocean currents were like as far back as 10,000 years ago. In the Oceans there are underwater currents. These currents act as thermal regulators for the world, as well as giant mixers. These currents carry oxygen and sediment down to the depths of the ocean, which is one of the things that makes it so life can exist down there. It takes 10,000 years for sediment from the Pacific coast of America to travel around the world and reach the Atlantic coast. They can take water samples and track where the minerals present originated. Therefore, we actually do know where the currents ran before.
Oh and I don't know everything goddammit.
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sorry i just had to try it out...
i was first though... just fyi...
i was third ftw time to play LEFT 4 DEAD!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
Some how, in a profound way, I know this is my fault.
Kuma, did you like my poem?
G for da gangster...
No justin... NO
Yes Justin, it was lovely. I think I'll print it out and stick it on my refrigerator.
So you can shoot it?
prity muj
Your MOM is impossible.
BURN! Not really.
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What's even more "gangsta" is that the colors are rolling the ROYGBIV rule.
What about the pink and gray?
That's the part of the rainbow only ninjas and kunoichi see. Justin can't keep a secret for shit!
Justin is no ninja. He said himself that he sucks at throwing knives and stuff
I hate ninjas... Hey, I'm not TOO bad at throwing knives! Go watch that video again. half of my throws stuck.
Justin's a ninja. I saw the pics. But he just sucks at it right now and he doesn't want to follow his family's tradition.