i watched "Bullshit" tonight. do you guys get that the world ends in 2012?

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the Mayan calendar sez so.

fucking unbelievable.

2012! that's it. the world is done.

those fucking Mayan's know their shit!

OMG!

[TexasObserver]

1. An era ends in 2012, not the world.

At least that's what the Mayan calender is supposed to be about.

[vaberella]

5. Yeah, but most are pimping it as the world ends. n/t

[Grown2Hate]

10. That was actually implied in that episode of Bullshit only as a subtle joke...

Penn looks at this year's calendar on the wall and says, "Oh shit! It says here that the world ends on December 31st, 2009!" Teller points to the lower right corner of the calendar. Penn looks in and says, "Oh, well wait... it appears that a SMALL portion of the world still goes on to January of 2010, so we should be ok." Classic. :)

[SpiralHawk]

15. And that's what the traditional Maya Daykeepers say

The 'end of the world' bullshit is all outliers trying to make a buck by stirring up fear -- what I have come to recognize as the Republicon Mindset.

Steep Uphill Climb to 2012:
Messages from the Mayan Milieu

"...The Mayan calendars are an object of intense interest for many thousands of people right now, because they focus upon the watershed date of Dec. 21, 2012. Everything changes by then, it is said...

"..."Anthropologists visit the temple sites," Mr. Barrios says, "and read the stelas and inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. The indigenous have the calendars, and know how to accurately interpret it, not others...

(snip) http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-10.html

[Voice for Peace]

18. thanks for that link!

good article

[SpiralHawk]

20. You are welcome. I found it insightful on 2012, too

Onward....

[billyoc]

2. Yeah, smart dudes, those Mayans. How are they doing these days, btw?

[vaberella]

6. Their descendents are doing just fine. n/t

[Recursion]

25. Anybody know how linguists finally decoded Mayan hieroglyphs?

After decades of making no progress, some linguist had the bright idea of actually asking one of the descendants of the Mayans what they meant, and he told them.

[vaberella]

37. It's funny isn't it?! Sad and funny. ~sigh~ n/t

[slampoet]

35. Oh REEEEAAAALLYY ? Then i guess the fighting in Mexico must be imaginary.....

to you.

[vaberella]

36. Fighting in Mexico has been going on for centuries---ditto for the rest of the world.

Mexico is not special in this.

I'm the descendant of slaves (and a good number of Whites and any other race that took their fancy) added to that I'm from Haiti. I'm doing just fine and my family in Haiti, is doing the same surprisingly enough. We descendants of ancient people are survivors---fighting will go on for our independence. Every day I walk out the door I'm fighting bigotry, racism, and marginalization over the colour of my skin, my sex, my ethnicity, my religion and so on. I'm doing just fine.

[Divine Discontent]

9. LOL.. good 1 as always billyoc, you make me smile!

'no one knows the hour or the day', somewhere in the bible.

I like it that way... and like we'll be around! I kinda doubt it.

as my friend who's a very caring former Nam Vet living in Colorado always says, 'getting tired and preparing for my dirt nap', it's morbid, but he makes me laugh when he says it.

[frog92969]

3. The ultimate October surprise!

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4. actually, it ends in december. those fucking mayans. they are so smart...

[aquart]

7. If the Mayans knew so much, wtf are they?

[musicblind]

8. They got out of dodge before it all went to shit lol

:rofl:

But seriously, I doubt the world is ending in 2012. People just enjoy sensationalism.

[Wizard777]

27. Pakal left earth in a rocket.

http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie26/pakal.htm">Pakal the Mayan Astronaut

[geckosfeet]

11. Kewl username.

[SB37]

12. Do you know what day it ends?!

I wanna get a video of it and post it on youtube!

[poiuytsister]

13. 12/21/12

Winter solstice

[SB37]

14. Awesome!

By 12/22 I should have TONS of hits on the video.... oh... wait....

never mind.

[lame54]

16. about the time we elect Palin as president

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. End of the World ... President Palin ...

which is worse?

:rofl:

[Vickers]

19. Fuck it, I'm gonna stop flossing, RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

:headbang:

[Deja Q]

21. That's the 31st anniversary of the series finale to "Blake's 7"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4a68Sv_r5Q
Back in the days when television had SOME substance...

Bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHLU8fwi80

[Berry Cool]

22. There's already a major motion picture being planned.

You know, another one where stuff blows up real good. I saw the trailer when I went to see Harry Potter.

[SpiralHawk]

24. ..and the movie is ALL fear, fear, fear

A complete Republicon-style distortion of what the actual Mayan Daykeepers teach...Watch only if you have a THING for imbibing Republicon Mind-f*ck FEAR & FAIL.

[Ilsa]

29. No no no! More like, "Enjoy the special effects!" The best part

of The Day After Tomorrow was watching all the fun special effects.

I'd rather keep my fear grounded in stuff like clean water shortages, pollution, overpopulation concerns, etc.

[Recursion]

23. No, the Mayan odometer rolls over in 2012

It's not any more of "the end of the world" than the year 2000 or the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius" were.

That said, the prophecies of Malachi say there will only be one more Pope...

[Wizard777]

26. 2012 marks the beginning of the end. I'm betting on the Zoroastrian apocalypse.

A comet/asteroid hits the earth ending all life. Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord/God) holds the final judgment and then reorders the universe/galaxy. That should happen about 2036. At that time an asteroid will pass so close to the earth. It will actually pass under our satellites. Which are held there by our gravity. If the asteroids velocity exceeds the inertia exerted by our gravitational field. It will be a near miss. This time. If it doesn't catch a gravitational whip from another planet to restore the lost velocity. It will most likely get caught up in our gravitational field on it's next pass and hit us. Thousands of years in the future. If the velocity of the asteroid doesn't exceed the inertia. Well there's no where to run to and no where to hide.

[pipi_k]

28. What's wrong with you people???? Don't you know...

that the world is going to end on December 31, 2009?????

The calendar on my kitchen wall only goes up to that date!!!!


AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:scared:

[gauguin57]

30. Here's the trailer for the end of the world. Starring John Cusack.

http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/

[lumberjack_jeff]

32. Well of course Martin Blank will survive.

Anyone who could kill the president of Paraguay with a fork is probably a survivor.

[thistooshalllpass]

31. Isn't the exact date 5/5/2012? In any case, I think it will probably be

something of significance happening at that time, although not necessarily a cataclysm. It is amazing how these so-called 'primitive people' had such accurate astronomical information, isn't it?

[POAS]

33. That's why the health care reform

will kick-in in 2013.

[Baclava]

34. Actually, the Maya got their Long Count calandar from the Olmecs - a thousand years earlier

...and the Olmecs got their version from...nobody knows.

http://books.google.com/books?id=fh402zxnOQcC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=maya+got+long+count+calendar+from+olmec&source=bl&ots=vk0WliM5Oo&sig=creeS-8XsDa8f8eFVTlCwF9oBkY&hl=en&ei=pERjSoe8N9-_tgfm6IHuDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6