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2012
Sept 26, 2009 13:44:11 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 13:44:11 GMT
According to Mayan prophecies ,the earth will come close to the end on December 21,2012 (winter solstice). Heard about it? Buy it? What do folks in Mexico hear and think about this?
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 13:57:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 13:57:02 GMT
"Close to the end"? Does that make the real end happen on December 22nd?
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 14:06:17 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 14:06:17 GMT
;D,I wasn't sure how to word it because I'm not sure that it says it will be the absolute end. Need to research it some more. Reminds me though of a TV show that was on years ago,some stupid made for TV thing that was about a nuclear catastrophe that left only two or three surviving living creatures. Before the start of the thing,there was a warning on the screen telling people,"this is not a true story" or some such. The next day Mr. C. and I saw someone we know,almost always drunk,and he was all freaked out because he didn't see the warning thing and believed it all.
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 17:18:59 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Sept 26, 2009 17:18:59 GMT
Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse? By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special to USA TODAY With humanity coming up fast on 2012, publishers are helping readers gear up and count down to this mysterious — some even call it apocalyptic — date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago. Since November, at least three new books on 2012 have arrived in mainstream bookstores. A fourth is due this fall. Each arrives in the wake of the 2006 success of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which has been selling thousands of copies a month since its release in May and counts more than 40,000 in print. The books also build on popular interest in the Maya, fueled in part by Mel Gibson's December 2006 film about Mayan civilization, Apocalpyto. Authors disagree about what humankind should expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era. Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasts widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End. Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a "true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine" in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a "change in the nature of consciousness," assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use. The buildup to 2012 echoes excitement and fear expressed on the eve of the new millennium, popularly known as Y2K, though on a smaller scale, says Lynn Garrett, senior religion editor at Publishers Weekly. She says publishers seem to be courting readers who believe humanity is creating its own ecological disasters and desperately needs ancient indigenous wisdom. "The convergence I see here is the apocalyptic expectations, if you will, along with the fact that the environment is in the front of many people's minds these days," Garrett says. "Part of the appeal of these earth religions is that notion that we need to reconnect with the Earth in order to save ourselves." But scholars are bristling at attempts to link the ancient Maya with trends in contemporary spirituality. Maya civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Mesoamerica, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero. "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes. But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be. Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point." University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012 phenomenon comes "from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find this article at: www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 18:10:31 GMT
Post by fumobici on Sept 26, 2009 18:10:31 GMT
I'll hold your money for you until this frightful event passes ;D
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 19:09:13 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 19:09:13 GMT
The most talk I've heard about this has been among younger people,approximately 21-26 years old and those the article mentions as being more "earth' conscious.
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2012
Sept 26, 2009 22:37:01 GMT
Post by fumobici on Sept 26, 2009 22:37:01 GMT
I think all this talk is credible and the World will indeed come to some catastrophic conclusion on that date. And given this, what possible harm could come from signing over all your personal possessions to me effective the following day? It's not like there will be anywhere left to spend or use them.
I wonder how many of the believers in this would actually have the courage of their convictions?
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2012
Sept 28, 2009 11:32:43 GMT
Post by spindrift on Sept 28, 2009 11:32:43 GMT
I have a friend who has already made preparations for this time. I have been invited up to her small country estate near the north of England where she reckons she'll be safe being well away from major cities. She mentioned something about flooding but she's not worried because she lives in hilly country. She has invited so many people that there won't be room for us in her house but we have been allocated enough room for a tent in her garden. I believe she is stocking up on tinned food, cereals and pulses. I will ask her to get on with digging a well.
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2012
Sept 28, 2009 13:21:52 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 13:21:52 GMT
Maybe some people will be renovating their Y2K emergency shelters which were so useful back then.
I'm not worried -- it's probably just the date that the swine flu will suddenly mutate into something out of a Stephen King book. There will be a handful of survivors.
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2012
Sept 28, 2009 20:50:01 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Sept 28, 2009 20:50:01 GMT
I have a friend who has already made preparations for this time. I have been invited up to her small country estate near the north of England where she reckons she'll be safe being well away from major cities. She mentioned something about flooding but she's not worried because she lives in hilly country. She has invited so many people that there won't be room for us in her house but we have been allocated enough room for a tent in her garden. I believe she is stocking up on tinned food, cereals and pulses. I will ask her to get on with digging a well. Wonderful, Spindrift! Do learn how to make paper and ink, as there may be no electricity later. That way you'll be able to maintain your own journal of the plague years.
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2012
Sept 28, 2009 20:58:42 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 20:58:42 GMT
And then post it 20 years later when the internet returns!
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2012
Sept 28, 2009 21:01:25 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Sept 28, 2009 21:01:25 GMT
Yeah -- and stockpile batteries and take very good care of your camera.
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2012
Sept 30, 2009 20:42:43 GMT
Post by rikita on Sept 30, 2009 20:42:43 GMT
i thought 2012 is when the aliens invade?
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2012
Sept 30, 2009 20:47:04 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2009 20:47:04 GMT
i thought 2012 is when the aliens invade? That too. Check out the ads at the top of the screen,they know.
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2012
Sept 30, 2009 21:20:18 GMT
Post by bazfaz on Sept 30, 2009 21:20:18 GMT
There used to be a man who walked up and down Oxford Street in London with a big sign: The end is nigh. In smaller print it said also that he ate no meat, only pulses. Unfortunately his end came before the general end. Eating pulses didn't save him.
Another Londoner was an indian guru who lived somewhere in the east end. He predicted the end of the world in thr late 90s. He got all the media attention he craved. I haven't heard about him recently.
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2012
Sept 30, 2009 23:17:39 GMT
Post by rikita on Sept 30, 2009 23:17:39 GMT
what, stayfriends.com know?
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2012
Oct 1, 2009 0:23:57 GMT
Post by imec on Oct 1, 2009 0:23:57 GMT
These guys thought the world was gonna end too... (Peter cook and Rowan Atkinson)
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2012
Oct 1, 2009 6:05:14 GMT
Post by Kimby on Oct 1, 2009 6:05:14 GMT
I have a friend who has already made preparations for this time. I have been invited up to her small country estate near the north of England where she reckons she'll be safe being well away from major cities. She mentioned something about flooding but she's not worried because she lives in hilly country. She has invited so many people that there won't be room for us in her house but we have been allocated enough room for a tent in her garden. I believe she is stocking up on tinned food, cereals and pulses. I will ask her to get on with digging a well. This reminds me of two books I've read lately: Into the Forest by Jean Hegland www.amazon.com/reader/0553379615?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib%5Fdp%5Fpt#noop and Earth Abides by George R. Stewart www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0449213013
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2012
Oct 2, 2009 1:06:51 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 1:06:51 GMT
It just occurred to me that 2012 is a presidential election year here in the U.S.
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