This thread'll be gone in a day. TBBS members wouldn't waste their time speculating about something like whether the world will end in 2012 or not. No way.
2012
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You haven't been here very long, have you?
according to my teacher, who happens to be a kind of expert in indian cultures, and plenty of other experts as well. its not a doomsday scenario the mayans were expecting. i believe the translation was "new age" or "new dawn of time". it was quite some time ago i read it, anyway it was something similar. they didnt see it as the end of the world but a new era.
ergo, i believe its a load of crap. however something very significant could very well happen. i just dont think it'll be an apocalypse, although i see why people do.
ergo, i believe its a load of crap. however something very significant could very well happen. i just dont think it'll be an apocalypse, although i see why people do.
2012: The Year We Make Contact. 
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I figure the event the Mayans were talking about was that in 2012... someone would have to make a longer calendar.
Because it's a "mystical" Mayan prophecy?
Is it any more likely to happen than the third Anti-Christ, or the Rapture? Kali Yuga? Qiyamah? Ragnarok?
The answer is no.
Eventually humanity will become extinct, but not in the next 25 months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon
Yeah that's right, I quoted Wikipedia!!
(attempt at irony)
dear god. you scared me. for a moment there, i though you were serious.
now the swedish Flashback.org is know for its heated discussions. but i'm telling you, here on TrekBBS, we couldnt even agree on space being cold... we're a lot, lot worse. god help me, i love it :-)
Its a load of old bang wallop to put it politely.
You and me both!
Well-played, old boy!
And what theory, b34? Aboriginal inscriptions? That's not a theory of anything. Plus what makes it any more valid than the Mayan calendar?
This Mayan prophecy is just lame. Between all the doomsday scenario, I would go with Ragnarok. A demon wolf eating the sun? The spirits of dead warriors battling against fire and frost giants? Hammer-wielding gods fighting world-encircling serpents? That's so cool. Revelation is rather badass, too, but both sides are kinda dicks and you don't know who you should root for.
Hooey!!!!! The Bible is clear on what will happen and the Earth will never end. In two years the earth will still be around and so will we.
I have it on good evidence (Professors Zager and Evans) that man will still be alive in the year 2525.
After the year 9595, however, we may have some problems.
^ Oh yeah; that goes without saying.
By that point, it'll be 10,000 years and Man has cried a billion tears.
Must be girly-men, rather than Real Men.
If you're referring to the Mayan Calender...
Look. Those folks were just great at predicting the end of their world/empire...why shouldn't we expect them to be right about ours?
Besides...just because they didn't write anymore after that point doesn't mean they weren't going to write more. Or maybe they just got bored.
Anyway...Nostradamus, anyone?
