http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSKpxkybd4&feature=related

Movie coming out in 2009 about the Acient Mayan doomsday prophecy. Trailer looks pretty cool but I don't know much about the actual prophecy.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm

12/9/2008 7:49:45 PM

Yo, did you even read the article you posted?

12/9/2008 8:37:49 PM

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"the Acient Mayan doomsday prophecy"

lol. Their calendar runs out on that date and everyone theorizes that they thought the world will end that day. Do these same people scream about the end of the world every year when their calendars run out? Wait, they probably do.

12/9/2008 9:46:45 PM

they predicted some other meteor strikes and floods and other shit with their calendar

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12/9/2008 9:48:24 PM

The article says it best...like Y2K, but on a smaller scale.

12/9/2008 9:50:24 PM

Its a Roland Emmerich film so I guess New York, LA, and DC are toast again.

12/9/2008 9:50:37 PM

on my trip to Ecuador, we learned that Mayans also thought that guinea pigs can detect evil spirits on people

PS - where does the water that's going to make a tidal wave in the Himalayas come from?

12/9/2008 11:54:25 PM

^ the ocean?

12/9/2008 11:59:37 PM

We learned about this in History of Americas class. They had only made out their calendar 500 years in advance.

People just enjoy sensationalism.

12/10/2008 9:22:01 AM

Danny Glover plays the president in this movie

12/10/2008 9:37:52 AM

oh great, 2+ hours of slurred speech.

12/10/2008 9:42:39 AM

in the trailer was water crashing over Himalayas ?

12/10/2008 10:03:56 AM

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"lol. Their calendar runs out on that date and everyone theorizes that they thought the world will end that day. Do these same people scream about the end of the world every year when their calendars run out? Wait, they probably do."

see: year 1000 AD

see: year 2000 AD

12/10/2008 10:14:53 AM

The mayan calendar is cyclical, though.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

12/10/2008 4:16:22 PM

I predict the end of the world by a rogue planet crossing paths near ours in 2012, you heard it here first. Either that or Obama gets reelected and somehow that causes all hell to break loose and we all kill each other.

12/10/2008 4:28:00 PM

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"the ocean?"

i know it's hollywood and all, but for a tidal wave to crest even the smallest mountains in the Himalayas, it would have to be on the order of 5000 feet high and surge a few hundred miles inland


[Edited on December 10, 2008 at 7:52 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2008 7:50:30 PM

this is surely a stupid idea, but I dunno, I thought that trailer was pretty badass. I love how I just looked at the water for about 5 seconds before being like "wait, wot"

12/10/2008 9:00:49 PM

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"How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world?"

More of this eh? George Bush hates Himalayans.

12/11/2008 7:17:34 AM

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"lol. Their calendar runs out on that date and everyone theorizes that they thought the world will end that day. Do these same people scream about the end of the world every year when their calendars run out? Wait, they probably do."

maybe the Mayans predicted they would be wiped off the face of the earth in 2012. but they were waaaay off

12/11/2008 5:00:01 PM

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"on my trip to Ecuador, we learned that Mayans also thought that guinea pigs can detect evil spirits on people"

kind of like how tribbles can sense when a man is actually a klingon?

12/11/2008 9:08:28 PM

the people who say that the mayan calander simply ends and cycles back cant explain why some of teh most noted predictions also claim that in the year 2012 and sometimes the exact date december 25th the world will either end or will go through a traumatic event

these predictions come from sources such as the bible, nostradamus, ancient greece, and ancient china, also modern science points to some very interesting events in astronomy that day

the ancient china prediction predicts the exact same date

so how do you explain that?

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/11/2008 10:18:36 PM

i offer an explination

if you look for something hard enough, you fill find it in one form or another. You can create something out of nothing intentionaly/unintentionaly. The date 2012, decemebr 12 is almost pop culture now, especialy now a movie is coming out. I can take a science fiction novel and make it into a religion or something crazy like that if the mindset or persistance is there.

or it could be the end of the world, either way all I know is when the sun burns up we are all in trouble, HEY NORM!

12/11/2008 10:26:23 PM

^at no time in your incoherent babble did you come anywhere close to what could be considered a rational thought, i award you no points and ask you to please log out

12/11/2008 11:39:17 PM

yeah, no shit.

looks like someone's smoking meth.

12/12/2008 1:25:32 AM

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"the people who say that the mayan calander simply ends and cycles back cant explain why some of teh most noted predictions also claim that in the year 2012 and sometimes the exact date december 25th the world will either end or will go through a traumatic event these predictions come from sources such as the bible, nostradamus, ancient greece, and ancient china, also modern science points to some very interesting events in astronomy that day"

Citations needed, I'll fill in a few (and it's December 21st, not the 25th):

Bible:
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

So I guess I'd have to look for the contradictory verse for that one.

Nostradamus:

Greece:

China:

Astronomy: Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. Also, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way. Not sure why either of those events would cause the end of the world though. Apparently the sun lined up with the Milky Way some 26,000 years ago and we have a few solstices each year and the world has somehow managed - but they may have never both happened on the same day before I don't see it.

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"so how do you explain that?"

People trying to sell books, movies, and ideas by making wild assumptions about vague, unrelated predictions?

[Edited on December 12, 2008 at 8:42 AM. Reason : -]

12/12/2008 8:31:10 AM

I think its amazing the astronomical events will happen in our lifetime, very exciting

1/2/2009 6:23:22 PM

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"kind of like how tribbles can sense when a man is actually a klingon?"

i lolled

1/2/2009 10:18:25 PM

i wonder whats going to happen when more people become aware of this. i think it will be bigger than Y2K.

1/3/2009 1:11:06 PM

i wonder how this movie will end

1/3/2009 3:33:36 PM

Obama gets reelected

1/3/2009 3:45:40 PM

and then its "THE END"

1/3/2009 3:54:30 PM

A documentary is on the history channel right now about 2012....must be conditioning us for the end of days...

1/4/2009 9:37:05 PM

The history documentary was pretty interesting. Definetly worth checking out.

1/5/2009 10:35:44 AM

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"kind of like how tribbles can sense when a man is actually a klingon?"

or dogs can sniff out terminators

1/5/2009 10:48:33 AM

I too just saw the History Channel's documentary on the ancient Mayans and their calendar. Very interesting stuff, although as several professors/scholars noted in it, the calendar doesn't actually end on December 21, 2012, it just marks the end of an era.

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"Apparently the sun lined up with the Milky Way some 26,000 years ago and we have a few solstices each year and the world has somehow managed - but they may have never both happened on the same day before I don't see it."

What amazes me is that the Mayans were able to predict this celestial event occurring every 26,000 years over 2,000 years ago! In addition to the sun lining up in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Earth wobbles on its axis. This is an event that only occurs every 26,000 years and converting their calendar to our own, falls on December 21, 2012. Interesting stuff!

1/12/2009 6:18:16 PM

If the Mayans were so smart, how come they aren't around today? I'm not up to date with my history but weren't the Mayans taken out by Europeans or maybe other Native American civilizations? Why couldn't they predict that?

1/13/2009 9:42:22 AM

^^I thought it ended "around" 12/21/12? It definitely marks the end of the age of Aquarius.

1/13/2009 12:15:22 PM

^^just cause you're a good astronomer and can make good calendars doesnt mean you know how to run a civilization

i hate it when people keep bringing up this stupid argument,
besides the Nazis were very smart and came up with a lot of new technology and ideas but they too aren't around today

1/13/2009 12:30:49 PM

Yeah the Nazis were smart and brought about new technology but they weren't able to predict the future.

1/13/2009 2:07:46 PM

i just read where some mayan asshole predicted some celebration of his something to take place in the year 4226 or something like that.


definitely sounds like it's time to get up in arms and panic here people, this is tha real deal

1/13/2009 2:25:21 PM

Godwin's law

1/14/2009 2:01:31 AM

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"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

Matthew 24:35-36

http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/23993/eVerseID/23993

1/14/2009 2:24:05 AM

^WELL THAT SETTLES IT

1/14/2009 2:27:26 AM

Around May 14th is when I predict the signs will begin pointing to this supposed end

1/14/2009 9:08:21 AM

I tried to post this in chit chat, but nobody appreciated it. http://theihc.com

[Edited on January 15, 2009 at 7:39 AM. Reason : link]

1/15/2009 7:39:21 AM

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"The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about December 21, 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in pop-culture media as the 2012 problem. [12][13] "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, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 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." [13]"

lamers, it's just a date, just like 2000...

1/15/2009 10:23:54 AM

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"According to many sources Arab13 is a douchbag who doesn't know what he's talking about. He picks out one dumb quote to use as evidence and ignores all the other historic and scientific evidence that points to a major event happening on that date, whether its a doomsday event or not is still debatable. "

heres a better quote from another source

1/15/2009 11:22:36 AM

hay guyz, i invented my own calendar and it will end on january 16th 2009.

PREPARE FOR DOOMSDAY!!1

1/15/2009 11:41:56 AM

^your calander is broken yo

1/16/2009 11:33:42 AM

i don't know about you, but i'm still asking for xmas* presents for December 25th 2012

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM. Reason : *i don't celebrate xmas but i'm just making a point]

1/16/2009 1:50:58 PM