do you believe 2012 is the end of human civilization?

[fsh3702]

In some sorts of maya calendar, 2012 is said to be the turning point of a cycle of civilization. do you believe this stuff? maybe it doesn't mean 2012 is the doomsday but another better era. I like to hear your opinions on this.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

I do not believe in this, but I think something big might happen on that day. Whether good or bad. Purely an assumption.

[tri.ad]

No. Also, what's going to happen is the same thing as on January 1st, 2000: Nothing.

[sneakyblueberry]

No. Also, what's going to happen is the same thing as on January 1st, 2000: Binge Drinking.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

No. Also, what's going to happen is the same thing as on January 1st, 2000: Binge Drinking.

[hefdaddy42]

No reason to believe it.

[limnides]

No. Also, what's going to happen is the same thing as on January 1st, 2000: Binge Drinking.

[tri.ad]

No. Also, what's going to happen is the same thing as on January 1st, 2000: Binge Drinking.

Well played, my friend.

[Perpetual Change]

Don't believe it, but I always find it interesting when friends and people otherwise believed to be sane all-the-sudden start rambling on about it.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

We'll all party hard on that day. It's near New Years Day after all.

[bosk1]

No reason to believe it.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

No reason to believe it.

Mayan descendants don't believe it either

One of the current paranoid and alarmist propaganda circulating the globe is the alleged end of the world in 2012, as prophesied by the ancient Maya. The Mayan calendar will supposedly ‘run out’ on December 21, 2012. Also, it is said that the Maya had a talent for astronomy. To top that, ‘some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth’s axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun’s lowest point in the horizon. That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.’

A Hollywood’s movie entitled “2012″ will even open next month, to cash in on the collective concern that has been scaring people. The movie is said to depict ‘earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House,’ as disasters to occur on the Maya-prophesied end of the world by said year.

Guatemalan Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Mayan elder, refutes the rumor, saying that ‘doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.’ Even some of the Mayan descendants today do not have any idea what 2012 is all about. “If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn’t have any idea,” said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. He adds, “That the world is going to end? They wouldn’t believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.”

If there is any significant foreboding for modern day humans, it lies in the warning behind scientific researches pointing to the notion that the Maya civilization collapsed due to their unrelenting deforestation of their land. Environmental degradation may not readily cause panic that can merit a Hollywood movie production, but it is a far more real danger than all of the Maya did not realize.

In truth, the Maya truly gave us good warning. The environmental cause of the collapse of their civilization may just be the same reason for our real end of the world.

[Arcaeus]

I remember when Charlie Dominici made this thread before the crash.

[soundgarden]

When I first heard of this, it was mentioned that it will happen exactly at 11:11 pm.

That's when I turned away and went to play some video games.

[In The Name Of Rudess]

No. There's no scientific evidence to support it. And even if somehow something will happen, there's nothing I can do about it anyway. I don't see the point in getting worried about something you can't change.

[Dublagent66]

No reason to believe it will happen that soon but it will eventually and long before the Sun becomes a threat.  The Dinosaurs ruled the world for 150 million years.  We won't even put a dent in that.  I predict that the Earth will be cleansed of pesky humans within the next million years.  Maybe within thousands of years.

[soundgarden]

I predict that the Earth will be cleansed of pesky humans within the next million years.  Maybe within thousands of years.

Pretty big time spread, no? 

[Adami]

Yes, 2012 will be the end of humanity. It is written in the original bible and quran, hidden in turkey, that all will end on dec 21st, 2012.

[icysk8r]

Yes, 2012 will be the end of humanity. It is written in the original bible and quran, hidden in turkey, that all will end on dec 21st, 2012.

And how do they know?  While they may have been advanced...we are LIGHTYEARS ahead of them.  We are 100x more advanced than them.  If they somehow found a way to predict the future, why haven't we?

[Adami]

Yes, 2012 will be the end of humanity. It is written in the original bible and quran, hidden in turkey, that all will end on dec 21st, 2012.

And how do they know?  While they may have been advanced...we are LIGHTYEARS ahead of them.  We are 100x more advanced than them.  If they somehow found a way to predict the future, why haven't we?

Listen, I learned this from a professor at university. If you don't believe me just look up the links on google yourself. But the original bible, here in Turkey clearly states that Jesus and Moses and Muhammad and Tom Cruise all said that the world will end Dec 21 2012. But what even is the truth? Maybe we'll never know?

[icysk8r]

Yes, 2012 will be the end of humanity. It is written in the original bible and quran, hidden in turkey, that all will end on dec 21st, 2012.

And how do they know?  While they may have been advanced...we are LIGHTYEARS ahead of them.  We are 100x more advanced than them.  If they somehow found a way to predict the future, why haven't we?

Listen, I learned this from a professor at university. If you don't believe me just look up the links on google yourself. But the original bible, here in Turkey clearly states that Jesus and Moses and Muhammad and Tom Cruise all said that the world will end Dec 21 2012. But what even is the truth? Maybe we'll never know?

Not sure if troll...
I'm sorry, but I really don't know if you're being serious.  I just woke up.

[Plasmastrike]

Yes. We're dead.

EDIT: Icy, are you serious? He fucking said Tom Cruise.

[Dublagent66]

I predict that the Earth will be cleansed of pesky humans within the next million years.  Maybe within thousands of years.

Pretty big time spread, no? 

Not in geological terms.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Pretty big time spread, no?

I'm so using this line at the strip club on Saturday.

[icysk8r]

The Dinosaurs ruled the world for 150 million years.  We won't even put a dent in that.  I predict that the Earth will be cleansed of pesky humans within the next thousands of years.

[eric42434224]

Pretty big time spread, no?

I'm so using this line at the strip club on Saturday.

I like my old stand-by...."Whats a nice girl with such big beef curtains doing in a place like this?"

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

[Tick]

No, I don't think it will be according to any Mayan calendar and I don't think it will be that soon. I do however feel its coming sooner then later. I don't know if that means 5 years or 150 years but I don't this planet is going to make it for hundreds of years to come. We are slowly destroying ourselves in every way. From pollution to technology, from government to religion, I will believe civilized man is on a destruction coarse that will come to a head. Its just a matter of time.

[Chino]

I believe it is all a load of hot, steaming, shit. But I guarantee that regardless what happens, something will be used for its excuse.

[Tick]

I believe it is all a load of hot, steaming, shit. But I guarantee that regardless what happens, something will be used for its excuse.

Who is going to make the excuse for a Mayan civilization that no longer exists?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Then the morning of said catastrophe, excavations will unearth a mysterious stone tablet:

[bosk1]

No, you have to get a different stone tablet. Joseph Smith already found that one.

[El JoNNo]

No, you have to get a different stone tablet. Joseph Smith already found that one.

Hey! Are there "Joseph Smith is my homeboy" t-shirts?

[Tick]

No, you have to get a different stone tablet. Joseph Smith already found that one.

Hey! Are there "Joseph Smith is my homeboy" t-shirts?

How about "Joseph Smith = Fail"

[King Postwhore]

Haven't you guys seen the movie!!??  Get to China, FAST!!!!!!!!!