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Posted: Jan 09 2008 01:53 pm

I've always heard this, but nobody told me how or why.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

DarknessDeku wrote:

I've always heard this, but nobody told me how or why.

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Metaphysical predictions

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

* The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
* The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
* The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
* The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
* The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
* The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
* The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
* The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.

Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:

* Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
* Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012. [13][14][15]

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I tell ya, it used to be just every generation worrying about the apocalypse, now we get several types of doomsdays per generation now: Y2K, Global Worming, 2012 prophecies,...ugh. Century after century of this crap, and now the hand-wringing is getting worse.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 03:55 pm

Yeah, I read about this a while ago. Still sceptical of course.

I like the Pahana prophecy I read about after reading that cracked.com article about the apocalypse.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 03:55 pm

Man, people and this 2012 end of the world BS, I can't believe it. What's going to happen in 2012? I'll tell you what'll happen: Maybe will happen. Maybe the world will end, maybe it won't. There. Your answer in one of those crappy plastic easter eggs. Maybe will happen.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 06:27 pm

Cattivo is right. Every once in awhile people say the world is going to end, and yet we've seen nothing. I refuse to believe it, and will continue to do so until something actually happens. Life will definitely go on past 2012.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 06:31 pm

SSNintendo wrote:

Cattivo is right. Every once in awhile people say the world is going to end, and yet we've seen nothing. I refuse to believe it, and will continue to do so until something actually happens. Life will definitely go on past 2012.

Can't agree with you more.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 06:44 pm

When I visited the Mayan ruins of Tulumn on my cruise, our guide told us that archeologists had discovered a 2500 year old stone that predicted a rough alignment of the planets in 2012. He claimed NASA confirms this, but a cursory search turned up nothing on their website.

The Mayans did not believe it was the apocolypse but simply that "the gods would reveal themselves."

Posted: Jan 09 2008 07:08 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

SSNintendo wrote:

Cattivo is right. Every once in awhile people say the world is going to end, and yet we've seen nothing. I refuse to believe it, and will continue to do so until something actually happens. Life will definitely go on past 2012.

Can't agree with you more.

I agree, but only because if life does end, no one will be around to tell me "i told you so."

Posted: Jan 09 2008 07:28 pm

I think the world will end, because 2012 gives my band just enough time to become the next GNR, then we'll be the last biggest band on Earth.

"DESTRUCTION! EXTINCTION!!! ANNIHILATION!!! FORNICATION!!!!

The Earth Is Fucked Tour!!"

Posted: Jan 09 2008 07:38 pm

I remember when the world was gonna end in 2000.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 08:30 pm

I remember reading an article from Maxim on another forum about a possible comet or something hitting the earth in September 2003. Nothing came to be, but it was interesting.

Posted: Jan 09 2008 08:54 pm

Of course it will end....

The London 2012 logo is going to come alive during the pole vault final and bring big neon gay death on all.

Devil wins. 2-1. (Best of 5, God better pull himself together)

Posted: Jan 09 2008 09:00 pm

Jesus GOD I thought our gay ass 2010 logo was bad!!!

Posted: Jan 09 2008 09:32 pm

ross_rifle113 wrote:

Jesus GOD I thought our gay ass 2010 logo was bad!!!

oh yeah baybee. had you not seen it? most of the UK vomited on its unveiling.

apocalypse awaits. maybe that church in kansas was right all along....

Posted: Jan 10 2008 12:10 am

As of now, the world will end in 2012, but a group of brave warriors will be chosen to stop this impending apocalypse.

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And those brave warriors shall be named...

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Posted: Jan 10 2008 01:58 am

No its probably gonna be like Al Gore and Christopher Walken.

Posted: Jan 10 2008 02:53 am

Man, hopefully 2012 will mean the death of "reality" TV. That would be good. Very good.

Posted: Jan 10 2008 02:23 pm

docinsano wrote:

Man, hopefully 2012 will mean the death of "reality" TV. That would be good. Very good.

Thanks to the writer's strike, reality TV just gained about another 50 years of life. Confused

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Tebor wrote:

docinsano wrote:

Man, hopefully 2012 will mean the death of "reality" TV. That would be good. Very good.

Thanks to the writer's strike, reality TV just gained about another 50 years of life. Confused

God i hope the strike doesnt last 50 years

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Posted: Jan 14 2008 03:44 pm

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

Tebor wrote:

docinsano wrote:

Man, hopefully 2012 will mean the death of "reality" TV. That would be good. Very good.

Thanks to the writer's strike, reality TV just gained about another 50 years of life. Confused

God i hope the strike doesnt last 50 years

It won't last 50 years, but the networks are going to start a TON of reality shows to make sure this never happens again. Want to know why they became popular in the first place? Because the last writers strike started them! Well, started the explosion of them.