So Where Were You When The World Didn't End? A Scoff at the Mayan Calendar
 

Well, it may only be 10:27 EST, but the majority of the world is already experiencing 12/21/12. Nothing has happened nor do I believe it will.

I am sitting on my laptop depressed that Thursday Night football is no more for this season and wondering exactly what the alignment of the solar system will actually bring.

Thoughts?

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Any of these predictions are generally so vague as to give enough wiggle room for the apologist afterwards. Let's face it, if the Mayans were such great prognosticators there would still be Mayans (I mean the culture).

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Some historians, fanactics, Mayans or whatever you want to call them think that today was supposed to be the day of the return of Kukulkan. Kukulkan is a Mayan snake diety who is represented through many statues as being a serpant. If you watched the History channel there are some extremists that attribute him to being an alien.

What is interisting is that the serpant is represented in the Bible as being Lucifer or Satan. According to scriptures the world will be tempted and ruled over by the antichrist who will be given his power by Satan AKA "the great serpent". With that being said there might be a possibility that the antichrist is born today.

I am not willing to hang my hat on this theory, but I thought that it would be interesting conversation.

The Mayans also predicted yesterday would be falafel truck day.

I didn't see a falafel truck! Did you see a falafel truck??

Stupid Mayans.

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This is considerably less spectacular than I expected.

Thankfully I'll be spending the evening with Nekromantix and a few hundred close friends at the House of Blues in Hollywood to make up for the disappointing non-event.

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Hell I went out a spent every penny I had and now I'm broke.

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12/21... And we're still here.

Shocker.

I was really hoping for the day off, or eternity, whatevs.

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Im going on a Tacky Light Tour tonight and rented a bus. Nothing better than celebrating the end of the world with family and friends on a rented bus with dranks watching pretty bright lights.

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This should be more a scoff at the idiots that interpreted the Mayans wrong.

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[quote=Chico23231;978452]Im going on a Tacky Light Tour tonight and rented a bus. Nothing better than celebrating the end of the world with family and friends on a rented bus with dranks watching pretty bright lights.[/quote]

We did that a few years back and had a blast.

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[quote=Ruhskins;978453]This should be more a scoff at the idiots that interpreted the Mayans wrong.[/quote]

Bingo! There's the right answer.

The Mayan calendar never predicted an apocalypse for today. The idea of an apocalypse was put into the mouths of the Maya by ignorant others.

Learn more here: [url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/20/167626648/maya-expert-the-end-of-times-is-our-idea-not-the-ancients]Maya Expert: The 'End Of Times' Is Our Idea, Not The Ancients' : The Two-Way : NPR[/url]

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So when's the next end of the world scenario to be disproven?

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[quote=Ruhskins;978453]This should be more a scoff at the idiots that interpreted the Mayans wrong.[/quote]

Sure, why not.

Mods please change to

[B]So Where Were You When The World Didn't End? A Scoff at Those Who Misinterpreted the Mayan Calendar[/B]

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Edit - oops!

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the mayans didn't have leap year. y'all are scoffing 9 months too late.

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[quote=That Guy;978713]the mayans didn't have leap year. y'all are scoffing 9 months too late.[/quote]

Actually, scientists believe that it is possible that their calendar, clock or whatever you want to call it is more accurate than our own.

[url=http://www.mayacalendar.org/mayan-calendar-accuracy.htm]Mayan Calendar Accuracy[/url]

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The perfect gift you can give a Mayan this Christmas is........a new calendar!

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[quote=That Guy;978713]the mayans didn't have leap year. y'all are scoffing 9 months too late.[/quote]

Leap years do not matter to the Mayan Long Count calendar. It is not based on the sun or the moon. It simply counts days. This is why it is amazingly accurate, as mentioned above.

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Happy Mayan New Year. Can't believe people butchered this wonderful occasion and labeled it the end times.
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^ Science rules yet again

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The Mayan calender wasn't predicting the end of the world, moreso the end of an era. Just like when our calenders end on December 31st, their "eras" end on the 21st and then a new one begins.

Who knows why there wasn't another calender. People in other areas of the world (Latin America, Cuba, etc) had plans to celebrate this. Only us doomsdayers were fearing this.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;979733]The Mayan calender wasn't predicting the end of the world, moreso the end of an era. Just like when our calenders end on December 31st, their "eras" end on the 21st and then a new one begins.

Who knows why there wasn't another calender. People in other areas of the world (Latin America, Cuba, etc) had plans to celebrate this. Only us doomsdayers were fearing this.[/quote]

I'm to lazy to look it up again but apparently a bunch of conspiracy theorist originally pegged March 2003 to be the original 2012 with Planet Nibiru colliding with the Earth and destroying everything. When the date passed the movement somehow moved the collision date to 2012 and linked it to the Mayan Calender.

[url=http://www.just2012.com/planet-x-nibiru-is-false-as-shifts-date-from-2003-to-2012/]Planet X Nibiru is false as shifts date from 2003 to 2012 - News & Guide to Year 2012 - Just 2012 News and Views[/url]

They like to say that NASA is covering it up but with thousands of astronomers looking at the sky every night it would take a hell of a cover up.

Right now the biggest threat to us space wise is an asteroid named [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis"]Apophis [/URL]which is 5 times the size of the one that took out the Dinosaurs. It is projected to pass or hit us in 2029 and again in 2036 if it misses the first time. The chances though are really low like [URL="http://www.universetoday.com/42246/apophis-odds-of-earth-impact-downgraded/"]2.7% at the highest[/URL] and the second pass is much less likely to hit then first.

There's also a neighboring star that could have gone Super Nova centuries ago and if it exploded a certain way the radiation from said super nova would kill us due to excessive Gamma Radiation. Both doomday scenarios are very unlikely.

[url=http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/star-verge-supernova-could-threaten-life-earth]Nearby T Pyxidis Supernova Could Destroy Life on Earth | Popular Science[/url]

As far as Nibiru is concerned there's [URL="http://www.space.com/15551-nibiru.html"]no evidence to suggest it even exist.[/URL]

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[quote=Dirtbag59;979765]I'm to lazy to look it up again but apparently a bunch of conspiracy theorist originally pegged March 2003 to be the original 2012 with Planet Nibiru colliding with the Earth and destroying everything. When the date passed the movement somehow moved the collision date to 2012 and linked it to the Mayan Calender.

[URL="http://www.just2012.com/planet-x-nibiru-is-false-as-shifts-date-from-2003-to-2012/"]Planet X Nibiru is false as shifts date from 2003 to 2012 - News & Guide to Year 2012 - Just 2012 News and Views[/URL]

They like to say that NASA is covering it up but with thousands of astronomers looking at the sky every night it would take a hell of a cover up.

Right now the biggest threat to us space wise is an asteroid named [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis"]Apophis [/URL]which is 5 times the size of the one that [B]took out the Dinosaurs[/B]. It is projected to pass or hit us in 2029 and again in 2036 if it misses the first time. The chances though are really low like [URL="http://www.universetoday.com/42246/apophis-odds-of-earth-impact-downgraded/"]2.7% at the highest[/URL] and the second pass is much less likely to hit then first.

There's also a neighboring star that could have gone Super Nova centuries ago and if it exploded a certain way the radiation from said super nova would kill us due to excessive Gamma Radiation. Both doomday scenarios are very unlikely.

[URL="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/star-verge-supernova-could-threaten-life-earth"]Nearby T Pyxidis Supernova Could Destroy Life on Earth | Popular Science[/URL]

As far as Nibiru is concerned there's [URL="http://www.space.com/15551-nibiru.html"]no evidence to suggest it even exist.[/URL][/quote]

I do not buy that theory. That's exactly what it is, a theory. There is supporting evidence for it, but no undenyable proof. Most people just accept it as truth and move on because no one can come up with a better idea.

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The world ended and I missed it?

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[quote=Lotus;978756]Leap years do not matter to the Mayan Long Count calendar. It is not based on the sun or the moon. It simply counts days. This is why it is amazingly accurate, as mentioned above.[/quote]

Yep.Like some have said,Mayans never predicted the end,thats someone elses bullshit.Also the Mayan calendar didnt even actually end,it just rolled over.I saw a clip from NASA that said think of the Mayan calendar like a cars odometer.It wasnt the end of the calendar,it was just time to roll over and start again

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[quote=DynamiteRave;979733]The Mayan calender wasn't predicting the end of the world, moreso the end of an era. Just like when our calenders end on December 31st, their "eras" end on the 21st and then a new one begins.

Who knows why there wasn't another calender. People in other areas of the world (Latin America, Cuba, etc) had plans to celebrate this. Only us doomsdayers were fearing this.[/quote]

Oops,didnt see this post,I was saying basically the same thing

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[quote=KJHJ2;979861]I do not buy that theory. That's exactly what it is, a theory. There is supporting evidence for it, but no undenyable proof. Most people just accept it as truth and move on because no one can come up with a better idea.[/quote]

Apparently part of the theory is that Nibiru was invisible and couldn't be seen through telescopes.

However the thing is anything as remotely big as Nibiru is alleged to be would cause a lot of waves and disturbances to nearby stellar objects. So far no one has seen anything like that.

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Listening to my daughters laugh for the first time. I feel like it was time well spent.

[QUOTE=EARTHQUAKE2689;979978]Listening to my daughters laugh for the first time. I feel like it was time well spent.[/QUOTE]

That's awesome man. Kids sure do change things well they did for me anyway.