i have been searching something on this forum wich is probably one of the only reasons i join this forum(i might have to move this to the conspiracy theories)i have searched 2012 in google and all i get is a bunch of apocalypse theories.has anyone seen on any of the topics anything about the year 2012?i might start a post about it but then again...someone probably posted this already.

already i got a few things but id just post it here(im probably going to get moved for this)that oil will get depleted on this day,2012 december 21 a major reanimation of th world the third cycle of the mayan calendar ends on that day.i will know run in circles screaming repent repent and and achieve all my goals because ill be dead when i turn 17.

Yes, the halibut I think, but only if they have a decent Cotes de Provence to go with it.

(Does anyone know what he’s saying?)

Not really one for punctuation are you…

David B. - 28 March 2008 06:12 AM

Yes, the halibut I think, but only if they have a decent Cotes de Provence to go with it.

(Does anyone know what he’s saying?)

This is where nodding and smiling while slowly backing away comes in handy darl.

Nettie - 28 March 2008 06:13 AM

Not really one for punctuation are you…

Sorry, “Côtes de Provence”. Better?

I think he’s talking about the belief some people have that, since the Mayan calendar ‘runs out’ in 2012, the apocalypse will come then.

And yes, moving this to Conspiracy Theories.

David B. - 28 March 2008 06:15 AM

Nettie - 28 March 2008 06:13 AM

Not really one for punctuation are you…

Sorry, “Côtes de Provence”. Better?

I wasn’t aiming that at you! You just posted at the same time as me so my comment came after yours!

I wasn’t aware they knew the date we’d run out of oil.  I suppose I was under the impression there was a lot more guesswork involved, and that the margin of error was greater than a few hours.

One theory is that the calendar ends because at that time time travel is discovered and keeping time as we know it becomes meaningless.

(Edit) It is now 2014 and I can vouch for this theory.

Bebe, can you ask my future self which girls to avoid?  Hell, can you go back to about 2000 and take this list with you?

It would be nice if it were the date for the “technological singularity”.

In reality the Mayan calendar exists as many interlocking cycles, indicating eras of human and spiritual change/evolution/growth/whatever. Where they used what happened in a past cycle (or combination of cycles), to predict the future, the will of the gods and the spiritworld in general. and while they believed in strong influences of the spiritual on the physical, the calender is not about the Earth in itself.
According to what I heard from a south or Middle American who claimed his people descended from one of those Aztec or Mayan cultures, I can’t remember him, anyway:
The end of the this long cycle at 21 December 2012 marks the end of the old structures of those cycles humans have been living in for so long and will be the beginning of openness, where secrets will be revealed.
So it’s not the end of the physical world, but of the current spiritual one.

Ever since I heard this I always wondered if what they were referring to is the growth of the Internet, with smaller, more integrated electronics, internetphones…

Jesus said only his Father knew the time and the hour.  So I try to be good all the time.  Try being the operative word here

Keep in mind that the cycle in question has already recycled three times since around 3114 BC.  So what will happen in 2012 AD already happened around 1832 BC, 551 BC, and 730 AD, and again around 3293 AD.  I don’t see much sign of the world having ended on any of those three previous dates.  Or of anything happening on those dates that is even all that unusually significant.  The Mayans (and other groups who used the same calendar) didn’t have 2012 AD being any more significant than the endings of the last three cycles, other than the fact that it happens to be the end of the current cycle.

I am thinking that it is a slight possibility that the sun will rise in the East and set in the West; My daughter will be firmly ensconced in the 8th grade.  Politicians will lie to us, Gas will cost too much; and there will be someone who says they mixed up the numbers on the prophecies....I can hear them now:  “OH NO! It was supposed to happen in the year of the gutter rat, 2021!”

*dry heaving sounds*

daveprime - 29 March 2008 07:44 PM

Politicians will lie to us, Gas will cost too much;

Sorry, that bit reminded me so much of this.

Smerk - 29 March 2008 08:59 PM

daveprime - 29 March 2008 07:44 PM

Politicians will lie to us, Gas will cost too much;

Sorry, that bit reminded me so much of this.

Too cool Smerk! (Where do you guys find the time too find all this neat stuff?  What do you have an interdimensional Portal or some-such?)

(....oooooh, interdimensional portal...)

Heh, I was class of ‘97, so it was kinda a theme song at school...and a quick google brought up the lyrics on the first non-Youtube site.

If I have anything to say about it, 2012 will mostly be spent touring the world on my private yacht with my personal assistant/masseuse, Linda.

Bebelicious - 28 March 2008 07:13 AM

One theory is that the calendar ends because at that time time travel is discovered and keeping time as we know it becomes meaningless.

(Edit) It is now 2014 and I can vouch for this theory.

My preparations are well under way.  I got a new set of woods and a travel case for my clubs the other day.