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.