John T


Even that "end of an era" thing is overstating the case. It's just a cycle in the counting system. There's no evidence it had any particular significance to the Mayans. It's just that their counting system was (more or less) base 20, and the 21st is when the next lot of 20 sub-units starts. It's literally just one column going back to zero, and another column going up by one.

The "era" is nothing more than the Earth's revolving around our sun as our star system revolves around the galaxy. Every 26.000 years we come to a point where there's some galactic alignment. We are about to come to it again.
 
It's also interesting that whoever built Stonehenge were as adept at how stargazing, as the pyramids in Egypt and other sites around the world.  

It's also interesting that whoever built Stonehenge were as adept at how stargazing, as the pyramids in Egypt and other sites around the world.

 
Obviously they were 64bit astronomers.    Right, Freddy?   
 

John


Why are people buying supplies if the world is coming to an end?

That makes perfect sense. However, they will never again be able to spend money, so let them have that last liberating feeling of blowing their hard earned cash on frivolous things that won't last or do them any good!
 
Spend your money more wisely and build a fire with it so you can at least be warm for a few seconds... money burns fast.
 

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Lanceindastudio


The Mayans did not say the world was going to end people. It is simply an end of an era, and a beginning of a Golden Age according to them.


SHEEESSSHHH --- the only fear mongering going on is coming from people that twisted the Mayan prophecies to add to their endless religious old world mind control methods.

Part of the "awakening" is probably people loosing the ridiculous guilt and fear that has been used to control them for thousands of years, and we can thank the internet for a big part of this "awakening".

Just Sayin,

Lance

Dear Just Sayin,
 
Some of us are dead set (get it) on the world ending (at least ours anyway) and no one's gonna ruin our pent up anticipation, perspiration, or participation in this once-in-a-lifetime event with half contrived conspiracy theories like it's all a hoax... or something like that.
 
And BTW, I haven't been controlled for 1000s of years. Just half a century.   Which, of course, makes my age Golden.
 
Anyway, which was supposed to happen first? The world ending or the sun burning out. Or does that all happen with a big bang at the same time? Either way I just hope I'm awake so I can watch.

wizard71


If my missus doesn't like the Christmas present I've got her, my world will end on the 25th..... With a swift knee to the danglers no doubt! 
Seriously tho, I couldn't think of a better way to go than being hit on the head by an asteroid. Wonder what 'injury lawyers 4u' would make of that.
I'm actually amazed people believe this and have rushed out to buy 10 years worth of baked beams and marmalade to put in their shiny new doomsday pods. Mental!

They make doomsday pods??? (Add To Cart... Click!)
 
BTW, beams are better if they're kiln dried, not baked.

Yep, unfortunately the guy that makes them can't keep up with demand

http://m.scmp.com/news/ch...-demand-ahead-doomsday


Ah lol, yes I would imagine beams would take up a lot of space. No good in a doomsday pod.


Bibs

stevec

It's also interesting that whoever built Stonehenge were as adept at how stargazing, as the pyramids in Egypt and other sites around the world.

 
Obviously they were 64bit astronomers.    Right, Freddy?   
 

They very well could have been. Who's Freddy? Is he with Daphne? If so, please let the world explode!!! I love fireworks!!!
 
Zoiiks

"Galactic alignment" is a seriously meaningless term. But even if it wasn't, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Mayan calendar, which by the way didn't even operate on what we'd now consider a yearly cycle, but rather a 9-ish month cycle.

Also, the Mayans didn't have any concept of anything of the scale or nature of a galaxy. It was a very remarkable civilisation, but it was over and done with a long-ass time before anyone realised the sun didn't go round the earth.

This stuff is basically much more recent astrology. And even if we put aside that astrology is absolute guff for a moment, it doesn't take that much scepticism to note that there's an almost desperate mashing together of entirely unrelated ways of thinking about things, from different eras of history, to try to make all this 2012 stuff work.