2012: Whaddya Think

[SimplyNothing]

Alright... so over the past year I have heard pretty much every 2012 theory under the sun, from the Annunaki and Nibiru (lolzor) to the crossing of our galactic equator into intense GCR's.

Does anybody think 2012 is actually going down? If you do, which theory sounds the most viable to you? Even if you don't which theory sounds the most realistic to you?

Ze end of ze vurld.

Now, there are a few things that are happening in that year that give the theory some merit to me.

The first is the Maxima of our sun. Our sun is going to be the brightest and hottest it has been in 11 years in 2012.

Couple this with global warming, ozone holes, the depreciation of pretty much all our resources and over-population.

Another (though I'm not sure this is happening,) is our solar system passing through the galactic equator, where the most harmful GCR's in the galaxy are stabilized. If our earth crosses through the galactic center, and is caught between the sun (which is at it's maxima,) and the black hole of our galaxy (which stabilizes many harmful rays at its equator,) I daresay something bad has the potential to happen.

But whaddya think?

 

[TerranceL]

Nothing is going to happen.

All of this stupidity about the Mayan calendar ignores one simple fact, the Mayan calendar is cyclical, it doesn't end, it starts over.

This would by like someone looking at one of our calendars, seeing that the year ends in December, finding no other page beyond it and thinking the world is going to end December 31st.

It's fear mongering and stupidity all mixed up in one, any news show that talks about this is telling you that it's a slow news day.

 

[sfs]

If something bad was going to happen in 2012, why would the Mayans know about it, anyway?

 

[SimplyNothing]

Nothing is going to happen.

All of this stupidity about the Mayan calendar ignores one simple fact, the Mayan calendar is cyclical, it doesn't end, it starts over.

So? That's not what 2012 is about at all. It's all about our sun going from the fifth sun, to the sixth sun. Regardless of if it's cyclical, the Mayan's knew it was going to happen around this time. So what does a solar maxima coupled with climate change mean for us?

If something bad was going to happen in 2012, why would the Mayans know about it, anyway?

They didn't know or say anything bad was going to happen on that day. Nobody did. All they said is the sun gets a little hotter on that day for a while.

 

[pgp_protector]

Doesn't the US have an election that year?

 

[Alunyel]

Any Mayans alive in 2012 would've celebrated it, much as we celebrated 2000.

Got nothin' to do with the end of the world, it's just the end of a cycle.

 

[pgp_protector]

Any Mayans alive in 2012 would've celebrated it, much as we celebrated 2000.

Got nothin' to do with the end of the world, it's just the end of a cycle.

That or they needed a larger ring for the calendar.

 

[sfs]

They didn't know or say anything bad was going to happen on that day. Nobody did. All they said is the sun gets a little hotter on that day for a while.

If the sun is going to get a little hotter on a day in 2012, how would the ancient Mayans have known about it?

 

[Chesterton]

But whaddya think?

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...

 

[1ofakind]

You, sir, are too gullible.

 

[Willtor]

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...

Mass hysteria!

 

[Pete Harcoff]

Add me to the "nothing is going to happen" camp. The only end-of-the-world scenarios I subscribe to are either getting clocked by a giant asteriod or the Sun running out of hydrogen.

 

[Willtor]

Add me to the "nothing is going to happen" camp. The only end-of-the-world scenarios I subscribe to are either getting clocked by a giant asteriod or the Sun running out of hydrogen.

Or possibly a caldera.

 

[AV1611VET]

But whaddya think?

Unless we're raptured beforehand --- nothing.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

 

[sfs]

Any Mayans alive in 2012 would've celebrated it, much as we celebrated 2000.

Note: there are plenty of Mayans still alive. Still speaking Mayan, in many cases, although I doubt they use the same calendar.

 

[plindboe]

I'd like to think that in 2013 there will be alot of people feeling really embarrassed and stupid. But experience tells me that the same people will have forgotten all about 2012 by then, since they'll simply be fixated on some other year where the world is supposed to end. Again they'll pull up old calendars, archaic religions, numerology and a bunch of Nostradamus verses.

Non-skeptics never seem to to turn into skeptics despite repeated failures. They'll simply abandon the old belief and embrace a new one based on the same flimsy evidence.

Peter

 

[Muad Dib]

I pan to lead a Freemen rebellion around 2012, with antimatter as spice, and surprise these mayan aliens with a nuclear holocaust as soon as they get anywhere near Mars's orbit.

 

[Wedjat]

I'll tell you what's going to happen. I'm going to throw a huge end of the world party, wake up the next morning with a hangover, and go grab a coffee.

 

[USincognito]

I'm thinking the special effects will be spectacular. The plot, dialogue and acting... not so much.

Oh, you meant the year not the movie.

Any Mayans alive in 2012 would've celebrated it, much as we celebrated 2000.

Note: there are plenty of Mayans still alive. Still speaking Mayan, in many cases, although I doubt they use the same calendar.

When I went to Chichen Itza our Mayan guide told us the story of how the Yucatan was named (which appears to be anecdotal). The Spanish asked the Mayans what the land was called and they responded with "Oo-yu-tekan" (or something like that) which meant "we don't understand what you're saying".

 

[Paulos23]

If the world is going to end I am going to be to drunk to worry about it.

As it is currently, there is no evidence that 2012 will be the end of it all.