2012 + 2038

[Lazer Ki]

Who here believes that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012?

I don't.

[Irock]

Nobody really believes it.

[Dwarra?]

Lot's of desperate girls will the week before.

[spoiler]Not that I'm gonna take advantage of that[/spoiler]

[Kathryn]

Didn't people think that Y2K was the end of the world?

I would say that December twelfth isn't going to be either - this one time my one friend came up with the idea that the apocalypse was supposed to happen the next day, and well, here we are.

In any case, aren't there a whole pile of apocalypse dates, even disregarding the one with my friend found?

[Moss.]

Lot's of desperate girls will the week before.

[spoiler]Not that I'm gonna take advantage of that[/spoiler]

Go to college already.

[Kokowam]

GUYS, I'M PRETTY SURE THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW, INSTEAD.

[Dwarra?]

Lot's of desperate girls will the week before.

[spoiler]Not that I'm gonna take advantage of that[/spoiler]

Go to college already.

I wasn't being sarcastic. I'm seriously not going to take advantage of it ._.
Also you reminded me to update my Bean Bags thread thank you.

[Sophist]

If you believe anything a human said about the end of the world if their first name wasn't Carl and their last name wasn't Sagan, you're unbelievably stupid.

[Karo Rushe]

Everyone thought it was gonna end in 1995, 2000 and June 6, 2006, what makes you think it'll f*cking end on 2012? Humans have that ideal of thinking too ahead and too close to fall on their own Delusions ~ The World can end any time, any day, any year, and when it happens, what the hell will you do about it? Panic? Bah! ~ You won't even know what hit you all ~


Just because some Mexican Indian tribe wrote it would end in 2012 doesn't mean it'll happen, and I'm not putting Religion in the discussion as it's out of the question before anyone says otherwise.

Besides ~ Natural Selection, benefits the survivors stronger and better ~

[Holkeye]

It is the end of the Mayan calendar.

[Moss.]

The adjective Mayan is sometimes used to refer to the indigenous peoples of parts of Mexico

[Irock]

~ You won't even know what hit you all ~

In just about every apocalypse scenario, we will.

[Jonesy]

It is the end of the Mayan calendar.

This. The end of their 13th "age" or sumsuch if I recall. It just plops along till the next one. not quite sure where the misconception started.

[Dwarra?]

Honestly I could care less when the word ended. I'm happy with my life and if I died tomorrow or in 30 years it wouldn't make a difference to me. And you know what, either of those could happen. 'End of the world' theories are retarded, everyone dies, it doesn't matter when or how.

[Lazer Ki]

I  think I read somewhere that the Mayan calendar is a cycle, and after Dec. 21 2012, the cycle will start over again.

[Moss.]

I read that the Mayan civilization went out of existence around 900 AD, which is probably around where the guy that made the calendars died. Maybe 2012 is as far as he got. And then he died. Going farther than 2012 AD when you're only in the year 900 IS kind of silly.

[Lazer Ki]

It all seems unrealistic, but if you mix in global warming and pollution, it makes people afraid that the glaciers and all the ice will melt completely and flood the world.

[Holkeye]

The Mayan calendar wasn't actually a product of the Mayans. It was passed on to them by the Olmec, and they adapted it for their own use. So, technically, it is the Olmec calendar. Also, they were significantly older than the Mayans, so the year 900 thing doesn't matter. The "cyclical" nature of the calendar comes from folklore that states that the previous age was ended in water, and the current age will end in fire.

[Moss.]

But it still raises the question of how far the calendar we use today goes. It's simply a question of how lazy the person is, and how far ahead they decide to figure out the dates for. Computers kind of make it irrelevant for us, because we can go any number of years into the future, it doesn't even matter. But back then, they had to stop counting somewhere, you know? To believe that they actually CHOSE a specific date to stop because it was the end of the world, as opposed to just stopping because "eh, that's like 2000 years into the future, that's far enough for now" is pretty gullible. The fact that the Mayan calendar is even older only supports my point.

Then again, I don't have all the information, this isn't really my subject. But still.

[Nightwolf]

world ends when i die

thats 7 months
if arlen doesn't interfere

[Zylos]

You can be an optimist and say "The world's not going to end for at least thousands of years still."

Or you can be a pessimist and say "We're all gonna die before then anyway from nuclear war or global warming."


Either way, the world's not going to end in 2012.

[Irock]

But it still raises the question of how far the calendar we use today goes. It's simply a question of how lazy the person is, and how far ahead they decide to figure out the dates for. Computers kind of make it irrelevant for us, because we can go any number of years into the future, it doesn't even matter. But back then, they had to stop counting somewhere, you know? To believe that they actually CHOSE a specific date to stop because it was the end of the world, as opposed to just stopping because "eh, that's like 2000 years into the future, that's far enough for now" is pretty gullible. The fact that the Mayan calendar is even older only supports my point.

Then again, I don't have all the information, this isn't really my subject. But still.

That's the best explanation for the end of the calendar.

Why didn't I think of that, or even hear it before? ;_;

[Lazer Ki]

The films and games are scaring the world

[Holkeye]

Did any of you actually see the Mayan calendar? It's not a thing that just comes to an end arbitrarily.

[Sophist]

I have to go with Arlen on this.