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Erny Member
Joined: May 13, 2010 Posts: 130 Location: Brisbane
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:11 am Post subject: 2012 End of the world? |
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I doubt it. It would seem to me laughable that a Myan calendar that stops at 2012, written hundreds of years ago can be interpreted as the end of the world! For a start, take the authors of this calender, the Mayan race. They used to sacrifice a prisoner on a daily basis by cutting out their hearts and offering it up to their Sun God for prosperity! They were such geniuses, that they used to dump the bodies into their water supply, which eventually was so polluted it render it poisonous & undrinkable!
As far as the hysteria on earth quakes & volcanic eruptions etc, most can be explained by media exploitation, using the speed & convenience of the Internet and satellite technology! When i was a kid, the news was presented in a couple of simple formats! 1. Sunday papers. 2. Movietone news before the movie at the cinema. 3. Radio. As far as the frequency of these disasters, compared to 50 years ago can be explained as a natural earth cycle, or more probably, caused due to the Nukes that have been tested underground for years, and they are the ones we know about. But of cause no one will talk about that, as we can point the finger to a lot of nations that are responsible. Well that's my theory, and i am sticking to it until Dimitri comes up with something better!
Cheers erny.
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kyhareraiser Rookie Member
Joined: Mar 23, 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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not even the angels in heaven or the son of GOD himself don't know when the LORD will return and turn this place to ashes
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Joe Boleo Super Member
Joined: Dec 25, 2006 Posts: 427 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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In December 2012 I will be getting ready for Christmas. If folks liked Y2K, bird flu and swine flu; they will love the end of the world hype. Take care...
Joe
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Suzanne Super Member
Joined: Jun 27, 2009 Posts: 3323 Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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Crap! Nobody told me! I have a lot of things to do before the end of the world. I thought gettin old was bad, but when you rush it up a bit to 2012 then it's serious. Ok well first off I have some things to sell. A boat, a car , a truck, a house maybe a few guns....there's some I want to hug on the way down. Lesseeeee reloading dies, some will have to go, a lawnmower and all the yard implements really, won't need to do that any more. I have a number of antiques I won't have use for....may as well quit my job right now....that'll be nice. I think what I'll do is book a flight somewhere on the fateful day and watch everything go from above, that'd be cool! Then just fly off into the sunset. Eatin peanuts...hopefully won't have to pay for drinks.
Suz
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d_hoffman Super Member
Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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Sounds like a good excuse (as if we really need one) to load a bunch more ammo and practice shooting.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15715 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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radar Super Member
Joined: Oct 01, 2008 Posts: 1109 Location: North Island New Zealand
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:31 am Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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Vince -
Watch out; the sky will fall upon your head.
I'm thinking:
I WILL turn 45
I WILL watch my son Graduate from University / Police academy etc
I WILL wake up feeling this is a great planet
I won't be a doomsayer or caught up,in all the media generated B.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it does end: SO WHAT I WON"T BE THERE TO GRIZZLE ABOUT IT!
ENUFF said.
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11392 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:57 am Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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I think reloading a few extra rounds is a good idea. Criminal activity tends to increase everytime the "end of the world" comes around...
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PaulS Super Member
Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 4330 Location: South-Eastern Washington - the State
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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The funniest part of all this "end of the Myan calendar" is that it is a circular calendar - um,.... it doesn't end! It just restarts after each of the cycles.
Imagine 9 cogged rings one inside the other. Start with the inner most ring and work outward:
28 days for the first
260 days for the second
365 days for the third
52 years for the fourth
394 years for the fifth
and so on.
As you turn the inner most ring to mark one day the rest turn a little but the 28 day ring will end up on a different day at the beginning of each year. each of the 52 year cycles ends on a different day of a different year at the end of each of its cycles.
The "end" result is that the calendar never truly ends but there is always a 5 day period of "bad luck" at the end of every cycle. At the end of the largest cycle that 5 day period of bad luck is associated with a major paradigm shift that begins the new cycle.
So, in 2012, the Libertarians will be elected in majority and the USA will be restored to the constitutional republic that it was meant to be. the Holy land will be returned to the Jews, The burial place of Mohammed will become the holy city of the muslims and the Christians and Jews will argue over Jerusalem for the next 6770 years. The magnetic field of the earth will reverse (again) and we will hardly notice any change in the day to day events of our little world.
Some will party, some will kill themselves to get on the "mother ship" some will still believe the earth is flat and others will see alien spacecraft and wonder what the attraction is.
I will sit at home with my shotgun over my lap and wonder how people can be so stupid - again, and again and...
Well you have my take on this whole thing - I was only wishing about the Libertarians, and that part about the Jews, Muslims and Christians was a joke - they will never quit trying to kill each other.
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Bushmaster Super Member
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Bushmaster Super Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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Damn Cops have all the good toys...!
_________________ I have one nerve left and yer standin' on it...
DEMOCRACY Two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch...
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Donut Slayer Super Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: 2012 End of the world? |
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Bushmaster wrote: |
Damn Cops have all the good toys...! |
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