So why is everyone worked up about 2012?
1. remember 1999?
2. remember 2000?
3. remember 6/6/06
4. remember 7/7/07
5. from what I heard, the Mayan calendar doesn't actual "end" on 2012. there are several calendars and the one that supposedly "ends" is the "long count" and come 12-21-12 the odometer will roll over as it will, and we'll enter Baktun which lasts 396 years. our calendar ended in 1999 which is why people freaked out about 2000... so how do we know this won't just roll over like that did?
6. so technically the mayan calendar is not "ending" which kind of makes these end of world doomsayers a bit premature, right?
7. did they Mayans actually SAY the world would be destroyed and come to an end? because the Mayans I've studied didn't believe in an "end" persay... and it seems a lot of things I've read, they seem to think it was more of a metophysical end of one cycle and how it rolls into the next cycle.. the only thing I see about the Mayans claiming the world would end, is from people who put words in their mouths... kind of how they fabricate what Nostradamus wrote, or didn't write. (like the whole "two metal birds fly into twin statues" was never a nostradamus prediction it was a fabrication.)
8. speaking of Nostradamus, people are attributing him to predicting the end of the world, when his actual predictions say the world will end in 3786 or 3797 which is what he stated in a letter to one of his sons. so where did this Nostradamus predicted the end in 2012 come from?
I guess my question is, where is all this hysteria coming from? For one... if you're Christian you know that it states in the bible that no one knows when the end will come. It will come like a theif in the night when least expected, and only the father knows when that day will happen, so live your life like it could happen tomorrow. (in otherwords, be a good person.)
if you're not religious, scientifically how could you buy into this with all the misinformation, inaccuracies, people faking predictions and passing them of as legit...with no solid evidence?
Yet everyone I've been talking to is freaking out about 2012. what about all of you?
just another day to you, or are you in a panic?
1. remember 1999?
2. remember 2000?
3. remember 6/6/06
4. remember 7/7/07
5. from what I heard, the Mayan calendar doesn't actual "end" on 2012. there are several calendars and the one that supposedly "ends" is the "long count" and come 12-21-12 the odometer will roll over as it will, and we'll enter Baktun which lasts 396 years. our calendar ended in 1999 which is why people freaked out about 2000... so how do we know this won't just roll over like that did?
6. so technically the mayan calendar is not "ending" which kind of makes these end of world doomsayers a bit premature, right?
7. did they Mayans actually SAY the world would be destroyed and come to an end? because the Mayans I've studied didn't believe in an "end" persay... and it seems a lot of things I've read, they seem to think it was more of a metophysical end of one cycle and how it rolls into the next cycle.. the only thing I see about the Mayans claiming the world would end, is from people who put words in their mouths... kind of how they fabricate what Nostradamus wrote, or didn't write. (like the whole "two metal birds fly into twin statues" was never a nostradamus prediction it was a fabrication.)
8. speaking of Nostradamus, people are attributing him to predicting the end of the world, when his actual predictions say the world will end in 3786 or 3797 which is what he stated in a letter to one of his sons. so where did this Nostradamus predicted the end in 2012 come from?
I guess my question is, where is all this hysteria coming from? For one... if you're Christian you know that it states in the bible that no one knows when the end will come. It will come like a theif in the night when least expected, and only the father knows when that day will happen, so live your life like it could happen tomorrow. (in otherwords, be a good person.)
if you're not religious, scientifically how could you buy into this with all the misinformation, inaccuracies, people faking predictions and passing them of as legit...with no solid evidence?
Yet everyone I've been talking to is freaking out about 2012. what about all of you?
just another day to you, or are you in a panic?