<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Jul 4 2007, 07:31 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, but the Maya calendar wasn't ending then.Check and mate.</div>Do you even know about the Mayan Calender? There are different cycles, we are in the last one. Just because we are in the last one doesn't mean that well it uh... REPEATS itself again from the beginning. December 21st 2012, is the winter solstice, nothing really special there. The calender reverts itself back to the starting point, which has not been done for thousands of years or so. A mayan cycle or "world" is 5,200 years. We are in the final 5th cycle (however some people say that we are in the 4th, hence not the last one), which is set to repeat again. Also the galaxy is supposed to align, this yet again happens in cycles. The Mayans predicted that as well. Just because they stopped making a calendar all of a sudden means the end of it all. Why is that people think that they are always so dam special? Why is it that the end of the world happens when I"M ALIVE. So egocentric down there. Every generation has thought that, using vague interpretations of ancient texts to prove their somewhat selfish point.The great fire of 1666 in London, surely the people there thought it was the end for them with the prophecies that managed to apply with them.Yet again Y2K also had some biblical context to it as well, further making it more believable.These prophecies are so vague that they can be interpreted and connected with the any negative event. The only thing that seems somewhat probable is that the polar ends may shift, not marking the end of the world in one day. Like I said before, the Mayans made dates AFTER December 21st 2012. The Christian sect I stated before who said the world would end around 1840 did not end. The people still believed in it, saying that the end of the world in 1841 was misinterpreted. This is where the end of the world prophecies can be at fault. One event may not seem so disastrous to another.Considering that even the Mayans made a time after this, and that they believed in cycles, why is it so far fetched to believe that it can repeat and that the world won't end? I can see what seem people believe with the St. Malachy prophecies about the Pope and the end of the world w/ the antichrist. But yet again, like the Nostradamus prophecies they are so vague and open to interpretations anything can apply to them. People in Malachy's time said that he had healing powers and could levitate, does that make him godly? So Chris Angel can predict the end of the world as well?
The Mayan calender is predicting a major celestial movement that doesn't happen often, why does the world end? The bible Code (which is a hoax in itself) can be decoded to say that the world will end in 2048. OMG its a religious text frombackthendecoded! It's a secret, it must be tru because some guy found it out. Granted there are more things that can apply to the end of the world in 2012 then say 2000, but that does not mean that it is true. In the Bible, it says (paraphrasing it here) that no one, not even Jesus, knows when the world will end. Only God does. (Sorry, I am not Christian, and don't know the extents of the Bible, but that is pretty clear cut there).These hocus pokus theories can be very entertaining, and have some truth to them, but half of the time you learn from it from a geocities website with flashing neon green and pink text telling you to how to live through it.
