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one of my college professors seems to think so. he offered some pretty solid facts too.
whats your take?
I’m kind of curious what facts and evidence your professor has. Could you share those with us please?
And no, I really don’t think the world is going to end in 2012.
People have periodically though the world was going to end. It hasn’t yet. I see no reason why 2012 is more than just another arbitrary apocalypse date in the lunatic Outlook calendar.
he mentioned the mayan calander among other things. he showed us a youtube video also, i know this has very little creditability- but it makes you think. ill try to find it.
The only solid fact I’ve ever heard for this theory is that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. However I’ve also heard of this book.
It’s easy to get caught up in romantic theories of impending doom predicted by ancient civilizations who were somehow privy to knowledge that we cannot access. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
(Or at least when I see some compelling evidence that isn’t just about someone’s calendar.)
I remember hearing about a world war in 1997, the end of the world in 2000 and the end of the world again in 2001. So there is nothing to make me think that the world will end on 12/21/12
Jividenm – tell your professor that the Mayan calculator can still continue to be used beyond 2012, it is just that the Mayans stopped making calculations beyond thousands of years in their future.
Thanks for easing my mind on this, PupnTaco. I was pretty worried for all of about 46 seconds or until your post showed up. :o)
This world wont end until NASA builds another one on another planet so the elite can survive. Don’t worry you still have some time.
my professor had a slew of other things, i cant remember them all, he made a good argument. i think he just wanted to jolt our thinking habits.
@laureth :: Isn’t using nonsense to “Jolt” thinking habits a bad thing if people actual believe the nonsense?
oh man
Why bother to have an Environmental Science class if there won’t be an environment in 4 years?
@johnpowell: Possibly, but hopefully, if they’re thinkin’, they can perceive it as nonsense.
Perhaps I have too high expectations.
you could be right about that, jiv. I guess when compared to her running mate or the current president, she doesn’t look so bad.
(please note the teasing tone of voice here :) )
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the world will end in 2012, My connections said so themselves, trust me, I have shade spies, they see ALL.
I deeply agree with statement in this link
http://www.gotquestions.org/2012-Mayan-prophecy.html
Well, I’m resigned to my fate, I guess I’ll just have to live by Rodney Dangerfield’s creedo at the end of this clip.
Its all because of the Mayan calender that stops counting in 2012. The Mayans never thought that they will be able to live to see human progressing until year 2012 thats why they find it unnecessary to count beyond 2012
There are a lot of prophesies and predictions out there, some are quite fascinating and give certain celestial events as “signs of the end of days”. The popular religions have their predictions, if you follow them, even a count down via different prophesies. None of them seem to refer to a specific date except your Mayan calendar, as you mentioned. If you do a Google search under “end of days” or “day of judgment” you see all kinds of information under Wikipedia. Maybe that’s some of what your professor was referring to as well.
Personally, I hope not! 4 years is not a long time for us to get our affairs in order.
Has anyone ever thought that the Mayans just got lazy, I mean they lived a long time ago and making a calender go so high seems pointless. If we had to do it all by hand, without computers I’m sure we’d give up after calculating 500 years let alone more than that.
I’m pretty sure it will, though there were supposed to be signs last year that never came. So we might still have a few more centuries to go :)
The Maya Calendar ends at 11:11 GMT on December 21, 2012. This is a fact. It is the last of the five cycles. The end of each of the first four cycles were devastating to the earth, causing extinctions of many species at each event. The end of the last cycle will be the worst by far. So now is a time for Prayer. Start now, so God will have mercy on you in these coming end of days. Read this article byStephen Yulish regarding end of the Maya calendar December 21, 2012. More proof of devastating earth changes to come.
December 2012 is not the same as Revelation 20:12
The Maya is different than the Messiah.
No comparison
Dankgun
http://www.the2012warning.com

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