What are your views on the 12/21/12 theory?

This sums it up for me.

The Mayan calendar comes to an end, just like ours will on December 31, and just like our calendar, theirs also will start over.

Can I get back to you on this tomorrow?

@DrBill is correct. It starts over but for Mayans its a new age to be reborn, new again, not physical death.

It means I have to go out and buy a new Mayan Calendar. After 5,000 years I am kind of tired of jungle animal pictures. I think this time I’ll go with Light houses. Or maybe Ansel Adams Yosemite pictures.

The calendar maker died.

Why is it not 12 12 12?

Is the 12 am or pm?

Idiocy. Pure idocy.

The Mayans have a calendar cycle, just as we do. Do we freak out every time a year ends? No. We have a party because we know a new year starts the next day. We know this will happen whether we bought the 2013 calendar or not. It doesn’t have to be stuck to the wall for the next year to exist.

The same is true of the Mayan calendar. Whether or not they made a new calendar, the next cycle will start as soon as the old one ends. The lack of a new calendar does not cause time and space to end.

This must be the twentieth question on this that I’ve answered on fluther. Does no one read the other questions or answers? Why do I even bother? I should cut and paste.

@wundayatta It’s one of many questions about 12/21 (Happy End of the World. By the way. May all the nutcases roam free on this glorious day of idiocy). I didn’t see any questions that specifically asked you what you thought about it. So I shrugged and said: “Why not?”

I view it from way up here in my ivory tower, with self satisfied amusement.

Just one more example of end-of-the-world lunacy. There have been many, pretty much since the dawn of man. So far, none have come true so I’m not worried about this one, either. More to the point, if any of them ever do turn out to be true, there’s not much we’d be able to do about it, so why worry at all?

Seriously?

@augustlan We’re all destined to die someday. It’s not like it’s something new.

It’s the end of the world as we know it… And I feel fine.

OK, I am ready to render an opinion today. We entered the great galactic alignment and we survived it pretty much unscathed. But who knows what happens when that alignment inevitably ends and the Milky Way Galaxy becomes misaligned? Be afraid! Be very Afraid!

As I have answered on at least three or four other questions on this topic, I am dead. Quite dead. Dead as inorganic chemistry. Dead as a black hole. Dead as the information enigma.

So very, very dead, that I smell dead.

My views are that it’s way to generous to have called this a “theory” and that any culture with the ability to predict Armageddon should have been able to predict the conquistadors.

@Patton Yeah, if they were all that great as seers, I would have at least expected them to realize that the conquistadors were hardly gods.

Does anyone wonder what happened to those people who haven’t been here since the 22nd?

@wundayatta Their laptops probably died and can’t be charged since the AC adapter got broken and their brothers didn’t let them use the home computer for a few days… That’s what happened to me, anyway.