Well it's the end of the world, no really

[Ace Pace]

That's such bullshit. Everyone knows the end of the world will take place on December 21, 2012.

Um, is that from another actual doomsday cult or something or are you pulling a date out of the air to make a point?

Didn't the Mayan calender finsh at 2012 or 2014?

[Dooey Jo]

Um, is that from another actual doomsday cult or something or are you pulling a date out of the air to make a point?

Didn't the Mayan calender finsh at 2012 or 2014?

Sorta. December 21th, 2012 is like Y2K for the Mayan calendar or something...


I predict the end of the world to occur at 24.00 pm on December 31th, 2006. Why? Because my calendar ends there, obviously it must mark the end of the world. Just like it did last year.

[Kwizard]

I predict the end of the world to occur at 24.00 pm on December 31th, 2006. Why? Because my calendar ends there, obviously it must mark the end of the world. Just like it did last year.

So... if I'm too lazy or forget to flip my calendar over to June, is the world going to end next week? Oh well, I have a decent supply of chocolate.

[CaptJodan]

And the crazy ass rants continue. Honestly, he must be completely nuts. He's trying desperately to hold on to the fact that it might be today, even though he has to acknowledge that nothing is happening.

An examination of his boards notes that he's not alone. Indeed, while few in number, they all score high in the need for a magic little to help calm their delusions.

NASA really shouldn't have given these fruit loops the time of day.

[Zero]

What I find most sad in all this is that the poor fool probably actually thinks he's right. He probably genuinely believes that many people are going to die because he couldn't convince them to save themselves, no matter how the evidence says otherwise.

[Dooey Jo]

Good news, everyone!

It seems the head loon has recieved new information about the fragment, which is scheduled to crash "any minute now". It is a huge object massing a whopping 1.5 tons. Meaning it will produce a fine fireball before it is vapourised by the atmosphere. Also, it is not the fragment that will create a tsunami, it is the underground volcanoes in Lost City in the Atlantic.
Even more also, comet fragment was sent by ETs.

Furthermore, an anonymous NASA engineer got news of a horrible 20 kg object travelling at approximately 900,000 km/s. It collided... yesterday. Good thing we have those FTL sensors.

Sources: SomethingAwful's latest Weekend Web, and those fruity documents on the guy's main page.

[Flagg]

That's such bullshit. Everyone knows the end of the world will take place on December 21, 2012.

Um, is that from another actual doomsday cult or something or are you pulling a date out of the air to make a point?

It's the end of the Mayan calendar. Supposedly as the end of the mayan calendar approaches, big 'events' (assassinations, wars, natural disasters, and the like) occur more often as time condenses. It's all completely insane, yet utterly fascinating.

[Archaic`]

The end of the Mayan calender, isn't it?

[Archaic`]

...okay, that's weird. How the hell did I manage to miss a whole page of replies, making my post totally irrelevant. ^^;;

Just out of curiosity, how exactly did the Mayan's come to that conclusion anyway? Was it just something symbolic to do with their base 6 number system, or was it something more?

[Duckie]

...okay, that's weird. How the hell did I manage to miss a whole page of replies, making my post totally irrelevant. ^^;;

Just out of curiosity, how exactly did the Mayan's come to that conclusion anyway? Was it just something symbolic to do with their base 6 number system, or was it something more?

The Mayans didn't conclude the world ended on that date, IIRC, it's just a weird conspiracy thing where their calendar rolling over = doom since Y2K obviously fizzled so the Gregorian one probably isn't the best Harbringer of Doom (Only 994 years till Doomsday!). Plus, the Mayan Calendar's Y2K+12 sounds so much more plausable than the world choosing to end because it's a millenial year.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Good news, everyone!

It seems the head loon has recieved new information about the fragment, which is scheduled to crash "any minute now". It is a huge object massing a whopping 1.5 tons. Meaning it will produce a fine fireball before it is vapourised by the atmosphere. Also, it is not the fragment that will create a tsunami, it is the underground volcanoes in Lost City in the Atlantic.
Even more also, comet fragment was sent by ETs.

Furthermore, an anonymous NASA engineer got news of a horrible 20 kg object travelling at approximately 900,000 km/s. It collided... yesterday. Good thing we have those FTL sensors.

Sources: SomethingAwful's latest Weekend Web, and those fruity documents on the guy's main page.

Guh... hurrrrr?

Bad man make brain hurt! No hurt Chewie!

[Archaic`]

The Mayans didn't conclude the world ended on that date, IIRC, it's just a weird conspiracy thing where their calendar rolling over = doom since Y2K obviously fizzled so the Gregorian one probably isn't the best Harbringer of Doom (Only 994 years till Doomsday!). Plus, the Mayan Calendar's Y2K+12 sounds so much more plausable than the world choosing to end because it's a millenial year.

Ah, so it's just one of those weird brain bugs then, not the Mayans actually thinking that they'd calculated the end of the world? Interesting. Seems to be a very well established brain bug though. Any idea where it popped up in the first place exactly? My Google-fu is sadly weak.

[Arly]

Ah, so it's just one of those weird brain bugs then, not the Mayans actually thinking that they'd calculated the end of the world? Interesting. Seems to be a very well established brain bug though. Any idea where it popped up in the first place exactly? My Google-fu is sadly weak.

I wrote a paper on armageddon myths back in high school, mostly because that year some evangelical sect published a booklet entitled '88 reasons why the earth will end in 1988'. The subject interested me, and while the booklet was a thinly disguised conversion tool for proponents of the Rapture <tm>, it intrigued me enough to do some of my own research into the basis of some of their bizarrely coincidental claims that all these independent religious and 'scientific' (yes, I know) sources all pointed to the End of Days happening in 1988. August, I think. At the time I was a lot more credulous than I am now and treated the subject a lot more seriously than I should have (not at all) and based a research paper in English class on the subject

Unfortunately, I do not have that paper handy and I don't remember much of it in any detail at all (having been written 16 or 17 years ago), but I included the Mayan calendar among the myths I researched. If I remember correctly the Mayan calendar stood out because it was based on observed astronomy and surprisingly accurate, especially for such a 'primitive' culture. What caused the furor over the armageddon prediction were marks or glyphs, or other random markings (that we don't know the significance of) appeared to mark 'pivotal' events in western culture, such as WWII, the Kennedy assassionation, the fall of Rome, etc.

In other words, you could interpret the funny squiggles in any way you wanted to make it seem like it 'predicted' world shattering events a hemisphere away. Couple that with the fact that the calendar physically stops (no more markings) in 2011, "proved" that the Mayans predicted the world would end in that year. If the world were going to continue, they'd have kept making the calendar, wouldn't they?

Again, I'm going on barely remembered research from 17 years ago but I'm fairly certain that's how it worked.

Oh, I'm new here! I absolutely love this site and the sister Creationtheory.org site and it's really helped me with the idea of stepping back and looking at things logically and rationally...and dealing with those who don't!