Doomsday: 2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists

telegraph ^ | 11 Oct 2009

[JoeProBono]

The year 2012 will not bring the end of the world, a Mayan elder has insisted, despite claims that a Mayan calendar shows that time will "run out" on December 21 of that year.

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," he said.

A significant time period for the Mayans does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, internet doomsday rumours and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayans and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"

Still, things are only likely to get worse for Mr Pixtun. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" website, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Ms Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up." Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.......

[Incorrigible]

Harold Camping would agree about 2012 being the end of the world.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I often wonder if the fascination with end time prophecies reflects a deeper fear arising from the current sickness of Western Civilization’s populations.

[pallis]

They Mayans planned to party on 2012 by sacrificing a young virgin, and eating a few enemies. Things happen over the years, and plans go awry, but seldom do they get this misconstrued.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Cheburashka]

Waste of a perfectly good virgin.

[GreyFriar]

This will be rejected by some folks in Rainbowarts.

[Maceman]

The movie looks to be pretty cool.

The "money shots" in these disaster flicks are way cool.

I loved the scenes from the global warming disaster pic "Day After Tomorrow," where Los Angeles gets destroyed by tornadoes and NYC gets wiped out by a giant tsunami. The wave itself, and the flooding of the streets were really convincing. (The movie was really stupid, but it did have some great effects.)

Here is the only clip I could find of those scenes on YouTube -- whoever posted it put a heavy metal music score to the clip, but the footage is there.

[zot]

This will be rejected by some folks in Rainbowarts.

Yeah, some of them seem to be looking forward to it.

[RobRoy]

Yep. This one looks to be the same. Something to watch for some really great effects, an interesting, if somewhat goofy, story. And never to be watched again. Kinda like the last three Star Wars movies.

[RobRoy]

>>Every last New Ager I have met is quite stupid, however.<<

I dunno. These people look pretty smart:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EUbZdIzA30
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEOLn9_b7g
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPN-pCSBDc

There is some seriously funny stuff there.

[STD]

Ridiculous,

http://www.chabad.org/calendar/default_cdo/jewish/Calendar.htm

[SunkenCiv]

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[tnlibertarian]

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die,"

It's okay. They'll be in seventh-grade by then.

[JoeProBono]

[x]

... she walked out of my dreams
And on to the sacrificial altar of my pyramid ...

[LTCJ]

Wait. There WON'T be an aircraft carrier on the White House?

I was really looking forward to that aircraft carrier.

[wronganswer]

No need to rely on cartoons of your imaginary enemies to depict savages. It seems that America is still the land of ruthless savages.

It seems that doomsday IS coming soon, though we do not know the exact day. Many are probably scared because the punishment for a civilization that practices child sacrifice is usually very bad.

[airborne]

Not the end of the earth.

Just a complete reversal of the magnetic poles of the Earth.

;^)

[Larry Lucido]

Always set doomsday out at least 20 years. Close enough to sell books, but far enough off so folks will have forgotten by that time.