Posted on 12/21/2011 10:42:38 AM PST by edpc
The countdown to the apocalypse is on.
We're one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity.
But will it?
There have been many end of times predictions over the years. Christian radio host Harold Camping faced widespread ridicule when his predictions that the world would end twice this year - on May 21, and then on Oct. 21 - failed to materialize.
But in the flurry of doomsday predictions - there have been similar dire warnings about the world coming to an end from various cultures, including Native Americans, the Chinese, Egyptians and even the Irish - the supposed Mayan prophecy seems to have held the most sway with believers.
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Let's meet right here again a year +1 from now and have a good laugh.
See you on the other side!
A lot of money is going to change hands from the stupid to the smart.
Who was it that opined, “The Mayan calendar doesn’t predict The End. It’s just that whoever was compiling it got bored with the tedium and said, “That’s enough. Somebody else can take it from here.”, and no one did.
If Obama loses the election then a pissed-off, lame-duck marxist who despises this country will still be in office on Dec. 21, 2012
The short period of time between the election and the new president taking the oath would be the most dangerous period in our history.
Ready, Set, Die!
My theory is that someone did some calculations, figured out that in 2012 the would would cross the galactic plane and thought that would be a good STARTING point, and then worked the math and their calendar backwards.
As far as I'm concerned, they should have used a bigger rock.
Besides, if they couldn't even predict their own demise just a few centuries away, how can you trust their predictions this far into the future?
Kind of hard to keep making Calendars when you have Spaniards arriving on your shores and bring THEIR calendar and culture with them.
LOL, thumbs up.
The only thing that is going to really stink is the panic that’s going to occur around that time. Get the Christmas shopping done early and stay off the roads to avoid the idiots.
What if it ends, then starts right up again? Will we realise or remember it, or just think it was another hoax?
On Dec 21, 2012, Obama will have had a little over a month to stew in his humiliating, crushing and unexpected defeat at the hands of the American people.
He’ll still be Commander in Chief.
He’ll still have the nuclear ‘football’. Just sitting there. Staring at him. Taunting him. Daring him...
As you say...
*gentle cough* They did.
I predict alot of end of the world parties next year!
*gentle cough* They did.
Really? I had never read that.
how would they know when we crossed the galactic plane thousands of years ago?
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