Will We Die In 2012?

[Carp4U]

guys, lets just calm things down a bit.

I'm perfectly calm Ian........................until I hear the loudest noise heard for 72,000 years when the Yellowstone Super Volcano finally erupts and sends a tidal way 3 times around the world on December 21st, 2012

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Answer: Some of us may die, as a Car Accident, Cancer or anything is right around the corner. Just because the world isn't going to implode on 2012 doesn't mean you wont die...

 

[james_fish]

Well my iPhone contract run's out just before that date, so works well for me

James.

 

[razer121]

Just lol, mad mad mad....that is all.

 

[chrisrm]

Actually, every page of their calendar had drawings/hieroglyphs on showing what would happen on that day. The drawings on December 21st 2012 showed fire, water, wind, death and basically suggesting that we're all going to die because of a natural disaster.

4 days before christmas.....! Oh man!

at least it will be a cheap one

 

[nicklos]

I see it this way. If the Mayans were these all knowing people that some make them out to be, they would still be a thriving society. How many times have you seen a real life breathing Mayan?

 

[Ben M]

I see it this way. If the Mayans were these all knowing people that some make them out to be, they would still be a thriving society. How many times have you seen a real life breathing Mayan?

Maybe they knew when they were going to die out, but they had no way of controlling it; only predicting it.

 

[doresy]

Oh the vanity of the human race......

In the whole scheme of things, Mankind's time of walking the Earth is like a single grain of sand of all the beaches in the world so why think the world is going to end during our brief stay?

Our ego is a lot more fragile than the planet we are on

 

[raptorrex]

The reason 2012 is mentioned so often is because the calendar created by the Mayans ends in 2012. Why some people have so much faith in the Mayans being able to predict the future when they couldn't even predict their own downfall, which was much nearer to them, is beyond me.

So no, we're not all going to die in 2012.

they saw their down fall. (dwindling wood stocks, during a drought) they just refused to do anything about it. much as the Easter islanders did.

the reference to 2012, relates to the Mayan astronomers. they had great knowledge of the solar systems workings. this made them confident that the planets of the solar system would come into alignment, towards the end of 2012. truth is this has happened, every 5200 years, since the planets were formed. none, of these 'alignments' correlate to any mass extinction events. (quite how they know that i dont know. we work in millions of years looking a long way back, so 5200 years is hard to pin down) logic states that it has happened 384+ time's in the, roughly, 2000000 years tenior of the hominid. last time i looked, we were still hear.

now the disaster scenario comes from the inception of the Mayan culture. 5200 years ago a great disaster befell the people who were to become the Maya. this correlated with the planetary alignment. so, the alignment coincided, caused(?) the extinction of one culture, and the formation of the maya. in essence the
Maya were born of disaster. to a simple, though intelligent, people. logic dictated that at the end of the cycle, everything would end in disaster. that is, of course, how everything started.

even if we do go extinct, it will be all the better for the planet. I'm with Doresy, we think far too much of ourselves. we are, utterly, unimportant.

 

[M.R Otter]

Actually, every page of their calendar had drawings/hieroglyphs on showing what would happen on that day. The drawings on December 21st 2012 showed fire, water, wind, death and basically suggesting that we're all going to die because of a natural disaster.

4 days before christmas.....! Oh man!

at least it will be a cheap one

OMG!!
The world will go to an end you are thinking about money?!LOL
I believe that nothing we won't die in 2012.... But MAYBE just MAYBE Something big will happen.

 

[GAB99]

The reason 2012 is mentioned so often is because the calendar created by the Mayans ends in 2012. Why some people have so much faith in the Mayans being able to predict the future when they couldn't even predict their own downfall, which was much nearer to them, is beyond me.

So no, we're not all going to die in 2012.

they saw their down fall. (dwindling wood stocks, during a drought) they just refused to do anything about it. much as the Easter islanders did.

the reference to 2012, relates to the Mayan astronomers. they had great knowledge of the solar systems workings. this made them confident that the planets of the solar system would come into alignment, towards the end of 2012. truth is this has happened, every 5200 years, since the planets were formed. none, of these 'alignments' correlate to any mass extinction events. (quite how they know that i dont know. we work in millions of years looking a long way back, so 5200 years is hard to pin down) logic states that it has happened 384+ time's in the, roughly, 2000000 years tenior of the hominid. last time i looked, we were still hear.

now the disaster scenario comes from the inception of the Mayan culture. 5200 years ago a great disaster befell the people who were to become the Maya. this correlated with the planetary alignment. so, the alignment coincided, caused(?) the extinction of one culture, and the formation of the maya. in essence the
Maya were born of disaster. to a simple, though intelligent, people. logic dictated that at the end of the cycle, everything would end in disaster. that is, of course, how everything started.

even if we do go extinct, it will be all the better for the planet. I'm with Doresy, we think far too much of ourselves. we are, utterly, unimportant.

nihilism ftw





on that day im going to go outside and sit there all day with a video camera a film everything that goes on that day, then upload it to youtube if something funny happens

 

[james_fish]

on that day im going to go outside and sit there all day with a video camera a film everything that goes on that day, then upload it to youtube if something funny happens

Think I might join you on that one!

James.

 

[M.R Otter]

on that day im going to go outside and sit there all day with a video camera a film everything that goes on that day, then upload it to youtube if something funny happens

Think I might join you on that one!

James.

You guys are unbelievable!!

 

[Flute]

I don't believe that anything will happen. And knowing me I wont even notice the supposed doom day has been until the next day

I don't really take these things seriously to be honest. It seems like every year someone comes up with a disaster prediction. Apparently there's a group of American Christians travelling around in a caravan proclaiming that the world will end on May 21st or 22nd. And then there's all the previous dates that people have mentioned.

I'd hate it if I let myself be frightened every time some declares "we're all going to die!" It's not worth living in fear.

 

[Bignose]

The reason 2012 is mentioned so often is because the calendar created by the Mayans ends in 2012.

This isn't true. What happens in Dec 2012 in the Mayan calendar is in their system of counting rolls over a digit. I.e. like when our current calendar went from 999 to 1000.

The Mayan actually made predictions of solar and lunar eclipses later in the future than Dec 2012. They certainly aren't predicting the world ending.

This infographic does a pretty good job summing a lot of these points up: http/www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/2012-the-end-of-the-world/