Doomsday - December 21st 2012
 

If you have the time, watch these before reading:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ecTE6lXI-m0

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gZUzFY...eature=related

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Now, I don't believe the world will end. Due to a few reasons:

-The prophecies could have been forged. Since the people who made them and told everyone, will obviously wouldn't be around in 2012.

-The calendar mentioned at the start of the first video might not have been completed.

-Jesus is meant to come back and save us someday? Will he stop this supposed Doom Day? I admit that I don't know much about Jesus, as I'm not catholic.

-There were a lot of wars back in the ancient days, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say there will be war during 2012.

-People who read her prophecies, such as Emperor Constantine, his parents could have named him that because of the prophecy.

What do you guys think? Do you think the world will end? Or a load of nonsense?

Well if you mean if we believe resources will become non-existent and we'll all die of starvation, or if The sun goes supernova or if the Klingons show up :D then yes I do believe the world is going to end but not in the context of this situation.

You assume that Catholics know much about Jesus. :xp:

But seriously, I think its a bunch of hokus-pokus. Sure, there will be a time when our world will come tumbling down, but I doubt anyone knows for sure when that will happen.

From what I'm given to understand about these Mayan Calendars, December 21st, 2012, is just the end of their 12th 'Baktun', and beginning of their 13th. I'm frankly more concerned about June 6th, 2066, at 6:56 AM.

I also heard from a friend just before, that Jehovah Witnesses predicted a apocalypse sometime in 1977.

Imo,

If you believe in a god...you believe in his/her/it's mercy and your connection with said god. Not that the god will destroy you.
At least, I think of it that way. Faith can support you, you have someone to talk too. Something to give you meaning in life. And paranoia talk of destroying the world is NOT that.

I respect every faith out there, but again imo, it goes against the...fundament of faith.

This doomsday thing is just like the millenium bug.
people just KNEW it would happen and claimed to have proof.
but when the year turned 2000 nothing happened!
that's why I don't believe prophecies.
but it's fun to see people make a shelter or so for what is supposed to happen december 21st 2012.

but don't misunderstand me I do respect them and their beliefs, I just don't believe it.

Yeah, they predict the apocalypse every now and then. :xp:

Prophecies are never neccessarily true unless if they really happen. Therwe is no solid-enough proof that this will happen, because it hasn't happened yet, so it's impossible to be sure that it will happen. Unless if scientists are able to prove that it will undoubtedly happen using all those massively complex mathematical equations...
Edit: A lot of these people back then also beleived in a flat earth and the geocentric theory... So, that pretty much makes msot of them not very creditable as scientists...

Edit: This is hilarious, which I found searching the web...
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djubl...rthsociety.htm

I think all it means is that particular Mayan calendar ends and a new one begins.

If it ends, it better end in a cool way.

But think about it, we're all going to die anyways.. If the world ends (not saying I want it to happen AT ALL) at least you died on an epic day.

:rofl:

Anyway, regarding 12/21/12...I don't believe it. Not one word of it. All of these "prophecies" are eerily similar, yes, but one has to remember that the same civilizations' accounts of the past are eerily similar as well; every civilization has a flood story, and they all have a doomsday. It's just a coincidence that they appear to be on the same day (I say "appear" because there's no evidence that the I Ching or Revelations actually set that date as a doomsday). And even the ones that do are just coincidence, which actually is common (it's called clustering). So don't worry, people. :)

Actually, there is one thing I'm worried about--the polar shift, which actually has more substance behind it than some "prophecy".

Well that is going to put a damper on the Christmas holiday. On the bright side I guess I don’t need to do my Christmas shopping come 2012.

If you believe in God, then you have no way to predict the end, at least according to the Bible.

If you don’t believe in God then you have no way to predict the end without some type of evidence.

I have enough to worry about without filling my mind with thing outside of my control.
I'm not. Either I will already be taking a dirt nap or too old to care.

Twenty Tweleve (2012)
 

Right. Got this idea from a thread that started to veer slightly off-topic.

2012. A year in the minds of pretty much every conspiracy theorist, alarmist, and quite a few other people. From the wiki:

So, what are your thoughts on the year of fear? Will 2012 bring death and destruction, or usher in a new era of peace and tranquility? Is it prophesy? Divine Fate? Self-fulfilling Prophesy?

I've had this discussion before on another website. A dedicated research into the Mayan calendar, which is the source of these assertions displays quite clearly no particular significance to the year. That would seem quite logical since the Mayan calendar's palaeontological significance is the sheer amount of math involved, which was previously thought inconceivable among ancient civilisations. Similar consideration for Egyptian construction-engineering excludes any necessity for extra-terrestrial influences in pyramid construction. These observations disappoint the overly imaginative perhaps, although strictly speaking such flights of spiritualist and new age fantasy are really grounded in arrogance towards the scientific and academic understanding of past civilisations.

The Mayan calendar is constructed amid a series of cycles which are seasonally, lunar and solar based and highly accurate, more accurate than ours. They didn't need leap years or periodic adjustments. But it takes a lot of effort, a great deal of math to make one calendar cycle and each must be calculated individually.
What is most likely is this: being that spending all the time to calculate thirteen total cycles covered not only some period of centuries into Mayan history but also millenia into the future, and this feat probably took a few years by dedicated high priests to accomplish, it was probably thought that simply no more than thirteen would ever be needed. If it were, if the civilisation continued millenia in the future, another thousand years worth of calendars could be calculated then.

That's the significance of 2012. A wonton misinterpretation by excitable anti-academics.

Yeah but it sounds cooler to say "Aliens helped them" or "They're predicting the future" than to say "they were better at math than we thought." At least to the general public.

:( I know.

And thus we lose the lessons of the past.

yeah, but lets face it, the erality of it just isn't flashy enough for the general public to take in. You can't make cool flashy hollywood movies about people being good at math(notes 21)... er... about ancient people being good at math... Add in aliens and/or the end of the world... Popcorn sells.

That should be enough for people not to take it seriously.

Apart from it being the year of the next Olympics, I don't see anything to be worried about. :)

Nothing to worry apart from the fact we are all going to die as the Terminators will have there judgement day!!!!!!!!!!

spoiler:

Joking :D

More seriously, if you take the Bible seriously (some of you will, some of you won't), it says even Jesus doesn't know when the second coming is happening, and that God won't cause a mass extinction of human beings again.

Personally I don't see any doom in 2012, apart from all other sports teams being doomed by Britain, being top of the Medals table at the Olympics :D

Nowhere in most of the Mayan inscriptions does it strictly say that 2012 would be the end of the world. That's more or less the interpretation of conspiracy theorists. To the Mayans, the end of each baktun, or long count cycle, was a time of great jubilation, not something to be feared. Additionally, there have even been dates that went beyond the last baktun, so that does show that at least some Mayan did not believe that 2012 was the end of everything.

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=188530

Merged threads -- j7

_EW_

I dont belive the world will end soon, so I'm cool. lol

I'm making $400 on that day from various friends who apparently haven't figured out that if we all die I don't have to pay them.

That's actually a good idea. I might try that.

12/21/2012 is actually my mom's birthday. :indif:

I am not fearful of it at all. I simply don't think that the world is gonna end that day.

<sigh> I KNEW IT. The moment I mentioned it, *somebody* was going to make a thread about it within one week.

Whoops, looks lie they've been removed.

No. Not really. If anything will happen that is a big disaster, I seriously doubt it'll be directly of divine intervention. Also I seriously doubt whatever it is will be SOO bad that it wipes out the entire population of earth.

-The prohecies could definitely be forged--the people who originally wrote about jesus did so ~85 years after jesus died...or to the best I can remember some supposedly academic institution has determined. Somewhere in israel. Frankly, true or not--it is what I have heard and I don't have any way of confirming or discrediting it. Don't care in any case.

- incompleted or maybe the "calendar" has only so much time in a cycle before it started over again...and the person didn't feel like making another
cycle after finishing the first. LOL I haven't taken the time to check but supposedly 1972 is the exact mm/dd to days of the week schedule of 2000.

-Even if it wouldn't be a stretch, wars happen all the time so it means little to me that "another war will start". Big deal.

:rolleyes:
Why?

That day I major time L'd-MAO!
Hmm. A healthy skeptic...I think I like you already!!!

Well, it never hurts to stock up on supplies to get by in hard economic times! ;) Yeah the lunacy is a little bit funny to watch, though.

Each time it was nill or it really sucked as an apocalypse.

Nostradamus came to something like that...that there may be some kind of mathematical equation or algorithm that roughly charts "flare ups" w.r.t. activity and interaction of the human race.

Similarly...some french botanist who was also a mathematician discovered some number that kept occurring in nature, plants. Eventually came to call it what we now know as "e" or the "natural log". Oiler (don't know the correct spelling) was his name.

There is lots we don't know about history. And tons of coverup from those who run everything.

Sadly.

Refer to above, like I said, the guy making the calendar probably just said "screw it".


Ah. A major discovery, that is. Critical to mass deception, yet so simple.

But they still do. :)

Frankly, though, it is a representation of how "progress" can be the death of us. We kill ourselves.
Oh yeah, HAHA. :dozey:

Taken with a grain of salt. Who ever said Jesus would come back physically or even at all literally? ... Maybe the second coming was supposed to be a sort of populace returning to their core values? (shrugs)


Me neither. Relax everyone. At this rate the zombie apocalypse is more likely. We all have our plans for that. No big deal, I mean, play lucasarts' Zombies Ate My Neighbors if you don't have any clues...right?

"I really wish people could be held responsible for doomsday prophecies. As in, you make one, [and] it doesn't come to pass, we fire your rear end into space." -JoachimLPQ of the SomethingAwful Forums

Hmm,want a Muslim's suggestion?If so read below.(Any muslim reading should correct me if I said something wrong below)

1.I don't know if 2012 would be year doomsday might come.Reasons there are a lot of horrible things to happen which were told to Muslims by our Prophet Muhammad(SAW).There are a lot of things like the coming of devil type person (dajal),coming of Imam Mehdi and will be one of the 300 Muslims left,coming of Christ and a lot of other things(I don't remember much about what I read a long time ago,so I said anything wrong a fellow Muslim should correct it please).

2.A documentary was made about how close are we from doomsday(2000 or 2003 I don't remember).A lot of religious scholars gave their views.And a very well known critic gave a very horrifying view of how the things that were to told to be the indication of doomsday are nearly going to finish in 4 or 5 Cd's.That was very horrifying as they showed everything that happened in past and will happen.Anyways at the time of making it was told that 70%-75% indications have come true.And its going to be year 2009 so I guess we are near 80-% or for worse 85% but still I think they should make a new documentary on this so people can know.

3-Now a another point of view(correct me if I am wrong),I once saw a documentary on doomsdays on national geographic and there was some scientist well know one I don't remember his name maybe it was Issac newton or someone they said he worked his whole his life trying to calculate when doomsday will come.And said 2066 was the year.Man I am worried about this one and I think it might happen before it.But who knows the will of Allah.

Now I just remember few of the indications.Note:there are a lot of them but I can't remember them and the ones I am mentioning are not in true form cause I don't remember them or have their translation in English.
-Tall buildings will be made (TRUE)
-People will travel on something similar to horse but will be very fast(cars).(TRUE)
-A time will come when a single man will have to feed 50 or 60 female.(I don't know about this one)
-People of same sex will marry(gays etc).(True)
-A time will come when the killer will not know why he murdered someone and that person won't know why he was killed.(True to some extent I think,like bomb blasts)
-A time will come when women will wear men clothes and men will wear women.(true)
-The coming of devil who will say he is god(dajal).(False)
-A time will come when everyone will be so busy that they couldn't come on their relatives or loved-ones funeral.(False)

I will write more if I find some information about this somewhere.
See this site http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/Maj...s.html#khalifh
it tells the major signs of what is remaining to happen.Including coming of Christ,killing of Dajal etc.

Edit:Found some few more signs.
The day of judgement will come after
-when man will be become a follower of his wife's every command(true I think)
-when man will not behave with his mother(to some extent true)
-when man will behave vey harshly with his father(to some extent true)
-when the worst of among you will become your rulers(I don't know about anyone else but I say its the truth)
-when someone will be respected only in fear of his power(true)

Um what?

So you're saying stuff Muslim "scientists"(or whatever you call 'em) say, and then put true or false after it? I am very confused to what you're trying to say.

And what are these "4 or 5 cd's" you speak of?

Okay this is just a very good example of how the wont to be incited by otherwise generalisation and sensationalism is simply far more popular among some individuals than relaxing their mind, doing some proper research and following some simple human intellectual protocols.

Testable results from observation in nature or reproducible experimentation, subject to peer review, people. Good scientific process whenever making scientific or pseudoscientific claims.
;)

Wherever most of the people that have an ardent belief in these phenomena are going to gather when that faithful day comes, assuming they do so, I'd like to be there. Not to prepare with them for the coming judgement, or end of all that we hold dear, but to stand there, when the midnight toll is struck and the day begins, and, as nothing interesting at all happens, say:

spoiler:

"HHHHHHHHA!"

But in all seriousness, I think this is similar to the prophecies of Nostradamus, or crop circles dictating a future end of earth. Intelligent people too zealous and thirsty for an answer delve too deep, analyse too much, and begin to see patterns and evidence in things that, when seen objectively, with less fervorent attitudes, are merely coincidental to the overall theory. It's a fallacy of certain varieties of brilliance, and a fallacy I myself have been guilty of on more than one occasion. Focus on minute details for too long, and you lose the contrast between said details and the larger whole of which they are a part, to so complete an extent that the details become the bigger picture, at least from your perspective.

Still, I suppose such wild imaginings, however misleading in their status as fiction or non-fiction, have led to some pretty interesting reading. If we didn't let our creative minds run wild from time to time, then humanity wouldn't be the unique, emotional, intellectually abstract species it is. When December 21, 2012 comes and goes, at least we'll still have good memories, and some amusing byproducts, to show for it.

What I am saying are the signs told by our Prophet that will come before the the day of judgement.(no scientist or anything involved except the point in which I am discussing the documentary I saw on national geographic and those scientists are not Muslims I can assure you that)
And I am putting true and false by researching if it has become the truth or not.Like tall buildings,same sex marriage etc.

And the cd's I am talking about are not available in english from what I have heard.And the cd's contain the documentary made by muslims of how many signs have passed us and how many will pass.

In the year 1000, there were a bunch of "signs" that Christ was coming back in Jerusalem. Thousands of people sold everything and pilgrimaged to Jerusalem, and along the way a large percentage of them died. Nothing happened when they got there. When the survivors got back to Europe, they had nothing. In 2000, the world was also supposed to end. Yet I sit here typing this.
Doomsday "Signs" are wrong kids. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Oh, okay, I get you now, I was just a little confused, that's all :)

Youtube has taken both of the videos you linked down, must have been popular. As a christian I do believe the world will end sometime, no idea when though. As far as the prophecies, if that's the right word, regarding 2012 a wait and see approach would be prudent especially since were so close, exciting stuff.

There have been many claims of "the world ending" in one form or another for thousands of years with a vast majority being wrong. What I think people that worry about it should ask what they can do if it does happen. So barring a pole shift, asteroid, roaches rising up and pimp slapping the human race, etc I think we will be safe.
@ jawathehutt I like your idea about betting with friends and I am not that far from Las Vegas...:)

A vast majority? Everyone was wrong, not a vast majority, otherwise some would've been right and we wouldn't be here right now ;)

I like that!



Granted. No doubt, such fervor in pursuit may lead us to some other ironically unintended developments, no? I mean even if theories are wrong, we get tools like equations and formulas out of the mix which can be used for a variety of things. Beneficially. These are only rumors, but, apparently the crop circles had been utilized in some literal form or another to make mechanisms. I have no hard data nor do a care to chase it down because I have my ideas as to the reality of a good number of those crop circles.

...I'm not altogether sure that advancement in technology is in harmony with advancement of science...or for furthering the human race.

I think in some ways it is actually driving us in reverse. Some minor examples could be provided, should anyone care... but I'm sure everyone (here and elsewhere) has wondered about this at some point or another... and probably has examples of their own.

I would imagine this digressive trend has not gone unnoticed and that professors in every subject at colleges have said their pieces on this (recalling an english assignment of some time ago that I'm not in the mood to look for).

Like those evolution parody novelties illustrate "something has gone terribly wrong somewhere". Exactly where is the question... it seems to me that technology has not reached a level of self awareness yet as has been illustrated by numerous story franchises: Isaac Asimov's I robot, Terminator, and Mega Man X (if you read into the implicit presentation of the simple story line about Reploids and their ability to think, feel, and make their own decisions.) Technology is not (yet) to blame in majority. Bringing me back to a point that we need to advance on a more spiritual level and learn better integrity in our lives (just my opinion) before we can advance.
Maybe the supposed doomsday is a major setback before advancement is possible...hence learning from mistakes and that in no way is it "the end" for the human race.

Hence there are studies on both micro and macro levels...all worth looking into. Stumbles and tripping are inevitable in all walks.

Of course. Maybe you'd like to bend my ear in private on this matter?

Consider it depends too upon the prophecies themselves. "Time as we know it will change?" I saw something on discovery or history this morning of how only atomic clocks are really the accurate clocks and that the changes in earth's rotations will cause clocks to not only become inaccurate, but also varying the progression of time itself. (shrugs) Maybe it's another prophecy based on earth's activity, meteorological sciences of ancient times, and stuff like that. If SW has taught me anything it's that great disaster can occur and the impartation of knowledge is best done in cryptic predictions by necessity...maybe...

None of us can deny that all which is going on in the world today has some reasoning behind it. Self fulfilling prophecy or not. Coincidental or not.

One thing's for sure, it has provided me with some interesting reading and other medium to consume and process. Sounds like I'm not the only one.

I understand where you're coming from GTA, I do. I'm not trying to pick apart your post or anything, I just want to break down what seems to be a very concentrated progression of thoughts to something a bit more communicable for both of us.
(sometimes we surprise ourselves with our own intuition, but other times our own hastiness to form conclusions)

If you would:
This may be a confusing statement, as it appears to liken pseudosciences like naturopathy with hard sciences like medicine. Good scientific process begins with a falsifiable hypothesis, offers testable results from reproducible experimentation and observation in nature and is subject to peer review.

Good scientific process is not simply asserting a conclusion such as prophecy or alien influence, whilst some religious communities may be accepting of this practise the scientific community is not and would consider such contentions nothing more than falsifiable hypothesis without any further research undertaken by its proponents (therefore failing at the beginning of peer review: where is the independent and collaborative data suggesting these conclusions?).

A recent and hitherto classical example of psuedoscientific contention is Eugenics, which whilst attempting to base questionable conclusions upon workable hypothesis using select data, in fact sought only to concrete racist political legislation. It sounded very professional, but only in the way Stalin seemed like a nice guy at a tea party. A wolf in sheeps clothing.

Again I believe the classical example of modern concern was the almost universal acceptance of Eugenics during the late 19th century, for political reasons regarding indigenous rights claims. Here science was being used as a "get out of jail free card" to absolve the financial responsibility of succeeding generations towards indigenous claims. Yet this popular acceptance unwittingly procreated "runaway nationalism" so that within a few decades, benefit of quickly developing international domestic communication mediums, it formed the very backbone of Nazism in Europe.

Indeed pseudosciences, that is a mimicry of scientific formulation for political or personal reasons are a popular trend. There has been a movement among American university students recognised during the late-90's and believed to be a direct result of "affirmative action" policies, known as neo-Eugenics. This asserts that instead of cranial capacity and brain structure to differentiate the human races, that environments of social and economic background may be used as predictors of individual behaviour through genetic adaptation (ie. animal husbandry).

This latest attempt at veiling a completely pseudoscientific superstition with the label of scientific contention is of course likened to the "scientific racism" declared by the Anthropological Society, of Eugenics.

It is these types of concerns which are foremost in the mind of university lecturers. That students might attempt to apply a semblence of scientific syntax to personal conclusions in order to manipulate others. And that political agents would attempt to hijack scientific research and procreate pseudoscientific claims whenever money and power are involved.

Take the ICBM for example. Werner von Braun originally conceived such designs to get man into space. Governments hijacked these intentions, and put man into space only to develop ICBM technologies. This reinforces what you say.


I believe we are in agreement, but I wished to extrapolate to make a clear distinction between pseudoscientific claims and true science.