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12-12-2008, 12:56 PM
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According the Mayans and many other philosphers, we have 4 years and 9 days to live. Your thoughts?
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12-12-2008, 01:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: NYC | | | Do you mean because their calender ends on that day?
I don't see how that would specifically indicate the "end times".
My calender only goes to the end of the year, that would indicate the world ending
next year no?
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12-12-2008, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by JmJ  Do you mean because their calender ends on that day?
I don't see how that would specifically indicate the "end times".
My calender only goes to the end of the year, that would indicate the world ending
next year no? | 
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12-12-2008, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | Allow me to shed some light on this....
That is the date that the "Age of Aquarius" begins... the reason the Mayan calendar ends on that day is because its the day that the alignment of the constellations along the path of the sun ( The Ecliptic) completes a full shift of 1(making is a very convenient time to end a calendar based on stellar observations). This is all a result of the earths rotation. The Mayans as well as many other ancient civilizations (the Druids, The Egyptians, The Babylonians) where incredibly skilled astronomers, they based their calendars, and religious beliefs almost solely on the stars. Heck why do you think Christmas is the 25th of December (cause back then people still celebrated solaces) There is a whole field called astronomical anthropology dedicated to studying this stuff.
These are also the constellations that we use to mark our birth signs which means that although I'm a Pisces at the moment on 12/21/12 I will be an Aquarius. Tell that to a Vally girl and watch their world crumble.
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12-12-2008, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | My brother has this theory that, whoever was making the calendars was churning, and churning them out and was getting really tired of it. "Why the hell do we have to make calendars for so far in advance"? So one day he got to that date on the calendar and said F it, ill make more of them if we get there. I think it could work. |
12-12-2008, 01:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | So im a taurus, does that mean im gona change to an aries in 2012? Wierd.... |
12-12-2008, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk That is the date that the "Age of Aquarius" begins... |
And, that's when all us old hippies are going to grow our hair back out! 
(if there's any left by then) |
12-12-2008, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk That is the date that the "Age of Aquarius" begins... | Clearly someone hasn't done their research, it started in May of 1969. |
12-12-2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk Allow me to shed some light on this....
That is the date that the "Age of Aquarius" begins...
. | Have n't people been talking about that since the 60's?
It's a bit premature 50 years ahead of the event...... |
12-12-2008, 01:28 PM
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So im a taurus, does that mean im gona change to an aries in 2012? Wierd....
| Yes, and if you want to be precise about it you probably already have...
I wish I could still find the chart with the dates on it...but this gives you an idea of how it works. 
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12-12-2008, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk Yes, and if you want to be precise about it you probably already have...
I wish I could still find the chart with the dates on it...but this gives you an idea of how it works. | Glad that's all cleared up now. |
12-12-2008, 02:08 PM
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Glad that's all cleared up now.
| Yeah I know...I killed the thread with my my fancy sciencetificologicism  |
12-12-2008, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk Yes, and if you want to be precise about it you probably already have...
I wish I could still find the chart with the dates on it...but this gives you an idea of how it works. | So I've been a bastard, but am now turning into a a$$, and this is also because of the Mayans?
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12-12-2008, 02:12 PM
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12-12-2008, 02:14 PM
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So I've been a bastard, but am now turning into a a$$, and this is also because of the Mayans?
| No this is because the people who invented birth signs (astrologists) used the stars to assign the birth signs, over the past 700 or so years(I'm not much of one for remembering dates) those stars have moved (well rather we have moved in relation to those stars)...so the dates they set for the birth signs are no longer accurate.
The Mayans just also had an interest in the same constellations...because they realized their positions could be used to keep track of time over many, many years....The Mayan calendar (much like stonehenge) is a glorified astronomical chart that keeps track of things like Eclipses and Equinoxes and Solstices and the Ecliptic.
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12-12-2008, 02:40 PM
| | | | Man, remember how all or the armchair Nostradamuses were saying the world was going to end in the year 2000? I remember I was a senior in high school. I watched the ball drop on TV. Waited around a few minutes to see if a comet was going to hit, nuclear missiles were going to fire off randomly, or if a gentleman who died on a cross 2000 years ago was going to return. None of that happened, so I went to bed. I'm not looking forward to all of the nutjobs who are going to go crazy in 2012 again. For the record, I don't think that the Mayans ever claimed that the world was going to end in 2012. That's just when their calender ends. Some scholars believe that we're going to enter a new age of enligtenment then, so who knows?
It is scary times that we're living in, however.
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12-12-2008, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | so you mean i'll no longer be an Aries?????
what excuse will I have now to be an $$$hole????? 
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12-12-2008, 02:49 PM
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12-12-2008, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | well, apparently it's 2031 now. that's how far my Palm's calendar goes.
will someone hurry up and make up my mind already?
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12-12-2008, 03:19 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | As far as the Mayan tribes of South America are concerned, setting a doomsday in 2012 is fairly moot, mm? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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