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Old 28-April-2008, 11:06 PM
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I wonder what will happen in 2012?some people think the pole will shift...others think the world will come to an end!

I don't like the solar flare thing...I think it could get intense!

see what happens!!!

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Old 28-April-2008, 11:11 PM
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I wonder what will happen in 2012?some people think the pole will shift...others think the world will come to an end!

I don't like the solar flare thing...I think it could get intense!

see what happens!!!
There are a gajillion threads on this.

2012- by the Mayan calender is just when the calender rolls over. All calenders roll over at some point.
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Old 28-April-2008, 11:11 PM
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The Mayan Calendar? It enables me to predict the future.

I predict that in the near future a BAUTER with a username consisting entirely of ones and zeroes will provide you with a list of 50 or so previous threads on this topic.
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Old 28-April-2008, 11:13 PM
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I predict that in the near future a BAUTER with a username consisting entirely of ones and zeroes will provide you with a list of 50 or so previous threads on this topic.
Prove it.

Wait... you meant me. Just a moment...
  1. 2003 no, 2012 si
  2. 2012
  3. End of Mayan Calendar
  4. Pole shift / Planetary alignment 2012?
  5. 2012 alignment question
  6. about the Mayan 2012 item
  7. 2012 Debunking?
  8. Possible asteroid impact in 2012?
  9. 2012 asteroid?
  10. We don't have to worry about 2012!
  11. More on 2012 from India Daily
  12. 2012 Completion of conspiracy?
  13. Here's what's REALLY going to happen in 2012...
  14. crop circles, Planet X and 2012
  15. Planet X, crop circles and 2012 cataclysma
  16. According to the Mayans, what will happen on 23rd Dec. 2012?
  17. More 2012 Nonsense
  18. NEO 2012?
  19. Dangerous NEO in 2012?
  20. Christmas 2012
  21. 2012 mayan calender end of world
  22. Regarding the supposed polar shift/new ice age in 2012
  23. New 2012 threat?
  24. 2012 look at this thing on the sun
  25. Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
  26. Pole shift idea origins
  27. Dec 20 2012
  28. 2012 Stuff
  29. Horizon Project-New End of World Scare?
  30. Date: December 21st 2012
  31. Earth passing thru Galactic center in 2012 - didn't that already happen?
  32. 2012: What do you think well happen (if anything)
  33. So what will we see in 2012?
  34. Galactic Tsunami?
  35. Plane of the ecliptic of the galaxy?
  36. Earth's Magnetic Field & 2012
  37. 2012?
  38. Any truth to this?
  39. How can the sun be aligned with Galactic centre?
  40. the whole 2012 poles flip nonsense
  41. Planet X Official Advertisement
  42. What year are we in
  43. Quick question about the sun
  44. Galactic Alignment
  45. Books of 2012! -
  46. 2007 = 2012
  47. Return of Planet X By Rand
  48. Don Alejandro - Mayan Elder.
  49. Toutatis 4179: 2012?
  50. Galactic Alignment in 2012 ?
  51. Solar Storms
  52. A real prediction!
  53. NIBURU - Brown Dwarf, The DESTROYER
  54. 2012 Galactic Alignment
  55. Not 2012 again! But I cant help it~
  56. New evidence for 2012 TEOTWAWKI!!!
  57. this may be a silly question but...
  58. Just to know if this is true
  59. Just Wondering...
  60. Planet X/Nibiru, is it real?
  61. Youv heard this a million times.
  62. Nibaru or Planet X
  63. Mayan calendar

Among them is at least one topic that addresses the Mayan-calendar aspect of the year 2012. Probably many.

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Kai the Bad Archeologist will tell you what she told humanrevolution:
Others here are better than me at astronomy, so I'll explain the archeological side of why this stuff is a load of rotten peanut butter:
The Mayans had several ancient calendars, measuring different lengths of time, like our years, decades, centuries and millenia. When one "turned over", another one began, just like the 21st century began in 2000/2001 when the 20th century ended. The current Long Count calender ends in 2012, but- and this is important- another Long Count calendar cycle starts.
You could call the whole 2012 thing a bit of an ancient version of the Y2K panic!
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this is interesting,thanx

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Where in the world do people even get this stuff? I never see or hear it anywhere except here.
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The History Channel was playing it earlier today.
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Where in the world do people even get this stuff? I never see or hear it anywhere except here.
Heck, I've only been here a few minutes, and I've already learned more wrong things than I ever imagined
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You could call the whole 2012 thing a bit of an ancient version of the Y2K panic!
But you know what this means! All the Mayan computers will stop working on 21 December 2012!!! The Mayan electrical power grid will shutdown, Mayan nuclear missiles will incorrectly get their launch codes and attack their programmed targets in the Inca and Aztec Empires. The Meso-American nuclear firestorm will strip the air from the planet and drive dozens of tropical amphibian species to extinction! The Jaguar god will be very mad.




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But you know what this means! All the Mayan computers will stop working on 21 December 2012!!! The Mayan electrical power grid will shutdown, Mayan nuclear missiles will incorrectly get their launch codes and attack their programmed targets in the Inca and Aztec Empires. The Meso-American nuclear firestorm will strip the air from the planet and drive dozens of tropical amphibian species to extinction! The Jaguar god will be very mad.




To appease the Jaguar God lets sacrifice a conspiracy theorist. That'll teach them not to mess with science.
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I think I'll pop over to Maya and discover Calendar II in some ancient ruins. Who wants to help me design it?
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To appease the Jaguar God lets sacrifice a conspiracy theorist. That'll teach them not to mess with science.
A splendid idea; I'll bring some snacks and we can make a day of it.

Which brings up a semi-serious idea... if these ancients peoples were so knowledgeable that they could predict the end of the world several thousand years in the future, then maybe they were correct on other things too, and sacrificing someone is the way to stop the 2012 disaster. Why embrace only part of the Mayan belief system?

Next 2012ist that comes here, we should suggest a sacrifice, and ask if they would like to volunteer, for the sake of the rest of the world.
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That is your best yet, Mak!
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The History Channel was playing it earlier today.
That damned show sent my mother into a near panic-attack anxiety.
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That most excellent post was by Swift.
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That most excellent post was by Swift.
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What I meant by "An ancient version of the Y2K panic", is that it's a panic because a calendar's turning over that will ulitmately amount to nothing, only about the ancient Maya calendar.
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