2012

[CowboyHippy]

so help me out folks, i was in the bookstore and there was damn near a whole section dedicated to 2012.

i read the backs of 5 or 6 of them and evidentaly the myan calendar has predicted some sort of big thing and several of the books listed at best and at worst scenarios

this was all sorta news to me so i went to amazon and got the one with the best reviews, (super saver shipping i'll get it in a week)

anyone here read up on this apart form the whole wiki google type stuff out there?

[PEACE FROG]

I'm only "wiki informed". I am fascinated by the subject. Fascinated being my new code word for scared shitless. Please educate us after you've read about it.

[CowboyHippy]

there seems to be so much odd and mismatched information thrown together i stand to be very confused

the big big thing with that day is that the sun will be in line with the plane of the center of the milky way galaxy (so several of them have said,)

a definate common to all the crap i have read says the closer and closer we get to the day 11:11 @ 12 21 2012 the events will happen more frequently. it was due to some sort of cycle with a 1:1.68 ratio. the ammount of time between the reset points on the mayan calander was x ammount of years. take that span and apply the ratio to it and on that said point will be something big happens, then the remaining time till 2012 you apply the ratio again and again and again. just before the day all hell should outta be breaking loose.


i probably should have spent a couple bucks extra for faster shipping.

[PEACE FROG]

I've been hearing about this for a long time. It is scary. What is scarier, coincidentally, is our shit is falling apart just in time for 2012 holiday shopping season.

[Unkle_John]

I'm going to party that night out on the ranch.
I too am interested in this prediction, but I always wondered...
Did the calender stop at that date, because they ran out of room?

[Adam Blanchard]

I'm going to party that night out on the ranch.
I too am interested in this prediction, but I always wondered...
Did the calender stop at that date, because they ran out of room?

lmao! We can hope so, either way you won't be the only one having a party that night. Break out the beer bongs and load em with liqour and break out the other ones for the budz.. I'm going out happy! :bandit::cheers::bud:

[StellaBlue]

I had one of my second graders inform me of this last year. I tried to play it off all cool, but this end-of-the-world stuff has always terrified me. I started searching around, and the most comforting thing I found is that the calendar just ends. The information I read said that the calendar doesn't predict anything big enough to destroy the world is going to happen, that's just when the calendar ends. I like to think the rest of the calendar got lost after all these years. Cowboy, if you find anything different, I'm not sure I'll read it. I was comforted by this answer I found! :o

[CowboyHippy]

it's awful damn hard to discern all the crackpot stuff. the y2k thing, planet x and what not.

one really cool thing i heard adressed the fast that when sertain calendars of theirs reached the end of their cycle it was a celebration, kinda like our new year, so they had a new years party every 260 days i think (i'm just grabbing numbers stuck in my head, they could be wrong) then another bash every 52 years, and then it would have been a helluva shindig in 2012. maybe even mel gibson would have been invited.

there is no arguing the ancients accuracy with stars and charts and maps. way back before the church (or on other areas of the globe) repressed the knowledge, a lot of top scholars had proved the earth to be round. the odds of them accidentally lining up the end of their calenday with some sort of equator of the milky way alignment is pretty slim, but even more fascinating would be if it were planned and intentional.

I sure as hell hope that it'll just be another day that goes by, i'll keep yall posted on what i find. right after i get my survival bunker built

[Graehstone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrasDT7YH0


The end is near! argh! :hippie:

[Taurus]

the end is near has been around for 50 years. in the late 50's it was supposed to end at 1:00 pm - can't remember the date. so, there i sat in class worrying . . . and nothing happened. it's scary stuff, but one of the things that i've learned over the years is not to worry about that over which i have no control. one of the perks of getting old i guess.

[Adam Blanchard]

I was really hoping for the y2k thing to be legit and all computers go bug-nutty. I thought it would have been funny but there I was a 12:01 am and the computer was still working fine. Talk about a dissapointment.

[forrest]

I was really hoping for the y2k thing to be legit and all computers go bug-nutty. I thought it would have been funny but there I was a 12:01 am and the computer was still working fine. Talk about a dissapointment.

Please let me get locked up, I need too be held down, then released finally, I will contribute to "society" I will "spread" everything I learned in prison! I will be successfull! Because god and the bibles told me so!

http://www.happyhippie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4322

[TreeLove]

the end is near has been around for 50 years. in the late 50's it was supposed to end at 1:00 pm - can't remember the date. so, there i sat in class worrying . . . and nothing happened. it's scary stuff, but one of the things that i've learned over the years is not to worry about that over which i have no control. one of the perks of getting old i guess.

Good call Taurus!

Grant me the wisdom to accept that which I cannot change
the patience to change what I can
and the compassion to see and know one from the other.

there have been points throughout human history were the world seemed to be coming to an end.

personally I enjoy the mystery and finding the mystical innocence of my self. I see human behaviors, mistakes, lies, and misunderstandings that need to end and I pray with thankfulness for their demise.

the random thought that keeps flitting through my mind is, we can do so much better than this.

peas

[forrest]

There are three kinds of people,
Those who watch things happen
Those who make things happen &
Those who wonder what happened

At this time, we need to be clear, honest, and powerful with "internal power."

Know that if we are alive now, there is a reason.

Remember, we are human beings, not machines.

"Mother earth is giving us warnings through the earth quakes..."

We can create a fusion through ceremony and lighting of candles.
THIS is the moment of prophecy,
We are the dream of the Great Father -
See that and do not despair.

[Gaston]

I was really hoping for the y2k thing to be legit and all computers go bug-nutty. I thought it would have been funny but there I was a 12:01 am and the computer was still working fine. Talk about a dissapointment.

Well, at that time I worked for a company that used completely proprietary software that was hacked together by ID-ten-T's, and we came very close to an esploshion. :D Instead of sticking all the date calculations in one file and calling it when necessary, they hard-coded a cutely tricky date math calculation into every fargin' program, and there were over a thousand of them. It was all hand coded, too, so we couldn't do a simple search and replace. Never underestimate the power of stupid people, for they are legion.

I'm not worried about 2012, as none of the warranties on any of my "stuff" run out then. I do have a credit card that expires in 2011, now that's something to worry about. Can anyone remember what cash looks like? I think it's sorta greenish, but beyond that I'm lost - not that I'd see any more of it if the credit card companies did go bust. :p

[Hippie Staff]

:D fargin' --- can I steal that?