Nevermind the Apocalypse: Earliest Mayan Calendar Found

reply to post by IndependentMind

Yes. It does seem a little convenient that they found this just as we're almost half-way through the year, doesn't it?

I wouldn't be so skeptical if they found it a year or two ago... but right NOW???

C'mon...

I just want to say that I was on the bandwagon about 5 years ago. But as time progressed to within two-years, something became apparent to me. The end of the world would be gradual. We're only seven-months away. We should be getting close to an apex by now. To think that everything ends exactly on one day is unrealistic. We would be seeing fire and brimstone now if this were the case.

well they confirmed what I have been saying for over a year. It all started to promote a movie. People are so dumb.

reply to post by Xaphan


lol you wouldn't be so skeptical? are u kidding nobody on ats believes ANYTHING that is reported. Now I'm with ya as far as being skeptical as far as the main stream media is concerned... it's not news it's a government infomercial. but EVERYTHING can't be a conspiracy.

Hmmm...what to believe?

If it was really fake it seems the Capitalist PTB would just wait to tell us until we all bought our bunkers and 1000 pounds of MRE's so they could make a buck and if it was really real they would tell us not to worry so they could make their preps and getaways without a lot of civil unrest and societal collapse...

I'll need more tin foil while I ponder this newly discovered calendar.

reply to post by JerryB08

This theory has been around for decades. You're telling me that they kept a hoax going for decades just to sell tickets for a crappy sensationalist movie in 2009?

I don't think Hollywood plans that far ahead...

Did they predict their own demise?

RT.com Apocalypse Not Now

Its calculations say the Mayan 6,000-year-cycle does not end with doomsday, as cycles succeed one another for an unlimited period of time. The discovery means that December21, 2012 merely marks the beginning of a new calendar cycle, not an apocalypse, as was previously thought.

On one wall of the ancient astronomers’ workshop is a Moon calendar, tracking the Moon's phases for about 13 years. The adjacent wall contains figures indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6,700 AD.

If anything, they had the foresight to know that they needed another calendar.

Just think of all the sheeple who spent all the money leading up to yr2k and now 2012

whats next 2013 ? why do these people keep falling for it, why ? because all the charlatans have to do is pray on the weak look for mistakes from tptb and then claim to offer help by saying give me your money coz i wan'ts it
they have took alot of people for fools bahhhh bahhhh ....come get em grab your tinfoil hats 10 99 a piece come buy your magic wands to ward off the greys, get them while they are hot, guaranteed to ground a few saucers come the apocalypse .

Originally posted by denver22
Just think of all the sheeple who spent all the money leading up to yr2k and now 2012

whats next 2013 ? why do these people keep falling for it, why ? because all the charlatans have to do is pray on the weak look for mistakes from tptb and then claim to offer help by saying give me your money coz i wan'ts it
they have took alot of people for fools bahhhh bahhhh ....come get em grab your tinfoil hats 10 99 a piece come buy your magic wands to ward off the greys, get them while they are hot, guaranteed to ground a few saucers come the apocalypse .

I'll take 2 of each!!!!!

Should be all set now!!

Originally posted by Teye22

Originally posted by denver22
Just think of all the sheeple who spent all the money leading up to yr2k and now 2012

whats next 2013 ? why do these people keep falling for it, why ? because all the charlatans have to do is pray on the weak look for mistakes from tptb and then claim to offer help by saying give me your money coz i wan'ts it
they have took alot of people for fools bahhhh bahhhh ....come get em grab your tinfoil hats 10 99 a piece come buy your magic wands to ward off the greys, get them while they are hot, guaranteed to ground a few saucers come the apocalypse .

I'll take 2 of each!!!!!

Should be all set now!!

That will be 400 dollars sir and i will chuck in a tin foil hat for yer It's a bargain sir

(sheeple says) what are they made of ?
(charlatan says) quartz crystal, a metal rod, and a copper wire wrapped around it.
(sheeple says) really....
(charlatan says) yes it will ground most UFO'S
(sheeple says) WOW!
(charlatan says) but if you wanna take down the mother ships you need to upgrade to the special rod
(sheeple says ) how much
(charlatan says) 600$ to you sir and if you buy the special rod sir we will chuck in tinfoil hats for the whole family
(sheeple says) ILL TAKE ONE
(charlatan rubs hands with glee ..... :" teye" this 2012 myth has made these charlatans millions

The Sheeple go buy up food special rods etc then scream to the non believers sheeple sheple lol

Well 2012 dooms dayers remember 1999 nothing happened at the Millenium did it ?
well it did for me as i managed to pull a couple of stunners and bedded them spiced the end of the world up and
had them both going at it then on me , so come December i'm game again as i got a party to go to
yeah that cosmic experience good old Millenium . Lets hope another cosmic experience comes my way so thankyou charlatans for those two stunners at jims party thinking it was the end of the world thanx lool

Originally posted by capone1


Well here's the latest. Apparently the earliest Mayan calendar has been found. I'd like to hear end of the world theorists' take on this. Is the end of the world coming this year? Or is the hype just causing dostractiins and profits for "end of the world" sales people. The topic is interesting, but in my opinion has yet to prove merit. But it will be easy to tell in 7 months.

www.livescience.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

What is a end of the world theorist?

Originally posted by Anonymous404
Did they predict their own demise?

RT.com Apocalypse Not Now

Its calculations say the Mayan 6,000-year-cycle does not end with doomsday, as cycles succeed one another for an unlimited period of time. The re-discovery means that December21, 2012 merely marks the beginning of a new calendar cycle, not an apocalypse, as was previously thought.

On one wall of the ancient astronomers’ workshop is a Moon calendar, tracking the Moon's phases for about 13 years. The adjacent wall contains figures indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6,700 AD.

If anything, they had the foresight to know that they needed another calendar.

No one ever thought that 2012 would be the end of the world. So whats your point?

reply to post by John_Rodger_Cornman


Since the beginning of recorded time, people have been thinking about the end of the world and making predictions about how and when it might happen. According to a 2007 article in The New York Times: “Gnostics predicted the imminent arrival of God’s kingdom as early as the first century.” The Shakers thought the world would be over in 1792, while the Jehovah’s Witnesses pegged various years between 1914 and 1994 as an end date.

More recently, some doomsday forecasters have focused on the year 2012. Citing the conclusion of a lengthy cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar, certain theorists anticipate the end of life as we know it on December 21, 2012. And charlatans will be selling tinfoil hats and orgone rods to ground alien greys with
retailing at 250 dollars a piece but if you wanna bring down a mother ship then you could invest in the special rod retailing at 500 dollars . Ohh the sheeple will blindly buy them im sure. Hope this helps.

Do not panic any of you doomsdayers uncle denver is at hand to help you pay attention now.

For some, 2012 heralds fear. This is thanks to recent, often vivid, interpretations of a centuries earlier Mayan civilization set of beliefs. Some people believe the world will end or that there will be catastrophes on a large scale, all because the Mayan Long Count calendar is thought to be reaching the end of its cycle in 2012.

If you've been worried by the hype and rumors of doom and gloom for 2012 that have been eagerly shared across websites, blogs and other sources, fear no longer. It's not the end of the world but it could be the start of your critical thinking circuitry getting a fine tune.

peace

Remember that there have been many times throughout history when people thought the "end of the world" was nigh. Many myths about the end of the world precede the 2012 myth. There was July 1999 In Quatrain X-72 of Nostradamus; January 1st, 2000 (Y2K); June 6th, 2006 (supposed 6000 years A.D., also 6/6/06, the devil's birthday in some religions); any October 31st, and September 9, 2009 (999, again, a reference to the devil's day) and also May 21 2010. There have been prophesies of worldly doom associated with the appearance of comets, the eruptions of volcanoes and the alignment of celestial bodies. There have been many predictions of the world being doomed according to gurus, prophets and know-it-alls, many seeking fame or recognition, some suffering from delusions and others just misinterpreted. It would take a long time to name them all. All of them have reasons, but no facts to back them up.

Look back at all the other prophecies of doom and see where they went and what happened to the people promoting these predictions. Not one of the prior soothsayers has successfully predicted the end of the world they only managed to get attention and make the charlatans RICHER...

Be wary of people seeing patterns where there are none to be seen. The human mind loves patterns; there are sound, biological reasons for our pattern recognition inner software that aided our survival throughout history. However, when this goes into overdrive, it also causes us to assume things that are actually not of significance but are easily the stuff of paranoia and imagining. One of the things you might read includes the "significance" attributed to the date 12-21-2012 (or 21-12-2012) by numerologists. All those twos and ones seem to form a pattern but they don't - since the solstice is always on 12-21 every year and since we've already had other candidate years such as 2001 and 2002, there is nothing special about the 2012 date.

Equally filled with drama but no substance are any claims about planetary alignment and a dark rift. Any planetary alignment is fascinating for us but without impact. Any gravitational effect from any solar system object other than our Moon is negligible due to the great distances involved. As for the concept of a "dark rift" in our Milky Way on 21 December 2012, in which our Sun is supposed to combine its gravity with the black hole (Sagittarius A*) at the center of our galaxy, there is no substance to this fantastical theory. There is no rift––it is dust and gas covering up stars located in the bulge in the center of our universe. Second, the Mayans didn't know of any black hole––this is thanks to astronomers discovering it, so predicting something about an entity of which they knew nothing at all seems very far-fetched. Third, the Sun is always aligned in the Milky Way. The Earth moves, and has been in that one alignment many hundred times. Finally but most tellingly, given that we're 24,000 light years away from this black hole, it's impact on us is negligible. Put it this way––our Sun has a gravitational pull on Earth that is 2 million times greater than that of our galaxy's black hole but we're still here.[3]
Another claim to be skeptical about is anyone claiming that the winter solstice is the special reason behind 2012 doom scenarios. The evident reason is this––while 21-21-2012 is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, it's the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. And last time anyone checked, the oblate spheroid that we know as our Earth consists of both hemispheres.

If the Mayan civilization had prophesied an end of the world in 2012, its reliability has to be doubted given that they didn't manage to prophesy the demise of their own civilization. Avoid turning this into a test of faith in Mayan predictions! peace ..