So the world is going to end soon, right?

Alright, it was mentioned in TJs thread about his mystery clutch so I thought I'd get some opinions on the following:
According to some indivuduals, the world is going to be ending sometime around 21 DEC 2012. This is based solely on the fact that the Mayan Calendar ends with the winter solstice this year. I have my opinions and knowledge on the subject but before I share any of what I think and what I know I want to hear what some others think and what they know about the subject. I look forward to where this discussion may go!

The world will not end just because the Mayans ran out of ink.

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That is my Daughter's birthday and she has been freaking out. I just show her this:


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well i hear rumors and see billboards and people claiming the world is going to end every few months, guess i just got used to it haha but i will share some facts of why the world will not end


1. i have yet to see a super pastel super spotnose ball python
2. i have yet to see a super pastel super disco super vanilla


those are 2 top reasons why the world will not be ending any time soon and thats a fact !

Okay, I can see Don's - is it the same one? Something similar?

It's just text so I'll type it out:

"There have been about 514 leap years since Caesar created it in 45BC. Without the extra day every 4 years, today would be July 28, 2013.

Also the Mayan calendar did not account for leap year... so technically the world should have ended 7 months ago."

*The dates listed are no longer correct since this is an old picture

Like Marvin said right before Vincent permanantly parted his hair for him, " Man, I don't even have an opinion."

I agree with these two. We aren't going anywhere.

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My opinion is that the Mayans aren't around anymore so they probably aren't the best source of info...

The good book says the end will come "like a thief in the night." And no one but God himself knows the day. So it certainly won't happen when it would be expected to.

Great point about leap year. Also, some claim that the sun will rise between the middle of the galaxy and the sun, and this is false, as it happened most recently thousands of years ago!

Boy, I sure hope this isn't the end. I just got my new pvc cage up and running, all blinged out with RHPs and a Herpstat II, and I think I deserve more then 6 weeks enjoying it in all its' low maintenance beauty. Also, my new superpastel female won't be breedable for at least 2 years:D.

The world was supposed to end on my birthday last year, or was it this year? Heck I can't remember. The May 21st one. Anyways, I used it as an excuse to get extra "happy" and told everyone to not to worry because the world was ending which meant no hangover. :D

The world will not end this December, proof? I have food that doesn't expire until 2013. So ha!

I'd have to dig around, but I believe within the last year or so they have found proof that the Mayan calendar either continues or they were simply out of space and shouldn't be read into at the depth people do.

Or something.



IDK but I think within the last year the 'end of the Mayan calendar' thing got debunked

Nope.. It's actually ending in one week.. I got the low-down.. So everyone with really cool snakes should just send em to me right away. I'll give them the best last few days of their life ever. That way you can enjoy your time with your families ;)

Oh, I also have some ocean front property in AZ I'm selling for real cheap if you're interested!

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Nope.. It's actually ending in one week.. I got the low-down.. So everyone with really cool snakes should just send em to me right away. I'll give them the best last few days of their life ever. That way you can enjoy your time with your families ;)

Oh, I also have some ocean front property in AZ I'm selling for real cheap if you're interested!

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So there's this bridge...great deal and all...I have the title in hand... ;) Hard times forcing my hand you know...

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well i hear rumors and see billboards and people claiming the world is going to end every few months, guess i just got used to it haha but i will share some facts of why the world will not end


1. i have yet to see a super pastel super spotnose ball python
2. i have yet to see a super pastel super disco super vanilla


those are 2 top reasons why the world will not be ending any time soon and thats a fact !

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glad i live in the south and there is hardly any boards here. itll just be another day.

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My opinion is that the Mayans aren't around anymore so they probably aren't the best source of info...

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Actually i think theres like about 5million of their descendants still around and they maintain close ties to their heritage. You could ask them what their ancestors were thinking lol

Our species put the Kardashians on TV. I think we deserve any meteor hurtling our direction.

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Our species put the Kardashians on TV. I think we deserve any meteor hurtling our direction.

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Couldn't we just sacrifice those people? Or the people who put honey boo boo or however you spell it on TV...or jersey shore...or any of the other reality shows about being a D-bag, terrible parent, or a harlot.

Im waiting for either a zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion.

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Nope.. It's actually ending in one week.. I got the low-down.. So everyone with really cool snakes should just send em to me right away. I'll give them the best last few days of their life ever. That way you can enjoy your time with your families ;)

Oh, I also have some ocean front property in AZ I'm selling for real cheap if you're interested!

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This reminds me... in May or whenever 'the rapture' or whatever where jesus flies out of the sky and picks all the fanboys and carries them off into the stars was supposed to happen

some people made a website where they, as atheists, would care for your pets after you are taken to heaven for a nominal, non-refundable fee up front

I'm pretty sure I read that they made a stupid sum of money from it.

Or the government to start wiping out some of the population...

i personally don't think anything will happen. there have been SO many predictions of the world coming to an end and we're still here. i figure even if it does, there's not a darn thing i can do about it so i'm gonna go on living and enjoying my life as normal. worrying accomplishes nothing.

We're all still waiting to have Y2K kick into effect!!!!

That was supposed to happen in 2000!!! 12 years and still waiting. Now we're all waiting for the world to end... LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!


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Im waiting for either a zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion.

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I'm also waiting for the zombie apocalypse lol it just seems like it would be so much fun and I'm pretty sure I'd excel at that situation.

Looking at the Mayan calendar and saying it ends on December 21, 2012, is the exact equivalent of looking at our calendar every year and thinking it's going to end on new years eve.

December 21, 2012 is the day their calendar goes into the next baktun (one of their many measurements of time). The 13th baktun to be exact, thats right there is nothing really special, since there have been 11 other baktun changes. A baktun is a little less than 400 years, I forget the exact number. Once we have had 20 baktuns, we go into piktuns, and there are even more measurements after that, one is even the equivalent of over a million years.... I honestly don't think the Mayans were planning on the world ending if they had time measurements that were over 1 million years.

also the mayans are still around.....

So the fact is you should go out and party December 21st like it's 400 new years eves. December 21st is on a Friday, I don't see this as a coincidence.
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UGGGGGGGGGH I cannot wait until the world doesn't end...so people shut up about it.

Or will they? How many times has this happened???

I'm pretty sure that the Mayan calendar is a lunar calendar, so leap year would have no affect on their calendar. I don't believe the world is going to end, but then again no one is promised the next day. So who knows, maybe it will maybe it won't.

Ha! you beat me to it Foschi! :)

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I'm also waiting for the zombie apocalypse lol it just seems like it would be so much fun and I'm pretty sure I'd excel at that situation.

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You and me both...There are a few people id be waiting to turn, just so I could take them out.

1) fingers crossed for zombies. We are getting close people! Remember the rules for the zombie apocalypse: keep the cardio going and always buckle up.

2) If you really understand the Mayan calendar it is about the end of an "age" so to speak and the beginning of another. I cant remember the dates but the last "age" ended during recorded civilization and here we still are. We are also superimposing our modern views on to this situation. We see the world in a linear fashion: everything has a beginning and an end. The Mayans (as did a lot of ancient civilizations) viewed the world in a more cyclical manner: birth, death, re-birth. Think of the seasons, rotation of the planets, etc. So the Mayans would most likely never believe in an actual "end" to the world but rather an ending of one era or age and the birth of another one. Of course there could be a new era without humans I suppose.

Well since Im so bored that Im poking holes in my own argument I think Ill call it a night :P

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1) fingers crossed for zombies. We are getting close people! Remember the rules for the zombie apocalypse: keep the cardio going and always buckle up.

2) If you really understand the Mayan calendar it is about the end of an "age" so to speak and the beginning of another. I cant remember the dates but the last "age" ended during recorded civilization and here we still are. We are also superimposing our modern views on to this situation. We see the world in a linear fashion: everything has a beginning and an end. The Mayans (as did a lot of ancient civilizations) viewed the world in a more cyclical manner: birth, death, re-birth. Think of the seasons, rotation of the planets, etc. So the Mayans would most likely never believe in an actual "end" to the world but rather an ending of one era or age and the birth of another one. Of course there could be a new era without humans I suppose.

Well since Im so bored that Im poking holes in my own argument I think Ill call it a night :P

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Double tap!

Again? Y2K was going to change the world the rapture version 1 the rapture version 2 Nostradamus I seem to be still here, now mayans...

Zombies!! I did 20 minutes of Cardio this a.m. and 45 minutes yesterday morning! I also love the double tap but don't forget to enjoy the little things, like your snakes... unless they become infected of course. And how could I forget about Y2K... LOL

if the word does end on dec 21 2012 so what? it ends. and plus nobody in history can look in the future if you believe the myans are special "Mexicans" you're stupid. and the myans are so stupid their civilization went goodbye a few thousand years ago. there's nothing relevant about what they did.

They were far from stupid. The Mayans lived in relative harmony with their environment and did it sustainably at first, but as time went on and deforestation helped contribute to a bad drought, the land could no longer sustain the huge populations of Mayans in the cities whose population density reached as high as 2000 per square mile. More deforestation let to more temperature rises and less rainfall, so they would go somewhere else and repeat the cycle. Modern civilizations are doing the exact same thing, only we're doing it on a global scale. Who's stupid now!? LOL

Wait wait wait. Who's waiting for the zombie apocalypse (takes a second to make sure u see his name). This guy! Lmao.

In all seriousness, like others have said, the descendants of Mayans are still around and don't understand why people think the world will end. There was a fairly new discovery on temple steps that continues predictions on into the 3000s. Like was said before, it was just the ending of that measure of time to start into the new.

On a funny note, it is my ex wife's birthday and I can't help but comment that I'm sure if it happens, it's her fault :P

The Cubs didn't win the World Series this year. We're safe for another year at least. (Sorry Cubs fans! :P)

Soooooooo......I kinda wished I'd payed my October and November mortgage payments........oh, well :rolleye2::D:P.

Yea. I'm really mad at the Mayans. Now I have to go out in this mess to do my Christmas shopping. I was counting on them. Friggin liars.

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Yea. I'm really mad at the Mayans. Now I have to go out in this mess to do my Christmas shopping. I was counting on them. Friggin liars.

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Just give everyone a pet snake


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Just give everyone a pet snake


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Hummmmmmmm, you may be on to something there!

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Hummmmmmmm, you may be on to something there!

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You know all those normals you have kicking around...Merry Christmas niece!


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