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The world will end in 2012?!

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  • monkyboyrr, on 10/08/2008, -13/+119my new religion is now rockithism.
    • noknockers, on 10/08/2008, -9/+6so... you don't believe in rocks?
      • Intangible360, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10You'll notice that theism and atheism both end the same way so I'm not sure how you could deduce that.

        /Yes, I know it's a joke, this is why it doesn't work.
      • innovati, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9the -theism refers to belief in a god or multiple gods...

        a- means without

        thus: theism: belief in god(s)
        and: atheism: belief without god(s)

        rockithism != rocktheism :P
    • hark, on 10/08/2008, -1/+6So he believes in rock gods?
      • GrungeRock, on 10/08/2008, -0/+12Yep - all of them. Dio, Lynott, Hendrix...
      • Induane, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Talad....
      • Cerialthriller, on 10/08/2008, -2/+1like pete wentz?
      • jmccgod, on 10/08/2008, -0/+16I prefer rock lobsters myself.. ROCK LOBSTER!
      • Zedian, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Me too!

        Rock Lobsters peppered in lemon and soaked in buttery grease.

      • Nitesmoke, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1We were at a party
        His ear lobe fell in the deep
        Someone reached in and grabbed it
        It was a rock lobster
    • DSDell, on 10/08/2008, -1/+0he might be believing in rockets also...
      • monkyboyrr, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1that would be rockEtism ... i think.
    • AnthonyFTMFW, on 10/08/2008, -2/+0COMMIE! GET HIM!
    • LogicBomB, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Rock on, brother *bows head*
    • ronaldst, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1Won't matter which religion you're following: SKYNET will activate in the late 2020s.
    • robbielaney, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4They didn't predict their own demise. What makes people think they would predict the end of time.
    • normalkid0615, on 10/08/2008, -1/+2We COULD have learned more about the Mayan's but NOOO Christianity had to label them as barbaric because they made human sacrifices. They destroyed all of the translations and many of their sacred documents in the name of God. Pity :(
    • dwninjungleland, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Herbie Hancock?
  • fwertz, on 10/08/2008, -4/+45Mayan Calendar Alloy Rims, new, from TRD.
  • mmdieterich, on 10/08/2008, -6/+21Exactly what I was thinking when the History channel had a documentary about this.
    • NoHardFelines, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9everyone who's ever heard about the Mayan calendar has thought that.
      • skippyrandom, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6and I think everyone who's ever seen one of those documentaries on 2012 gets close to ***** their pants for a bit.
    • Ferros2600, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Naw, they just haven't found Disc 2 in the History of the World series.
  • Tegurit34, on 10/08/2008, -45/+7I RAN? The mother ***** knew they'd create a country named that, so they must be right about the end of the world. That means McCain is gonna win! *****!!
    • DforSpiD, on 10/08/2008, -2/+8That's a bit of a stretch isn't it?
    • vat0r, on 10/08/2008, -0/+10Put down the bong :)
    • ChayD, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6Is this like one of those secret messages that spies exchange or something?
      "Ahem, the weather in Novosibirsk is particularly cold this time of year"
      • jj101, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3But when spring comes again the flowers will bloom.
      • wardsac, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Perennials FTW
      • HisTumness, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?
      • HisTumness, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Damn it, Digg... you let me down :-(
    • jamangold, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Looks like you need another dosage titration for your Zyprexa.
  • Ahzaz, on 10/08/2008, -11/+70This is what i say everytime someone tells me the world's going to end in 2012.
    • bullsfan03, on 10/08/2008, -8/+2I call *****!
    • TVarmy, on 10/08/2008, -12/+5You know what's odd? In the thumbnail, it looked a bit like the LHC pic you see all over the internet, turned to the side. Crap, the world really is going to end soon...
    • sanj0hn, on 10/08/2008, -3/+3And that happens a lot ?
    • jeexbit, on 10/08/2008, -3/+2The world is not going to end - just history.
  • Paulish, on 10/08/2008, -1/+15Mirror...
    http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mayacarto ...
  • MLGLies, on 10/08/2008, -10/+124This image is older than the mayan calendar....
    • saisumimen, on 10/08/2008, -2/+5Not to mention that's not even the Mayan calendar; it's the Aztec (365-day) calendar.
    • KibibyteBrain, on 10/08/2008, -2/+11Yep, the Mayans made this funny joke about how dumb future civilizations would be, but it got so popular that they decided to actually implement the calendar. Sort of like the Wonka bar I guess.
  • Evilblobs, on 10/08/2008, -20/+7I dont think that is why...
    That calendar is incredibly accurate, more so than our own, i dont think it 'expires' like that.


    On another note, its a comic that is [somewhat] actually funny, which is pretty unusual on digg
    • RAEP, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9I don't think it "expires" either. It simply resets.
      • Volath, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1It does reset for every Mayan age or whatever they call it. The reason why everyone is thinking 2012 is the end of the world is because there are only a certain number of these Mayan ages and 2012 happens to be the end of the last one.
      • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5'The last one', as in 'most recent'. Not as in 'final'. 2012 happens to be the end of the last calendar round within the current long count. That is, the current long count between now and the time of the Mayans, ends in 2012.

        And now I start to understand where contextual weirdness creeps into our popular culture. Here we are, saying only rational things - and even those are up for easy misinterpretation. One wonders where astrology comes from.
    • Glo0, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Yeah i know but think about it, if you was going to make a calender would you bother to keep adding more and more cycles and keep going forever.

      My computer wont let me change the date to year 3000 AD??? Does that mean that who ever designed the bios KNEW that the world no MULTI-VERSE is going end in 2099?? Whats the F-ing point of physically making a calender that keeps going! When your starting to run out (or whatever is the right phrase) just whip up a new batch but caring on from before. But then again that doesnt make for scarey reading or help sell tones of pointless ***** to gullible people. A friend of mine wont even think about it not happening and as a result will be homeless come 2012 seeing as he sees no point in living a life that has only 3 years left in it.

    • fadeddragon, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1It just completes a cycle and then restarts.
    • atgmac, on 10/08/2008, -1/+2The Gregorian calendar is incredibly accurate. Every Tuesday I know that tomorrow will be a Wednesday.
  • danielvutran, on 10/08/2008, -10/+1LOL
  • AppleMacStud, on 10/08/2008, -17/+2Before the world ends, I'd like to meet Steve Jobs.
  • MrBrother, on 10/08/2008, -8/+213As a practicing Mayan, I find this post insulting. Rock chiseling has come a long way since then. Please apologize to my god, Kukulcan the Feather Serpent.
    • billbugger, on 10/08/2008, -27/+13***** You, 2 of my friends died in a Mayan ritual
    • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -17/+9"Please apologize to my god, Kukulcan the Feather Serpent."

      I would, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster (sauce be upon him) would not approve. I don't want to invoke the preternatural terror of His Meaty Orbs of Power. At least, not today; I don't really have a use for terror today. I might in a couple weeks, when I go sail the high seas, and have need of piratin' advantage... so, I'll let you know.
      • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Gee, I guess it wasn't that funny. Well, *****.
    • DataPath, on 10/08/2008, -1/+55Godless Heathen! Quetzalcoatl is the only true Feather Serpent God! Taste his downy wrath!
      • g009q, on 10/09/2008, -1/+0Quetzalcoatl = Kukulcan
        Same God, different name.
    • crapman, on 10/08/2008, -1/+28As a practicing Mayan you should know that the calendar is an Aztec one... LOL!
      • MinibossMike, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Who said THEY got it from the olmecs before them, and not sure if they made it or inherited it.
      • bdfariello, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Which is probably why he's insulted.

        Imagine what would happen if you went to Palestine with a copy of the Torah and handed it to someone, saying, "I think you dropped this."

        Oy, the shevitz would hit the fan, it would!
      • johngarcia, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4@MinibossMike: When I read "olmecs" it made me think of Legends of the Hidden Temple. That show RULES!!!
  • leif777, on 10/08/2008, -15/+10Iran what?
    • KMartSheriff, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9related what?
    • Hollow5, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1they ran out of space on our rock
    • silfiriel, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2I don't know why your buried, i had a hard time reading it too, and the first word was Iran.
      • leif777, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I know, right... people have itchy ban fingers
  • friendlyman, on 10/08/2008, -11/+77Michael Bay Explosions!! Boom! PEW PEW PEW! Michael BAYYYY
    • friendlyman, on 10/08/2008, -0/+52012: The War for Souls Michael Bayyyyyy BOOOM SMAsh FPSfppfspf
    • etnuts, on 10/08/2008, -0/+14http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjA_j--0IQ
    • honutt, on 10/08/2008, -2/+4that sucked!
    • sandersdamnit, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3MANILOWWWWWWW!!!!!!
    • bdfariello, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1I read the book, and recall no such explosions, and while I don't think they'd add anything to the book, they certainly would add a lot to the movie. I don't really see how a film adaptation could be that interesting, but I'm sure we'll find out eventually.
  • Canadaa, on 10/08/2008, -5/+14just curious, who believes 2012 is a reasonable date? and how do you think it will happen?
    • Tarl, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10The US election of 2012 will involve both candidates slinging more than mud at each other.

      All others in said catastrophe will be considered collateral damage.
    • BlackHatFerret, on 10/08/2008, -16/+14I believe that 2012 is a reasonable date. It won't be the end of the earth. It's going to be then end of humanity as we know it IMO, or should I say civilization.

      I've read a lot about it. If something like this is going to happen, it will happen in 2012.
      • chillfaktor, on 10/08/2008, -4/+7Not the end of humanity, but the end beginning of the end of human consciousness in its present state
      • Junior612, on 10/08/2008, -2/+1346 and 2
      • KibibyteBrain, on 10/08/2008, -2/+11Why? I would love to hear a rational discourse that assumes at least causality to show why 2012 is any more likely than 2003 or 2013 or 2021 or 2100 other than the fact people obsessing over the date might result in making it true.
      • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4What, exactly, gives you the impression that, whatever disaster befalls humanity, it will do so in 2012?

        Honestly? Any evidence? Circumstantial is fine, just so long as it's verifiable.
      • FreakinRepublic, on 10/08/2008, -1/+12uuummmmm...this is Digg...no logical reason required. Thats the year that Chuck Norris buys a go-cart.
      • nalen33, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Come now, Nostradamus said the world will end in 1982! We must prepare!
      • digga1301, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3The fact that you have eleven people digging your comment says a lot about Digg in general.
      • Foxoq, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Just to make it clear, the Mayan calendar is a cyclic one. that is to say, after 2012, it just starts up again. Think of it as a really long year. I think its on it's 3rd or 4th cycle right now, so nothing to be worried about. Move along..
    • ElectroStep, on 10/08/2008, -0/+13Because it didn't happen any of the other times they said it would.
    • tubbylardman, on 10/08/2008, -3/+11By 2012, the companies will own the prisons and our only saviour will be Jason Stratham and his car with machine guns.
    • D1ckFace, on 10/08/2008, -7/+102012 signifies the end of an era for humanity and a concious shift into a positive era. However, if people don't wake up to all the crap that's going ono in the world like war and the credit crisis then we're all in for a rocky ride as it pans out. Some people think that Planet x is coming and going to destroy the earth through huge magnetic interference but this is just doom mongering and detracts from the real perspective of a New Golden Age that dawns. Get spiritual and ride it out with ease. Positive galactic waves are going to hit the earth and it's going to be like an electric shock to the system unless you can tune into it way before and be reasonably safe. 11:00am est 21st December 2012. wake up before then...
      • kuchie, on 10/08/2008, -2/+6D1ckFace, you are, like, totally right
      • KibibyteBrain, on 10/08/2008, -2/+4I don't know, as bad as the war and credit crisis are, I doubt people 500 years ago could think of a time without war, and there was literally no credit because usury was illegal by authority of the Church, and good luck with healthcare not being your cause of death. Things have gotten better, as far as its hard to believe. And to think that such ignorant ancient civilizations have anything to say to us about golden ages..well, I'd love to smoke some of what people who believe that are on.
      • justinbonnet, on 10/08/2008, -2/+2i think asuming acient civilizations are in any form "ignorant" would be rather eneducated statement on your end.
      • bman1984, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Yeah man... Even quantum physics show relations between energy fields and feeli... aww just shut the hell up already.
    • ChiliBrain, on 10/08/2008, -4/+4Apparently this is being linked to a story about 'Planet X' - a big macho-planet that is heading straight for earth (although it won't collide with us, just cause heaven and hell to shake and rumble as it passes by). Do a google for 'Planet X' and be prepared to believe... Oh, what was that you said? Why you haven't heard about this before? Why NASA or the government hasn't warned everyone about it? Why, naturally, because it s a cover-up... How convenient! :-)
      • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -2/+9Oh, god, is that stupid Nubira myth still floating about?

        I thought that got properly dismissed in the 80's.
      • bman1984, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Let me guess, this was all a ploy of a secret reptilian race?
    • Fordi, on 10/08/2008, -2/+9Hey, maybe the rapture will come, and get rid of these annoying evangelicals. That would be nice.

      Seriously, you can threaten hellfire and brimstone all you want, but if I gotta spend eternity in heaven with that lot? I'll take the fire, thanks.
      • Metasquares, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3I sort of agree with Asimov on this; I don't think that the Christian God would be too pleased with people "whose every word is God, God, God and every deed is foul, foul, foul". Merely following some formula for salvation is not true belief.
      • johngarcia, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I agree with Metasquares. I don't believe that any of those "annoying evangelicals" qualify.
    • Glo0, on 10/08/2008, -2/+32*reads whats happened so far this year*

      I PREDICT :

      There will be Wars fought (old and new)
      There will be earthquakes and volcanoes along faults in the earth crust
      There will be floods
      There will be Droughts
      There will be changes in regional powers
      There will be people being born
      There will be people dyeing
      There will be people who become poor and other that come into money
      There will be epidemics
      There will be all other BIG things that happen every other year
      Apple will release more over priced, white TRENDY crap
      There will be new evidence that proves that we are changing our enviroment (no not destroying the world)
      and finally
      There will be a NEW BIG end of the world scenario that makes it way online for you all to believe, while totally forgetting every other end of the world claim. All backed up with some ones interpretation of ancient artefacts that other people see as something totally different.

      Oh and the Olympics in the UK and my bank card expires.
      • Zedian, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1
        Windows will deliver SP3 for Windows XP.
        We get PS4 and Xbox 1080.
        Miley Cyrus will be legal by then.
        The Avengers finally comes true.
        We get two new Presidential candidates.

        Oh and yeah...my bank card expires too at that time.

    • DekarCorvus, on 10/08/2008, -3/+6More then likely the mayan calander predicts the plantets reversal of the solor poles. this will wipe out most life and drastically change the shape of the world as we know it. it will NOT be the end. rather a new beginning.

      Oddly enough, thousands of years difference, and on the other side of the planet, the ancient chinese calanders show the same exact date in 2012 as the mayans did.

      coincidence? you decide...
      • godsdead, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3I have read about this theory.. scary ***** =]
      • D1ckFace, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1The solar poles reverse every 22 years -the last one being in 2001.
        FFs people are saying that 2012 is going to be the end of the world and it's just not true.
        there will be changes however, and if it gets rid of the selfishness and evil in this world then it can't come soon enough and it gets my vote.
      • vudubob, on 10/10/2008, -0/+0Not to mention the Hopi, the Zulu, the Egyptian, and about a dozen other ancient traditions predict the same or close to the same date.
      • vudubob, on 10/10/2008, -0/+0Actually the solar poles switch north to south every 11 years, the full cycle (south back to north again) taking 22 years. The next switch is due in 2012. This will trigger another one of the Earth's much more infrequent pole reversals, which will result in tremendous earthquakes and mile high tsumanis (with pressures on the order of a ton per square inch as the wave washes over - no evidence will remain of New York, L.A., or any coastal city). Be either very high up on a mountain or very deep at sea where the tsumanis will have little effect on the 21st.
    • fenderbiz, on 10/08/2008, -1/+7It has to do with our solar system passing to the other side of the galactic equator and people think the earth's rotation will all of a sudden reverse and cause mad chaos(won't happen). We are also in the transition phase to the age of aquarius, but it's hard to give an exact date and time when we will be in the next age. This is because there are no defining boundaries between the constellations in the sky. There are multiple different charts with different boundaries, giving us different dates. Some people think it's 2012, since the age of pisces was around 0 a.d. plus or minus a couple hundred years. Each sign of the zodiac is composed of 30 degrees, each astrological age lasts about 72 years × 30 degrees = about 2160 years. So all twelve signs takes 26,000 years, which is one full wobble from the earth.
      It's an interesting subject that I never heard about in school and most people still don't know this fascinating history. I encourage people to do some research on it.
    • xyqxyq, on 10/08/2008, -0/+11"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
      Albert Einstein
      US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
      • HorusHeresy, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Did he really say that? This is an awesome quote.
      • bman1984, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Thanks cod4 for introducing me to this awesome quote
    • charadesforkids, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4yea, i think its a reasonable date,

      for the end of the world?

      no,

      but its a nice date.

      and divisible by 4!
    • Tooley7, on 10/08/2008, -4/+1At first glance I thought it was the Hadron Collider. I'm assuming in 2012, the LHC will actually begin colliding proton beams, creating a black hole.
      • bman1984, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1its going to create a wormhole to 10000bc, so we can tell the mayan when its going happen.. .then repeat
        think about it.... I sure didnt
  • drewfer, on 10/08/2008, -20/+60Sorry but Digg is really lame now.
    • StrangeFamous, on 10/08/2008, -3/+11It's good to see you doing your part to counteract the lameness.
    • wiggles, on 10/08/2008, -3/+4Quit saying how "lame" something is just so internet wankers will think you're cool.
    • Magnus150, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1You're really lame now.
  • charm803, on 10/08/2008, -2/+10I'm sure while they were making them, the guy just got tired of it and said "Screw it , not like I'M going to be here that long."

    I mean, they had to stop sometime.
    • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2The standard canned response is that they ended on the end of one of their ages so that means the only possible explanation is that they thought the world would end. Of course, they fail to consider that if you're going to end your calender at some point of time you're probably going to do it at the end of your month/year/cycle/whatever.
  • hectord27, on 10/08/2008, -2/+11that's hilarious...hahahahahaha...

    ....wait what?
  • oda1, on 10/08/2008, -7/+1Nostradamus predicted it, so it's gotta be true!
  • goodbyepolar, on 10/08/2008, -0/+73The world will end when an argument is amicably resolved on the internet.
    • Zipko, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5"... alright, so we're finally in agreement.... now what?"
      "I don't know... porn?"
    • EvoPsy, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4"... alright, so we're finally in agreement.... now what?"
      "I don't know... porn?"

      *World explodes.
    • Bobboq, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1Also something the LHC is capable of doing.
    • twoyups, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3"The world will end when an argument is amicably resolved on the internet."

      That's ***** and you know it!
  • porygon111, on 10/08/2008, -3/+15Once you understand the cyclical nature of the calendar this joke fails to make sense.
    • mushoo, on 10/08/2008, -5/+3And I guess once you become an expert you figure out that the calendar in the comic is not a "Mayan Calendar."
      • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -1/+7And after all that education you guys still haven't learned about jokes.
    • jeexbit, on 10/08/2008, -1/+2It's the Aztec sun stone - but their system was heavily based on the Mayan cosmology.
  • aljian, on 10/08/2008, -6/+1At first I thought you were serious, and dugg you down, then I read it again and realized it was a joke, so I dugg you up.

    You were joking, right? :S
  • Lloydinator, on 10/08/2008, -9/+36The 2012 prediction will come true if McCain... no, Palin becomes president.
  • kishosingh, on 10/08/2008, -11/+6It is very negative thought. First, The world will end on 2000. Second the world will end on 2008. Now, the world will end on 2012. What is this???????
    • Metasquares, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6A belief in the world ending only during years divisible by 4?
    • Gryffyd, on 10/08/2008, -2/+2Third time lucky?
  • venicerocco, on 10/08/2008, -6/+15Very few people are predicting the end of the world in 2012. Many are, however, talking about a global evolution in consciousness, or some kind of cultural revolution.
    • nina1586, on 10/08/2008, -2/+3Yup! that's the message I have gotten... shows what you can find out if you actually do the research!
    • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -1/+5And it's still based on the same silly pseudoscience and magic. Just because it sounds pleasant doesn't mean it's more reasonable.
      • venicerocco, on 10/08/2008, -3/+1Not necessarily. Especially when you consider self fulfilling prophecy. We have done many incredible things in the past like manage electricity to evolve society. Why should we think we can't do it again, but in the realm of consciousness?
      • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying if/when it happens it won't be the result of some magical Mayan prophecy.
  • halo3d, on 10/08/2008, -5/+0lolol busted
  • precog29, on 10/08/2008, -13/+612012 is the end of a "cycle" called a Baktun cycle. It officially ends the age of Pices, and begins the age of Aquarius.

    It is a time of "great change" in the galaxy, solar system, and on earth. Educate yourself about it, it's important.
    • billbugger, on 10/08/2008, -9/+6that song sucks!
    • Frostek, on 10/08/2008, -2/+9Bollocks, more like - the world will go on as before and there will be no miraculous change in people's behaviour.
    • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -4/+10lol astrology
    • Kromel, on 10/08/2008, -2/+41Will this "Great Change" work in getting my PC to run Crysis?
    • redcard, on 10/08/2008, -4/+13Except it doesn't.

      The age of aquarius begins in 2600, as the line between the constellations is defined to be around then. That's if we go with the IAU's numbers. But, it seems like nobody is in agreement with when this age really begins. So it's not the "official" end of the age, because the Baktun's didn't measure ages of zodiac symbols, just simply days.

      The Mayan astrologers knew NOTHING about Piesces , or Aquarius, or any of them.
    • phrawgh, on 10/08/2008, -1/+5I'll get right on that star child!
    • RobotLeAwesome, on 10/08/2008, -5/+4My fart consists of more factual knowledge than astrology.
    • BoneheadFarker, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7*****...now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day. But redcard is right. Mayans knew nothing of western astrology. Mostly because they invented their calendar long before Europeans figured out the Earth was round...
    • anonysumo, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1The Mayans didn't have to know about astrological ages to understand the precession of equinoxes (on which the idea of ages is based).

      Just don't get all of your Mayan calendar info from the Smithsonian Museum. I looked forward to their exhibit when visiting, and found little more than a sad little plastic replica and a couple of short blurbs about it being a calendar. Saddest. Exhibit. Ever.

      Or maybe the gubmit doesn't WANT people knowing about it... hmmm.... (/reaches for tinfoil hat)
    • twertyto, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Thank you Ali G
    • AManWithNoName, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2So, it's the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
  • malignatius, on 10/08/2008, -2/+5Stone cutting Rocks!
  • knodi, on 10/08/2008, -7/+6If only Mayan where the only ones to point to December 2012 as end of days.
  • blktooth420, on 10/08/2008, -6/+1yeah, i always thought they just ran out of room or, the guy making the rock was like "ehh it'll be a while ill finish it later"
  • StarofTroy, on 10/08/2008, -3/+5Mayans didn't have wheels.
    • Trots, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7They didn't speak English either.
    • jeexbit, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1They also didn't use metal tools or beasts of burden - and yet they still managed to develop the concept of mathematical zero - they were amazing.
  • kirakun, on 10/08/2008, -3/+3Hmm... I'm a bit shook up to see "IRan" in there. Must be prophecy! Well that's enough intelligence for Bush/McCain to invade.
  • darkmagician777, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Granted the world will not end on 2012 do you guys at least know why 2012 represent the end. Most people think the Mayan Calendar runs out. You got to give credit to these people using the alignment of all the planets to start the clock and end it too
    • Logicexe, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1How do you think all the other civilizations across the world figured out the length of a year? It was all done with astronomy.
  • budster1, on 10/08/2008, -15/+5Now,Let me digest ALL this hocus-pocus.....Some human sacrificing,loin-cloth wearing,pony-tailed,jungle-living,crazy futbol-playing Mayans whittled some calender wheel that ends in 2012;and,I'm supposed to "get educated" about their mystical 'cycles' !!!!!!!
    Have I got this all straight??????
    Hell,boys,the SPIN cycle on my busted up washing machine is more important than their freakin' BAKTUN !!!

    BUT.....on the off chance I may be in error.......well....I welcome my Mayan Overlords.......leastways,till 2021!!

    end of transmission......
  • articlem4n, on 10/08/2008, -1/+0It all came down to a ROCK!
  • jetmax25, on 10/08/2008, -3/+50OK let me clear things up
    Now the end of the calender was translated as Armageddon which means new beginning and was misinterpreted as the Judeo-Christian sense as the end of the world
    the Mayans had 3 calenders
    the first one ended when scientists now found was the beginning of the Mayan civilization
    the second ended when The conquistadors came and conquered the Mayans
    the 3rd is the last however this is only do to the fact that they were unable to make another calender due to their takeover by the Spaniards.
    Basically on December 23rd 2012 there will be a new beginning in the world not the end of the world

    that being said on December 22nd ill be telling the girls that the world is coming to an end and ask them how they want to spend their last night ;>
    • adrianniebla, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Exactly they Mayans or any of the other civilizations that used the calendar actually stated that the world would come to an end, and if you read into the mythology they had it was about renewal every 52 years the calendar enter a new phase and it was a celebration to be coming into yet another phase. Besides we don´t actually know what the calendar means since we don´t actually know where it comes from or who made it we just know that it tells time.
    • adrianniebla, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2my bad it´s they never actually stated that the world would come to an end sorry I´m just too lazy to spell check that it´s right.
    • chadsmith729, on 10/08/2008, -0/+8That's a lot of reading, I will just assume you are right.
    • cnot3, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1"Don't worry women I'll protect you! .... Damnit not you, Garrison." - Chef
    • bloggerjul, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1goodluck on convincing them for a foursome!
  • Skooma714, on 10/08/2008, -2/+35Does it say: "Save the cheerleader... save the world." on it anywhere?
  • adikt, on 10/08/2008, -0/+12I'm actually looking forward to it.
  • sonar1, on 10/08/2008, -6/+1holy *****, i said the same thing 2 days ago to some superstitious dickwad mentioned this calender
  • topgigmedia, on 10/08/2008, -0/+10I am siding w/ Rush (the band). I think it will end in 2112.
    • jamangold, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3The world doesn't end in 2112... That's when they assumed control over the planets of the Solar Federation.
  • Ramenboy005, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1***** crazy...i stumbled this.....30 seconds before finding it on the front page for digg
  • mindbullet, on 10/08/2008, -1/+1Thats what I've been saying! Seriously, I think they figured they could stop counting years for awhile after a few thousand.
  • thematrixexpert, on 10/08/2008, -6/+1classic
    rofl
  • otakushark, on 10/08/2008, -5/+6Oh, so apparently the Mayans could predict the end of the world accurately, but lacked the vision to fend off their own civilization's collapse?

    Yeah, right.
    • jeexbit, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1No, not really. (1) they didn't predict the end of the world - it is simply the end of a 25,000+ year cycle. and (2) they probably well understood, after a time, that their methods would lead to a collapse much like we are seeing in our own civilization these days. There are still Mayans around today however. - and some of them even follow the calendar.
      • kevalin, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1it's actually a 144,000 day cycle, or 394.25 years, not 25,000 year cycle.
  • scoottie, on 10/08/2008, -7/+1only if hillary is elected
  • JTTM, on 10/08/2008, -8/+22012 is when you all finally get laid.
  • WoollyMittens, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7Most often the simplest explanation is the right solution, but also the least acceptable to the religious and superstitious.
    • datastorageguy, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1The simplest solution would be that there is a God.
  • Nightenglow, on 10/08/2008, -4/+2 say goodbye to taco bell
  • cmark, on 10/08/2008, -1/+2Well its no more irrational than some of the other methods used to determine when the world will end.
  • brainflakes, on 10/08/2008, -3/+13Or not...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Cou ...

    Inscriptions beyond 2012

    Maya stelae occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque the following Long Count date was found: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (24 March 603 Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol,[10] or 21 October 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.[11]
  • brainflakes, on 10/08/2008, -5/+7Or not...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Cou ...

    Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.[12]

    "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[13]

    "There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this." [14]
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