What will be a year from now after Dec 21st 2012

mrk · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:30

magick said:
A flat painted white with white carpets, minimal furnishings and aligned with feng shui principles can create a very relaxing and spacious environment.

Each to their own but that's a little ott IMO

Plenty of students looking to rent flats out there and you have one just for feng shui?!

I find watching a sunrise/set much more relaxing. Or talking to someone about stuff in general.

platypus · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:32

[FnG]magnolia;23400115 said:
It's 00:18 on December 21st and I can confirm that the world hasn't ended.

Are you in the Mayan time zone though?

Craig1981 · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:35

[FnG]magnolia;23400115 said:
It's 00:18 on December 21st and I can confirm that the world hasn't ended.

Not that I think the world is going to end, but technically were not in the clear until the 22nd. The world could end at any point during the 21st, not just the first moments after 00:00

platypus · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:37

'Wes said:
You have issues 'mate'.

He probably does, but then don't we all?

However, I'd love the option of a getaway with next to nothing in it.

LOAM · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:52

Voltar said:
Why would anyone believe the insane ramblings of a prophecy made by a nation of people who by the time the Spanish came were still basically cavemen. Were they that advanced etc it'd be a different story entirely. Their shamanism was easily brushed aside and now their descendents are for the most part fervent Christians.
The world ending features nowhere else other than with these folk. I'd not pay it much attention. Compare them with Western Europe at the time of Conquest. Then breathe out.

That's the sad part really, they didn't prophesies any such thing, the Mayans get a bit of a bum deal out of all this because they are incorrectly portrayed as some loony band of nut jobs as oppose to the rather advanced civilisation that they were. The whole end of the world nonsense is based on nothing more than the fact that their long count calender happens to run out on the winter solstice 2012. The fact that the next long count calender starts the very next day is conveniently omitted by the crazies who have cherry picked parts of the Mayan system to suit their own agendas.

No1newts · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:54

I'm still alive, shame as I've got a right ******* hangover

SexyGreyFox · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:21

Voltar said:
The world ending features nowhere else other than with these folk. I'd not pay it much attention. Compare them with Western Europe at the time of Conquest. Then breathe out.

But they didn't, they had a calendar that stopped on a certain date and a new one started the next day just like we do.

Firestar_3x · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:26

I've followed Noah's lead, update his ideas and built myself a spaceship.

Cosimo · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:35

Firestar_3x said:
I've followed Noah's lead, update his ideas and built myself a spaceship.

Taking on any crew?

Firestar_3x · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:43

Not sure the tinfoil construction is up to the job, i used most of it on my hat, looks nice though.

PhillyDee · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:47

Actually, a spaceship would have been the perfect way to get rid or all the total lunatics that do those websites. Why didn;t we think of that sooner? Would have been an excelletn way to get rid of the nuts jobs you actually believe that crap.

D.P. · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:51

[TW]Fox;20875157 said:
How would people thousands of years ago possibly be able to predict right down to the nearest day the 'end of the world'?

And not only predict to the nearest day but be able to predict all the funky weirdness that has happened to the gregorian calandar before that calandar even existed

Apok · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:54

D.P. said:
And not only predict to the nearest day but be able to predict all the funky weirdness that has happened to the gregorian calandar before that calandar even existed

They didn't account for issues with the gregorian calendar it just so happens that the end of their long count co-incides with the 21st of december.

it's not like they predicted an event in a dating system they didn't use like so many people seem to think.

Infidelus · 20 Dec 2012 at 20:53

platypus said:
If the world ends on the 21st, I'll eat my hat.

That'd make you very clever, being as you'd be dead and all

freak2002 · 20 Dec 2012 at 21:30

In a years time, you will be posting how last year the calculations were all wrong. It is now Jan 22nd 2014 that is the end of the world.

Seeing as you are so sure of the date, you should be able to give specific and exact examples of what will happen. Not "paradigm shifts" and major "rifts".

If you can prove it exactly, then I will come round to your beliefs.

FutileBreadMachine · 21 Dec 2012 at 09:30

Can we begin the pointing and laughing yet?

Glaucus · 21 Dec 2012 at 09:31

FutileBreadMachine said:
Can we begin the pointing and laughing yet?

Didn't we start that several years ago

No1newts · 21 Dec 2012 at 09:49

Anyone dead yet?

Oz!asM!dwinter · 21 Dec 2012 at 09:50

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero

scrlk · 21 Dec 2012 at 10:05

Voltar said:
Why would anyone believe the insane ramblings of a prophecy made by a nation of people who by the time the Spanish came were still basically cavemen. Were they that advanced etc it'd be a different story entirely. Their shamanism was easily brushed aside and now their descendents are for the most part fervent Christians.
The world ending features nowhere else other than with these folk. I'd not pay it much attention. Compare them with Western Europe at the time of Conquest. Then breathe out.

Ignorance at its best right here people. The world won't end in 2012, this rate of decline in intelligence will mean we will be extinct in a couple of hundred years.

The Mayans were as advanced as the Romans for their time if you are wondering.