The end of the world?

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How did the Mayans, and some other civilizations conclude that a specific year would be the end of the word? I know there was one civilization (the name escapes me at the moment) which predicted the world would end in 2005, but it obviously didn't...
 
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I think you are referring the Mayan Civilisation?

I heard some people say 2012 is the 'new' end of the world. It's almost like the boy who cried wolf at this point... ^o)
 
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How did the Mayans, and some other civilizations conclude that a specific year would be the end of the word? I know there was one civilization (the name escapes me at the moment) which predicted the world would end in 2005, but it obviously didn't...
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I Knowwww..packs of idiots :raging: thinking they're too big for their shoes :D:D ...lool

Well THEIR LYING SOO THEIR OBVIOUSLY WASTING THEIR TIME..!! :D:D
Subhanallah... only Allah The Almight Knows When The World Is Going TO end...
 
Salman. said:
People are stating that the sun will come out of the side that it never rises from and that will kill us all. A date in December 2012.
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That would mean that the Earth would be flipped over OR spinning backwards. And if I remember correctly, isn't the sun rising from the west a sign of the day of judgement?
 
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I Knowwww..packs of idiots :raging: thinking they're too big for their shoes :D:D ...lool

Well THEIR LYING SOO THEIR OBVIOUSLY WASTING THEIR TIME..!! :D:D
Subhanallah... only Allah The Almight Knows When The World Is Going TO end...
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Technically its not the Mayans who were lying. The Mayans didn't think the world would end in 2012, it's just the weird conspiracy types that think so.
 
Hmm. Was it just that their calendar ended at 2012 then?
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No, there calendar goes beyond 2012. In fact they list more significant dates after 2012, which would be silly if they predicted the end of the world then.
 
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Omar_21:30 said:
I heard some people say 2012 is the 'new' end of the world. It's almost like the boy who cried wolf at this point... ^o)
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Read all about it here.

I once read a biography about someone brought up as a Jehovah's Witness whose parents were particularly fond of predicting the end of the world. They would go out and meet the public every weekend wearing sandwich boards (dragging their child along, of course) telling everyone to change their ways before the arrival of the heavenly host on a certain date. Giving a precise date was, of course, their basic mistake. They changed the date four or five times as each one came and went without incident, and they just continued to strap on their boards again for the next weekend's picketing.

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Read all about it here.

I once read a biography about someone brought up as a Jehovah's Witness whose parents were particularly fond of predicting the end of the world. They would go out and meet the public every weekend wearing sandwich boards (dragging their child along, of course) telling everyone to change their ways before the arrival of the heavenly host on a certain date. Giving a precise date was, of course, their basic mistake. They changed the date four or five times as each one came and went without incident, and they just continued to strap on their boards again for the next weekend's picketing.

Peace
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Amazing! Well, in all fairness they were probably trying to teach their son an important life (or is it afterlife?) lesson: if at first you don't suceed, then try, try again! :D

I was reading the wiki article, found this particularly funny (if only in a wrong-ish way):

Proponents of a Nibiru collision claim that a planet called Nibiru will collide with or pass by Earth in that year. This idea, which has been circulating since 1995 in New Age circles and initially slated the event for 2003, is based on claims of channeling from alien species and has been widely ridiculed.[63][64] Astronomers calculate that such an object so close to Earth would be visible to anyone looking up at the night sky.
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Better buckle up kids, interplanetary collision isn't pretty... :phew :p
 
I remember when they said the world would end on May 5th 2000. It looks like we are all still here. They came to this conclusion based on the fact that I believe the Queen's Pyramid had a timeline that ended on that date. Also people have been saying that the world was coming to end since well the dawn of man. When it happens, it happens, but I seriously doubt it will happen on December 21st 2012.
 
The end of the world is being in the 4th grade and coming home all failing grades on your report card. For me that would have been in Nov. 1948

Since then I discovered that the date of the end of the world is of no importance if we prepare for it and know it could be today.
 
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NOONE KNOWS.. you know who knows the end of the world... harry potter style :P
 
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No, there calendar goes beyond 2012. In fact they list more significant dates after 2012, which would be silly if they predicted the end of the world then.
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Just to add to what you're saying: To my understanding, in the ancient Mayan calendar, the year 2012 corresponds to a new 'cycle'. A cycle is similar to the divisions made in modern calendar systems, such as a new century or millenium.
 
Must admit. The end of the world being that close is frightening. . . if there is any truth in it. Which I don't think there is. Nice to know I'm not alone in believing the whole thing is rubbish :)
 
The Mayans didn't predict the world to end in 2012. The calendar just ended on that date. To some it marks the beginning of something new. To others it is the end of the world. I believe that it marks the beginning of a new era for civilisation.
 
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I believe that it marks the beginning of a new era for civilisation.
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That is actually quite interesting. That is what I think too. Every empire contributes something to the world. Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, British Empire and so one. Each one collapsed...

I'm not entirely sure how to define this world empire and what it had contributed...probably democracy.
 

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