our doom is near!

[Virtual Chatot]

6/6/2006 actually. Was funny when nothing happened.

Like 666, this what I'll dub "12 12 12" won't be anything amazing. It'll just be an average... uh, whatever day of the week it happens to be.

I think he was referring to Y2K

 

[Young Stunna']

Not even Jesus knows the hour of God's return.They got that from the fact that Isreal became a nation 70 years before 2012.

 

[Virtual Chatot]

Not even Jesus knows the hour of God's return.They got that from the fact that Isreal became a nation 70 years before 2012.

1. You didn't read why people think our doom is near.
2. Israel is 60 years old this year ( est. 1948 )

We are talking about Mayan/New Age cults believe, not about what Biblical Christianity teaches.

 

[bna_li]

Wow. You all realize that almost all of his predictions never came true, and most of them were too vague and general to begin with? They could be interpreted to mean anything.

 

[Lash]

I can see that towards the supposed date of our doom, stores will be perpetuating this to make some cash.

Thats why the Mayans, or whoever the hell wrote 12/12/12 will be the end did so; They knew that the stores and everything would make loads in the future :P

 

[Virtual Chatot]

Thats why the Mayans, or whoever the hell wrote 12/12/12 will be the end did so; They knew that the stores and everything would make loads in the future :P

Of course, have you seen the amount of land they build their cities and temples on? Someone has to pay for all that.

 

[doesn't matter]

To put it to you in Layman's Words, Some calender drawn thousands of years ago ends on December 12, 2012. Its also when all the planets are to align in a near perfect alignment with each other.

I find it humorous how often the planets "line up" with out people realising it. Not that it really has any affect on earth.

Not even Jesus knows the hour of God's return.They got that from the fact that Isreal became a nation 70 years before 2012.

I think you mean Jesus' return >.> Which, btw he probably does know considering his omnipotence and all. It's humanity that's left in the dark about all these things.

Actually that brings me to this point - we can't even be 100% sure what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone what's going to occur in a few years.

 

[Zet]

the end of the world is going to happen when all the countries go to war with each other and all launch nuclear missiles at each other, Theory solved! fufufufu

 

[.emerald]

nostradamus did predict 9/11!!!, in the lost book there was a picture of the burning two towers & an analogue saying"a tower burns in the depthe of the "new city"(new york)

also he hid hide his predictions in pictures because it threatened his very life!(but im not really sure if it is true)

 

[Merzbau]

If the Mayans were so good at predictions, why didn't they realize the Spanish weren't their friends?

 

[♣Gawain♣]

Nahhh.... I don't believe it. There may be a slight error on predicting you know. The "doom" I know of is the impact of the asteriod Apophis in 2034, but there is a 1/35 chabce of hitting the Earth.

 

[Kura]

Guys. People only thought that the "end of the world" was going to be in 2000, because they thought that computer clocks/ watches/ etc wouldn't be able to handle that number. They thought that the programming would all get corrupted and whatnot, and they thought that people would be in a frenzy and one thing would lead to another and everything would erupt in chaos. (Nuclear bombs going off, etc.)

That's what I thought was the real deal about it anyways..

And the whole 2012 thing.. you guys should watch the discovery channel more often. They were giving tips on events on what would happen if a giant meteor were to hit earth.

And by the way, you would be really screwed if you didn't know where to go.

 

[j_]

nostradamus did predict 9/11!!!, in the lost book there was a picture of the burning two towers & an analogue saying"a tower burns in the depthe of the "new city"(new york)

also he hid hide his predictions in pictures because it threatened his very life!(but im not really sure if it is true)

Ok, read this...

I'll sumarise the important paragraphs for you, but its much more fun to listen to the MP3.

How accurate are his predictions? You could fill a library with books claiming to match quatrains with major events in world history — all, of course, deciphered and published after those events occurred. The straight fact is that nobody has ever used Nostradamus' writings to predict a future event in specific terms which later came true. Nobody has ever used Nostradamus' writings to predict a future event in specific terms which later came true.

Nostradamus' prophecies are also complicated by hoax writings falsely attributed to him. Many people have heard that he accurately predicted the 9/11 terrorist attacks, although none of these predictions surfaced until after the event happened. Listen to these ominous quatrains:

In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror.
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.
In the city of York there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
While the fortress falls; the great leader will succumb;
Third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
​

And the particularly chilling:

On the 11th day of the 9 month,
Two metal birds will crash into two tall statues
In the new city,
And the world will end soon after.
​

As you've probably guessed, those are completely bogus Internet circulations. The last two quatrains are completely made up, and the first one consists of lines taken from two unrelated quatrains. I found at least two other Internet versions of Nostradamus 9/11 predictions, both equally false. Please, always be skeptical of anything you receive in an Internet chain email, especially when it makes far-fetched claims.

Michel de Nostredame was truly one of the brilliant lights of his day, but to subscribe to false stories and urban legends is to disrespect who the man actually was. Appreciate his contributions to medicine and Renaissance literature, and don't trivialize his good works in favor of a pretended history of paranormal magical powers.

Simply put, it's complete and utter crap...

Skeptoid even has an episode on the Mayan Calendar.

 

[Percy Thrillington]

The only reason people believe Nostradamus foresaw the twin towers' downfall is because of all those hoax chain e-mails and because some random person mixed up The Bible Codes with a Nostradamus prophecy. Of course, The Bible Codes are hoaxes as well, but certainly more believable than some random prophecy by a French man. Not that I have anything against the French, I just don't see why he thought he could come out with all of this, expecting people to believe him, even though he didn't come out with the 9/11 disaster prophecy. Okay, I'll shut up about that now.

And remember the horrific hurricane disasters he predicted? They didn't happen. Neither will this two thousand and twelve thing. The Aztecs were wrong too.

 

[j_]

And remember the horrific hurricane disasters he predicted? They didn't happen. Neither will this two thousand and twelve thing. The Aztecs were wrong too.

The Mayans weren't wrong. They never predicted anything in the first place!

Their calendar system was pretty weird, see quote...

The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was expressed as 0.0.0.0.0, and by our calendar, this was August 11, 3114 BC. Every 144,000 days (or about every 395 years, which they called a baktun), the first number would increment, and a new baktun would start. Recall how we all got to enjoy the excitement on the millennium of watching the digital displays roll over from 12/31/1999 to 1/1/2000? Well, that's what's going to happen on December 21, 2012 to the Mayan calendar. It's going to roll over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0, just as it has done each of the previous twelve baktuns. There's no archaeological or historical evidence that the Mayans themselves expected anything other than a New Year's Eve party to happen on this date: Claims that this rollover represents a Mayan prediction of the end of the world appear to be a modern pop-culture invention.

Therefore, we can blame modern humans for the OMG THE WORLD WILL END IN 2012 crap.

 

[Virtual Chatot]

None of the "Flying Birds crashing into two tall statues" crap is true. I've read a translated copy of his book and it doesn't say that anywhere.

I find humanities stupidity growing with each passing generation. -_-

 

[j_]

None of the "Flying Birds crashing into two tall statues" crap is true. I've read a translated copy of his book and it doesn't say that anywhere.

I find humanities stupidity growing with each passing generation. -_-

The shame is, most people wouldn't bother reading it instead relying on an email from their Auntie Jane. Indeed, humanity will be interesting a hundred years from now. :nervous:

 

[/Circa]

None of the "Flying Birds crashing into two tall statues" crap is true. I've read a translated copy of his book and it doesn't say that anywhere.

I find humanities stupidity growing with each passing generation. -_-

The shame is, most people wouldn't bother reading it instead relying on an email from their Auntie Jane. Indeed, humanity will be interesting a hundred years from now. :nervous:

Consider ourselves already dumified, we are already under the control of technology. Try last a week without any electronics, impossible eh? Tempting to read an email? Wanna see whats on the forum. Several things you want to do.

All this stuff is just people trying to create their own reality from their religions or whatever. I watched a show about this on the discovery channel, it seemed beleivable at the time, but then when you think about it, its all just some random giberish.

Even if it were true, there are only three explanations.
- This guy had a REALLY vast imagination.
- He might be able to predict things. (highly unlikely)
- He probably saw some rocks getting thrown at him, which made him go insane :).

I really dont beleive all this stuff anyways, if someone can predict the future, why arent many people 'gifted' with this? If people could do magic in medievil times, why cant we do it now? Nothings really changed, people just open up their heads way too much.

 

[Michii]

Ha, I'll believe some thousand year prior prediction from a civilazation that couldn't even predict a way to prevent their own collapse when pigs fly through the sun and live.

I cannot wait until the thirteenth of December. =]

 

[INFOWARRIOR56]

The Mayan Calendar can actually explain a lot of world events. This 'apocalypse' crap is classic fearmongering. I tend to lean towards the more optimistic view on 2012. It will be a time of higher awareness.