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Most folks have heard that the Mayans predicted that the world would end on December 21st, 2012. I don't believe them, so I've been arranging a little celebration and a small surprise for December 22.

Just keep your eyes open 2 weeks from tomorrow.

KP

ah the end of the world.... whats next?

...The opening of a gate to Sennadar. Right in the middle of the "Tierpark" --Animalpark-- in Munich...

Am I the only one who thought that just maybe:

Mayan Calendar maker: So I have written this calendar out a few thousand years.
Overseer: [Haughty tone] Excellent! How glorious is our civilization at that time!
Mayan Calendar maker: Oh we die out long before that. But I am going to need more space to continue.
Overseer: .........
Mayan Calendar maker: sir?
Overseer: Just stop, and go to temple to be sacrificed for the continuation of our people in this dark time.

Or something to that comedic effect.

I mean really, it can't be that the guys just stopped, you know, cause they were tired of doing this?

Edit:: I realized after typing this; I do not in any way believe that anyone here believes that the end of the world will happen on that day. Please do not take this post as meaning that.

GBLW wrote:Most folks have heard that the Mayans predicted that the world would end on December 21st, 2012. I don't believe them, so I've been arranging a little celebration and a small surprise for December 22.

Just keep your eyes open 2 weeks from tomorrow.

KP

The Mayans predicted the end of the world in the same sense that current calendarmakers predict th end of the world around the 31st of December.

That is, there is no prediction. That's simply how long the calenar goes, because the expectation is that after that date, people will use a new calendar.

This differs from Christian end-of-the-world predictions, in that the original predictions were actually predictions ... for a date sometime during the first century AD. That's the reason for all that chose-religion-over-family rethoric - people thought the end times would happen in their generation. And so, in every generation since, there are people onvinced that theirs i th generation when it will actually happen ... shades of Waiting for Godot.

Yeah, what khms said.

The world doesn't END, the calendar just flips back to the beginning.

If I remember right, we're about to end the Fifth Age and enter the Sixth Age.

You know that and I know that, but it still makes for a rather memorable 'point of impact ' date.

lol


*edit*
just found some curious stuff about it

http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/53 ... lypse/#698

*editing my edit*

after reading it i just had to post a part of it

The French government is proud that they are the “chosen people” of the Mayans. ”We always knew we were special and this confirms it,” said former President Sarkozy. ”French people are much more evolved than any others on the planet. This has been obvious for centuries.”


for those people reading the website link check the comments .. theyr hilarious

Julia Gillard (aus. PM) helps Australian as well in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtj3gDa ... r_embedded

Just like how all the computers would crash and there would be no electricity for y2K. Its a lot of hype to get people scared and to watch the news and the comercials to sell stuff. It will be just another day unless sombody goes postal and creates a murder rampage or murder sucide like columbine, the mall in oregon, virgina tech, Fort Hood, etc. However they will use any excuse. It's sad how people can be so cruel I feel sory for all these victimes. I hope that people realize that it was a perdiction made when people still thought the earth was flat wicth turned out to be totaly true as I am floating in space having fallen of the side.

CRYUnicornClear wrote:Just like how all the computers would crash and there would be no electricity for y2K. Its a lot of hype to get people scared and

... make them pay programmers to fix their software, so the possible catastrophic events don't happen.

Which was very successful (and there was a lot of work involved), but until the deadline, nobody knew if every important bug had been found.

And really, there was a gigantic number of (mostly) design bugs fixed, and we still didn't get everything - happily, what we didn't get wasn't critical.

But as someone who was at least a little involved, and who understands the underlying issues because I deal with similar things on a daily basis, I was surprised more didn't happen. We were lucky that time. And a lot of old COBOL programmers got unepected work and quite a bit of money - that's probably where most problems were buried.

Not problems weren't elsewhere, too. There's a reason for example, why some people call it Y19100 instead. (That's a case where someone had fixed a Y2K problem, only to have other prograers who used that software reintroduce a new Y2K problem at that very place because they neither thought about it nor could be bothered to read the documentation.)

It's unlikely I'll get old enough for the 2036 one. And anyway that one might solve itself mostly by people migrating to 64 bit software. But again, it's the old stuff that isn't usually touched because it performs some critical function well, that is the likely source of any problems. Who would be willing to guarantee that every critical one will be found and fixed?

So you prepare for desaster and hope it doesn't actually happen. And if it turns out you did a good job, people will pour abuse over you for the unnecessary hype.

i was told version that say that it is not realy the end of the world....
they just did not know what will happen after that date... (no more twinkies?)...and stoped counting

We all going to die in the end, just enjoy every day as it comes!

Actually, Y2K did cause my job some problems. I worked in a casino in New Orleans then, and when we flip tested our computers, they all crashed. Even some of the video games in the arcade crashed, the ones that ran on desktop computers (we had 4 of them, all big VR rides).

It took some software fixes to get them up to where they could handle the date turnover.