Interesting reading! Thanks for the links.Originally Posted by apb
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Interesting reading! Thanks for the links.
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There is ONE part of this whole theory that I find credible. Some of these prophecies talk about what man has constructed coming crashing down, and lights in the sky. Do you all remember the satellite collision in February 2009? There was already quite a bit of debris in that orbit, the same orbit that is shared by most telecommunications satellites. There is some concern that that debris could impact other satellites, disabling them and releasing more debris, and this could eventually have a snowball effect, in the end destroying or disabling every satellite in that orbit. Sunspot activity has been shown to have an effect on satellite navigation systems, and the current sunspot cycle is predicted to peak around the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013. So it is not inconceivable that on or around 12/21/2012, sunspot activity could lead to the destruction of all those satellites, and as their orbits decayed and they hit the atmosphere, there would be quite a few "lights in the sky." And if this does occur, I don't think it would be an overstatement to call it a global catastrophe.
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Well, it's almost here. What are your plans? I took a vacation day myself. It's a Friday, so I'll have a 3-day weekend, and I really want to be able to keep track of the news, and watch what crazy things people do. I hate to say it, but I really think there are going to be some people who commit suicide. I saw an interview with a guy from NASA and he said he'd gotten a lot of disturbing emails, one of them who said they were going to commit suicide before 12/21/2012, and take their children with them. Some people are just made that way, and all it takes is something like this to trigger them.
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Hmmmm I haven't put any thought into it. I'm more amazed you remembered this post, found it and posted on it again!!
I'm making no plans for it. It will be nothing more than another day of news and the start to a weekend to me. Maybe some stores will do an "end of life sale" that gives away everything???? Better read the fine print though....I'm sure it will be a gimmick.
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It seems the closer "the end" gets the less you hear about it, makes you think nobody puts much faith in the prophesy or whatever it is.... Maybe the myans weren't as far ahead of their time as some folks gave them credit for... I suspect it will come and go and nobody will speak much about it from the next day on.
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The World cannot possibly end on the 21st.
It won't be until the 29th, when Louisville beats Kentucky.
Then, it's over.
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The Mayans were ahead of their time, they were just misinterpreted. I have a calendar hanging in my kitchen that ends on 12/31/2012, but I don't think the people at KY Afield were trying to tell me the world is gonna end on that date when they made it.
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The thing is, the Mayans never suggested that the world will end on Dec 21, 2012. Their calander ended then, and some have suggested that means the world is predicted to end then too. In the Mayan system, one calander ended and the next one began.
Andrew
GREAT...JUST WHEN THE COLTS HAD A WINNING SEASON GOING...
This explains a lot.
1. Congress re fiscal cliff will wait tilll 13 Dec to get serious, hoping this is a way out.
2. Now I know why so many stock companies are paying early special dividends, they won't need the money "if".
3. Why is "your calendar out" less threatening then the term "his clock stopped" ???
4. I should never have extended the warranty on my Honda outboard, I may have wasted 3.4 years of coverage.
If the calender stops, I think we ought start living it in reverse....like a country western song we'd get our taxes back, our economy back, and, maybe we'd still have 4 more years of Obama, but this time we'd know what to expect.
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No matter what happens, one thing is sure, very few of us will be able to stop it, buts a nice btrak from political name calling and hate.I'm willing to bet that we,ll be here on1/1/13
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A fallacy based on bad astronomy. Here's what NASA says on the subject:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...012-guest.html
Here's what I consider the most pertinent part of that article:
"Fast-forward to 1995. That year John Major Jenkins packaged several of these themes into Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. According to Jenkins, the winter-solstice point and the centerline of the Galaxy will line up exactly on Dec. 21. Arguing that this motivated the Maya to contrive the calendar to end on that date, Jenkins concludes that it will be "a tremendous transformation and opportunity for spiritual growth, a transition from one world age to another."
In fact, astronomy cannot pinpoint such a "galactic alignment" to within a year, much less a day. The alignment depends on the rather arbitrary modern definition of the galactic equator, and/or the visual appearance of the Milky Way. There is no precise definition of the Milky Way's edges -- they are very vague and depend on the clarity of your view. (Jenkins says that he personally established the Milky Way’s edges by viewing it from 11,000 feet, far above anywhere the Maya lived.) So to give a precise visual position for its centerline is not meaningful.
Jenkins did acknowledge that the winter-solstice Sun actually crosses the center of the Milky Way anytime between 1980 and 2016. Elsewhere he expands this approach zone to a 900-year period, and settles for an imprecise alignment to which Dec. 21, 2012, is arbitrarily and circularly assigned. Real astronomy does not support any match between the Baktun-13 end date and a galactic alignment. The advocates both admit and ignore this discrepancy."
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