Yukinari said:
The mayan calender probably was circular
Ask any Mayan or anyone who has studied the Mayans and they will tell you the same thing: The Calender is a bloody calender! Sure it ends on that date but the next day is just the beginning of a new one. You think in the western world, where we use these things to count the years, we would of figured out how a Calender works by now.
For some idiots out there though... Nope! Be proud, your wiser then the end of the day preachers cause you know how to go out and get another massive circle of rock to count down the next few thousand years once this one has used all it's tally marks.
Actually what happens is simple. Thanks to the Abraham religions, particularly Paul based Christianity, many people grow up hearing the story about 'judgment day.' They then try, in usual human self centered-ness, attempt to put a date that will fall somewhere within their life times. Why the hell anyone would want to live through the end of days I don't know... but they damn well wish it will happen in their life times. This is not new, Paul himself did it some 1900 years ago when he preached the second coming.
Oh, by the way Paul, we are still waiting!
Now these people, even those who don't embrace religion, try and make all sorts of theories about why the world is going to end. Be them over the top psudo-science, some thing waaay out of left field like alien invasion or some reoccurring natural destructive event that the Mayans wouldn't of been able to fathom, yet predict, cause the last known one was waaay before we evolved out of the muck. It doesn't matter, now they are all linked to 2012 which will make that a very interesting day as we all turn upside down, inside out and morph into strange matter... at at the same time!
Of course there is a common theme to all these predictions. The vast majority of those people pushing the end of the world stories as fact all believe their purpose here is to 'save us' from it. This is just down right typical of most selfish humans. I mean, what if we don't want to be saved from the end of the world, did they think on that?
Then one of them found out the date 2012 and decided to pin his theory to that date. It, after all, falls in their life times and has some mysterious dead culture predicting it*. Perfect! Adds a nice touch of mysticism to do that, even if your pushing for some psudo-science outcome you can't go wrong with ancient cultures predicting death by Large Hadron Collider! Now another half a dozen unique theories have been pinned to it and in the following years yet another half a dozen more will arise. Though from where I am not sure, aliens have been done, magnetic poles too and anything else I can think of... yes even the Large Hadron Collider has been, somehow, pinned it's evil world ending plans to 2012, quite a feet seeing it is already online!
The sad thing is, lots of people will probably drink some poison flavored cool-aid and for them the world will end. So I guess, to those people, the predictions where correct. For the rest of us we will likely do what the Mayans said to do on this date: PAAARTY!
*On this date the only thing they have predicted is astrological events. So of all the predictions about 2012 at least we know some will happen just as planned... we will get a nice solace just as the Mayans planned for.
Oh and for shits and giggles I was the one who said the world would end in the poll. Hey, now this way if the universe does want to make a fool out of me I win either way.
