I hope mine is slow and painful. More crisp for me in the afterlife

Um.......

You don't wait for change. Really, YOU should be the change in your life. Not some questionable event.

Since the Mayan calendar is retroactive, it has ended thousands upon thousands of times before.

Nothing will happen.

This is the same stupid [censored] as Y2K and 6/6/06 just a bunch of moronic hype that translates into a litany of crappy movies capitalizing on the fear and superstition of the masses. First of all the Mayans never specifically said the world would end and we would all die in 2012, second of all the Mayans themselves dismissed this theory and second of all just because they built pyramids doesn't mean they know everything about everything. You might as well be waiting on the Ragnarok and Gehenna while you are at it.

I hope something happens.

Something will happen. It will...

2012 is a load of -beeeeeeeeep- and you all know it.

I think all the firm believers in the prophecy will go out of their way to end the world, just to prove a point and to avoid the dreaded "I told you so". Be the prophecy.

Nothing will happen. The Mayans either got tired of making the calender or they had a war with someone so they had to stop making the calender. If I'm wrong, though, I'm going to die doing what I love: playing video games.

Hey, better prepared that sorry!
http://www.2012store.net/
Now you know where that 200 year-old Salsbury steak in FO3 comes from...

Do you know what happens after the end of the 13th Baktun? The 14th Baktun starts on kin 1.
The 13th baktun ends on Dec 21st, 2012 just as the 20th Century ended Dec 31st, 1999 (or Dec 31st, 2000, whichever your point of view)

The baktun is simply the highest cycle in the Mayan calendar.
Just like we have day-week-month-year-decade-century, the Mayans have kin-uinal-tun-katun-baktun
(ok, so I was born In Yucatan, Mexico and I am showing off, sue me )

And the Mayas never predicted anything close to the end of the world. There actually are Mayan steles that mention dates in the 40th century. This whole thing started mid-80's with some bogus astronomy by the usual doomsday-prophet types.

Yeah, I was close. It was still the end of a cycle so I was half right though a bit too ambitious

Something may happen. Sure it's not going to be the Mayan apocalypse, but we may (and will!) always get earthquakes, terrorist attacks, an Uwe Boll film and many other terrible things. :nod:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132130/ , this is a better in what might happen, I believe, not the big hit 2012. Not the whole Earth is destroyed. Why does everyone mention Y2K, it had nothing to do with mother nature. It was about computer problem with date.

I think the only damaged caused on 12/21/12 will be what looters and rioters cause. No, the world won't end, at least, if it does, the Mayans wouldn't have predicted it. It would be totally unrelated.

I'm sure some people will go crazy, and people may die in the process. But the world won't end. Me? I'll be gaming.

The damage has already been done. The movie 2012 was already released. It was that bad.

That day will pass as uneventful as every other day. I remember when I was in high school and people were getting worked up about it being 6/6/2006. I guess they forgot about the three numbers between the second and third 6 orsomething.

http://2012hoax.org

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

I'm just hoping for people to wake up, in general, to the crap being tossed around. Scare mongering, the advertising that feeds off of it, the tv channels that are owing their existence to it atm, and that we take some simpler values to heart. If that means the death of the old way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

I'm also dreaming here, I know.

People are mentioning Y2K because everyone got worked up over a whole lotta' nuthin' on December 31st, 1999.
The same thing is happening with this 2012 business.

Nothing happened due to Y2K because problems were fixed beforehand. Some small stuff still happened, i beleive? Nothing will happen at 2012 because nothing was ever going to happen at 2012. Unless the universe has a twisted sense of humor :cold:

i dont think anythings going to happen at all. i just think the mayans didnt have a need to make a calender past 2012 when they were making them in and around year 1000

That still doesn't answer my question.

Oh, God..

The Mayan calendar doesn't end. It is just a calendar. What happens after a week ends? A month? A year? A decade? A century? A new one starts. Same thing with baktuns. One ends, another starts.

To try to answer your question: People are relating Y2K with 2012 because each's doomsday theories were/are ridiculous and utterly face-palm worthy.

Besides, most, if not all of the 2012 theories have been debunked anyway, by professionals: http://2012hoax.org

Yes it does.

No it doesn't. I'm talking about those who knew it was about computer issue and not mother nature. Why those have to say this. I never heard of the end of the world form Y2K bug but only a date issue in electronic. What's to fear?

So, since this had nothing to do with mother nature, why even compare it to 2012. Two different things, none of my friends and family even thought of natural disasters.



Nevermind, but the question is still unanswered.