has anyone else heard the 12/21/12 rumors?

[Dean Winchester]

it probably won't happen, but I have to admit I am sometimes gullable enough to believe it.

Apparently, a Mayan book predicted December 21, 2012 would be the end of the world years ago, and a lot of people are buying into it. I just heard about it, but part of me is a little tense. However, I am really hoping this is another Y2K type of media scare. Anyways, if we're not supposed to know our exact date of death, how is it written when the end of the world is drawing? But still... it scares me because I haven't accomplished everything I've wanted to and makes me want to make the next 4 years the best just in case.

Who else has heard about this? Opinions pro and con?

[*ClassicPinUp*]

I've heard something like that and I don't buy any of it. Only God knows when this world will end. People have been predicting for years that the "world will end." And here we are. It's just another thing they use to try and stir people up. Y2K is the perfect example of the bullsh*t.
When 2012 comes and goes they'll change the date to 2024. Just something for them to do.
Live your life and don't worry over the things these people come up with.
I personally don't think we'll see the "end" of the world in our lifetime. But again...only God knows. In the mean time I'm not going to listen to the "theories" or waste a minute of my life worrying about it.

[Shine]

I think that end of the world prophecies are fascinating from a storytelling persepective, but I'm not sure how much faith I put in them. Of course, with the way this world is, we might just end up bringing on the end ourselves.

[Dean Winchester]

I've heard something like that and I don't buy any of it. Only God knows when this world will end. People have been predicting for years that the "world will end." And here we are. It's just another thing they use to try and stir people up. Y2K is the perfect example of the bullsh*t.
When 2012 comes and goes they'll change the date to 2024. Just something for them to do.
Live your life and don't worry over the things these people come up with.
I personally don't think we'll see the "end" of the world in our lifetime. But again...only God knows. In the mean time I'm not going to listen to the "theories" or waste a minute of my life worrying about it.
yea, I know. I remember in the mid-90's hearing end-of-world prophecies that Nostradomis predicted the end to come in July 1999, and we're still here and it's March 2008.

I agree, only God knows when the end comes, but it seems like these people are so 100% positive the world is ending that day that it scares you into wondering if they're right. Even tho I honestly think if the people who are making websites and YouTube videos dreading that day, why not just put themselves out of their misery?

but what I noticed is that a lot of people predicted July 1999, Y2K, 12/21/12 and other dates in time both future and past as these really bad days that would change and ruin everything, but I don't ever remember hearing a 9/11/01 prophecy, and that was the worst thing to happen in America in the last 100 years, but there weren't scholars and websites studying the possibility of something bad happening on that date.

[BarneyFife]

My friend believes in it. Everytime i say something about the future not looking good for the children when they get older, or i wonder how high the gas prices will be in 20 years, she always throws "the worlds gonna end in the year 2012, so it doesn't matter" at me. I really don't believe it myself, and i don't worry about it. There's nothing we can do to stop it, if it's true. 90% of the things you worry about, never happens.

[Hollow]

it'll be awfully convenient if it's true. humanity has ****ed itself over, we need to be exterminated already.

[Seth]

it'll be awfully convenient if it's true. humanity has ****ed itself over, we need to be exterminated already.

I'm rather fond of living, thank you very much.

[coffield3]

I have heard stuff like this before, it is just hype how can someone or something predict when the world is going to end? It will end when it ends, but it would be convenient to know when though :lol:

[PZelda]

Bullsh*t. That is all.

[Max Whittaker]

I think it's far likelier that our way of life will end in 2012.

The human race will go on for some time. Our society will not.

[Dean Winchester]

I think it's far likelier that our way of life will end in 2012.

The human race will go on for some time. Our society will not.
so I take it you're a believer?

[Brieannas21]

I'm rather fond of living, thank you very much.

:lol:

I am too, I enjoy waking up every morning walking, talking, and breathing.

[Max Whittaker]

so I take it you're a believer?

I don't believe in the end of the world. Humans will die out eventually, but I don't think it will happen within my lifetime. And when it does happen, the world will still be here. Life on earth will most likely continue. Not necessarily, but most likely. Eventually the planet will become a lifeless hunk of rock. But not in the near foreseeable future.

What I do acknowledge is the frailty of our society and the lack of sustainability that is our way of life. I can certainly see that ending within the next decade.

[EmoJoe]

lolol yeah the world will definitely end, just like the way it did on Y2K and 6/6/06.

[PlayOn]

I never heard of this new end of the world rumor. But a few years before 2006 I was terrified that the world would end 6/6/06, yet here we are talking about ANOTHER rumor. I'm with most of ya'll. I'm going enjoy my life and when Jesus comes, I'll be ready. I hope we zap out of our clothes like in the book 'Left Behind.'
In the Bible it said it could happen in the twinkle of an eye, so who knows?

[Dean Winchester]

first it was Y2K, then it was 06/06/06, now it's 12/21/12... I just know there'll be another end of the world planned for 12/3/45 too.

For those of you who were much older, was there a scare that the end of the world would come on 9/8/76? Since every date that is supposed to draw the end near has a numeric ring to it.

I am surprised nobody expected the end to come at exactly 12:34:56 on 7/8/90

[Sterling Holobyte]

The world is never going to "end", if you believe the Bible.
Though there will be things happening that make it seem like it is.

"World Without End," Ephesians 3:21

[dawsongirl]

Well, my lease will have been up by then, so whatever.


I don't see how the Mayans could have known anything about today, so how could they tell when the world would end? And I love how it's always on cutely numbered days, or like Y2K, 1900s to 2000s. Never some random day, like 8/3/09.

[Ireneparalegal]

I thought the world already came to an end? :lol:

[BarneyFife]

:lol: I thought the world already came to an end? :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

first it was Y2K, then it was 06/06/06, now it's 12/21/12... I just know there'll be another end of the world planned for 12/3/45 too.



Y2K wasn't even the first - this "silly" prediction stuff have been going on for decades. You're too young, but I remember vividly all the rumours saying the world would end in 1984. Not only in science fiction books, (H.D. Wells) but supposedly there was some reference in the bible that Jesus predicted it.

The only thing that came to an end in 1984 was nice fashion and hair! ;)
For those of you who were much older, was there a scare that the end of the world would come on 9/8/76? Since every date that is supposed to draw the end near has a numeric ring to it.

[Seth]

Anyone ever consider the possibility that maybe 13.0.0.0.0 (the date in question) is just going to be another day, just like January 1st, 2000 and June 6 of every year ever ending in "66", ever; and let's not forget about the brazillion other years that someone, at some point, somewhere, thought would be the end of the world.

Unless of course we get hit by a Pluto-sized asteroid on April 14, 2011*. Then we're just all screwed.

*Yes, I made this date up. Don't panic. Yet.

[Pus$y Galore]

The Prophet of the New Millenium: Seth! ;)

As you say - a date, is a date, is a date. No big deal people!

[dawsongirl]

There was some date where a giant asteroid might hit us. I saw it on some science show, but I don't remember the date.

[Dean Winchester]

my magic 8 ball just solved the mystery for me. We will all be dead then (granted, Fidel Castro, Keith Richards and Cher will probably still be alive and kicking). The end of the world is coming at precisely 2:22 pm, 22 seconds in, on February, 22, 2222

[Dean Winchester]

Y2K wasn't even the first - this "silly" prediction stuff have been going on for decades. You're too young, but I remember vividly all the rumours saying the world would end in 1984. Not only in science fiction books, (H.D. Wells) but supposedly there was some reference in the bible that Jesus predicted it.

The only thing that came to an end in 1984 was nice fashion and hair! ;)
For those of you who were much older, was there a scare that the end of the world would come on 9/8/76? Since every date that is supposed to draw the end near has a numeric ring to it.
even tho I was 4-5 in 1984, looking back, you can see how much America was panicing. There was so much obsession over nuclear war around 1983 from The Day After, Testament and Special Bulletin that people probably were planning on dying in 1984, so they were all panicing and worried. Even Prince's "1999" song came out around then and while the song is known as a catchy dance/pop number, the song is about trying to have a good time when the end of the world draws near, since in 1982, they all really thought it was near. Same with "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson from that year, if you really listen to the lyrics, the song is about a nuclear holocaust. Yet here we are, 24 years after 2008.

[Ireneparalegal]

I don't recall any panic in 1983 or even 1984. I am sure if the internet had been around then, it might have sparked something but there was only talk abt that book. Believe me, Y2K sparked more media attention than was talked abt in 1983.

[80sTrivia]

I've heard the rumor for some time now... can't say that I believe it, but I've made peace with the world ending some time soon, so I'll be prepared, just in case! :lol:

[Max Whittaker]

just live life and don't take yourself too seriously. I don't fear death.

[Dean Winchester]

I don't recall any panic in 1983 or even 1984. I am sure if the internet had been around then, it might have sparked something but there was only talk abt that book. Believe me, Y2K sparked more media attention than was talked abt in 1983.
aww, I wasn't sure. I know The Day After, which was a tv movie about a nuclear holocaust (I honestly think people who write movies like that get off on the material, but that's just me) got like 100 million viewers when it aired in 1983, and there were a few other movies made that year about the same idea. So I figured a lot of people around that year were really preparing for the death that was awaiting them in 1984.

IMO, I still wish someone who is "in the know" about these cryptic dates would explain why there was nothing in the cards about 9-11-01, which unlike Y2K, 1984 and 6-6-06, actually had something bad happen.

[Ireneparalegal]

aww, I wasn't sure. I know The Day After, which was a tv movie about a nuclear holocaust (I honestly think people who write movies like that get off on the material, but that's just me) got like 100 million viewers when it aired in 1983, and there were a few other movies made that year about the same idea. So I figured a lot of people around that year were really preparing for the death that was awaiting them in 1984.

IMO, I still wish someone who is "in the know" about these cryptic dates would explain why there was nothing in the cards about 9-11-01, which unlike Y2K, 1984 and 6-6-06, actually had something bad happen.
That's because no one can predict the future that's why. ;) And, if terrorists are going to do something to us, I doubt they would pick an obvious date to attack us. Not that we can do much abt it if we knew.

[crystals]

I've heard of that date, too. I don't really believe it, though. Most likely just one of those things that people make up to make people all worried for nothing. :)

[Dutabi84]

Bullsh*t. That is all.

QFT.

The world won't be ending for several billions of years as the sun grows in size and eventually incinerates Earth. Or we get nailed by a fat meteor before then.

[Lhomme couture]

The world is never going to "end", if you believe the Bible.
Though there will be things happening that make it seem like it is.

"World Without End," Ephesians 3:21

That's a terrible translation. The Greek word aion is used in Ephesians 3:21 and it was referring to one age of the ages in which God will work through humanity, more specifically this age.

21 to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

Paul is expressing glory of those who will come to believe in Christ Jesus in this present age.

[Sterling Holobyte]

That's a terrible translation. The Greek word aion is used in Ephesians 3:21 and it was referring to one age of the ages in which God will work through humanity, more specifically this age.

21 to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

Paul is expressing glory of those who will come to believe in Christ Jesus in this present age.

21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.


That's ALL ages.

[Lhomme couture]

That's ALL ages.

Again, you're choosing one translation over another. It's quite clear from the Literal translation that the Greek indicates one specific age among all of them.

[MrCleveland]

I have.

And ironically, China that year is the year of the Dragon.

[Sterling Holobyte]

Again, you're choosing one translation over another. It's quite clear from the Literal translation that the Greek indicates one specific age among all of them.

Even so, since the Greek word Aion is defined: αιών ο = lifetime generation eternity it should be conceivable that "eternity" is what was meant by the verse. Even if not, God's version of what makes up a "generation" or an "age", could be quite different than our understanding, and not limited to a human timeline.

[80sTrivia]

I'll admit, curiosity got the better of me regarding the 12/21/2012 rumor, so I did some investigating and discovered some disturbing information regarding the mysterious Planet X (Nibiru) and its supposed re-emergence in our solar system in the year 2012. (The Mayans, who were incredible astronomers, would probably have known of this event, which is why they would have ended their calendar in the year 2012.)

At any rate, I'm no conspiracy theorist. If this is going to happen, we certainly will know soon enough. I mean, how long could something as massive as this be covered up? We can all decide for ourselves what to believe and what not to believe.

I know this much: I'm praying this is just another phony end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it rumor...

[EmoJoe]

wow, thats scary :eek: i still dont really believe it though. it seems like we'd know more about it by now if people thought it was actually a threat, i mean, it's only 4 years away..

[80sTrivia]

I'll guess on 12/21/2012, I'll probably be doing what this poor Tibetan monk is doing in the trailer to the new sci-fi disaster flick 2012:  :o :o :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXa82AuwHU

[Hollow]

where are people always getting the idea that cute number sequences and the apocalypse have anything to do with each other?

i also don't see the logic in basing our expectations of reality on some doodles made by people who were just as human as us. they didn't have any better way of foretelling the future than we do. hell, our ability to predict the weather puts us way ahead of them.

[Pus$y Galore]

I'm sorry - I won't be around for it. I died the day the world ended in 1984 as previously predicted.

Anyone reading this post - this really isn't here, because I'm not still here. For that matter, you're not even on an internet forum right now because the internet never caught on before 1984.

Don't know what the rest of you are doing still loafing around here.....:)

[Waterston_Fan]

I'm sorry - I won't be around for it. I died the day the world ended in 1984 as previously predicted.

Anyone reading this post - this really isn't here, because I'm not still here. For that matter, you're not even on an internet forum right now because the internet never caught on before 1984.

Don't know what the rest of you are doing still loafing around here.....:)

:confused: :lol: :wave:

[Waterston_Fan]

Yes, I've heard that date too as to the world ending. Predictions and stuff do interest me though.

[ekkostar]

I think we've messed up the world enough where it won't be the end, but socially the world will implode on itself. There is way too much rage and disturbance in today's society that eventually something has got to give. It seems like these days I cannot go out into public without total tension and chaos ensuing.
I'm sort of hoping for something to happen to our current social networking of cel phones and internet. Eventually there has to be some type of government control aside from FCC because let's face it, the internet is getting out of hand in many areas.

[Pus$y Galore]

:confused: :lol: :wave:


:lol: As Archie would have said, "It's a Fig Neuton of your imagination!". ;)

[Waterston_Fan]

:lol: As Archie would have said, "It's a Fig Neuton of your imagination!". ;)

:lol: :p :cool:

[Better Days]

And I love how it's always on cutely numbered days
When the Mayans made their calendar, they didn't know about the calendar we're using now.

Alot of people here are criticizing something they don't know anything about.

Another example: Y2K was a real computer problem that the experts mostly fixed. Of course the media exagerates everything.

[*Happy Face*]

I don't think so. I agree with Classic Pinup ''Only God knows.''
Besides my oldest niece will be finishing high school around that
time,and my oldest nephew will be in the beginning of junior high school.
So I don't want the world to end. They both dream of playing school sports
and excelling at them at top level.And I have alot more things that I want
to see and do before I die.I want to die when God calls me at a
rightful age.With good health,and in my own bed at home surrounded
by relatives,and whoever else. I don't want to fear anything else.
Because death has a fearful subject already.But we all overcome
that fear knowing that God will send a bright light to guide us to Heaven.

[80sTrivia]

It might come sooner... :eek: :eek: :eek:

From www.spaceweather.com

FIREBALL MANIA: Runners in Sunday's Austin marathon were astonished when a brilliant fireball raced across the Texas sky in broad daylight. The extremely-bright meteor descended at 11 am CST on Feb. 15th less than a day after the FAA reportedly warned U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space debris" from the recent satellite collision between Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251. Click on the image to launch a News 8 Austin video:


Click to view fireball video

What you just saw was not satellite debris. The high speed of the fireball in the News 8 video is typical of a natural meteoroid hitting Earth's atmosphere at tens of km/s. Orbital debris, on the other hand, should crawl across the sky at a fraction of that speed. Astronomer Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has analyzed the video and confirms "it's a natural meteor, definitely." According to Cooke's analysis, the source of the fireball was a meter-class asteroid traveling at about 20 km/s.

Fireball mania started on Friday the 13th, around 10 p.m. EST, when people in central Kentucky heard loud booms, felt their houses shake, and saw a fireball streaking through the sky: reports. "The world appeared to explode--in green!" said one eyewitness. Once again, this appears to be a natural event caused by a meteoroid. Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collided at a speed of about 10 km/s or 22,000 mph. None of the surviving fragments should have been big enough to shake houses in Kentucky. Furthermore, US Space Command, which monitors objects in Earth orbit, has not announced a reentry over Kentucky on Feb. 13th.

Just hours before the Kentucky event, around 20:03 UT on Feb. 13th, multiple cameras in Italy recorded a fireball some 10 times brighter than a full Moon. Astronomer Diego Valeri sends this image from the town of Rieti:


Click to view fireball video (Note: DivX required)

Ferruccio Zanotti of Ferrara, Italy, recorded that same fireball and two others. Italian scientists are plotting the trajectory of the brightest fireball to estimate where it might have hit the ground; a meteorite hunt will soon be underway.

Although it is tempting to attribute the Kentucky and Italian fireballs to debris from the Feb. 10th collision of the Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 satellites, they also seem to be meteoroids, not manmade objects.

Are we experiencing a "fireball shower?" Not necessarily. Meteoroids hit Earth every day. The daily fireballs they produce, however, are seldom reported: 70% streak over uninhabited ocean; half appear in glaring daylight; many are missed because people are asleep, at work, or not looking up. This current spate of fireballs could simply be a few ordinary, random meteoroids that have attracted extraordinary attention because of the recent satellite collision. The jury is still out.

Stay tuned for updates!

[ABlairican Pie]

But Rush has to do their commemorative '2112' album tour that year, so the Mayan prediction HAS TO be wrong!! :rock:

There was a prediction that the world would end in 1982 due to the "Jupiter effect", where the planets lined up and affect the earth, and a supposed prophecy that the world would end in 1988, according to some Christians, never happened. I take comfort that according to Christ, "no one knows the hour".

Time to live than be afraid.

[comedyfreak]

The only thing I've heard about 2012 was we're suppose to have a near miss with an Astroid which is suppose to be on its way toward earth.

[robyrob]

...according to Unix, time will end at precisely 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Because computer time is represented as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpreted as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970 that is the highest number that can be represented and will cause problems for all computer systems that aren't fixed before then.

This will be a bigger problem for computers than Y2K, but it should be fixable.

...and just as a little trivia note, on February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'.