Year 2012 Nonsense

[Stylites]

I am concerned by the hopelessness which our youth is facing in light of the so-called Mayan end-of-the-world “prediction” hype for 2012.

 

[Catholic90]

I am concerned by the hopelessness which our youth is facing in light of the so-called Mayan end-of-the-world “prediction” hype for 2012.

What “hopelessness” is our youth facing?

I have 3 “youth” and none of them appear to be facing “hopelessness”…

Please explain…

 

[puzzleannie]

I don’t know any youth who buy into this hoax, but I know plenty of alarmist conspiricy theorizing millenial great chastisement so-called Christians who are deluded, most of them in a much older cohort.

Is there a link to a news story? no? I thought not.
here is one on Yahoo this morning
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_apocalypse2012

but since Mayans are not Catholic, nor is the History Channel or other outlets trying to make a buck on this thing, why this choice of forum? Has the pope made a statement I missed?

 

[bookgirl32]

I don’t know any youth who buy into this hoax, but I know plenty of alarmist conspiricy theorizing millenial great chastisement so-called Christians who are deluded, most of them in a much older cohort.

Is there a link to a news story? no? I thought not.
here is one on Yahoo this morning
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_apocalypse2012

but since Mayans are not Catholic, nor is the History Channel or other outlets trying to make a buck on this thing, why this choice of forum? Has the pope made a statement I missed?

I just saw that article this morning too. It’s funny b/c I was just last week tryign to find something online shedding factual light on the whole thing and not just propoganda to make money. I could hardly find anything. I was actually shocked this article came out .

 

[JustaServant]

I just saw that article this morning too. It’s funny b/c I was just last week tryign to find something online shedding factual light on the whole thing and not just propoganda to make money. I could hardly find anything. I was actually shocked this article came out .

Here’s the REAL story.
There was this Mayan whose job it was to construct the calenders (pretty cushy if you ask me, maybe he doubled as the royal dishwasher). He got a little carried away one night and just kept going. When he reached the year 2012, he put his hand over his heart and had (quoting Fred Sanford), the ‘big one’.
If he had kept going who knows where he would have stopped.

 

[bookgirl32]

Here’s the REAL story.
There was this Mayan whose job it was to construct the calenders (pretty cushy if you ask me, maybe he doubled as the royal dishwasher). He got a little carried away one night and just kept going. When he reached the year 2012, he put his hand over his heart and had (quoting Fred Sanford), the ‘big one’.
If he had kept going who knows where he would have stopped.

 

[Catholic90]

Here’s the REAL story.
There was this Mayan whose job it was to construct the calenders (pretty cushy if you ask me, maybe he doubled as the royal dishwasher). He got a little carried away one night and just kept going. When he reached the year 2012, he put his hand over his heart and had (quoting Fred Sanford), the ‘big one’.
If he had kept going who knows where he would have stopped.

This is pretty much what I’ve always thought. It was some guys job to make the calendars. He went out so far, and finally thought, “How far do they want me to go?!? Enough already! I want to go fishing! Life is too short to work all the time” And he quit at 2012.

 

[bookgirl32]

This is pretty much what I’ve always thought. It was some guys job to make the calendars. He went out so far, and finally thought, “How far do they want me to go?!? Enough already! I want to go fishing! Life is too short to work all the time” And he quit at 2012.

From what the article said there is some sort of counting of the days involved and the calendars cycle does stop in 2012. From my limited understanding though, even though the stopping was meaningful to Mayan belief, as far as the end of the world goes it is no more meaningful than New Years Eve.

 

[clmowry]

This is pretty much what I’ve always thought. It was some guys job to make the calendars. He went out so far, and finally thought, “How far do they want me to go?!? Enough already! I want to go fishing! Life is too short to work all the time” And he quit at 2012.

Well Windows XP won’t accept a date in the calendar beyond 2099 . Apparently Bill Gates (or at least somebody that used to work for him) thinks that’s when the world is going to end.

Chuck

 

[John7]

I am concerned by the hopelessness which our youth is facing in light of the so-called Mayan end-of-the-world “prediction” hype for 2012.

Did you catch the movie trailer for ‘2012’? From Sony pictures, special effects look great, Hollywood can cash in on anything. Plots probably going to be pretty simple, basically the planet goes kaput. Check out the Movie web site below,

whowillsurvive2012.com/

 

[jorgeraul3]

Well I’m looking forward to the end of the world

and so should most Christians… been to confession lately?

 

[DOShea]

The Mayans have never put forth the idea that “the world ends in 2012.” They do say their current calendar runs out in 2012, but they have another one that comes into play after that. Their calendar extends something similar to the idea of a spiral on a large disk, with each successive year in between the bands of the spiral. There is a particular way to use a calendar like that, and I don’t recall all the details but you are supposed to rotate it each year some amount.

Eventually, you run out of space, and that represents where the year 2013 would be… it just had no more room after 2012. Doesn’t mean the world ends, it means time to get the next calendar up on the wall.

This has been sensationalized by people who enjoy making huge spectacle out of nothing. They take “our calendar runs out in 2012” as a statement in isolation and run with it to the headline writer instead of factually reporting what would be a dull, un-newsworthy story that Mayans have to change their calendar in 2013 like we do every Jan 1st.

 

[puzzleannie]

omg I just looked at my parish calendar, it ends on 12/21/09 THE WORLD IS GOING TO END-- has to be true the church put out this calendar

 

[Pat57]

OK…
I decided to start a pool. everyone send me a dollar to buy a year. If the world ends on your year you get the pot.

 

[Gertabelle]

Well I’m looking forward to the end of the world

and so should most Christians… been to confession lately?

Ain’t it great to have the slate of the soul wiped clean! (if only I could stay there long enough to get back to my pew after absolution)

Gertie

 

[JustaServant]

This is pretty much what I’ve always thought. It was some guys job to make the calendars. He went out so far, and finally thought, “How far do they want me to go?!? Enough already! I want to go fishing! Life is too short to work all the time” And he quit at 2012.

Maybe archeologists misinterpreted it completely and it only meant to say he clocked out at 20 to 12.

 

[Stjudeprayforus]

Not that I believe any of this… Only God knows that hour.

However… its more than just the Mayan calander… it is an ancient Jewish calendar that ends… and Nostradomis has the same prediction. Its has to do with a once in 26 million year event in the solar system.

I have heard kids talk about it too… I have a teenager.

But, my response always is… ONLY GOD knows the hour and the day.

We will all wake up on December 13th.

 

[Newbie2]

Well Windows XP won’t accept a date in the calendar beyond 2099 . Apparently Bill Gates (or at least somebody that used to work for him) thinks that’s when the world is going to end.

Chuck

Perhaps nobody expects Windows to be around in 90 years?

 

[regression]

Well Windows XP won’t accept a date in the calendar beyond 2099 . Apparently Bill Gates (or at least somebody that used to work for him) thinks that’s when the world is going to end.

Chuck

I take from that the world will end 12/31/2099

 

[NewEnglandPriest]

I just set my calendar and clock to Dec 31, 2099 11:59pm. I watched and waited for my computer to blow up or for me to die. And yet all that happened is that while the physical calendar stayed stuck on Dec 31 the time and date showed Fri Jan 1, 2100.

Hopefully in the next 90 years Microsoft will come up with a patch to fix this issue.