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01 Jan 2010, 6:13 pm

peple say 2010 will be a bad year just like 2012 is most likey to be.

what do you say?



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01 Jan 2010, 7:03 pm

I say live in the year that is actually here, and the others will take care of themselves! 8) Seriously, I don't know why people don't tire of dire prophecies that never come true, anyway. Remember the millenium scare!


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01 Jan 2010, 7:35 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
I say live in the year that is actually here, and the others will take care of themselves! 8) Seriously, I don't know why people don't tired of dire prophecies that never come true, anyway. Remember the millenium scare!


There was also a millennium scare at the first millennium and not only that, the apostles were convinced the end of the world was imminent then. It's good for whipping up sociopolitical frenzies, I suppose.


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01 Jan 2010, 7:44 pm

All this talk about 2012 being the end of the world is crazy! :lol: I think it's just people with evil intentions trying to spread more fear into the public, so that they can control them. :roll: Yes, something could happen two years from now, but just know that if it is something bad, it is most likely man-made. If it is something good, then well... I guess we'll just learn to enjoy it for what it is.


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01 Jan 2010, 9:17 pm

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I don't understand why people would think that would be true, if people really think that.

I don't see any logical reason to assume 2010 would be a bad year, or 2012, or any other year.
Something bad could always happen, as well as something good.


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01 Jan 2010, 10:51 pm

Its human nature . . . prepare for the worst and if it doesnt come to pass . . . just say it was delayed. Fear has always been a rallying point for those who seek some higher social standing (medieval ages is proof of that; 450 AD - 1450 AD fear held power, but most nations back then and before did). Right now, 2012 has so many meanings, both implied and . . . well, implied. Simple answer, that no one wants to admit, is that we know NOTHING!! Could the world be destroyed . . . yes . . . but it has the same chance of that every year/month/day/hour/minute/second. My prediction for 2012: well, its gonna be a hot market as those who are devout doom followers will commit suicide (probably taking a few with them), and the con men who convinced them will be rich beyond belief. Human nature is an odd thing . . . it seeks self preservation, yet can be convinced to believe something so false, and end its life. Guess i'll just label that a Fear Paradox :scratch: . On the other hand, if in the absolutely remote chance the world does go kaboom, i'll just sit outside, pop open a 6-pack, feet in a pool, then bend over and kiss my arse goodbye when the time comes :lol: :lol: :lmao: :lmao: . My signature sums it up.


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01 Jan 2010, 11:30 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
I say live in the year that is actually here, and the others will take care of themselves! 8) Seriously, I don't know why people don't tire of dire prophecies that never come true, anyway. Remember the millenium scare!


Seconded.


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01 Jan 2010, 11:40 pm

What are we supposed to be hearing?...;)


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02 Jan 2010, 10:23 am

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02 Jan 2010, 1:09 pm

pakled wrote:
What are we supposed to be hearing?...;)


That threw me too. I've not bothered opening the thread until now because the subject line didn't make sense to me. Doesn't seem like I've missed much anyway.


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02 Jan 2010, 2:15 pm

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braiden wrote:
peple say 2010 will be a bad year just like 2012 is most likey to be.

what do you say?

braiden this is the Computers, Math, Science, and Technology board, nowhere does it say
pseudoscience or crackpot theories in the title, Perhaps this should be posted in PP & R



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02 Jan 2010, 9:38 pm

I would give it both math and science, it comes from two of the first math peoples, Sumarian and Mayan. They were related, and the math is the same. Both say that the age ends, the Fifth Sun. Both date it from the end of the Forth Sun, 26,000 years ago. The Science end is we do get hit with meteors in waves, about 26,000 years, and it makes a mess of things.

Both say a large planet comes through, Mayan called it a Feathered Serpent, Sumarians Marduk. They describe a long period comet, and a big one. For all of our tech, we will not see it till it passes the gas giants and lights up.

Looking back, there are 1.5 Kilometer holes in the ground spaced about 26,000 years apart. Barriger in Arizona, and Lonar in India, are 50,000 years old, and still look fresh. The next wave hit and an ice age followed. Most will hit the ocean, everyone has flood stories.

Five Suns is the age of the modern species of humans, just like us, and would have noticed such things.

The Mayans based time on the 52 year Sun Venus cycle, a hundred of those is a Long Count, 5,200 years, five of those an age, a Sun, 26,000 years.

Each 52 year cycle starts on the Winter Soltice, with the day and month One Reed,

Mayan and Sumarian said the same, it is the day the god comes.

So go Google the holes in the ground, their dates, and you can try denying that.



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03 Jan 2010, 2:34 am

braiden wrote:
peple say 2010 will be a bad year just like 2012 is most likey to be.

what do you say?


Every year is a bad year for somebody.

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03 Jan 2010, 3:15 am

ruveyn wrote:
braiden wrote:
peple say 2010 will be a bad year just like 2012 is most likey to be.

what do you say?


Every year is a bad year for somebody.

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Thats right. My uncle said 2009 was his worst year ever. Then on december 27th he died.

Guess he was right.


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03 Jan 2010, 8:42 am

PlatedDrake wrote:
My prediction for 2012: well, its gonna be a hot market as those who are devout doom followers will commit suicide (probably taking a few with them)
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Then it will always work when some say 'this year will be a bad year' :D
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Human nature is an odd thing . . . it seeks self preservation, yet can be convinced to believe something so false, and end its life. Guess i'll just label that a Fear Paradox :scratch:
I'd say that's also a self-fulfilling prophecy :D (they're afraid to die so they kill themselves)
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My uncle said 2009 was his worst year ever. Then on december 27th he died.

Guess he was right.
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03 Jan 2010, 9:12 am

I would just ask then that if the Mesoamerican calendar repeats and the last cycle finished in 3113 BC, what happened that year that we know of that was so bad?

Is there a record of anything happening? When I've searched from 3200 BC to 3000 BC, it's just a bit of the same old same old. If anything, it was about the time the civilisation was starting to develop into mega-civilisations.