2012 Myth
In response to a recent discussion on one of the WU threads I found an article on Live Science about the 2012 doomsday myth. Yes, myth. The Mayan calendar does end in 2012, but lets face it, it had to end somewhere. There is no corresponding portent of doom. The Mayans did not predict the end of the world, they just ended the calendar, presumably because it was carried out pretty far ahead and could be continued when it got a little closer to 2012. Unfortunately they won't be needing to extend it any further and, in fact, did not need to extend it as far as they did. Not everyone who believes 2012 is important thinks it will spell doom for mankind. Some believe 2012 will be the year an age of global harmony begins. The article explains some of the reasons for the myth and is quite interesting. I hope you all enjoy it.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/091105-2021-doomsday.html
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/091105-2021-doomsday.html
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after our previous discussion i just had to post this. so no more suicide plans dumbfounded. the world goes on and so do you. 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/06/09 at 09:52 PM
What you've bought into, Patty, is "the party line" produced and propagated to keep the masses in line and avoid panic!
The Mayans were really visitors from another planet that had had to stop on this ball of mud to fix their ship. While here they observed something that was going to cause the planet's demise in 2012.
Now, there's a myth for you! 😏
The Mayans were really visitors from another planet that had had to stop on this ball of mud to fix their ship. While here they observed something that was going to cause the planet's demise in 2012.
Now, there's a myth for you! 😏
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/06/09 at 10:17 PM
great job expat! are you really a sci/fi writer? :wow:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/06/09 at 10:26 PM
No but Issac, David, Anne, Ben and others are well known around this house.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/07/09 at 01:05 AM
What the @#$#$ good is free lovin' going to do me when I'm 65? Is there going to be enough Viagra to go around? Should I start stockpiling now?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/07/09 at 01:15 PM
you are married sweetie. if that means the same thing to you as it does at my house you won't need THAT much viagra. 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/07/09 at 01:27 PM
melanie-
so this is the dawning of the age of aquarius?
so this is the dawning of the age of aquarius?
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/07/09 at 01:30 PM
i was just quoting the song sweetie. everything important is always for the rich. hey, have you ever read the book 'the last gasp' it is really fascinating and the ending came to mind.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/09 at 10:13 AM
definitely freaky mw. there are historic events that are covered in several different religious or cultural texts so lets hope this end of world stuff won't prove to be one of them. it wouldn't have mattered when the calendar stopped, there would be doomsday predictions about it. that is the nature of man, if there is no understandable or obvious reason for something we will make up our own story. until science started giving us reasons for natural happenings (lightning ect.) people made up myths and stories to explain them. nature abhores a void, and that is true with imformation too. i'm glad you enjoyed the post sweetie!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/09 at 12:41 PM
proximity to a problem often blinds even the most brilliant. no poeple find it easy to change the fundamental way of doing things either. nothing impedes change like the 'we have always done it that way.' attitude.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/09 at 12:52 PM
a milf is a terrible thing to waste. :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/09 at 01:09 PM
23 is a mystic number somehow i guess. i googled it and it seems to turn up alot. this interests me because my birthday is 6/23
my dad's was 7/23 and his dad's was 8/23. my niece's is 8/23 also. it hasn't exactly brought me good luck that i can see though.
my dad's was 7/23 and his dad's was 8/23. my niece's is 8/23 also. it hasn't exactly brought me good luck that i can see though.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/09 at 01:23 PM
I'm not a mystic or into all the astrology hocus pocus (no offense to those who are, of course). I don't visit fortune tellers or get my palm read. I don't lock myself in my room when my horoscope says the day is going to suck. And I freely admit that I am weird, which is what drew me to this site in the first place. However, when I was eight years old, I had a dream. I remember it clearly. I was standing on a beach. The sand was a shimmering silver. The sky was a dull golden color. And as I stood there, I heard a voice in my head. It told me several things but the one that stood out was that I was going to die in thirty years, when I turn 38.
I'll be 38 in 2012.
I'll be 38 in 2012.
Posted by Nethie on 11/09/09 at 12:56 AM
that is definitely one scary dream nethie!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/09/09 at 07:36 AM
I like the way you think, Dumbfounded. :lol:
patty, I don't remember it as being scary. There was a real sense of peace on that beach.
patty, I don't remember it as being scary. There was a real sense of peace on that beach.
Posted by Nethie on 11/09/09 at 11:22 AM
lol wally! that's funny! :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/10/09 at 02:51 PM
don't give up so easily mw. you could always be that sexy dilf for all the 20something babes that survive. 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/10/09 at 09:45 PM
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