Do you believe the world is going to end in December 2012?

[gfev5150]

it's not just the Mayan calendar.
a lot of prophets like nostradamus predicted the end of the world at the beginning of the new millenium. seems like a good time for an apocalypse, beginning of a millenium. really sells it. if it was say, 1754 that someone predicted, that'd seem a little random wouldn't it? It'd be tough to take that guy seriously if he said 1754.

the world's not gonna end, it might change though.

[gfev5150]

it's not just the Mayan calendar.
a lot of prophets like nostradamus predicted the end of the world at the beginning of the new millenium. seems like a good time for an apocalypse, beginning of a millenium. really sells it. if it was say, 1754 that someone predicted, that'd seem a little random wouldn't it? It'd be tough to take that guy seriously if he said 1754.

the world's not gonna end, it might change though.

2012 isn't random?

i mean saying "beginning of new millenium" isn't random.  and the mayan calendar ends on year 5126 i believe (2012). 5126 is the number at the end of a cycle (it's a complicated cycle indeed).

[gfev5150]

Considering a millenium is a human construct, assuming that a millenium is not an abstract time for the world to end, also entails assuming that humans have tapped into something with their construct.

Like I said earlier, 2012 could be something very mundane to us and have been very important to them. Probably just something interesting astrologically.

isn't there a meteor scheduled to pass very close to the earth around that time?

probably. we're "overdue" for one. Earth usually gets hit every 50 mil years. It's been 61 million since the last one.

[gfev5150]

Gambler's fallacy

Yep, but if there are scientists that expect a meteor on that day then it's a stronger possibility than just being "due". Plus the other way to look at it is we've already made it 61 million years, what's another million more? What's another thousand, or hundred more?