Mayans did NOT predict an apocalypse for this December!

[karl]

Experts say Maya made prophecies but none about the end of the world
Other prophecies made by Maya civilization go beyond 2012 believing more years to come

As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Maya calendar have been racing to convince people that the Maya didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year.
Some experts are now saying the Maya may indeed have made prophecies, just not about the end of the world.
Archaeologists, anthropologists and other experts met Friday in the southern Mexico city of Merida to discuss the implications of the Maya Long Count calendar, which is made up of 394-year periods called baktuns.


See full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210783/Mayan-experts-race-convince-people-tribe-did-NOT-predict-apocalypse-December-2012.html#ixzz283BNIKuI

[Breakeven]

i have to say i read alot about this before.. its really interesting..

[Haufen]

What fucking moron believed in that shit anyway?

[TheMatrix]

I'm going to make a service, called "Keep your money safe after 2012!". Basically, you give all your money to me, and I'll keep it safe for you during the apocalypse. Of course, you shouldn't expect it back when it doesn't happen... :P

[Nathaniel]

What fucking moron believed in that shit anyway?

This, really.

I saw the title and I facepalmed.

[Breakeven]

I'm going to make a service, called "Keep your money safe after 2012!". Basically, you give all your money to me, and I'll keep it safe for you during the apocalypse. Of course, you shouldn't expect it back when it doesn't happen... :P

omg best idea ever lol ,can i be a partner? :P

[Jess]

I can't believe some people would actually believe that the world was going to end in December, just because the Mayan calendar "ended"

[Jimmy Page]

Tbh I understand the Mayans,making a calendar that long,I would also have said "fuck this shit I'm done now!" when coming as far as 2012

[Zarakly]

Okay, I don't understand where the end of the Mayan calendar was recited at being the end of the world. I could've sworn I read somewhere that it was the end of the cycle of the calendar and that it just recycles around. The end of it should be celebrated not feared...

[Empty Spaces]

Good morning.

[Carlyle]

We went over this a little this past week actually in a class, and frankly, a lot of things could've happened. Maybe they ran out of stone, they didn't FEEL like continuing the calender, etc. Some of them are pretty unlikely, but they're still possible.

[Nellerin]

Even if they did predict an apocalypse it would not happen this year.

When they were setting up their calendar leap years were not a thing and therefore "2012" would have been like many years ago lol.

[Magical]

But that's the thing. The Mayan calendar DOESN'T end there.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/05/safe-new-mayan-calendar-discovered-doesnt-end-2012/52191/

http://news.yahoo.com/mayan-calendar-discovered-doesnt-end-2012-205022436.html

[MisterSix]

I don't understand all these claims of the end of the world.
Unlike Y2K theres not much money to be made out of them

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

I really dont believe any of it at all...

[Infidelitas]

And Y3K is going to happen too.... :P

[Mob Boss]

Awww, I was going to build a rocketship to launch me to another planet. Mehh.., but, seriously I'm glad for those cuckoos who actually thought this was real, can sleep at night without having to harvest canned food and water bottles.

[TheMatrix]

And Y3K is going to happen too.... :P

Y2K38 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) will happen first, if anything. :P

[FreeFall]

Oh goodie I can open my presents this year!
Seriously though, I was baffled people could believe that.

[Noirtier]

Personally, I've always loved studying the ancient Mesoamerican cultures. So last year, when the whole "Mayans 2012" thing came up, obviously my curiosity was piqued. As such, I went and did some research. What I came up with? It's all total bologna. Any expert in Mayan research will tell you that it's just the end of another baktun, and that doesn't mean diddly squat about any magnetic pole shifting or shit like that. People buy into this stuff all the time though, and that's the sad part. Maybe it just shows the ignorance of our culture.

[riguy99]

it was a complete hoax from the beginning. the calender "expired" but now that it "expired" it was take 394 years for it to "expire" again. soon every one will think the world will end every year. wait that is already happening.

[HowlingSnail]

Wasn't it supposedly the end of a Mayan era? The Mayans would have considered it a deeply religious time, but not the end of the world. They'd already had several eras end. They were only about 5000 years I believe.

[SosbanFach]

It's interesting. The end of this cycle of the Mayan calendar coincides with the twenty-first of December 2012 on the Gregorian calendar. The end of this cycle of the Gregorian calendar is the thirty-first of December, 2012. Perhaps we should all worry about the end of the world every New Year's Eve?