Well, that's what everyone was asking around Y2K, too...always something new to hop to. The world is always just about to end.
So does that mean I can lose my virginity before we all die a horrible death now?
The Mayan calendar never claimed the world would end. This is a misrepresentations propagated through mass culture. The Mayans believed this 'world' would end and another would begin, in effect - this current phase will come and end followed by another, like it has happened many times before, according to their beliefs. It was never meant to convey an apocalyptic scenario resulting in the end of all life on Earth.
Thank God!
Get out of here, David Bowie.
I hope this is sarcasm.....The December 2012 date that everybody mentions passed long ago anyway.
The Mayan calendar did not incorporate leap years
Thats awfully convenient.
I don't know how long a big baktun is but I doubt Mayans had any idea of the Milky Way much less how long a galactic period is since it's far longer than entire existence of humans.
The fuck am I going to do with all these canned beans now?!?
2012 is not the end of the world, it is the end of an era, and a beginning of a new one.
This is perfect actually.
Now Roland Emmerich can envision a futuristic society where man has spread out across the solar system ...
... and then blow it all up.
Roland will actually write an ending before filming.
and that doesn't work?You also realize that the Mayans believed they could control their harvest by ripping the heart out of some poor fool's chest?
Well there goes my end of the world orgy.
This sounds like a Simpsons gag.
*blows more dust off of wall*
"No, no! The world will end in 20129!"
I can one-up you. May 11th, 2012 is not the end of the word, it is the end of an era, and a beginning of a new one. HAH! Because I said so. Also it's a Friday which makes us all feel renewed.
What era? Some weird New Age - Age of Aquarius type thing?
If I eat enough of those beans I might be able to fulfill the end of times prediction with a massive gaseous dirty bomb released from my ass.Become a bodybuilder.