2012?

[Ladewig]

Chapter 28 of the book is available online: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/fingerprintgods/fingerprintgods07.htm

 

[Darth Rotor]

Hello all, I am new to this forum, but not new to James Randi. I am a skeptic through and through.

Now the other day at work, a coworker starts spouting something about the end of the world in 2012, citing things lie the mayan calendar, weakening magnetic field, sun activity, etc.

I was just wondering what everyone here thinks about it, all a google search brings up is site after site of 2012 doom with no citing sources, and few names. Although each site claims to have scientific evidence and numerous scientists who support it as well.

So what does everyone here think? Real or false? Some good points?

One of the years picked for the birth of Jesus is what was once called 4 BC, which puts 2008 AD as 2012 AD (now often called CE)

In that case, 2012 is almost over. (2008 + 4 = 2012)

I'll drink a celebratory toast to us having overcome the 2012 destruction on New Year's Eve, and then get all gloomy due to us having reached peak oil, oh drat.

 

[imjohn]

I have a hard time honoring the spiritual wisdom of any peoples who sacrificed their fellow humans in bloody rituals.

Not very PC of me, I know.

 

[maxfrost]

Ladewig, thanks for the footnote.

How is it we're able to correlate the Mayan calendar with ours, especially as their civilization (as opposed to their population) petered out sometime around the tenth century? Is there a Rosetta stone for Mayan, Aztec, and Gregorian calendars hiden deep inside the Vatican somewhere?

 

[Cavemonster]

This brings up an interesting question.
Seeing that in many many cases, people will not be convinced by reason...

would it be immoral to profit from their belief that the end of the world is coming?