Forget Mayan Calender 2012 prediction...

[TanyaLovesPooh]

So passing judgment/the Rapture will only take 1-1/2 hours (from 8:30-10 p.m.)?

Too funny

 

[Buckalew11]

So passing judgment/the Rapture will only take 1-1/2 hours (from 8:30-10 p.m.)?

A line NO ONE would want a Fastpass for!

 

[charming23]

So passing judgment/the Rapture will only take 1-1/2 hours (from 8:30-10 p.m.)?

That seems like a short time for rapture, maybe it will be like "rapture light".

 

[Pikester]

I live in NYC and this billboard is at a major intersection, so I guess there's no excuse for us NYers to not heed the warning!

Drove by one of those signs on the way to Long Island a couple of weekends ago. Had my 70 something christian grandmother in the van with me who took one look at it and said, "Beware false prophets."

 

[Loves Disney]

I don't buy the end of the world prophecies and I certainly don't believe anyone can pinpoint the exact date...but in my own paranoia, I worry about all these natural disasters. I'm one who tends to freak out over small things and I truly want to believe that the end of the world is not in the near future. I have been online looking for explanations of all these consecutive natural disasters and haven't found much - only that they link to the end of the world. That's not what I want to hear. Can anyone here give me some piece of mind about this? I'd love to get some sleep tonight haha. Especially after discovering that apparently the day of my college graduation is the beginning of the end.... lol. I'd like to think that I can look forward to getting married, starting a family, buying a house, retiring, and dying in my old age lol. As I graduate and progress in a very success relationship with my boyfriend, I hate clouding any excitement with worry that I won't get to see much after next year. Again, I'm not one to believe exact dates, but a part of me still tends to worry and think "what if...?"

 

[goofy4prez]

This guy, Harold Egbert Camping, and his family radio network predicted the world would end in September 1994. Now he claims 5/21/2011 will be the rapture and the world being destroyed 5 months later on October 21st, 2011.


As for the Mayans: If they were able to predict the end of the world in 2012 why were they not able to predict the Spanish were coming?

 

[charming23]

I don't buy the end of the world prophecies and I certainly don't believe anyone can pinpoint the exact date...but in my own paranoia, I worry about all these natural disasters. I'm one who tends to freak out over small things and I truly want to believe that the end of the world is not in the near future. I have been online looking for explanations of all these consecutive natural disasters and haven't found much - only that they link to the end of the world. That's not what I want to hear. Can anyone here give me some piece of mind about this? I'd love to get some sleep tonight haha. Especially after discovering that apparently the day of my college graduation is the beginning of the end.... lol. I'd like to think that I can look forward to getting married, starting a family, buying a house, retiring, and dying in my old age lol. As I graduate and progress in a very success relationship with my boyfriend, I hate clouding any excitement with worry that I won't get to see much after next year. Again, I'm not one to believe exact dates, but a part of me still tends to worry and think "what if...?"

I used to be like this and finally have just given up figuring "whatever happens, happens". Natural disasters have been happening for years and I think the only reason why we know so much today about them is due to the global media and internet. If not for those two we would not know too much about what happens around the world.

Try not to worry and enjoy life.

 

[denisenh]

This guy, Harold Egbert Camping, and his family radio network predicted the world would end in September 1994. Now he claims 5/21/2011 will be the rapture and the world being destroyed 5 months later on October 21st, 2011.


As for the Mayans: If they were able to predict the end of the world in 2012 why were they not able to predict the Spanish were coming?

Camping came up with the date by some funky mathematical calculation..... just seems odd.
Is he still alive? If so I can't wait to hear what he will have to say on May 22, 2011.
as an aside....do you think people thought Moses was weird? I am sure there were skeptics then too, so probably. Those must have been scary days, back then.

 

[saradela]

This guy, Harold Egbert Camping, and his family radio network predicted the world would end in September 1994. Now he claims 5/21/2011 will be the rapture and the world being destroyed 5 months later on October 21st, 2011.


As for the Mayans: If they were able to predict the end of the world in 2012 why were they not able to predict the Spanish were coming?

O yes, they Knew........

Maya prophecy foretold specific events. The early Catholic Bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, described Maya prophecies for the day, for the year, for the katun, and for the coming of the Spaniards. The prophets were called chilans, and each served as priest, registrar, prophet, and examiner of officials alongside a political lord. One of the most famous was named Ah Cambal, who lived in the area around Mani in the province dominated by the Tutul Xiu lineage. Shortly before the coming of the Spaniards, he prophesied that his people would soon be subjugated by a white, bearded race coming from the east who would preach to them one God and the power of a tree, called uahom che, represented by a cross and meaning "a tree erected with great virtue against the evil spirit." As a result the Tutul Xiu group (and certain other Yucatecans) welcomed the Spaniards. What the chilan had in mind was apparently the return of Quetzalcoatl and his white-robed priests.

 

[Buckalew11]

They sure thought Noah was weird! lol Of course, they had never seen rain before yet he was building an ark.

 

[Aisling]

O yes, they Knew........

Maya prophecy foretold specific events. The early Catholic Bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, described Maya prophecies for the day, for the year, for the katun, and for the coming of the Spaniards. The prophets were called chilans, and each served as priest, registrar, prophet, and examiner of officials alongside a political lord. One of the most famous was named Ah Cambal, who lived in the area around Mani in the province dominated by the Tutul Xiu lineage. Shortly before the coming of the Spaniards, he prophesied that his people would soon be subjugated by a white, bearded race coming from the east who would preach to them one God and the power of a tree, called uahom che, represented by a cross and meaning "a tree erected with great virtue against the evil spirit." As a result the Tutul Xiu group (and certain other Yucatecans) welcomed the Spaniards. What the chilan had in mind was apparently the return of Quetzalcoatl and his white-robed priests.

Yes. I saw this on a NatGeo documentary. They really did appear to predict the ending of theor culture. But when I was in Mexico, I spoke yo some Mayan historians who say Dec. 12, 2012 is not the end of the world, bu a new beginning that has something to do with our collective consiousnesses, like there's going to be a great awakening. But even they don't know what that really means. But there's no destruction at the end of the Mayan calendar, according to them. Just some kind of change. Hmmm who knows.

 

[golfgal]

Yes. I saw this on a NatGeo documentary. They really did appear to predict the ending of theor culture. But when I was in Mexico, I spoke yo some Mayan historians who say Dec. 12, 2012 is not the end of the world, bu a new beginning that has something to do with our collective consiousnesses, like there's going to be a great awakening. But even they don't know what that really means. But there's no destruction at the end of the Mayan calendar, according to them. Just some kind of change. Hmmm who knows.

Maybe with the going's on next week , Dec 12, 2012 is when it all 'stops'.

DH said yesterday as we were passing this sign that if this guy is right, no one would be around for him to say "I told you so" so what he will probably do is say "I saved you all with my warnings" when it doesn't happen.

 

[luvsJack]

Camping came up with the date by some funky mathematical calculation..... just seems odd.
Is he still alive? If so I can't wait to hear what he will have to say on May 22, 2011.
as an aside....do you think people thought Moses was weird? I am sure there were skeptics then too, so probably. Those must have been scary days, back then.

That's why they built the golden statue to worship isn't it? Because they thought Moses was wrong and stopped believing him.

Not saying that we should put ANY truth to any of this. All anyone has to do is read to know that no one knows when the rapture is coming.

I really have to wonder why this guy (or group) thinks he (they) have some kind of "inside" information.

 

[Loves Disney]

I used to be like this and finally have just given up figuring "whatever happens, happens". Natural disasters have been happening for years and I think the only reason why we know so much today about them is due to the global media and internet. If not for those two we would not know too much about what happens around the world.

Try not to worry and enjoy life.

Thanks

That's what I tell myself lol. I just put it all on the fact that the media is involved in everything that goes on. What scares me sometimes, though, is hearing things like "worst earthquake in centuries" and putting these disasters on a new level of severity. All these "record breaking" disasters are happening one after the other. Maybe it just follows the saying, "when it rains, it pours?"

 

[charming23]

Thanks

That's what I tell myself lol. I just put it all on the fact that the media is involved in everything that goes on. What scares me sometimes, though, is hearing things like "worst earthquake in centuries" and putting these disasters on a new level of severity. All these "record breaking" disasters are happening one after the other. Maybe it just follows the saying, "when it rains, it pours?"

It is hard when you constantly hear "worst earthquake in centuries" but I tend to believe they do that to get a rise out of people. Earthquakes happen everyday especially in the ring of fire where most if not all the big ones have occurred. I always tell my mom that when we get a 9.0 here in Ohio, I will start worrying, lol

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

Well, on the 21st I will be in the Magic Kingdom, so I figure I may as well go out in the happiest place on Earth!

 

[goofy4prez]

It is hard when you constantly hear "worst earthquake in centuries" but I tend to believe they do that to get a rise out of people. Earthquakes happen everyday especially in the ring of fire where most if not all the big ones have occurred. I always tell my mom that when we get a 9.0 here in Ohio, I will start worrying, lol

The only way we are going to see a 9.0 in North East Ohio is if the Indians win the World Series or the Browns win the Superbowl. In otherwords, almost impossible

 

[Loves Disney]

It is hard when you constantly hear "worst earthquake in centuries" but I tend to believe they do that to get a rise out of people. Earthquakes happen everyday especially in the ring of fire where most if not all the big ones have occurred. I always tell my mom that when we get a 9.0 here in Ohio, I will start worrying, lol

Haha, oh yeah, it's very hard - especially when it comes to me, a person who will worry about something at the drop of a hat haha. And yeah, that's true, I hope it is just to get a rise.

I wish the media would capture the other side of this...seeing a billboard say "The world's end cannot be predicted" would be a bit more pleasant

 

[Aisling]

DH said yesterday as we were passing this sign that if this guy is right, no one would be around for him to say "I told you so" so what he will probably do is say "I saved you all with my warnings" when it doesn't happen.

If it doesn't happen, I hope Mr. Camping just comes out and says he was wrong. These kind of people usually come up with a cockamamie excuse like they didn't mean this but meant that. That's when I lose respect for them, when their egos of being wrong are more important than their actual beliefs.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

It is hard when you constantly hear "worst earthquake in centuries" but I tend to believe they do that to get a rise out of people. Earthquakes happen everyday especially in the ring of fire where most if not all the big ones have occurred. I always tell my mom that when we get a 9.0 here in Ohio, I will start worrying, lol

One reason the media sometimes call it "the worst earthquake in centuries" is because of the amount of damage done or lives lost. Well, the population density is so much higher now that we see more damage and more people killed.

I saw a show not too long ago about Mount Vesuvius. It has not erupted in many centuries, but scientists say it will erupt again before long. Last time, it wiped out the city of Pompeii but that was just a few thousand people. Now there are millions of people living close enough to be killed if it erupts.

The other thing to keep in mind is that in terms of the age of the earth, a few centuries is not very long. The earthquakes we've been seeing lately are all along the fault lines where the plates making up the earth's surface shift. The pressure tends to build up over time - like centuries - until they reach a point where the plates move. But because they are all interconnected and overlapping, you tend to get a series of earthquakes because the movement in one area affects the building up of pressure in another area.

Some of the other disasters - the apparent increase in hurricanes and tornadoes - may be due to climate change (global warming).

I do think, though, that this justifies me making a quick trip to WDW. Must fit in one more visit before the end of the world, right?

Teresa