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Originally posted by ninetyninej Nice teaser. The Mayan calendar stops at 12-21-2012 - funny how it got blown up this much. The end of the world has been predicted with set dates in the past and here we are. 1999 was vastly popular, including one from Nostradamus for July 1999. No Armageddon that year, but damn that was a great year for edm. 45 Failed End of the World Predictions in 1999

yea there are a lot of superstitious people in this world, which is why doomsday theories will always be popular among them. a thousand dooms dates have come and passed and a thousand more will continue to be created as long as people are fascinated with this stupid idea. it's ironic though that the mayans never believed the end date of their long count calendar meant the end of the world. in fact most people agree that it was interpreted to be a time of great spiritual enlightenment with no such sinister meaning. i've read some of the 'mayan prophecy' theories, and they are completely illogical. if you understand how the mayan keep time with their many calendars, you would know that the long count calendar was created to record history since their second longest calendar only lasted 52 years (one lifetime). the end of every calendar represents the beginning of a new cycle, not the end of everything. that the long count ends when it does is simply because they had no better means of recording dates beyond a 5126 year cycle with this system. when you learn about some of their spiritual beliefs, it becomes even more unlikely that a great enlightenment will occur on this date...unless of course you count thousands of wackjobs around the world drinking the koolaid on 2012 a spiritual enlightenment upon the gene pool

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