The Mayans were so WRONG. - Off-Topic

#1 Posted by SavageBeast (299 posts) - 4 months, 27 days ago - Show Bio

Everyone knows it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to determine the day and time that the world will cease to exist. I don't know why some people get in their head that the Dec 21, 2012 was the D-Day. It was all a LIE! Tell me what you think, viners of comicvine?

#2 Posted by WillPayton (4750 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

The Mayans werent wrong, they didnt predict the end of the world. It just happens their calendar ends on the 21st, just like ours ends on December 31st.

#3 Posted by Kreature (180 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

The Mayans never said the world was gonna end, just that their calendar ends today.

#4 Posted by SavageBeast (299 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

@WillPayton: @Kreature:

Oh. lol

#5 Edited by dccomicsrule2011 (11262 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

I had not a shred of doubt in my mind the world would not end today it's just a bunch of hokus pokus nonsense.

#6 Edited by Strider92 (11183 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

And this surprising why? They also believed cutting out people's hearts on an alter kept the sun rolling across the sky...........they don't really have a good track record with being right now do they!?

#7 Posted by INLIFE (666 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

They Never Predicted The End Of The World.

Only The Beginning Of A Better Era And Maybe The Return Of Their Gods. So Far, They Seem To Be Wrong As These Times Suck And No Gods Have Been Witnessed. But I Am Sure That We Will See An Alleged UFO- Crash Very Soon.............Just Saying.

All Of This Mayan Talk Makes Me Hate The Spaniards Very Much For Burning The Mayan Records And Writings.

Interesting Fact: The Mayan Calender Is Not The Only Calender That Ends Today.

#8 Posted by King Saturn (210805 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

What the hell are you talking about ? The World did end on December 21,2012... all the humans was transported to the planet Ceres ( a duplicate earth ) in a split second and now we exist here as low level metahumans who must inhabit this land until the Celestials return.

#9 Posted by LordMaverick (4388 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

Anybody else want to make another 2012 thread??

#10 Posted by Glitch_Spawn (14688 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

I still cant watch Smallville in peace!

#11 Posted by INLIFE (666 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

@King Saturn said:

What the hell are you talking about ? The World did end on December 21,2012... all the humans was transported to the planet Ceres ( a duplicate earth ) in a split second and now we exist here as low level metahumans who must inhabit this land until the Celestials return.

Now that I think about it, I have been feeling a lot stronger. It's like I can lift a table with one hand effortlessly.

#12 Posted by joewell (5030 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

@LordMaverick: i do i dooooooooo

#13 Posted by Nova`Prime` (3929 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

I was really hoping they were right.. I am tired of these end of the world predictions.

#14 Posted by minigunman123 (3100 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

But... We were gonna get to see Lavos destroy the world!

Wait, that was 1999.

THIS APOCALYPSE SUCKS

#15 Posted by LordMaverick (4388 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

@joewell: I forbid ye

#16 Posted by joshmightbe (19385 posts) - 4 months, 26 days ago - Show Bio

Actually the Mayans never said it was going to be the end of the world it was dumb ass white guys jumping to conclusions before they gathered all the facts.

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#17 Posted by GhostRider2 (1588 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

The end of the world is stupid im tired of this nonsense.

#18 Posted by PurpleCandy (720 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Wow Captain Obvious I'm surprised they don't have a comic-line of you yet

#19 Posted by fesak (6768 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Moderator

#20 Posted by TheCannon (14191 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

#21 Posted by ChaosBlazer (3930 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

congratufuckalations, the world didn't end.

Who started this nonsense that the Mayans, who couldn't predict their own demise at the hands of the Europeans, overpopulation, soil exhaustion, and disease, could have accurately predicted the end of the world 500 years in the present?

#22 Posted by NiKva (94 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

@LordMaverick said:

Anybody else want to make another 2012 thread??

Maybe later.

#23 Posted by jhazzroucher (12389 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

I believe in the Sumerian history more than the mayan history

#24 Posted by Referee (2181 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

All I know is the world will end some day.....................and I feel fine

#25 Posted by Eternal19 (1411 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

I think the reason people keep coming up with these end of the world predictions is because they themselves want the world to end

#26 Posted by PowerHerc (50494 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

What a shock.

#27 Posted by kuonphobos (3166 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Don't blame the Mayans.

#28 Posted by Nefarious (16243 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Maybe, the world ends in December 2013.

#29 Posted by Vance Astro (88633 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago - Show Bio

The Mayans never said the world would end in 2012.

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#30 Posted by GhostRider2 (1588 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

@Nefarious said:

Maybe, the world ends in December 2013.

haha, fake.

#31 Posted by ARMIV2 (4732 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

This end of the world totally blew. Maybe the 2014 one will be better? Or there is that other one sometime round 2030 I believe, so maybe...?

Rubbish.

#32 Edited by Nefarious (16243 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

@GhostRider2: I know right.

#33 Posted by Jezer (2574 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

@ChaosBlazer said:

congratufuckalations, the world didn't end.
Who started this nonsense that the Mayans, who couldn't predict their own demise at the hands of the Europeans, overpopulation, soil exhaustion, and disease, could have accurately predicted the end of the world 500 years in the present?

I'm tired of hearing this.

Can you prove that they "couldn't predict their own demise"? Then don't assert it.

#34 Posted by ChaosBlazer (3930 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

@Jezer said:

@ChaosBlazer said:
congratufuckalations, the world didn't end.
Who started this nonsense that the Mayans, who couldn't predict their own demise at the hands of the Europeans, overpopulation, soil exhaustion, and disease, could have accurately predicted the end of the world 500 years in the present?
I'm tired of hearing this.
Can you prove that they "couldn't predict their own demise"? Then don't assert it.

Sure I can't, all I know is they never recorded anything about their civilization's destruction, so it's safe to assume they didn't see it coming. Can you prove that they could predict their own demise?

#35 Posted by White Mage (18691 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

@Vance Astro said:

The Mayans never said the world would end in 2012.

People been tellin LIES on them, AND THEY AIN'T EVEN HERE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES!!!.........Scandalous, AND tacky<---my opinion

#36 Posted by Death Certificate (5439 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

#37 Posted by Kal'smahboi (2766 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

Stupid people thought that the end of the Mayan calendar signified the end of the world, but what it did signify was the end of the Mayan calendar.

And it's not impossible to predict the end of the world, if it was going to happen. We could probably predict a meteor or a solar event and several other things that could actually end life as we know it.

#38 Posted by Elaine (20 posts) - 4 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

I think the only real pity in the world not ending on the 21st is it will forevermore make The Invisibles feel dated when you read it now.

#39 Edited by Jezer (2574 posts) - 4 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@ChaosBlazer said:

@Jezer said:
@ChaosBlazer said:
congratufuckalations, the world didn't end.
Who started this nonsense that the Mayans, who couldn't predict their own demise at the hands of the Europeans, overpopulation, soil exhaustion, and disease, could have accurately predicted the end of the world 500 years in the present?
I'm tired of hearing this.
Can you prove that they "couldn't predict their own demise"? Then don't assert it.
Sure I can't, all I know is they never recorded anything about their civilization's destruction, so it's safe to assume they didn't see it coming. Can you prove that they could predict their own demise?

Really, that's your reasoning? Congrats, most people simply say "well they died, so they clearly couldn't predict their demise". I'm glad you have a more semi-valid reason.

However, you say that, "all I know is they never recorded anything about their civilization's destructions". You would only "know" this if you took the time to do some research on what they have predicted....Which would have led to you seeing that they haven't predicted anything because they don't predict non-astronomy-related things OR that the 2012 Doomsday myth stems from the ending of their calender, not any sort grand prophecy/prediction....Which would have led you to simply say in your initial post

congratufuckalations, the world didn't end.

Who started this nonsense that The Mayans, who didn't predict anything, have predicted the end of the world, in the first place?

Depending on when you started your "research", you might have even found the news about how the Mayan Calender actually goes past December 2012.

Regardless, the end result of your research would be you not making a post implying that the Mayans ever tried to or "couldnt" predict something. Or making a post that associates "predictions" with the Mayans, unless to laugh at the idea. Therefore, I'm gonna assume that either

1. You did not research well or understand what you researched..

OR

2. You did not research at all... You don't "know" anything about what they "recorded".

AND

Actually claimed they couldn't predict their death simply because they ended up dying, which is the unsound reasoning I'm tired of hearing.

My guess is that its option 2.

P.S. Not having recorded their demise does not mean that they didn't, and none of them couldn't, predict it. This reasoning is only valid if we already assume that the Mayans made a habit of predicting things and recording those predictions, in the first place. Which brings me back to why it is more likely that your reply is based on option 2^ above.

P.S.S. I can't prove that they could predict their own demise. Which is why I never asserted it.

......One of my favorite parts about Christmas Break is having the free time to write posts like this......

#40 Posted by ChaosBlazer (3930 posts) - 4 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@Jezer: lol nice post.

I realize they didn't 'predict' anything about doomsday, that date was just the end of one of their cycles (or something along those lines), and it was misinterpreted by some to be a supposed end of the world, then the media got ahold of it, this misinterpretation spread, and so on and so on.

and yeah of course i didnt research this topic- aint nobody got time fo dat ( well maybe some but not me)

#41 Posted by Jezer (2574 posts) - 4 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@ChaosBlazer said:

@Jezer: lol nice post.
I realize they didn't 'predict' anything about doomsday, that date was just the end of one of their cycles (or something along those lines), and it was misinterpreted by some to be a supposed end of the world, then the media got ahold of it, this misinterpretation spread, and so on and so on.
and yeah of course i didnt research this topic- aint nobody got time fo dat ( well maybe some but not me)

Okay. Its good that you know that lol

I was actually hoping you'd reply that "they couldn't predict their demise because they didn't do anything to prevent it"

which would have given me the chance to argue time travel theories. I was totally prepared to type out a big post about how its possible that the there is only one future, the future can't be changed, and they could have seen their death but been unable to do a thing about it. Probably would have referenced maybe the Terminator.

....you thwarted me(by replying differently) and didn't give me the chance. =(

#42 Posted by satyrgod (2110 posts) - 4 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

The Mayans didn't attempt to predict the end. What was wrong was the interpretation that the conclusion of the cycle of their cyclical calender signified the end.

#43 Posted by ntb1124 (944 posts) - 4 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

CRAP my Calender here doesn't go past December 31st...ITS THE END OF THE WORLD....oh wait, got a 2013 Calender for Christmas....but it only goes to December 31st of 2013...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh