Funny how the Mayan Long Count Calendar has ended many many times every 394 years and begun again without consequence.

But i'm not completely ruling out the possibility some crazy looking giant carrying a jug will appear along with dragons vomiting columns of water all over the place.

There's many smaller counts which make up the 'long count'. I think in total there's 1872000 days, or 5125.36 years from beginning to end. There have been a couple news stories lately attempting to muddy the water, and that might be where you got that idea about it being shorter and insignificant to them. But it is in fact a very long and extremely complicated celestial calendar with a definite end. The Mayans didn't even make it themselves. It was the Olmec who made it, and they existed around 2500-3000 b.c. The beginning of the calendar is August 11, 3114 b.c, which was their mythical creation date.

But all we really know about what they said happens at the end of it, is what we see in The Dresden Codex. All the way on the right there. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that means.

Since it's a person pouring out a jug of water, and the entire thing deals with astronomy, it could simply mean we're entering the age of Aquarius (cue singing hippie chicks). But i'm not completely ruling out the possibility some crazy looking giant carrying a jug will appear along with dragons vomiting columns of water all over the place.

Since nothing will happen, I present the numbers of doomsday:
7500 suicides
18750 divorces
12320 marriages
2490000 nudists running amok
100 riots
1040590210 conceptions
1 stock market crash
6000000000 searches of "how to escape the end of the world?" on google

Other notes:

Congress comes to a decision on tax raises and spending cuts
Greece starts to make an economic recovery
Twitter and Facebook receive record amounts of traffic
ConAgra and Kraft have their most profitable days ever

1040590210 conceptions

i hope we all die, but i'm sure i'll be at work on dec. 22nd, nothing ever goes my way.

[quote=Krixtal Icefluxor] The Dresden Codex..

8 days remain until our catastrophic end.

People are also gathering in Sirince, Turkey. I guess it's easier to just make up a new 'safe place' nearby than it is to travel to the other one.

Hell, i'm going to designate my house as a safe place to survive Dec 21st, and just wait for the hordes of people to show up. I've always wanted to be a cult leader. Maybe this is the catalyst i need.

There may be a small chance that a Tsunami wipes out a population the size of the Mayan population.

I read about the Mayans (Mayan Prophecies) as a kid in the 90's; it made sense. It isn't going to be the end of civilisations on earth, nor are the large power blocks going to be affected. There may be a small chance that a Tsunami wipes out a population the size of the Mayan population.


It can also be considered that Earthquakes could occur, we have developed structures with integrity beyond what Mayans would expect.

It might be dry summers and wildfires, but then again we've had those for years..... and years.....

Cyclones / Tornadoes etc all occur frequently all over the world, sometimes with devastation - things the peninsula would have been difficult to avoid.


Then again, the cycle was due to repeat at this time, either with a previous world-ending event or "something new" - not based on the elements.


The biggest "risk" for this current time period is the asteroid due to pass underneath the Geo-synchronous orbit boundary. It's going to miss too (February 2013).

How the Mayan's formed their calendar ACCURATELY was the astounding part, and their mesmorising texts as seen in the Dresden Codex. Also; one of the most creative theories I read revolved around the equivalent of the Rosetta Stone where the Author made laminate images of the surface and rotated each serpent / half-triangle to be adjoining (heads and tails together) to reveal more sentences than were contained on the surface.

When the 'Dinosaur Asteroid' wiped out pretty much everything, there was not even a Mayan Calendar, obviously.

It is not required for a disaster to occur.

Anyone who even begins to see a connection with near randomly designed time-keeping constructs of the ancients as having some kind of predictive power towards absolutely natural forces of the cosmos is not sound of mind, and needs to be walked away from slowly, quietly.

Other than debunked Nazca.....


So anyways, Astronomy is a calendar / roadmap / circuit / Formula 1 Racetrack for our time, it only takes one rogue planet that we don't know about to fall into a black hole (from an un-nova) that we can't see, which then emits a gamma ray burst towards two collapsing-spiral neutron stars within 50 light years for us to get wiped out and astronomy to be "whack calendar of the ancients".

That's at the nth-term, but yea you are right, stuff like this and Nostradamus serve to illustrate the prospecting-outcomes skill, and offers an additional opportunity for parallel reasoning skills later on in life.

6) Try to avoid having too many intimate relations with your followers. Sex scandals have been the end of many otherwise highly successful cults.

When the 'Dinosaur Asteroid' wiped out pretty much everything, there was not even a Mayan Calendar, obviously.

It is not required for a disaster to occur.