End of the world?????

[jd_1984]

I have spoken about this before on AB but dont in anyway profess to know a great deal about it.
As we approach the "End Of The World As We Know It" this year, I often wonder whether it will have a profound effect on those that truly beleive this when the world doesnt actually end? I dont knock beliefs or faiths no matter how absurd or scientifically impossible they may appear but this is a very rare occasion that a beleif or faith in something can be proved wrong. How do you react to that?

[mccfluff]

i donlt think its is a belief or faith, i think its a misinterpretation of the mayan calendar

[doomey!]

The world best not end, I have booked the village hall for my sons birthday a few weeks after.

[jd_1984]

In the sense that people are genuinely expecting the world to end as we know it, it is beleived by some. I really dont know a great deal but what do they say when 2013 arrives "oh well....?"

[mccfluff]

or dec 22

[jackthehat]

There are various looney-fringes of main-stream religions who are salivating at the prospect of the end of the world/the rapture.

It's failure to manifest has been variously blamed on 'misunderstanding/misinterpreting' the prophecies, bad maths, etc.

Reaching the end of the Mayan Long-count calendar is really neither here nor there...

[doomey!]

Besides, the Mayans didn't predict steps reforming, that's far, far worse.

[jd_1984]

LOL doomey it really is!

[Khandro]

Weren't those the guys that made thousands of human sacrifices and ate their hearts?

[magsmay]

there have been quite a few 'end of days' dates in the last few years so already quite a few people have been disappointed. They just get over it don't they? -and make excuses and re calculate their dates. I find it interesting that some humans have this almost longing or delight for an apocalyptic event -they are of course going to survive and live off the land and start a new race where everyone loves one another - Mmmmm...

[Graham-W]

Even the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world. Dec21st is just as far as they got when writing down their calendar.
I have just bought a 2113 calendar and it ends 31st Dec 2113. Is that when the world will end, or shall I just buy another calendar?
Perhaps, if we all keep buying calendars, the world will never end.
Pah to all those doomsayers. I've found the solution. Buy a calendar.

[magsmay]

@graham LOL! Quite right too - and the Mayans would not have picked the actual date of 21st Dec as the Julian calender dates did not exist- it would have been the Winter Solstice or Equinox which would have been the end of their year