DOOMSDAY 2012! OMFG FTW Options

[1234king]

What do you think about the claims of the Mayan Calender predicting that there is an impending doomsday on Dec.21st 2012. Personally I think it's all just a bunch of non-sense just like Y2K was, but I am just wondering about other opinions and what not.

[Ahrenil]

I always laugh a little when I hear people discussing the end of the world, because simply put the world could end at any time. Theres a whole list of cataclysmic events that could occur and we have no control over most of them. But as for putting a date on it, and a date using a calendar thats millenia old? That's a little ridiculous, as is using coding from ancient books that are meant to have a meaning.

The simple fact is the human brain dislikes disorder, and so tries to make order out of nothingness. If you take Carl Jung's theories on Archetypes that's why many religions have similar ideals, like the sun being a symbol for god. It's also the reason why people see Christ in toast and faces on the moon. So of course someone who's looking for a pattern in a book as long as the bible will find one, it's sheer probabilty that at some point the numbers will line up.

And in any case. What chu gonna do?

This post has been edited by Ahrenil: Jan 24 2011, 10:56 PM

[mALX]

I always laugh a little when I hear people discussing the end of the world, because simply put the world could end at any time. Theres a whole list of cataclysmic events that could occur and we have no control over most of them. But as for putting a date on it, and a date using a calendar thats millenia old? That's a little ridiculous, as is using coding from ancient books that are meant to have a meaning.

The simple fact is the human brain dislikes order, and so tries to make order out of nothingness. If you take Carl Jung's theories on Archetypes that's why many religions have similar ideals, like the sun being a symbol for god. It's also the reason why people see Christ in toast and faces on the moon. So of course someone who's looking for a pattern in a book as long as the bible will find one, it's sheer probabilty that at some point the numbers will line up.

And in any case. What chu gonna do?

QFT !!! Can't get a more perfect answer than this.