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Re: History Channel....Arrrggghhh!
Exactly, the only thing happening on Dec. 21 2012 is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar reaches the end of it's ~5000 year cycle and restarts from the beginning. How people determine that this must coincide with the end of the world, I have no idea.
Also, in regards to Nostradamus, I won't say he's a prophet, but he is arguably one of the most successful scam artist in all of world history. His predictions are comically vague, yet people still by translations of his book!
Arrgghh!!! Nostradamus 2012 and this silly Mayan 2012 doom/destruction of the planet. People are willing to believe this and they discount the fact that the Mayans didn't predict the demise of thier own culture?
Not to mention that there is no doomsday prediction for 2012 by the Mayans. It's a cycle that's repeated every 20 years that they are referring to, this 20 years is no different from the past 20 year cycles that the world hasn't been destroyed.
How can people be so stupid? Why do people want so desperately to believe in nonsense?
You can kind of understand the nonsense that provides people with some sort of hope, like people who say they can communicate with the dead, but I can't grasp why anyone would want to be interested in believing the world was going to end.
Exactly, the only thing happening on Dec. 21 2012 is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar reaches the end of it's ~5000 year cycle and restarts from the beginning. How people determine that this must coincide with the end of the world, I have no idea.
Also, in regards to Nostradamus, I won't say he's a prophet, but he is arguably one of the most successful scam artist in all of world history. His predictions are comically vague, yet people still by translations of his book!