in asking just what time the world will end tomorrow?

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I've got plans you see and wanted to schedule them around the apocalypse. You'd think the Mayans would have narrowed it down to a time slot wouldn't you? Like delivery drivers?

Everyones telling me its not going to happen. People in oz and nz are still here

Rocking, when the time comes and goes again you need to make an appointment with the doctor. Because there will be another prediction after this one, and another, and another. You have to deal with this.

I saw a documentary on the Mayans last night. They never predicted the end of the world. Never. For them it's the end of their cycle and the start of a new one, a significant moment for them like the Chinese New Year or the Millennium for us. It marked a new era for them. Nothing in their scribes, nothing in their predictions (and they didn't really predict, they weren't prophets) nothing said anything about destruction.

They have been studied by archaologists for years. The calendar and other writings have long been translated. They did NOT predict the end of the world. That is being blamed on doom-mongers and this one woman who went on about Planet X and how she talks to aliens.

I don't know where this time comes from either because again, this is not in any of the Mayan writings, it's a time made up by someone because that is when it's still the 21st for most of the world.

Look out of your window. No planet, no extreme weather front even. Nothing happening anywhere in the world that would suggest anything untoward going on.

Pick up the phone and make an appointment with your GP for tomorrow because this is clearly affecting your life and it will also be affecting those around you. You may be frightening your children. You need to see someone about this.

I've just spent half an hour typing out a chocolate roulade recipe for DS who is living somewhere 10 hours ahead of GMT - was it worth the bother if he won't have time to cook it?

usualsuspect3 that is the exact same thing I'm trying to decide

Would you want the world to end whilst you are smegging around in your pjs? Really? Come on now, have some pride!

Hahaha well my thinking was that if I stunk and was wearing scruffy pj's then death would come for me last

According to D T it is 11.21 and 47 seconds :-) but even the modern Mayans say it is rubbish-just the end of a period of their history.

Interesting info from NASA about the Mayan calendar

"The Rollover
What exactly is the Maya calendar about to do? On Dec. 21, 2012, it will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. It's the end of Baktun 13. The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them. A baktun is 144,000 days: a little more than 394 years..............

.........Most of the Maya calendar intervals accumulate as multiples of 20. An interval of 7,200 days (360 × 20) was known as a katun. It takes 20 katuns to complete a baktun (20 × 7,200 = 144,000 days). Although some ancient inscriptions turn 13 baktuns into an important reset milestone, others imply that the calendar simply keeps running. For instance, it takes 20 baktuns to make a pictun."

Note: "it takes 20 baktuns to make a pictun" so by that reckoning we've got another 7 baktuns to go (7 x 394 years approx.) before we come to the end of a pictun. With whatever significance that might/might not have :)

The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare

Well I have pretended to the children that I am at work and dropped them at cm as usual, but an actually chridas shopping. Judging by some of the people lurching around this morning there could indeed have been a zombie apocalypse overnight but so far no one has shown any interest in eating my brain.

Mmmmm nice coffee

I think for most people these predictions just add a little interest to their otherwise boring work day. It's a talking point. It serves to break the monotony of everyday life and in some ways it can be healthy to reassess our lives and realise that actually, we're not very significant after all, not in the larger scheme of things. That was what the documentary was saying last night, that perhaps it's time for some reflection about the way we are leading our lives.

I shall reflect over a pint of Guinness.

I passed my grading last night, do you think they could put off the end of the world til after 3 tomorrow afternoon as I'd really like to pick up my shiny new orange belt at graduation first?

It might happen very soon in my house if dh continues to be an arse!

Ds1 has just come downstairs saying he's really worried. He claims it's all going to happen at 11.12.

sparklingbrook that is sad. Where is he hearing this stuff? The 11:12 thing sounds completely arbritary. Once this time has past will people stop worrying then? Or will the fear continue till it is no longer 21st anywhere in the world? love the Internet but it seems to be used as a tool of panic and misinformation in the wrong hands.

Greeny made me giggle

Yes ever I have just looked at his FB and it is just awash with it all. He has just asked me when it's going to be. he is an intelligent boy and I can't believe he is like this. I want to pop to the shops but i don't feel I can leave him.

It makes me so angry that children are being made to feel this way.

Jossy, I do blame FB for this. I hate FB at the best of times but it really is the only thing that they are posting about. He is sat on the sofa saying he is really scared. there' no talking to him.

fucking cleaner has cancelled. Thats the end my my world as I'm in a spinal contraption and the house looks like the apocalypse hit ysterday. Arse. someone open the gin.

I don't care about the end of the world part
It's a new 'millennium' for them that's all

But the amount of people saying 11.11 has happened already in Australia it's all ok are bugging me. It's supposed to happen at 11.11 GMT that time has already been converted from whatever time it would be in South America. The end of the world would happen at the same time all over the world, we would just call it different times according to out clocks.
It's so simple and logical