Hello Everyone…I wanted to ask (among many things) are there any here that are worried about 2012?
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I want to ASSURE you this is not going to happen. I also amazed how so many people are worried about 2012….and yes I can’t wait for the movie to…BUT please listen to me.The Long Count is just one of several calendars used by the Maya. It is a continuous record of days from the day the Maya gods created the Worshipful Man. The Maya creation myth explains the creation of the Universe – with the usual cast of gods and goddesses, along with a Plumed Serpent and a Flood. According to the legend, creation happened after Tepeu, the Sky God, and Gukumatz, the Plumed Serpent decided that they needed to be worshipped. (Why is it that gods are always so immature and insecure?)
It took the Maya Creation Gods several attempts to create beings who would worship them. First, they created animals who didn’t worship them, so they banished them to the forest. Next, they created Man out of mud, but soon they just washed away. (They were surprised by this?) Next, they created Man out of wood, but these wooden men weren’t too good at ‘worshipping’ so the Gods got angry and flooded the place to get rid of them.
Finally, Worshipful Man was made out of Maize and the Long Count began at 0.0.0.0.1 which was around August 12, 3114 BCE. The current Long Count will finish on 13.0.0.0.0 or about the 21st of December 2012 CE.
For a scholarly view of the 2012 myth, read Dr. Mark Van Stone’s excellent thesis
It’s Not the End of the World:
What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012?
The date December 21st, 2012 also represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun.) This is an event that has been coming to alignment very slowly over thousands and thousands of years and will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT on 21 December 2012. By coincidence, the Maya Long count ends on or very near this same Winter Solstice, feeding the imagination of people who seem to think there’s some kind of ‘supernatural magic’ in the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. Some people have even taken this to mean that the world will end.
Listen…eat, drink and be marry, and most of ALL LOVE everyone, that is the most important!
You really own only one thing in this world….that’s your love you decide to give or withold from others…..stop worring and NEVER stop loving one another….that’s the BEST medicine!
oaky..the 1st 3 answers are good!
I have spoken to so many full-grown adults in the past year that really are worried about 2012…REALLY! so I did a little research to ASSURE them.
It’s (as the young people say) BOGUS!