Doomsday,the countdown......

[Master Bates]

Could be fun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/2706884/The-end-of-the-world-is-here.html

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

Did the Mayans accurately predict the end of their own civilisation?

[St Landrew]

Did the Mayans accurately predict the end of their own civilisation?

 

That's worth quoting.

[benjii]

What does Mel Gibson think about all this?

[Saint_clark]

Did the Mayans accurately predict the end of their own civilisation?

 

Apparently they did. I've read in a few books about them that they predicted a "white skinned devil coming out of the sea" to kill them all. This a couple of decades before the Spaniards actually sailed over and wiped them out.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Typical Britain really - we have the Olympic games when the world ends.

[aintforever]

Apparently they did. I've read in a few books about them that they predicted a "white skinned devil coming out of the sea" to kill them all. This a couple of decades before the Spaniards actually sailed over and wiped them out.

 

To be fair they also thought the Sun and the Moon were Gods and both ancestors of humans. And their food was created by a Corn God.

 

The whole idea is based on the fact that their calendar ends in 2012 so that must mean the World ends then. Pretty dumb idea considering all calendar's end at some point, unless you have an infinite supply of paper.

[Saint_clark]

To be fair they also thought the Sun and the Moon were Gods and both ancestors of humans. And their food was created by a Corn God.

 

The whole idea is based on the fact that their calendar ends in 2012 so that must mean the World ends then. Pretty dumb idea considering all calendar's end at some point, unless you have an infinite supply of paper.

 

Indeed, although it DOES mention it in the bible as well.