2012 Believers Poll

[Kerr]

It didn't stop them from being gullible the last countless times we had a big doomsday date set

I know. But you can always hope, lol.

To be honest, I do not think anything special will happenen at all. It will just be another year. I just wish that when people realize 2012 was not the end of the world they will wisen up.

 

[Dirty Penguin]

Atheist, I don't think it will be the end.

Question to anyone familiar with the Mayan predictions. Did their calendar say end of the world or end of an (age)? I think I may have to hit Youtube.

We seem to have an apocalyptic due date that pops up every so often so I'm inclined to think that late December 2012 will be nothing special......Just another holiday season where dear old Atheist get a lump of coal in their stockings from the god of the North Pole

 

[Madhuri]

Atheist, I don't think it will be the end.

Question to anyone familiar with the Mayan predictions. Did their calendar say end of the world or end of an (age)? I think I may have to hit Youtube.

We seem to have an apocalyptic due date that pops up every so often so I'm inclined to think that late December 2012 will be nothing special......Just another holiday season where dear old Atheist get a lump of coal in their stockings from the god of the North Pole

Mayans actually say its beginning of new age.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Other (Deist)
2012 is just another year on a man made calender.

(Other than that Palin chick. Think she will have 'I am not a witch' as her running mate?):help:

 

[ninerbuff]

The only significance for me is that my van will be paid off in 2012! 4 years interest free too!

 

[Nepenthe]

Mayans actually say its beginning of new age.

Sort of. The ancient Mayans likely placed some importance to the end of the Long Calendar but contemporary Mayans are pretty apathetic or unaware of the Long Calendar and its popularity has mainly been fueled by new age groups. Most Mayans today haven't even heard of the date's relevance and those who have look at 2012 and their ancestor's calendar(s) with as much importance as Westerners do towards alchemy.

José Argüelles bears the brunt of the blame in making the Mayan "prophecy" so popular in the public mind as well as Mayanism in general (basically new age appropriations of traditional Mayan culture).

 

[jarofthoughts]

Even in the worst-case scenario, Caribou Barbie won't be president before 2013.

Well, there is that prophecy out the window.
Back to the drawing board... :areyoucra

 

[The_Evelyonian]

Atheist

I do not believe that 2012 is significant

 

[stillsearching]

Christian and I don't believe that 2012 is significant.

But I do plan to use that as a goal date to be sure that I have my **** together just in case.

 

[Renji]

The most significant thing for me now is this: http://www.religiousforums.com/foru...5728-mystics-dance-studio-dance-your-way.html

That's my prophecy.

 

[Storm]

I am curious about which groups of people believe that 2012 is significant. I'm not looking for a debate on the topic, but if anyone wishes to steer it that way then be my guest.

Once you have voted, please indicate in a post which option you chose and give some specific information about your religious denominations or which variety of Indigenous or Pagan religious you belong to. I would have liked to include all options but that would make a very, very long poll.

Thanks!

I voted Other.

I'm a UU, and I do not believe 2012 is significant.

 

[strikeviperMKII]

Christian, 2012 is just another year. (Just like Y2K was.)

 

[YmirGF]

2012? Um, no. It ain't the end of the world, by a long shot.

Due to the track record of those who have made such predictions in the past, one would think that that would temper people's desire to trumpet such impending doom in the present.

 

[England my lionheart]

I voted other,i have already booked my Holidays for 2012 so i obviously don't think the world will end as it would be most inconvenient and i would lose my deposit

 

[tomato1236]

I sure hope something crazy happens. Zombies infesting the world, nuclear war, etc. I mean, who doesn't want to give up the 9-5 in favor of tribal leadership and survival. Kicking butt. Maybe I'll be one of the zombies, but I'm just sayin. At least something will HAPPEN.

In all honesty, there have been so many "This year is coming and it's a big deal!" statements even in my lifetime, I think it's wiser to just assume that nothing will, and wait and see.

 

[MoonWater]

I put down pagan and don't think it's significant. All it is is the end of the Mayan calendar, I fail to see why that would be significant.

 

[dust1n]

At Willamena's house.

I'll bring the Niburu-shaped sausage balls!

 

[dust1n]

Atheist, I don't think it will be the end.

Question to anyone familiar with the Mayan predictions. Did their calendar say end of the world or end of an (age)? I think I may have to hit Youtube.

We seem to have an apocalyptic due date that pops up every so often so I'm inclined to think that late December 2012 will be nothing special......Just another holiday season where dear old Atheist get a lump of coal in their stockings from the god of the North Pole

December 2012 marks the conclusion of a b'ak'tun; a great cycle of years in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Though the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec,[8] it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD.[9] The writing system of the classic Maya has been substantially deciphered, meaning that a corpus of their written and inscribed material has survived from before the European conquest.


Unlike the 52-year Calendar Round still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear, rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals (360 days) made a tun, 20 tuns made a k'atun, and 20 k'atuns (144,000 days) made up a b'ak'tun. Thus, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 b'ak'tuns, 3 k'atuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals and 15 days.[10][11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon#cite_note-10
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon#cite_note-10
The present-day Maya, as a whole, do not attach much significance to b'ak'tun 13. Although the Calendar Round is still used by some Maya tribes in the Guatemalan highlands, the Long Count was employed exclusively by the classic Maya, and was only recently rediscovered by archaeologists.[27] Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun and Mexican archaeologist Guillermo Bernal both note that "apocalypse" is a Western concept that has little or nothing to do with Mayan beliefs. Bernal believes that such ideas have been foisted on the Maya by Westerners because their own myths are "exhausted".[28][29] Archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni says that while the idea of "balancing the cosmos" was prominent in ancient Maya literature, and some modern Maya affirm this idea of an age of coexistence, the 2012 phenomenon does not present this message in its original form. Instead, it is bound up with American traditions such as the New Age movement, millenarianism, and the belief in secret knowledge from distant times and places.[30] Mayan archaeologist Jose Huchm has stated that "If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea. That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain".[28]


What significance the classic Maya gave the 13th b'ak'tun is uncertain. Most classic Maya inscriptions are strictly historical and do not make any prophetic declarations.[31] Two items in the Maya historical corpus, however, may mention the end of the 13th b'ak'tun: Tortuguero Monument 6 and, possibly, the Chilam Balam.

2012 phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Shaman]

Voted other though I am a Christian, I do not believe 12-21-2012 is going to be anymore of a significant day than 1-1-2000 was. Yes, the Mayans did not publish their calendar past this date but who knows why. Just as why is there only one or two more spots for Pope pictures in the Vatican. In my humble opinion if there is a prediction or expectation of the end of the world coming on a specific day then guess what day it will not happen on.

 

[Renji]

I don't believe that there is something significant in the year 2012 and if the world ends on that year, then, I won't be able to graduate in 2013!:sad4:

That would be so unfair,:sad4: