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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:28 PM
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Is 12/23/2012 the new Y2k?
End of Line.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:29 PM
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1. Why may I ask?
:shrug:
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 11:03 PM
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12. It seems like a date where people will get worked up in a...
Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 11:03 PM by JonathanChance
"end of world" bullshit, like in 2000.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:29 PM
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2. Why?
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Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:30 PM
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3. No. n/t
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:32 PM
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4. Nope, In Mayan calender, end of world past. We are between worlds now
Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 10:33 PM by havocmom
New one starts on that date.

Past world was the material one, I believe it is said. Next one is ether. Makes one wonder, as we muse and post via our ethernet cards. ;)
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:35 PM
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5. Nah.
It won't be as abrupt as we thought Y2K was going to be. (Actually I hear the new Daylight Savings Time changeover tonight is causing the headaches we thought were going to happen on Y2K.) Anyway, the "next world" (after 2012) is supposed to be really wonderful. I'm looking forward to it!
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kdmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:37 PM
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6. Does not compute...n/t
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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:38 PM
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7. Maya calender.
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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:38 PM
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8. If you mean
An event preceded by a ridiculous amount of hype and fear that turns out to be nothing at all, then yes.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 11:04 PM
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13. Exactly.
Gold star for you!

BTW, love your av. That's one bitchin album.
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:45 PM
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9. I wonder if that will hurt the holiday shopping season? n/t
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SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Donating Member (471 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:47 PM
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10. It's December 21, 2012 to be exact.
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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 10:48 PM
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11. Beware Tin Foil Hat Area Here!
Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 10:49 PM by sce56
:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:
From http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/author/hart/solarwindow.html
In an article published in AR, early in 2004, I presented the case that we are in the final leg of a solar cycle. I called the 8-year period from 2004 to 2012, 'The Portal'. That article presented the results of 27 years of research into the Mayan calendar system, which led to investigations into the sunspot cycle, the transit of Venus and the their respective relationships to natural disasters.

The last pieces of the puzzle did not fall into place until 2002. That year, I finally realized that the 2012 end date of the Mayan calendar was also the peak of the next solar maximum and the second leg of the Venus Transit. Extensive research into the sunspot cycle had shown me that the 11-year solar maximums had multiple effects on the earth and on human beings. I found that everything from wars and natural disasters to fluctuations in the stock market move in tandem with the sunspot cycle.

Many other independent investigators had already reached similar conclusions. However, nobody that I was aware of had linked the Maya calendar and the 2012 forecast with the sunspot cycle and Venus Transit. The connection gave me a new insight into what the term 'Solar Priest' really meant and what the basis of the ancient science actually was. In fact, the Maya made their science very clear. It revolved around a cyclical passage of ages they called 'Suns' - a time period of about 5125 years- and according to their system of reckoning we are near the end of the Fifth Sun.

When I fit the transit of Venus into the calendar system I was struck by the fact that the ancient priests were aware of a periodic, astronomical event that western science only discovered 300 years ago. Was it an accident that they selected the exact year (2012) when a number of important cycles converge to end their Long Count (5125-year) calendar? No, that seemed too improbable a coincidence to chalk up to chance. But like any serious investigator I wanted proof. So I went back and examined the historical record to see if there was any association between the Venus Transit and natural disasters.

What I found startled me. The findings also solved a mystery that had puzzled all investigators including myself. I was intrigued to discover that a transit of Venus had occurred on 1518-1526. Those dates were the bookmarks of the Conquest of Mexico by a handful of Spaniards led by Hernan Cortez. I had long scratched my head over just how 300 conquistadors managed to mount a military campaign against the extremely militaristic and successful Aztec Empire.

The key seemed to lie in the mysterious prophecy that the priests had made concerning the return of the god Quetzacoatl in the year 1 Reed (1518).

The god was associated with Venus and he was said to be a bearded, white man who had come to ancient Mexico bringing the gift of civilization. That may sound like a colorful myth to us but it had the potency of the apocalypse to the Aztecs when they learned that a strange vessel had arrived on the shores of the Yucatan. The warrior-emperor Montezuma was plunged into spiritual confusion and political paralysis.

The mystical side of this fascinating history never quite made sense to me. However, the strange fact is the Aztecs could have easily crushed the conquistadors if it were not for this prophecy.

As I dug ever more deeply into the history I learned that the Aztecs were rattled because other strange signs had already preceded Cortez's arrival including the eruption of Mount Popocateptyl. In addition, a number of paranormal events had also occurred including UFO sightings and inexplicable flooding of their capitol city. The Aztec priests had forecast a dire end to their civilization at this time and, in fact, Cortez brought an end to the last pyramid-building civilization by the second leg of the transit of Venus in 1526.

The 2012 prophecy took on an entirely new meaning after I concluded this line of research. The next 8-year Venus Transit cycle took place in 1631-'39. I was astounded to find that, immediately following this transit, sunspots disappeared for 70 years. The period is known as the 'little ice age' the sunspot cycle resumed in 1720 and the levels of solar activity have increased since then with a sunspot peak in the 1960 solar maximum.

Now, here is where things begin to take a dramatic turn. If the Mayan priests were right, I reasoned that they were forecasting a solar 'blow off' that would culminate in 2012 with the converging sunspot cycle peak and the transit of Venus. At this point I turned to the record of natural disasters from 1900 to present. I must admit that what I found alarmed me. The number, frequency and magnitude of natural disasters from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to severe storms increased dramatically after 1960.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:22 AM
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14. Nope. It's January 19, 2038 at 03:14:08
End of the Unix Epoch. 32 bit systems will overflow and reset to January 1st 1970.

Make sure and upgrade before then.

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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:34 AM
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15. Mu dad and I were just talking abou it.
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I_Make_Mistakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:59 AM
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16. I am not challenging, but I thought there was something also
happening in the 2020's, IIRC it was 2029, but I am not sure. That was going around at the Y2K conversion nightmares, all that work for pfft.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:06 AM
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17. Microsoft Access flips over 2 digit years in 2029
But if you're still using 2 digit years in Access in 2029, you probably deserve it...


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I_Make_Mistakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:24 AM
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18. I'm not, I thought it was a Universal Microsoft problem, but
Microsoft expert I am not, so I just put the date out there. Thanks for your information, it's appreciated, not that I'm worried about 2029, anyway.
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