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Author Topic:   Calendar ends in 2012 - Oh Noes!!
Stile
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11-12-2009 9:15 AM


Personally, I think this event is about as interesting as how every calendar I've ever owned also ended... every year. Seems like the Mayans just didn't have room to add on their equivalent of "January" to the end to show it just starts over. Instead of thinking this is the end of the world, we should really be planning one of the largest New Year's Eve parties the planet has ever seen.
But, apparently there exists no shortage of quacks who think that a group of people unable to forsee their own depleting resources were somehow able to predict the end of the entire world.
Losers.
I do admit, however, that the movie looks cool.
Edited by Stile, : Those spelling and grammar errors didn't exist when I proofread before posting. It's a conspiracy to ruin my posts!!

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Stile
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From: Ontario, Canada
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Message 3 of 20 (535001)
11-12-2009 10:45 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by Hyroglyphx
11-12-2009 10:31 AM


Another Crazie, another yawn.
Hyroglyphx writes:
What was that one at the turn of the century...?
Exactly.
And to any of those silly crazies who actually think "doomsday" when they wonder why the Mayans created a calendar so far into the future...
...it seems like a great way to reduce the inefficiencies of creating new calendars every year. Especially when one of the most popular forms of communicating such information is to carve it into rock!
Can you imagine having to re-carve 100's of new calendars every year? It would be non-stop work!

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