December 21, 2012
#1
Posted 22 January 2008 - 04:46 AM
Due to a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, caused by the Earth's wobble that lasts almost 26,000 years, the apparent location of the Winter Solstice sunrise has been ever so slowly moving toward the Galactic Center. Precession may be understood by watching a spinning top. Over many revolutions the top will rise and dip on its axis, not unlike how the Earth does over an extremely long period of time. One complete rise and dip constitutes the cycle of precession.
The Mayans noticed the relative slippage of the positions of stars in the night sky over long periods of observation, indicative of precession, and foretold this great coming attraction. By using an invention called the Long Count, the Mayans fast-forwarded to anchor December 21, 2012 as the end of their Great Cycle and then counted backwards to decide where the calendar would begin. Thus the Great Cycle we are currently in began on August 11, 3114 B.C. But there's more.
The Great Cycle, lasting 1,872,000 days and equivalent to 5,125.36 years, is but one fifth of the Great Great Cycle, known scientifically as the Great Year or the Platonic Year - the length of the precession of the equinoxes. To use a metaphor from the modern industrial world, on Winter Solstice A.D. 2012 it is as if the Giant Odometer of Humanity on Earth hits 100,000 miles and all the cycles big and small turn over to begin anew. The present world age will end and a new world age will begin.
Is Doomsday Dec 21, 2012?
#2
Posted 22 January 2008 - 04:57 AM
http://www.x64bit.net/site/board/index.php...amp;#entry49173
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' Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean."
"Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean."
"Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean."
#3
Posted 22 January 2008 - 05:03 AM
December 21st, 2012... I guess I won't have to buy any Christmas gifts for anyone that year... If anyone complains I'll just tell 'em I thought the world was going to end.
I say bring it on! LOL
#4
Posted 22 January 2008 - 05:06 AM
#7
Posted 22 January 2008 - 05:29 AM
More to it than meets the eye!
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Posted 22 January 2008 - 06:00 AM
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Posted 22 January 2008 - 11:06 AM
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:50 AM
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