End Of The World.

[Wayne Little]

I fell asleep, did anything else happen other than a 6 foot increase in tidal bullsh*t....

 

[Bernhart]

for a place as big and populated as this earth is somewhere today will be the last day on earth for some.

 

[Bucksnort101]

I set my alarm clock for 5:10 Central Time this morning to see what happens. Hit the snooze button about 50 times so I think that delayed the time it's all supposed to end for several hours

 

[meatloaf109]

I love all the backtracking I saw on the news this morning, now all the "Experts" are claiming that what they meant was "It's the dawning of a new way of thinking".
Bulls**t, People will be the same petty, silly buggers they have always been. Reminds me of the Harold Camping scam a while back, playing on some folk's silly superstitions to make a few bucks more.

 

[Bucksnort101]

I hope all you guys that bought little black dresses for the occasion saved the receipt

 

[Marcel]

Damn, missed the free beer

 

[evangilder]

No way, I'm going to wear mine for new year's eve.

 

[Marcel]

No way, I'm going to wear mine for new year's eve.

what, the beer?

Btw anyone noticed that meatlof's 3000st post. Was about our non existing apocalipse in this thread? Congrats Meatloaf!

 

[fubar57]

No end of the world, no presents for the little woman and I'm in camp until 8pm Xmas night. I hope 7/11 has a some quality stuff left.

Geo(all outta reindeer)

 

[herman1rg]

Well that was the end of the world, same time next year?

 

[parsifal]

we are all now dead, and in hell. I never thought hell had access to Aircraft of WWII forums.....

 

[Lucky13]

Goddammit, why did I buy this little black dress anyway...

It shows off your figure?

 

[mikewint]

Let's back up a bit. Grau, we do not follow the Julian calendar.
Roman Calendar
By tradition the original Roman calendar was created by Romulus in 753BC. It began on March 1st, had ten months, 6 with 30 days each and 4 with 31 days each. The remaining 61 days were during the winter and were not counted.
Julian Calendar
After his time in Egypt Julius Caesar was introduced to a solar-based calendar. On his return to Rome he decreed a new Solar based calendar for Rome. First he realigned the starting date of the calendar to January 1st by making 46BC 445 days long. He then added two months to the year, and created a Leap Year every 4th year. In a Leap Year February would have 29 days instead of 28. Thus Julius had made a Solar Year 365.25 days long
If this sounds pretty normal, it is too long by 11 minutes per year. Thus every 4 centuries we gain 3 days and the calendar is out of sync with the seasons.
Gegorian Reform
By 1582 the calendar was 10 days out of sync with the Earths position. An influential group of scientists petitioned Pope Gregory XIII to issue a Papal Bull ordering a calendar reform. The Bull erased 10 days and changed the way leap years are determined: A Leap year is any year divisible by 4 EXCEPT those divisible by 100 UNLESS they are also divisible by 400. Thus 1900 was not a Leap Year but 2000 was a Leap year.
The GREGORIAN calendar went into effect in all Catholic countries, Spain, France, etc., but non-Catholic like Great Britain refused. By 1752 the Julian Calendar was 11 days out of sync and Britain and it's American colonies finally caved in and adopted the Gregorian calendar.

The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths and thus did not need Leap Years. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab' to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab', called the Calendar Round. Smaller cycles of 13 days, the trecena, and 20 days, the veintena, were important components of both cycles.

 

[mikewint]

Ready for another End of the World, Christian this time:
Prophecy of the Popes
The prophecy was attributed to Saint Malachy, the 12th-century bishop of Armagh in Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Saint Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Saint Malachy purportedly experienced a vision of future popes, which he recorded as a sequence of cryptic phrases. Systematically recording the names of 112 Popes into the future. This manuscript was then deposited in the Roman Archive, and thereafter forgotten about until its rediscovery in 1590.

Saint Malachy implies Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's chosen name would be Benedictine- Benedict XVI, which is the fulfilment the prophecy of the 111th Pope.

Prophesy dictates that our present Pope, Pope Benedict XVI is our second to last Pope, whose death will signal the 112th, Last, and Final Pope..."Peter The Roman". The possibilty of this happening in a year or so 2012/2013 is very real. The date and chosen name of this 112th pope will signal the apocalypse.

During the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, the seat will be occupied by Peter the Roman,
who will feed his sheep in many tribulations;
and when these things are finished, the seven-hilled city will be destroyed,
and the formidable Judge will judge his people.
The End.

According to Roman Catholic tradition, Saint Peter was installed as the first Pope by Jesus Christ. Though the adoption of that name is not canonically barred, it is considered unlikely that any future pope would ever choose the name. Thus, if the name Peter is used, it furthers the accuracy of this prophesy. The Apocalyptic ending of 2012.

 

[GrauGeist]

Let's back up a bit. Grau, we do not follow the Julian calendar.
Roman Calendar
By tradition the original Roman calendar was created by Romulus in 753BC. It began on March 1st, had ten months, 6 with 30 days each and 4 with 31 days each. The remaining 61 days were during the winter and were not counted.
Julian Calendar
After his time in Egypt Julius Caesar was introduced to a solar-based calendar. On his return to Rome he decreed a new Solar based calendar for Rome. First he realigned the starting date of the calendar to January 1st by making 46BC 445 days long. He then added two months to the year, and created a Leap Year every 4th year. In a Leap Year February would have 29 days instead of 28. Thus Julius had made a Solar Year 365.25 days long
If this sounds pretty normal, it is too long by 11 minutes per year. Thus every 4 centuries we gain 3 days and the calendar is out of sync with the seasons.
Gegorian Reform
By 1582 the calendar was 10 days out of sync with the Earths position. An influential group of scientists petitioned Pope Gregory XIII to issue a Papal Bull ordering a calendar reform. The Bull erased 10 days and changed the way leap years are determined: A Leap year is any year divisible by 4 EXCEPT those divisible by 100 UNLESS they are also divisible by 400. Thus 1900 was not a Leap Year but 2000 was a Leap year.
The GREGORIAN calendar went into effect in all Catholic countries, Spain, France, etc., but non-Catholic like Great Britain refused. By 1752 the Julian Calendar was 11 days out of sync and Britain and it's American colonies finally caved in and adopted the Gregorian calendar.

The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths and thus did not need Leap Years. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab' to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab', called the Calendar Round. Smaller cycles of 13 days, the trecena, and 20 days, the veintena, were important components of both cycles.

That's a pretty good detail of the Calendar systems, no doubt about it...I wasn't going into detail, I was making the comment tounge-in-check in light of the "end of the world", etc...

However, at the time the Mayan calendar was created and in use, so was the Julian calendar. Thier timekeeping was most certainly different and as such, wouldn't be able to nail down December 21 as the day of totality since (as noted) the Julian was revised by the Gregorian version and no one shot off a memo to the Aztecs (who inherited the Mayan calendar and messed it up)...

 

[Lucky13]

So, in other words, there's still a chance for free beer then?

 

[GrauGeist]

someone mention free beer??

 

[Airframes]

Apocalypse Ale all round - Jan's paying .....

 

[T Bolt]

Dec 22 and we're still here. I think it's going to be tomorrow since it's my birthday.

Happy Birthday, BOOM

 

[razor1uk]

Still alive, still breathing, still digesting, still farting etc, some how I think they the illuminated ones, whom tend suffer the predilictions of obtuse conspiracies are thannkfully wrong ...again.

Live long and prosper, enjoy, feel, think and breathe, don't let the psyco's...