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(first of all if anyone's said this already, i apologize. i tried to read all 4 pages of posts, but i got frustrated by the second page hahaha)
so, people obsessing about 2012 seems sorta recent. 6-7 years ago, i hadn't heard anything about it at all! (ok i was like 11 but whatever) but we watched a documentary about it back then in school, and it said "sunday, december twenty-THIRD, 2012." idk where people get 21st, other than that being the solstice or something, but i'm sticking with the 23rd cuz thats what i heard first
another thing: a lot of people are saying "oh well i think the mayans ran out of stone/materials or they predicted up to a certain point and they didn't wanna go farther" and stuff like that. um...the mayan calender is a CIRCLE. its not like they made a calender like the ones we hang in our kitchens...theres a bunch of different rings that go around each other at different speeds and dec. 23rd (or 21st. whatever) 2012 is when they all lined up at the beginning again. (or something like that. thats my understanding of it anyways)
but it's not necessarily the end of the world. i mean, it could be, but it's just the end of another very long mayan age.
i personally have this idea that maybe some country (like, oh, i don't know, north korea or something) is gonna decide to nuke some other country and they're gonna think "oh! everyone thinks the world is gonna end on this day anyways, lets make it true for these people we don't like!" o something like that haha (that'll be ironic if it happens)
but is it just me or have there been way too many big earthquakes in the span of a couple years? and i personally feel like this country is going INSANE, and the rest of the world (greece, egypt, etc) too, so what'll happen in the next almost 2 years? something to think about...(like who out of your friends is hosting the end-of-the-world party!!)