I've just finished reading a book called The Singularity Is Near which predicts the introduction of ideas pertaining to immortality through technology into mainstream society around the same time. This coincidence is odd and leaves me asking whether or not the fascination with this date is in anyway fudged or not based on scientific studies of the Mayans.
2006-12-16 23:40:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
2012 is the year that the Mayan calander ends. Some people speculate that 2012 is supposed to be the end of the world, or something along those lines.
2006-12-17 00:32:47 · answer #1 · answered by subsplace99 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yah, in 2012, the Mayan Calendar reaches the end of one of their great cycles. Like 2000 and 2001 and 6:66 a.m. on the sixth of June this year, these dates tend to attract those folks who like speculating about doomsday.
I suspect they get a little shivery thrill in their pathetic, limp little spines ... rather like those who can sit through the gore-fest movies labeled "horror" these days ... it is almost close enough to an actual sensation that they feel nearly alive for a moment.
Don't sweat 2012 ... if the Mayans knew how to predict the future, they would have burned Cortez on the beach.
2006-12-17 09:44:28 · answer #2 · answered by Grendle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is anything specific other than, because of the alliteration in saying "Twenty-Twelve", it sounds attractive.
Other than your reference, the only other modern reference I know of is the album "2012" by the Canadian band Rush.
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Sorry everybody - I thought the question was about "modern origins". Didn't think the Mayans really counted as "modern".
Hey ho !
2006-12-17 07:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is the date by which the enormous black hole opend in UK finances should be filled by the opening of the unwanted (elsewhere in the UK) 21012 London Olympics
2006-12-17 08:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋