sweens8403 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Has anybody got any thoughts on this end-of-the-world-in-2012 nonsense? Should we stock up supplies? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 The Mayans thought so. I don't think it will be the end of the world, but I sure think the world will look much different. I think that may be the year the sea ice in the Arctic clears in the summer and opens the NW passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 I don't see anyone who seems to fit the Biblical figure of the Anti-Christ. Unless I see something along those lines, I don't think there's any cause for speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) It is already 2012 (it will be 2013 tomorrow) if one remembers that Christ was actually born between 4 to 6 BC. Edited January 1, 2009 by Apotheoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 [quote name='Apotheoun' post='1740232' date='Dec 31 2008, 10:56 PM']It is already 2012 (it will be 2013 tomorrow) if one remembers that Christ was actually born between 4 to 6 BC.[/quote] What year is it in the Julian calendar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 [quote name='Era Might' post='1740233' date='Dec 31 2008, 08:59 PM']What year is it in the Julian calendar?[/quote] It would be the same year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 1 January 2009 of the Julian calendar will happen on 14 January 2009 of the Gregorian calendar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweens8403 Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 well, what I'm more worried about is all the looney toons who actually believe in the mayan calendar, nostradamus, and the rest. What the ignorant masses will do is what concerns me not really anything having to do with the end times. Honestly I haven't studied escatology that much anyway. I think that the gospels make it pretty clear that we cannot know the exact time and date of the second coming/bowls of wrath/beast/anti-christ/four horsemen/etc. Besides, whether all of that happens to begin tomorrow or twenty years from now my behavior should remain the same; "running with endurance the race marked out for me". I'll get to it eventually, but for now being a new convert about to enter the Church officially I'd rather focus on getting my friends and family to enter the Church than try to figure out when the world will end. correct me if I'm wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 [quote name='Apotheoun' post='1740232' date='Dec 31 2008, 11:56 PM']It is already 2012 (it will be 2013 tomorrow) if one remembers that Christ was actually born between 4 to 6 BC.[/quote] haha however, that means that the Mayans projected 2016 as their date projection wasn't based on the birth of Christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 That's my point. Calendars are relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 [quote name='Apotheoun' post='1740232' date='Dec 31 2008, 11:56 PM']It is already 2012 (it will be 2013 tomorrow) if one remembers that Christ was actually born between 4 to 6 BC.[/quote] So then the Islamic year isin't really 1430? Saince the migration wasn't actually in 622 but actully 626? So it's really 1434, which means Michelangelo will be born in 41 years. So St Peter's Basilica isin't painted yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 The Muslims do act like they live in the 1400s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniteAdoremus Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1740641' date='Jan 1 2009, 11:22 PM']So then the Islamic year isin't really 1430? Saince the migration wasn't actually in 622 but actully 626? So it's really 1434, which means Michelangelo will be born in 41 years. So St Peter's Basilica isin't painted yet? [/quote] I'll tell my dad to put that pilgrimage to Rome he's planning for me on hold for a while. Won't be any fun with a bare St. Peter's Basilica. But honestly... just because their calendar ended... couldn't they just have thought "well, we can go on for 800 years on this one, let them worry about a new calendar then, we're going to party!" I would have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 The Mayan calendar, like many other things associated with that ancient culture, is historically interesting, while being eschatologically irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 I'll bet there will some cult folks on mountain tops waiting for the end just like what happened in 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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