riadse96
Suicidesoldier#1
Yoshpet
Suicidesoldier#1
The Mayans had many Gods; all of them it seemed.
Practiced human sacrifice until they were told one man sacrificed for all.
So I mean like, they still could have predicted it.
Or at least something similar.
Not all raptures are Christian.
I mean there are many raptures out there and they might all be the same one.
Are you telling me the entire Mayan civilization was converted to Christianity and may have been predicting the rapture as detailed in the New Testament? Because that's definitely the impression I got.
Not all "raptures" are Christian, but referring to the end-times as "The Rapture" is explicitly Christian.
Maybe you're the one making this Christian Centric.
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But then again, the norse said 2012-2060, the mayans say 2012-2025, the Christians said it might happen, and all of them said "4 guys will come from 'the heavens' and destroy humanity" and in a world that will be "dark and red".
Fimbulwinter- everlasting winter, the sky and snow will turn red, three roosters one other named "death" will come down
Armagedoon- everlasting night, the water will turn into "blood", 4 horsemen
Mayans- everlasting darkness, and everything will glow red, basic translation of "war, sickness, starvation and ultimately death" will occur
ZOMG THEY ALL PREDICTED THE SAME THING- that or there is a base story in Mesopotamia somewhere.
Indeed I have heard 2060, but that it is predicted by the famous Isaac Newton. I really haven't heard anything about the Norse, and had no idea they had their own end time predictions. I don't know very much about Norse religion, so if you can, would you please explain more?
Well, there will be a very long time until the last war, when all the Gods come down to earth or rather, when all the planes of existence meet and due to their rivalries are subsequently tossed into battle. The fates of each God are already destined and well known but they await their doom anyways and train endlessly to improve themselves for their destiny or even crazier, to take out as many enemies as possible before they commit their scripted acts.
Some acts are still unscripted and therefore, if you are a poor soldier while you might end up killing a single evil giant warlord, inadvertently, you may die in the process or fail to prevent a 1000 other soldiers from wreaking havoc on the country side. As a God you are supposed to be better than mere mortals anyways.
Preceding this is fimbulwinter; an entire year or so of winter, in which the snow turns red and the worst storm conditions that are possible are present (in other words, a virtual hell on earth for the Norse, and an entire year of darkness, as the other prophecies state). First comes famine, then pestilence, then war, and then death- but then surprisingly, rebirth. Should they fail it would not- but sense destiny says they are to win it isn't as large a concern. Three roosters will make this clear, although the manner in which they will is unsure, and another, separated from the three, Death, will wreak havoc.
Then havoc, chaos and combat ensues. A large portion of the Earth's population is wiped out in the ensuing battles exacerbated by all the poor weather and sickness and whatnot. Thor kills a giant sea serpent, winning, but then collapsing and dieing from poison 9 paces later. Odin is eaten by a wolf, who is then ripped in half by his other son whom has the largest boot in the world, and thus is capable of such a thing. Loki, the instigator of all this, is defeated by a not so prevalent but honestly one of my favorite of the norse characters, heimdell, who is seen as one of the greatest warriors in existence.
The entire event after fimbulwinter is called ragnorak, and is a relativley wide spread idea well! The strange thing about Ragnorak is that, arguably the most important Gods or most prevalent, such as Thor, Odin, and the like, all meet their dooms in relativley inconspicuous ends. Odin is simply eaten by a wolf- Thor is killed by the poison of a sea serpent, despite being seen as the primary defender of earth. Neither meet their doom in typical human vs. human armed combat which is seen as the most glorious.
Tyr, a well placed god, fairly important, simply dies to the fire giant that no-one really knew about until just then. All of these guys meet their doom to seemingly unimportant or less than spectacular or gloried ends.
The greatest warrior ever, well the ideal soldier more or less, ends up taking out the ring leader and most the other guys. Vallhalla fails and then a new place retakes it, Iðavöllr, which is where Asgard used to be but burned by the fire giant Satr.
Anyways it's an end of the world prophecy that eerily mimics others in the general theme- darkness ,bad weather, bad crops and sickness, war and then death. They also predict it will occur around the same time. They say that these will be the last, as well. 5 cycles there's been- but this will be the last. Crazy stuff.
The thing is, aids and other diseases, horrific weather in Europe and the rest of the world, and subsequent famines in addition to war everywhere right seems to be leading up to these events. The world seems bad and it's fitting the stories perfectly.
Hence we have lots of people freaking out and given the circumstances, we might need to. It might all be coincidence. But cannot be a reason for the end of the world?
Because you predicted it happened. The self fulfilling prophecy is still fulfilled. The mayans had absolutely terrible timing with cortez- but they were right, even if it was self-fulfilling. But was it really? How did cortez land on the exact day they said it would, planned out hundreds, if not thousands of years in advance.
Coincidence sure, but that does not mean that the end did not come when they said it did. Even worse, by saying it would end, that might result in the end. But things are matching up.
AND IT WAS PREDICTED BY MULTIPLE SOURCES.
DUM-DUM-DUM!
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