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Do these professors have names?

Oh the wonders there are and the answers we are in for. XD

Have to completely agree there. I actually hope to be left down here just to fight in Armageddon. Of course after that, I hope I've been a good enough person.

I wanna get me some swords and rifles and maybe make a team of soldiers. Call em the Zero Runners cause End Fighters and Survivors aren't cool enough.

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the bible speaks of the earth suffering large amounts of water loss in the end somthing like 1/4 of the earths water then 1/2 of it will turn to blood by then most of the worlds population will be gone

End of the world = the end of our time. Not the time currently passing, but the time of empires.. todays empires at any rate. If the prophets wanted to claim the end of existence, they would have. I believe the only party guilty of saying such nonsense would be of the religious persuasion.. and we all know how much faith we can put in that.



1999 wasn't predicted thousands of years before. That was probably a ridiculous rumor that caught major wind and spread like wild fire. The Mayans, by my current knowledge have predicted many things that were near accurate. They predicted their own downfall, I believe they predicted the huge Tsunami(but I think they were off by a few months or something.. I could be wrong)that happened not too long ago, and I'm sure a few other things have happened that have been linked, either directly or indirectly to the Mayans credit.



What they used was a star system. I believe the Mayan calendar's year is three of our years, or something to that effect. Nostradamus didn't use any scientific methods when making his predictions, of which one could argue against the more popular of his "prophecies" as inevitable consequence. That being the Twin Towers tragedy. The Mayans didn't use a scientific method when predicting their own downfall, which, again, can be argued using the "all empires must end at some point" debate. I believe that star system they used is entitled Astronomy, which is the science of reading/studying the stars, planets, etc.



Your point? Many civilizations haven't spoken of Dinosaurs in their history. Or perhaps they did under different terms? We only do because we have the interest and ability to pursue such answers/studies. The Bible doesn't mention them either, nor does Egyptian hieroglyphs.



Or no proof suggesting that it won't happen.

Regardless the end of the world is merely a personal deduction based around opinions and history. Sure, history may repeat itself just as it may not.

Let's look at pollution: Before I start on with this, please correct me if I'm wrong as I'm using my own assumed knowledge when crafting this. Pollution is nothing more than Carbon being expelled into the air/atmosphere correct? Well, in all the history of the Industrial age we've been spewing forth this so called Carbon. But... so have Volcanoes. For countless centuries no less. In all the years we've been producing "harmful" emissions from our industry, Volcanoes have left a dent that we'll never catch up to. So that leads to the next segment: Global Warming. Sure, it's not good, for humans or plantlife. But what was the Ice Age but the exact opposite? It's a cycle. The Planet recycles itself.

This may in fact be the answer to the end of the world. Not the end of time, because, well, let's face it, time is endless. It'll still pass when we're gone. It's not the end of existence. It's the end of THIS DAY AND AGE. The Earth will still be here, perhaps humanity will or not, and the Natural world will continue. Maybe what happened to the Mayans will happen to us? We don't know just as we don't not know.

Of course, the question of the world ending is impossible to answer anyways. Maybe the world will vanish? Maybe nothing will happen? Who knows. We should focus on today, not 2012.

Apologies for any offense taken. I'm not trying to be pretentious or "all knowing." Just hopefully adding more subject to this discussion.

Ah, I banned God Emperor Akhenaton a few months back, he was just trolling.

As for the Mayan calendar, I believe we'll still be around after 2012, but perhaps there will be huge changes. A lot of people are making a big fuss over the Mayan calendar just to make some money, when in reality, there's not so much to it. A shift in consciousness? well, I would like to hope so, but I don't really believe there's anything to it. There's also been concern that the elite are using our fear of 2012 in their agenda, so some bad s**t might actually happen, caused by them... and I don't just mean this economic melt down.

As for the global warming thing. They teach us that it's because of carbon, because that's what we exhale.. the point is that they want to tax us for breathing... you are totally right about the volcano and ice age cycle thing. this is all natural, we need not worry. but that doesn't mean we should slack on our eco-friendly efforts.

I should've looked at the dates of the posts before posting. I always tend to fall for the trolling nonsense. It sparks some intense debate in me. Regardless I am in concurrence when you say we shouldn't slack. It'd be like giving up before really trying.



Indeed.