Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Tomy2011 02 Jan 2011 00:34

take a look at those websites:

Unexplainable.net
Abovetopsecret.com
Mayanpredictions.net

According to the last website, the mayanpredictions.net:

The Stonehenge dates back to being built around 3100 BC. This is in collaboration with creation of the Mayan calendar and the invention of the Sumerian language. On analyzing the Stonehenge several historians have suggested the possibility of the Stonehenge giving clues to the end of time in the same way the Mayan calendar does; thus showing a link between the two.

The first website, Unexplainable.net has a different claim, and is more apocalyptic:

Why would eclipses have been so important to the ancient people of Stonehenge? Perhaps they considered the darkening of the Sun or the Moon a fearsome event — a celestial omen of doom or disaster. Many cultures have interpreted eclipses this way. But the sophistication of the astronomy of Stonehenge suggests that the builders had something different in mind. Their understanding of the solar and lunar cycles must have led to a high regard for the cosmic order.

The second one, Abovetopsecret.com has the same claim that last website (mayanpredictions.net).

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Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

bikenbeer2000 02 Jan 2011 02:08

Here's a good one (in 2 of the 3 websites listed):

In a few years (2012) due to the wobble of the earth on its axis and certain other important alignments, the giant Heelstone will no longer cast its shadow within the circle of stones. It will mean that time has run out.

They do come up with some complete tripe, don't they? So this shadow will be in the circle of stones one year, but not the next. Considering that the decreasing tilt of the Earth's axis causes the Sun's rising and setting positions to change by about 1/2000th of its diameter from one year to the next, I'll be interested to see how that one turns out.

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Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Tomy2011 02 Jan 2011 02:39

From Wikipedia, about Stonehenge:

The Heel Stone lies just outside the main entrance to the henge, next to the present A344 road. It is a rough stone, 16 feet (4.9 m) above ground, leaning inwards towards the stone circle. It has been known by many names in the past, including "Friar's Heel" and "Sun-stone". Today it is uniformly referred to as the Heel Stone or Heelstone. When one stands within Stonehenge, facing north-east through the entrance towards the heel stone, one sees the sun rise above the stone at summer solstice.

Gotcha! "One sees the sun rise above the stone at summer solstice." (21st December 2012 is the summer solstice). But, well, I can't see a reason for the world be destroyed every year, at the summer solstice!

Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

bikenbeer2000 02 Jan 2011 03:30

The passage I quoted was from the first link. The third link actually mentions December 2012:

Coincidentally, this clock goes backward and acts as a countdown to the end of time – on December 21st 2012! On this day due to the wobble of the Earth on its axis and several other alignments, the heal stone will cease to cast a shadow indicating that time has run out.

For this stone to cease to cast a shadow, it must either disappear or the Sun must cease shining. Which do you think they mean?
On 21st December (the winter solstice), the shadow cast by this stone at sunrise is angled some 80º to the direction to the centre of the circle. At sunset, its shadow will be aligned, but pointing away from the stone circle.
They seem to be thoroughly confused, don't they?

Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

obaeyens 02 Jan 2011 12:34

Why doesn't the world blow up at night or when there is cloud cover?
It is also preventing this stone to cast shadow.

Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Tomy2011 02 Jan 2011 13:19

They're really confused. All the links are really confused, but the third is apocalyptic, more than the other two links. I thought that anyone, without any information, would become scarred because this "armageddon countdown" at stonehenge.

Coincidentally, this clock goes backward and acts as a countdown to the end of time – on December 21st 2012! On this day due to the wobble of the Earth on its axis and several other alignments, the heal stone will cease to cast a shadow indicating that time has run out.

"The shadow of the end of the world"!

Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

snorks 03 Jan 2011 17:11

I guess this goes back to thinking of Stonehenge is one astro-clock. Folks these days are not so sure, since they have been investigating Stone Age burials at the site. So perhaps doomsday needs to be rethought.

Moo (guest) 04 Jan 2011 23:31

Considering there's proof of cremated remains and other such things… yeah.

Unless it's fueled off dead bodies.

Balon (guest) 05 Jan 2011 08:20

"This is in collaboration with creation of the Mayan calendar and the invention of the Sumerian language"

This is untrue.

I'm linguistic-amatour and I know that sumerian language was not invented.

This is natural language like English or German, not invented like Esperanto or Klingon.

Irregularities in sumerian grammar clear show that this is natural language.

Balon (guest) 05 Jan 2011 08:27

I'm click on one of 3 links and I found more nonsenses:

''Moreover, archaeologists have found various carvings in the stone. Using carbon dating archaeologists some of these carvings include Sumerian numbers and writings. The numbers “33” and “32” is significantly engraved on the stones. Interestingly enough, with the Sumerian sexagesimal system, the number 33 is multiplied by 60 and then added to 32 giving 2012 ironically.''

This claims are wrong.

Never found any Sumerian inscriptions outside Mesopotamia.

Tomy2011 05 Jan 2011 14:00

Thank you, Balon.

One more quote:

2012 is also a big part of history in other countries. As time passes, we might be able to discover more. Hopefully all this information should give us a better insight of what is to come.

He doesn't mention the "other countries".

Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Keith the Gamer Geek 08 Jan 2011 16:05

ROTFLMAO!!!!

OMFG what will these nutbags think of next?? I can just see it now…"The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans because it is pointing to where Nibiru is in the sky!!"

I love Eddie Izzard's take on Stonehenge (WARNING: NSFW language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFq_nk8pE0

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Re: Stonehenge: One more claim being spread

Tomy2011 08 Jan 2011 20:19

Cool, Keith!