Hmm, so this site is about a bunch of people who prohesy that prophecies about what will happen after the end of the Mayan calendar on 21 Dec 2012 (or 28 Oct 2011 by Calleman's theories) will not actually happen.
In a nutshell, yeas.
You are, in fact, debunking something which is not a fact anyway.
Doesn't stop thousands of people from living in fear because of it. Doesn't stop hundreds of others from making money off that fear. Am I missing something here?
It seems obvious to me that you don't have a clue, just as the people whose theories you purport to debunk, about what will happen.
You're quite welcome to read through the pages, check out the citations, ask for specifics beyond what has been written, and if you see something clearly wrong and have evidence that demonstrates it to be wrong, do speak up.
Why should I or anyone accept your supposed authority on this subject when really you have no more cred than the people you refute?
You shouldn't, in the same way you shouldn't listen to Stephen Hawking just because he's Stephen Hawking. We on the forums, or whomever contributes to the pages aren't important. The content is important, the testability of the claims are important, the flat out falsehoods created by numerous proponents are important. In the same way we can demonstrably show claims to be false, you've got the opportunity to demonstrably show how we are wrong. If it's well researched, well tested data, we'd love to look at it.
What I do understand, as a mortal human being, is that all things must end including us and our planet. Whether that's in 2011, 2012 or one hundred thousand years from now, life as we know it will change. What scares me is not that this world will end but moreso what our ignorance and greed as a species will do to this planet and the cosmos.
Quite right. The skies offer countless wonders that are testable, that are verifiable. We know of and can prove the existence of over 500 extrasolar planets, and yet still people churn up the oft debunked nonsense that is Nibiru, Planet X, what have you. Should people who willfully lie about this stuff get a free ride? Hell no, if they want to participate in science, they'd better follow the rulebook.
So perhaps this thing you call a hoax is merely wishful thinking by some? whatever, open your minds, your hearts and wake up and live truly in the present because regardless of any conjecture about the future, whatever will be will be.
Look around, plenty of people aren't allowed to just live their lives because they are burdened by a fear that has more often than not no basis in reality. That's a pretty rubbish world to live in don't you think? People feeding off the fears of others for a quick buck, perhaps even just for attention.
Whatever will be, will be, in all probability, not what the proponents think, here's to 2013.
Alan Mustafa (guest) 14 Jan 2011 23:32
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