[69] However, its supposed end date was tied to astronomical phenomena by esoteric, fringe, and New Age literature that placed great significance on astrology, especially astrological interpretations associated with the phenomenon of axial precession. But is there a line? [154], On 6 December 2012, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a hoax speech for the radio station triple J in which she declared "My dear remaining fellow Australians; the end of the world is coming. Kids love them because they follow their dreams. [137] Jared Lee Loughner, the perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting, followed 2012-related predictions. Are you a rusher or are you a dragger? Black-suit Spider-Man! In the Maya Long Count, the previous world ended after 13 bʼakʼtuns, or roughly 5,125 years. [41] Mayanist scholar Stephen Houston contests this view by arguing that future dates on Maya inscriptions were simply meant to draw parallels with contemporary events, and that the words on the stela describe a contemporary rather than a future scene. [175] The Discovery Channel also aired 2012 Apocalypse in 2009, suggesting that massive solar storms, magnetic pole reversal, earthquakes, supervolcanoes, and other drastic natural events could occur in 2012. says: says: He was a... a thief! And, without benefits, I guess I can hold my daughter as she suffers from her asthma! We raised over $11,111 towards our goal. I just couldn't see it. The archaeological site was opened two hours early to receive thousands of tourists, mostly foreigners who came to participate in events scheduled for the end of bʼakʼtun 13. On the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of text projects forward to the 80th 52-year Calendar Round from the coronation of the ruler Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal. [73], Similarly, the Sun's December solstice position (in the northern hemisphere, the lowest point on its annual path; in the southern hemisphere, the highest) was in the constellation of Sagittarius, one of two constellations in which the zodiac intersects with the Milky Way. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. Two raves were foiled, 12 people had to be turned away from the peak, and 5 people were arrested for carrying weapons. Please Mr Jameson, are there any of these shots you can use I really need the money. Oh my dear God! says: Bob Confusion in classical period inscriptions suggests that the name was already ancient and unfamiliar to contemporary scribes. This idea, which appeared in various forms since 1995, initially predicted Doomsday in May 2003, but proponents abandoned that date after it passed without incident. [54] The History Channel aired a handful of special series on doomsday that included analysis of 2012 theories, such as Decoding the Past (2005–2007), 2012, End of Days (2006), Last Days on Earth (2006), Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (2009), and Nostradamus 2012 (2008). In the Solar System, the planets and the Sun lie roughly within the same flat plane, known as the plane of the ecliptic. Some research[60] suggests that both Argüelles and McKenna were heavily influenced in this regard by the Mayanism of American author William S. Burroughs, who first portrayed the end of the Mayan Long Count as an apocalyptic shift of human consciousness in 1960's The Exterminator. Henry Sawyer Some Maya scholars, such as Barbara MacLeod,[40] Michael Grofe,[88] Eva Hunt, Gordon Brotherston, and Anthony Aveni,[89] have suggested that some Mayan holy dates were timed to precessional cycles, but scholarly opinion on the subject remains divided. Alternates you want to clean the blood off my drumset? [156], Those Mesoamerican countries that once formed part of the Maya civilization—Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—all organized festivities to commemorate the end of bʼakʼtun 13 at the largest Maya sites. [65], In 2001, Robert Bast wrote the first online articles regarding the possibility of a doomsday in 2012. Kai I'll pay you the usual rate. Who is Spider-man? says: says: [153] Bookings for wedding ceremonies on 21 December 2012 were saturated in several cities. [35] Two items in the Maya classical corpus, however, do mention the end of the 13th bʼakʼtun: Tortuguero Monument 6 and La Corona Hieroglyphic Stairway 12. Furthermore, they assert that this event was indeed planned for 2012 and not the 7th century. Terence Fletcher says: You cannot escape them. Based on just what you've copied here, Maps.org's manual for MDMA-assisted therapy seems more thorough and detailed. Dark, The Mandalorian, and These 10 Other Shows Deserve an Emmy, Counterpart’s J.K. Simmons, Castmates & Producers Reveal Season 2 Surprises, 10 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This December, Cobra Kai Deserves an Emmy, and So Do These 8 Other Shows, J.K. Simmons Gets an Alt-Reality Check in Counterpart Finale Exclusive Scene, Counterpart Star J.K. Simmons and Series Creators Reveal Crazy Kismet Behind Sci-Fi Spy Thriller, 11 Hidden Gems Starring the Justice League Cast, Video: Ben Affleck is a Truck-Jumping Wonder, Video: Jack Black Declares War on Dr. Dre, National Society of Film Critics: Goodbye to Language Is Best Picture, LAFCA Announces Winners: Boyhood Wins Best Picture. [80] Jenkins claimed that the classical Maya anticipated this conjunction and celebrated it as the harbinger of a profound spiritual transition for mankind. Instead, it was bound up with American concepts such as the New Age movement, 2012 millenarianism, and the belief in secret knowledge from distant times and places. Are you telling me that Robbie is your best friend? says: says: Andrew Neyman Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics, Internal Affairs Investigator Leon Fordham (Guest Star). [93] Terence McKenna claimed that the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness. He's a menace to the entire city! Highest Rated: says: Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese book on divination,[58] the graph purports to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. About 3,000 people participated in the event. says: The hoax purported that once Psy's "Gangnam Style" YouTube video amassed a billion views, the world would end. Given that the Milky Way is between 10° and 20° wide, it takes between 700 and 1,400 years for the Sun's December solstice position to precess through it. Chad Feldheimer Peter Parker/Spider-Man Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. I want him strung up by his web! I want Spider-Man!!! Or are you gonna be on my fucking time!? A criminal! [35] Most classic Maya inscriptions are strictly historical and do not make any prophetic declarations. "[155] Radio announcer Neil Mitchell described the hoax as "immature" and pondered whether it demeaned her office. Aww. In February 2012, American automotive company General Motors aired an advertisement during the annual Super Bowl football game in which a group of friends drove Chevrolet Silverados through the ruins of human civilization following the 2012 apocalypse, while on 17 December 2012, Jell-O ran an ad saying that offering Jell-O to the Mayan gods would appease them into sparing the world. ", "Questions Show: Alignment with the Galactic Plane, Destruction from Venus, and the Death of the Solar System", "Good astronomy: Planetary alignments have relatively little to do with earthquakes", "Solar Maximum: Three Solar Flares And A Coronal Mass Ejection As The Sun Reaches Peak Solar Activity", "Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012", "Video (04:03) – Carrington-class coronal mass ejection narrowly misses Earth", "The Myth of Nibiru and the End of the World in 2012", "Is the earth about to enter the Photon Belt, causing the end of life as we know it? If you want the shots, I'll take the staff job. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged. [142] Ultimately, only about 1,000 visitors appeared at the height of the "event". All rights reserved. Were gonna die! chan ajaw u꞉x uni꞉w I know right? As these promotions did not mention the film itself, many viewers believed them to be real and contacted astronomers in panic. A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name. One more thing, Eugene, give me that: If I ever find one of these lying around again, I swear to fucking God I will stop being so polite… Get the fuck out of my sight before I demolish you! It is the display of Bʼolon-Yokte' He's a menace to the entire city! Although the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec,[14] it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD. And, without benefits, I guess I can hold my daughter as she suffers from her asthma! [66] In 2006, author Daniel Pinchbeck popularized New Age concepts about this date in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, linking bʼakʼtun 13 to beliefs in crop circles, alien abduction, and personal revelations based on the use of hallucinogenic drugs and mediumship. The general intent of this literature was not to warn of impending doom but "to foster counter-cultural sympathies and eventually socio-political and 'spiritual' activism". says: [121][122] Astronomers calculated that such an object so close to Earth would be visible to anyone looking up at the night sky. [129] However, while Betelgeuse was certainly in the final stages of its life, and would die as a supernova, there was no way to predict the timing of the event to within 100,000 years. [183] Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia featured a plot in which a planet emerges from behind the Sun on a collision course with Earth.[184]. "[27] In 1990, Mayanist scholars Linda Schele and David Freidel argued that the Maya "did not conceive this to be the end of creation, as many have suggested". This group held a parallel ceremony, and complained that the date has been used for commercial gain. The Maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. Sooner or later, when they're ready, they will take your family.". I don't fuck around, comprende? He made reference to the destruction of the world and an apocalypse, though he made no reference to the 13th bʼakʼtun or 2012 and it was not clear that he was referring to a future event. Peter Klaven [172] American reality TV stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt revealed that they had spent most of their $10 million of accumulated earnings by 2010 because they believed the world would end in 2012. [106] However, this "alignment" takes place over tens of millions of years, and could never be timed to an exact date. But is there a line? The invasion already happened. These were quoted and expanded upon by Terence and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape (1975). MF DOOM was an intelligent and extremely talented man. Edwin Pollard says: [64] Anthony Aveni has dismissed all of these ideas. No, man, no. He's a criminal thats who he is. [80] Jenkins said that precession would align the Sun precisely with the galactic equator at the 2012 winter solstice. [105] According to the Shiva Hypothesis, mass extinctions are not random, but recur every 26 million years. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. says: [99] "Ask an Astrobiologist", a NASA public outreach website, received over 5,000 questions from the public on the subject from 2007,[127] some asking whether they should kill themselves, their children or their pets. [137], Beginning in 2000, the small French village of Bugarach, population 189, began receiving visits from "esoterics"—mystic believers who had concluded that the local mountain, Pic de Bugarach, was the ideal location to weather the transformative events of 2012. Learn everything an expat should know about managing finances in Germany, including bank accounts, paying taxes, getting insurance and investing. Are you a rusher or are you a dragger? [134] Astronomer and debunker Phil Plait noted that by using the small-angle formula, one could determine that if the object in the photo were as large as claimed, it would have had to be closer to Earth than the Moon, which would mean it would already have arrived. John Major Jenkins complained that a science fiction writer co-authored the documentary, and he went on to characterize it as "45 minutes of unabashed doomsday hype and the worst kind of inane sensationalism". [32], In the 1900s, German scholar Ernst Förstemann interpreted the last page of the Dresden Codex as a representation of the end of the world in a cataclysmic flood. With an uncanny ability to go from understated to over-the-top, seemingly with the flip of a switch, actor J.K. Simmons became an ever-present fixture in film and on television via a tireless work ethic and nuanced performances. “The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.” - Terence McKenna “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.” - Carl Gustav Jung “The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” - Alan Watts He was a, a thief! [53] Themes found in 2012 literature included "suspicion towards mainstream Western culture", the idea of spiritual evolution, and the possibility of leading the world into the New Age by individual example or by a group's joined consciousness. [4][158] Mexico is visited by about 22 million foreigners in a typical year. Jenkins himself noted that even given his determined location for the line of the galactic equator, its most precise convergence with the center of the Sun already occurred in 1998, and so asserts that, rather than 2012, the galactic alignment instead focuses on a multi-year period centered in 1998. Because they screw lingerie models. says: The twelve constellations that line the ecliptic are known as the zodiacal constellations, and, annually, the Sun passes through all of them in turn. [54] Aveni, who has studied New Age and search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) communities, describes 2012 narratives as the product of a "disconnected" society: "Unable to find spiritual answers to life's big questions within ourselves, we turn outward to imagined entities that lie far off in space or time—entities that just might be in possession of superior knowledge. "Already this year more than 20,000 people have climbed right to the top, and last year we had 10,000 hikers, which was a significant rise on the previous 12 months. Some claim that a focus on leaving Earth distracts from the various challenges and issues presently faced by humanity.Many of these people also argue that becoming multi-planetary would divert precious resources away from our present challenges/issues. We gotta have these, Jonah. [54][94], Novelty theory has been criticized for "rejecting countless ideas presumed as factual by the scientific community", depending "solely on numerous controversial deductions that contradict empirical logic", and encompassing "no suitable indication of truth", with the conclusion that novelty theory is a pseudoscience. J.K. Simmons Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest J.K. Simmons photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! Of those, 10,000 visited Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, 9,900 visited Tulum in Quintana Roo, and 8,000 visited Palenque in Chiapas. Who's YOUR best friend? I guess we learned, not to do it again. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job. says: 93%. ...Hank Mardukas...and Robbie. Get the fuck out of my sight before I demolish you! I want him strung up by his web! You know, maybe you go too far and discourage the next Charlie Parker from ever becoming Charlie Parker? Everybody remember, Lincoln Center and it's… use this competitions to decide who they're interested in and who they're not. In addition to reprising the part for "Spider-Man" sequels, Simmons was seemingly everywhere, popping up in the features "Thank You for Smoking" (2006), "Juno" (2007) and "Burn After Reading" (2008). Double the money. Gun, gun, loaded. [168], In Bolivia, President Evo Morales participated in Quechua and Aymara rituals, organized with government support, to commemorate the Southern solstice that took place in Isla del Sol, in the southern part of Lake Titicaca. I believe that's an absolute necessity. Sooner or later, when they're ready, they will take your family. Joe the Pawnshop Owner I am not deep, but I am very wide. Steadily gaining prominence in a variety of feature film work, Simmons landed the plum role of cantankerous tabloid editor J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" (2002), earning high marks from legions of comic book fans. A criminal! A number of brands ran commercials tied to the 2012 apocalypse in the months and days leading to the date. MegaMind Kids love them because they follow their dreams. - SMiles Lewis… Like ... “Dafür dass wir, wie auch die Tiere, von den Pflanzen leben, ja ohne sie nicht einmal atmen könnten, genügt kein einfacher Dank – Verehrung ist angebracht.” [185] Indian composer A. R. Rahman, known for Slumdog Millionaire, released his single "Infinite Love" to "instill faith and optimism in people" prior to the predicted doomsday. The police say that Spider-Man was there. Miss Brant The residents said they didn’t travel, and they didn’t even fish. says: It's an entirely different mindset. Sooner or later, when they're ready, they will take your family. Please Mr Jameson, are there any of these shots you can use I really need the money. [72] In Western astrological traditions, precession is measured from the March equinox, one of the two annual points at which the Sun is exactly halfway between its lowest and highest points in the sky. 96 likes. says: If you want the shots, I'll take the staff job. However, commentators have rejected claims that the bot is able to predict natural disasters, as opposed to human-caused disasters like stock market crashes. says: 142 likes. [67][68] Pinchbeck claims to discern a "growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has reached its expiration date ... [w]e're on the verge of transitioning to a dispensation of consciousness that's more intuitive, mystical and shamanic".[6]. Occur in both 2000 and 2010, each with no ill result for the Tree. Jameson, are there any of these beings invading our planet as some cataclysm. 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