Happy last night of playing DR 12/20/2012 08:44 PM CST
Ok, personally I don't believe in the end of the world on 12/21/12 as I believe in God and that he alone knows the time. However, I also believe God has a sense of humor so...in case he decides to oblige those who feel the world is ending....HAPPY LAST NIGHT OF PLAYING DR!

Oh yeah, on the news...they had THE Mayan expert on tv to explain that 12/21/12 is just the end of a cycle and the calendar begins a new cycle 12/22/12. Also, had a NASA guy say "there are no meteors of any size anywhere near us" or the equivalent. Geez, talk about the news covering all basis.

So enjoy yourselves! I plan to!

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow (grow! grow! GMs wanna make her grow please?)
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/20/2012 09:55 PM CST
>the end of a cycle and the calendar begins a new cycle 12/22/12

Indeed, but it was a Mayan religious belief that this world (the fourth) would end after 12 full cycles (of the longest kind in their Long Count Calender called a b'ak'tun), because the third world ended after 12 b'ak'tun.

Elemental Lord Opieus, Master Warrior Mage of Elanthia
"For a bunch of radical empiricists, the Philosophers' system relies on a whole lot of faith." ~Armifer
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/20/2012 11:49 PM CST
The world will end when the Klingons arrive. And not one microsecond sooner.

An arisen dummy zombie bellows, "You will all be ssslaughtered!"
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 02:08 AM CST
Keep in mind leap days/year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

Mayans did not have this in their society, if we take all the leap days we have created, by the Mayan Calendar its about July 15th I believe, 2013, and the end of days has come and gone.
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 07:23 AM CST
Not to be pedantic, but the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world, just the end of their calender.

I mean, this is just the first thing to pop up on google;
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 07:23 AM CST
Sorry, bad link;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/01/04/no-the-mayans-did-not-predict-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012/
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 08:26 AM CST
>Keep in mind leap days/year

Yes, the anthropologists who translated their calender to ours already kept this in mind.

Elemental Lord Opieus, Master Warrior Mage of Elanthia
"For a bunch of radical empiricists, the Philosophers' system relies on a whole lot of faith." ~Armifer
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 10:33 AM CST
>obligatory "Can I have your stuff?" post

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 11:28 AM CST
Every year when I turn my "cats hanging off branches" calendar to december, I know that we're all going to die, as opposed to me buying a new calendar on january first.



When in doubt, http://elanthipedia.org/
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Re: Happy last night of playing DR 12/21/2012 12:23 PM CST
Yes well, I woke up this morning to Helicopters and news reports of a mob at a local mall. Thankfully it was all over a pair of new Nike shoes, not a true zombie attack. Still was funny as heck when you hear the helicopters flying overhead. I live about a mile from the mall.

Arct
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