Oops sorry about that, I tried searching but couldn't really come up with anything.

Mods if you feel the need to merge go for it

[edit on 8-1-2008 by noslenwerd]

well the mayan calendar does represent the end of a cycle , why cant it be the end of a solar cycle ?

Can they merge it, cool I hope so too I don't mind really. It's been around for a bit to say the least. But my angle was of a prophetic angle to suggest that God's judgement on the earth will include the Suns' increased heat that will torture people with.

That is not just a prediction,
Some parts of the sun are more reactive than others,
And the sun itself has 'moods', afterall it is living (so to speak)
Radiation from the sun is the same as the carbon dioxide we breathe out,
This 'cycle' as you call it, is the equivilent of the sun 'burping'
all it is doing is letting out a stronger more concentrated amount of its bi-product
It is not a world-ending event

Originally posted by LoliKhan

And neither is what the Mayans predicted "the end of the world". It's just a change, an end of a cycle. They could have very well known about this.

And then again, maybe THEY were scared it WOULD end everything! Maybe they thought it would have been more powerful than it is?

Ofcourse there is also that they simply decided they didnt need to continue theyre calendar any further with the assumption that come 2012AD people would design a new calendar

The Mayans designed their calendar based on the moon phases. The mathematics of the moon phases aren't specific to the moon, infact it's rather common throughout the galaxy and probably the entire universe. So while it may look like the Mayan civilization had all this knowledge about the stars, it's really just the one thing that happens to have a lot in common with other cosmic occurences.

The Mayans did not believe the world would end in 2012. They believed it would mark the end of a cycle, which would also mark the beginning of a new one. This isn't to say that anything magestic or awe-inspiring will happen on december 21, 2012.

The Sun does this about once every eleven years. It's not rare by any means and it hasn't killed us yet.

There are a number of mistakes in this thread.

1. The solar maximum is in 2013, not 2012.
2. The Mayan long count calendar is linear, not cyclic.
3. The predicted solar maximum is expected to lower than average.