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u/w00t4me Mar 21 '20
Could you imagine the chaos if the Mayans did say 2020, or if the Corona virus happened in 2012?
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u/SirSnapdragon Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20
Could be 2102, we just read it backwards
Edit: put 2101 instead
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u/themangoperson Mar 21 '20
What if it was 1012 and the world has already ended ????
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u/bar10005 Mar 21 '20
Could you imagine the chaos if the Mayans did say 2020
FYI and AFAIK (I just read about it, mostly on Wiki, no 'serious' research) Maya believed that there was a previous world that lasted 13 baktuns (each baktun is 144,000 days) and according to their calendar in 2012 our current world would 'celebrate' 13 baktuns, but Maya never predicted if or when will our current world end, people just took those two unrelated facts and 'ran' with them.
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Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 22 '20
The maya’s just made a mistake and switched the numbers around accidentaly.
“Dude, it’s supposed to end on 21 not on 12. You’re gonna get us in trouble”
“Oh..i just noticed, well fuck it, it’s not like we are gonna live a couple of thousand years to see the end of the world.”
“What about our far-far-far- future children?”
“It’s like, what? A 9 year difference or something. They’ll figure it out, we’ll be fine”
Edit: I may sound stereotypical rn, but thanks for the award. Kind stranger.
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u/gandhinukes Mar 21 '20
They carved a 10k year calendar into stone. It had to end sometime.
Bering off by 9 years is like .0009% inaccuracy. Not that I believe in that but it would be super impressive either way.
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u/unpopular-ideas Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20
What if it was a slow build up to this moment that started in 2012? My understanding is their calendar works in cycles.
2012 wasn't meant to be the end of the world. It's regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle. I think it's very open for debate what the end of the cycle meant. But in 2012 this happened:
"In April–May 2012, a team of archaeologists unearthed a previously unknown inscription on a stairway at the La Corona site in Guatemala. The inscription, on what is known as Hieroglyphic Stairway 12, describes the establishment of a royal court in Calakmul in 635 AD, and compares the then-recent completion of 13 kʼatuns with the future completion of the 13th bʼakʼtun. It contains no speculation or prophecy as to what the scribes believed would happen at that time"
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon#La_Corona
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u/SpookStormblessed Mar 21 '20
“Hey man, worlds ending on December 12, 2021” “Ah sweet, December 21, 2012 it is.” “Wait... nevermind”
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u/Cynthiae123 Mar 21 '20
The world did end in 2012
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u/Destroyer9903 Lurker Mar 21 '20
Hol' up
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Mar 21 '20
Yeah, the world did end in 2012. What you think you're experiencing as 'life' right now is a feeble simulation made by your dying body in it's last seconds
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u/Isucktoads Mar 21 '20 edited Dec 24 '25
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Mar 21 '20
If you assume that the Mayans somehow based the date of the next apocalypse off of the previous one from ~10,000BC according to Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson, but didn't include leap years in the calculation, then the amount of extra days from leap years would account for approx 8 years, making the date of the next apocalypse 2020.
12,000 years / 4 years per leap year = 3000 leap years. 3000 extra leap days / 365 days per year = 8.219 extra years to add to the 2012 date.
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u/WatARn Mar 21 '20
Unfortunately, leap years aren’t that simple. There’s apparently a 100 years rule (no leap year for multiples of 100) and a 400 years rules (leap year for multiples of 400). However, I don’t know if it still applies over 12000 years. According to my quick calculations, it would make the difference a little under 8 years ...
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u/ozkan999 Mar 21 '20
the moment i saw "end of the world" i thought sono chi no kioku
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u/AkshatC07 🧬 Memonavirus Nightmare 🧬 Mar 21 '20
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u/jumary98 Mar 21 '20
Dyslexic is not with numbers though, that is dyscalculia....
Edit: misspelled dyslexic
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u/iam1080p Mar 21 '20
Dyscalculia is with the mathematical calculations. In this case they misread the number, which would come under dyslexia.
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u/Claxonic Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20
Mayans were working without precision instrumentation. It was a rounding error.
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u/doctorcraycray Jan 05 '22
it 2022 now, guess we survived the eventual doom of the human species.
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u/EarthTrash Thank you mods, very cool! Mar 21 '24
Memes like this give credibility to the dead internet theory.
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u/anxiouscomedian Mar 21 '20
Oh yeah he died... after spending his company’s fortune to fund his end of the world campaign lol
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u/auto_generatedname Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
Man, the world is ending the same way conservative comedians are getting cancelled, they keep saying its happening but it still keeps on going.
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u/Market-Nervous Mar 21 '24
well... guess it didn't
(also, why did reddit give me a notification saying that this was the popular 4 years ago?)
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u/BioDwarf Mar 21 '20
July 21st, 2021, I turn 21 in a world ravaged by plague and nuclear war. But hey at least I can drink my problems away
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u/Ok-Bit-663 Mar 21 '24
Someone has necrod this thread. That's why I am here. Well, you have miscalculated it around 5 years.
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Mar 21 '24
Funny how Reddit just recommends a post about the end of the world happening 1 year later to everyone 4 years later.
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Mar 21 '24
Funny how Reddit just recommends a post about the end of the world happening 1 year later to everyone 4 years later.
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u/Soup71207 Mar 21 '24
Did it happen?
(Im here because i got a notif that this was the most popular post 4 years ago)
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u/Klutzy-Green-7585 Mar 24 '24
Sorry 2021, it's 2024 and we're all wishin the world did end that year
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u/necio148 Mar 21 '20
I made this joke on social media a few days ago and got minimal interaction. I need to remember my Reddit app!!
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u/kinkypinkyinyostinky Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20
He was right all along. 2012 started a series of events which lead us to this.
Edit: ie the Attack in Benghazi or the first reported mers outbreak. TIL
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A person from 2022: We lived throughout 2021 and it was better than 2020
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u/falconstar_bja Mar 21 '24
Relax everyone. We are living the best possible timeline. The scientists over at the large hadron collider have assured me that all the others were worse.
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u/Philisterguyguster Mar 21 '24
Why am I here? Why did reddit show me this notification? This is an outrage. It’s unfair.
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u/Xas11lasgfdhjsjdjdhd Mar 22 '24
“Damn, I miss it! Aww well, I guess I will have to wait for next year.”-Me Every year since 2012
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u/DeleteOnceAMonth Mar 21 '24
Why was this at the top
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Mar 21 '24 edited May 22 '24
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u/phenixop Professional Dumbass Mar 21 '20
What happens if 2012 was read wrong and its meant to happen in 2021
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u/WhyHelloMyFriend18 Mar 21 '20
That one guy that’s thousands of dollars in debt from pasta from 2012
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u/Spatdoepa_ Mar 21 '20
Being dyslexic is so anoying. In Dutch, twenty-three is pronounced as 'three and twenty' for instance. Its so anoying when I see a number. I just always mess up the pronunciation.
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u/Parker_Hartley Dirt Is Beautiful Mar 21 '20
Sorry, the apocalypse has been postponed until 2120 because of Coronavirus. Stay safe.
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Mar 21 '20
I get the joke about the people who predicted it wrong, so don't woooosh me, but dyslexic is bad at literature, not math
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u/Official_Xblade Chungus Among Us Mar 21 '20
No joke, it's creepy as fuck if the end actually comes in 2021 and that dude actually predicted it.
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u/Http-Chief Mar 21 '20
Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 1 time.
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u/ANAL_MOIST_VAGINA Mar 22 '20
Dyslexic means you can’t understand words correctly and may write them down incorrectly or reversed it doesn’t have anything to do with numbers good meme tho
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u/Davepicness Mar 22 '20
Daaaang. I laugh and upvote, then suddenly see 156k?!?!!
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u/Duckerson54 Mar 28 '20
wait how does someone read the 2 and the 0 normally and flip the 2 and the 1. I'm probably just an idiot who doesn't know how dyslexia works. if anyone could help me understand it better if I am wrong.
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u/Wolf_lord_13 Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 29 '20
Man what is worse is 2020 / 5 = 404 this year is a error the destruction of what we know
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u/drila404 Mar 21 '20
I told em, they did mess up he numbers!