The Rational Side of "2012"

[Sabretooth]

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[Jono74]

I have worked out the solutions for (a), (b), (c) and (d), however, I consider them so plainly obvious that I see no reason to bother to state them here.

Well.... well done if you have worked it out, but I have NO IDEA. I'd be most grateful if you posted your solution, if for no one else, at least for me.
My 2012 knowledge is woeful. The extent of my knowledge = Some cults believe the world will end that year.
I had to resort to youtube to find out the details - apparantly December 21st. So I now have a "21" and a "12" to somehow wrangle into 2012. Maybe hours and minutes are also somehow involved. And a Mayan named Gregory. who knows.
I DO know the the first official debunking of it will be at one minute second past 12am on Dec 22, 2012. Im as confident of that as I am of the fact I will STILL not have even started buying xmas gifts. As is usual.

 

[Jono74]

hurry.up.then.Epix

 

[100]

*GASP* Haven't you sheeple figured it out yet!!?!?!?! LOOK!




2012 = ZION



It's just a matter of time!!!!!

The conspiracy theorists already beat you to that when they saw the London 2012 Olympic logo.

 

[Mudcat]

What fails the most is that there isn't an 'Epix Fail' motivator made just for you yet. So this will have to do until there is:

 

[Brian-M]

What fails the most is that there isn't an 'Epix Fail' motivator made just for you yet. So this will have to do until there is:

Found it...

 

[Mudcat]

Meant one that reads 'Epix Fail'

But that works too... man, how'd the heck that train wreck happen?

 

[Jono74]

Hellooo Epix!!!!!!!
Where for art thou, O Epix.....? I havent forgotten about the conundrum you posed during the week, and eagerly await the solution you are going to provide.
So...... Where the Bl**dy hell are ya?!

"The principle of the test calls for completing a statement with characters that seem to fit the circumstances. Before anything, when the collection of those four digits 2012 is interpreted as a year, there are two ways to verbalize it:"

 

[Jono74]

Just a test

Ok - my first attempt, again, at multi quoting a message. Sorry if I stuff it up epix. There must be an easier way than by cut/copying all the start and end quote bracketed stuff manually. If the crazy people can do it, then theres no reason I cant.

From time to time, the Universe tests the natural evolution of the mind of human species. The 2012 hoopla is an example. The subject spread around like Spanish flu and became familiar to the point of Hollywood capitalizing on the notoriety.

So I guess I type bits between the

bits....?

The principle of the test calls for completing a statement with characters that seem to fit the circumstances. Before anything, when the collection of those four digits 2012 is interpreted as a year, there are two ways to verbalize it:

1) 2012 = "year twenty twelve"

2) 2012 = "year two thousand twelve"

Lets start with (1) where 2012 is separated. The functional separation has three parts (a), (b), and (c) where (a) looks like this

a) 20_______?________12

and asks for completing the space between 20 and 12 given the overall "flavor" of that time period bestowed upon it by all the jolly catastrophic predictions. So the general guide for the completion of (a) is described by one word: negative.

I fail to understand this (1). So in between 20 and 12, there is a mystery few bits, (a), (b), and (c), and part (a) you say is 20________?________12. So, {20 (a=20__?__12) (b=?) (c=?) 12}
So a bit more help would be great, man...

The (b) and (c) questions are based on the fact that the Mayan Great Cycle ENDS in 2012(Gregorian). That means 20 and 12 are positioned at the end of the statements to be completed. This also affects the order: the number that ends statement (a) starts the (b) and (c) parts of the test.

b) ______?______12

c)_______?______20

The last statement (d) to be completed is formulated by the (2) option where 20 and 12 are kept together and the formulation is also based on the concept of END and additionally on the fact that Mayans were an ancient civilization, so they lived in the past. That means the number 2012 appears as a closing statement that is reversed

d) 2012_______?_______

and you are solving from right to left. (When we check what we've written (past) we go to the left, whereas the words to be written (future) will appear to the right.)

Note that 2012 is a collection of four digits. Hence the four question (a), (b), (c), and (d).

Here is a very important note to the solution which doesn't pretend to be analytically unique and just calls for the best option: all four answers must be very closely related.

The strategy to the solution: The answer to (a) seems to be the pilot. Once you realize the trick, the rest is a matter of a rational association based on a clue.

I personally flunked the test big time and had to be told. But I believe that if someone comes up with the preferable solution, then the United Nations should provide all the necessary means for that person, if male, to be set apart for breeding purposes providing that there are at least a couple of thousand young females around who do care about the future of mankind.

Ok - lets see if Jono74 can do a multi quote for starters... here goes...

 

[Brian-M]

Ok - my first attempt, again, at multi quoting a message. Sorry if I stuff it up epix. There must be an easier way than by cut/copying all the start and end quote bracketed stuff manually. If the crazy people can do it, then theres no reason I cant.

That's the way I do it, it isn't really hard once you get the hang of it. Just remember to use the "preview" button to check you haven't made a mistake before you post.

But if you're feeling lazy, what some people do is put generic quote tags around the subsequent sections of the quote (either by typing the tags in manually or by highlighting it and clicking on the speech-bubble button in the editor).

The downside to doing it this way is that generic quote tags don't have the author's name or link to the original post.

 

[fuelair]

(snip)It looks interesting to me, as I enjoy reading about Mayan doomsday theories even though I do not put any stock in them.

(snip)

Regards, Canis

Fortunately, neither do the still hanging around Mayans - who should know if anyone does!!*


ETA: by which I mean the Mayans around now say they did not have any theory like that, they just restart the calendar after each cycle.

 

[fuelair]

P.S., I am of the firm belief that the answer is 20 M_________F_________12 like in snakes on a plane.

 

[Gojira]

I think you made a mistake in the title of this thread. It should read: The "rational" side of 2012.

 

[catsmate]

You know that conundrum about the infinite number of monkeys on infinite number of typewriters?

Is this one of the early trials?

I assume that it's an example of the effect of cannabis use on thinking.

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

Well done Epix, this one failed on just about every level, although next time you might want to try writing it a non-existent language to make it truly incomprehensible on every level imaginable.

I'd settle for klingon. It doesn't have to be non-existent, just made up, to match the rest of the post.

 

[WiseMonkey]

I'm not sure if any one has mentioned that there are still Mayans that protect ancient tablets that are alive today?.. they aren't the original Mayans that disappeared, but they replaced the Mayans thousands of years ago and they live in Guatemala and Mexico City. They still protect the old knowledge, and the MAYANS interpret the tablets differently.. they say there is an end time PERIOD between 2007 and 2015.. and scientists have good reason to believe that the magnetic poles will shift because they are weakening and when they do shift, the magnetic poles will disappear completely for a short time, and then come back, and in that time the axis of the earth will change. Edgar Casey in the early 1900's predicted this pole shift, and he landed the axis shift only a degree off from the current scientist's estimation.. he made a lot of other predictions also which came true.

 

[Marduk]

I'm not sure if any one has mentioned that there are still Mayans that protect ancient tablets that are alive today?.. they aren't the original Mayans that disappeared, but they replaced the Mayans thousands of years ago, so they still protect the old knowledge, and the MAYANS interpret the tablets differently.. they say there is an end time PERIOD between 2007 and 2015.. and scientists have good reason to believe that the magnetic poles will shift because they are weakening and when they do shift, the magnetic poles will disappear completely for a short time, and then come back, and in that time the axis of the earth will change. Edgar Casey in the early 1900's predicted this pole shift, and he landed the axis shift only a degree off from the current scientist's estimation.. he made a lot of other predictions also which came true.

please come back when you've read a science book
thanks

1. the Maya, did not dissappear, and they did not predict the end of the world and no one knew Maya existed until columbus, how many thousands of years ago was that ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...the-end-of-the-world-Mayan-elder-insists.html
2. they aren't protecting ancient tablets, they had an amazing thing called "books"
3, Edgar cayce was a convicted fraudster
4. the magnetic reversal will not affect the axis of the earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
5 Cayce was very clear that it would happen in the year 2000 and said it would cause climate change, he said nothing about the axis
6. you are confusing the valid science of geomagnetic reversal with an idea invented by Charles Hapgood called "crust displacement" which was invalidated when the modern theory of plate tectonics was understood shortly after. The next reversal is expected sometime in the next 1000 years.
7 perhaps you'd like to list the predictions that Cayce made which came true, start with the third world war which he said would happen this year and end with China being the largest christian country on earth in 1960

 

[AdMan]

I'm not sure if any one has mentioned that there are still Mayans that protect ancient tablets that are alive today?.. they aren't the original Mayans that disappeared, but they replaced the Mayans thousands of years ago and they live in Guatemala and Mexico City. They still protect the old knowledge, and the MAYANS interpret the tablets differently.. they say there is an end time PERIOD between 2007 and 2015.. and scientists have good reason to believe that the magnetic poles will shift because they are weakening and when they do shift, the magnetic poles will disappear completely for a short time, and then come back, and in that time the axis of the earth will change. Edgar Casey in the early 1900's predicted this pole shift, and he landed the axis shift only a degree off from the current scientist's estimation.. he made a lot of other predictions also which came true.

WiseMonkey?

I think not.

 

[WiseMonkey]

please come back when you've read a science book
thanks




I stand corrected, thank you. No I can not validate anything that I said and I accept your correction. Hah..

And no I'm not in a wise mood at all.. wise ass maybe.

 

[Marduk]

please come back when you've read a science book
thanks




I stand corrected, thank you. No I can not validate anything that I said and I accept your correction. Hah..

And no I'm not in a wise mood at all.. wise ass maybe.

thanks
I am literally stunned
this has never happened here before
if this is classed as paranormal I got some big money coming