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by **sempaispellcheck** on Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:23 am

The Last CChristmas Ever!
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The world is ending - just in time for Christmas! Join Dukasaur's tourney to determine how the world will end, or simply enjoy the holidays with your CC family and friends in my 12 Days of Christmas tourney.

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Also enjoy our new wintry dice, designed by a very awesome player who wishes to remain anonymous (to each his own), which will be in play very soon:

In addition, Sundog308 is offering 3 months premium (as long as enough people enter) for you to write Conquer Club-related lyrics to be sung to the tunes of your favorite holiday songs! More info about that contest can be found here.

Happy Holidays to all, and to all, good dice!!

by **x-raider** on Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:28 pm

Woohoo!

by **DeluxeHazard** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:05 am

The world is ending! Lol

by **jleonnn** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:59 am

World ending means no need to do homework

by **samieboi** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:22 am

wow one of first to post on a thread

Ever since april fools i dont trust free membership

Sam

by **Invdr_zim** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:30 am

It's the end of the world as we know it!

by **patrik702** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:22 am

Did the Mayan calender have the date as 12/21 of 21/12? of 2012.

by **sempaispellcheck** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:04 am

Invdr_zim wrote:It's the end of the world as we know it!

And how do you feel?

patrik702 wrote:Did the Mayan calendar have the date as 12/21 of 21/12? of 2012.

I don't think it had either. The 21st of December, 2012, on the Mayan calendar, is 4 Ahau 3 Kankin (if my interpretation is correct).

by **ManBungalow** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:27 am

For the record, the Christmas banner doesn't show up on the forum pages.

by **red42** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:15 pm

If I win the three months premium and the world ends on December 21st, do I get a refund?

by **kmhebert** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:19 pm

Where is the Christmas map?

by **koontz1973** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:33 pm

kmhebert wrote:Where is the Christmas map?

Soon.

by **denominator** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:41 pm

sempaispellcheck wrote:
Invdr_zim wrote:It's the end of the world as we know it!

And how do you feel?

patrik702 wrote:Did the Mayan calendar have the date as 12/21 of 21/12? of 2012.

I don't think it had either. The 21st of December, 2012, on the Mayan calendar, is 4 Ahau 3 Kankin (if my interpretation is correct).

The short-count calendar (which patrik referenced) has nothing to do with the significance of the 21st, and he was got it right (although in my experience the Haab is typically written before the Tzolkin).

It is the long-count calendar that carries significance. Since the Mayan short-term calendar only allowed for counting of 52 year periods due to it's cyclical nature, they also had the long-count that counted days in much greater periods. December 21st, 2012 is written as 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan long-count calendar.

This is where the end of the world theories start to come in, via a mixing of fact and myth. In reality, Mayan people STILL EXIST and some still follow the Mayan calendrical system, although many if not most have converted to Spanish systems along with Catholicism. In truth, 13.0.0.0.0 is most analogous to January 1, 2000 in our system - the start of a new big level of counting years. Interpretations of Mayan texts have suggested that the end of a baktun and the start of a new one is a period of celebration.

However, Mayan mythology suggests that they believe that at the end of each baktun, the world is destroyed and a new, more advanced world is created in its place. This is analogous to suggesting that on January 1, 2000, Jesus will reappear and the apocalypse will ravage the western world. As always, people will be attracted to the novel idea of destruction and interesting calendrical dates, but the world will not be ending on Friday. 13.0.0.0.1 will roll around on Saturday just as expected, which will be nice as it happens to be my birthday.

by **ben1212** on Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:10 pm

It is not the end of the world this Friday because December 21st 2012 is the end of the mayan 4th age which lasts 5000 years or so and on Dec 22nd 2012, it will be the beginning of the 5th mayan age.

Correct me if im wrong