(Mayan) Priests to purify site after Bush visit

Associated Press ^ | 03/09/07 | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA

[Harrius Magnus]

"I really wished people wold learn the difference between a duplicate and a similar article. The article in the thread is not a duplicate. While they are about the same subject they differ and are from two complete different sources"

I really wish people did their research before spouting off. Actually, they are from the same source (AP) and read identically through the first four paragraphs, where the first article then ends.
So, King Etiquette, go check your bed for bugs, or wash your hands a few dozen more times, and leave people, whose only purpose is to help inform, THE HELL ALONE.

[keats5]

Now THAT was funny.

[Jacob Kell]

"Additionally, the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 (I can't remember which month)."

I think it was either December or November. Anyways, what was really said was that another 5,200 year period would come to a end on 2012. Basically, the Mayans believe that world history is divided into cycles of 5,200 years.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

5,200-year cycles? So, like who was old enough to pass that information on? It makes my head hurt to think about the possible answer. Theory always makes my head hurt. They could have it down to a science, for all I know, but it seems like they should have some proof to back it up if they went to all that work figuring out calendars, cosmology and such.

I never could get how all these supposedly advanced civilizations could figure out the universe and then self-mutilate themselves, make blood sacrifices and go to war over who had the highest pyramid. It just doesn't seem logical to me, but then, not much in life is logical to me.

Other civilizations are supposed to have a lock on the divine, yet they pick up rocks and stone each other (again, with the rocks). I'd build a nice house with the rocks, have a nice garden with no rocks, have children who play with rocks, but NO -- it's rocks for killing, blood sacrifice, be-headings. Go figure.

[Froufrou]

Yet nobody pinged xcamel?!