Posted on 04/15/2008 7:22:32 PM PDT by blam
B.C.E.—Before the common era, traced to begin in the reign of
Caesar Augustus. C.E. Common Era.. Just another way for academia to purge religion from all things scholarly. Wrote a paper once for a history course using B.C. (before Christ), and A.D. (Anno Dommini—in the year of our Lord), the professor initially wanted to count off 40 out of a possible 250 points for the paper. I asked him aside from that what it was in his view, he said it was otherwise a solid 250 point paper, but using B.C. and A.D. was not considered academically
professional. I raised caine with the department head and the academic affairs committee, he folded...
Yes, the Mayans have supposedly predicted our demise, but they failed to predict their own, and even worse, failed to save themselves. They also predicted a god would come who was actually just a man.
Pffft...
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I was in Tulum two weeks ago and had a half-Mayan guide, who was prouder of his Spanish hertiage.
Oh yes, the lastest new idea added to their spiel is the Mayan traveled and traded with Asia.
I would seriously LMAO if a big rock fell out of the sky and landed on all the remaining Mayans or their decendants - HEY! YOU GUYS WERE RIGHT! GOD WAS TRYING TO TELL YOU TO MOVE!!!
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/strongest-dog.shtml
[cue creepy music]
prototaxite fossil fungus - Saudia Arabia (methinks it might have been mohammad...)
mark for later
Our guide in Costa Mesa said that the Spanish destroyed the Mayan culture.... they were a great society until those evil white people showed up.... blah, blah, blah,... proud of heritage. Oh, he was about 6’ 2” and from Mexico City.
He's lucky to even be alive.
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population."
It’s the end of the calendar, but it appears most calendars end eventually and next thing you know there is another calendar.
There is some support for that idea.
1. The sweet potato from Peru made it all the way to Indonesia before Europeans arrived.
2. DNA has recently confirmed that an ancient chicken bone found in SA is from an Asian chicken.
3. Etc.
I usually use “The year of our Lord” and spell out the year.
Mayan Lookyloo: Dude, whatcha doin’?
Mayan Stonecarver: Calender.
Mayan Lookyloo: How far you got done?
Mayan Stonecarver: ‘bout 5000 years.
Mayan Lookyloo: Dude! Obsess much?!? Take a break.
Just this week, news reports were looking pretty bleak. It seems that prices for rice and other grain staples have doubled and tripled in much of the third world. People are starting to demonstrate and riot because they are having trouble getting enough to eat. In our own country the cost of corn and wheat has skyrocketed. The neighborhood convenience store owner was telling me that the price of bagles and pastry is going to be much higher according to his supplier because of the higher cost of flour. Right now the cost of beef is not bad because farmers are slaughtering their animals because of the high price of feed. Next year the price of meat may be astronomical.
If the world does not wake up, and our political leaders realize that we need to get serious about population control and family planning, we are in for a very nasty century. [and I do not mean abortion, I am talking about contraception and later marriage and childbearing. Meanwhile, the education of women has been found to lead to reduced population, so let’s help educate them.
I wonder if the Mayan’s had some knowledge of a recurring major comet strike phenomenon that would account for a predictable world disaster. It is interesting that the 1st Dynasty in Egypt began about 3,000 years ago. I think there was a significant rise in sea level between eight and nine thousand years ago, and the book “ The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes” by Firestone, et al. details a severe comet strike event that may have occurred about 13,000 years ago, ending the Clovis culture and destroying most of the large northern hemisphere animal species. They point out that many meteor showers may be related to space debris left over from that event. Furthermore, they say, “Clube and Napier (1984) predicted that in the year 2000 and continuing for 400 years, Earth would enter another dangerous time in which the planet’s changing orbit would bring us into a potential collision course with the densest parts of the clouds containing some very large debris.”
The problem isn’t overpopulation, it’s politics and self destructive ideologies. Look how long we supposedly free people have to labor for government before we can call our earnings our own. Our government expects a bigger tithe than even God. Look how our education system is geared more into creating drones for the hive than entrepreneurs. It’s even worse elsewhere in the world, in places where tribal relations consist of five hundred year old vendettas against other tribes leaving everything a smoking ruin, or where marxist morons turn a breadbasket into a wasteland as in Zimbabwe. What the world needs are personal property rights and liberty, not “family planning” agendas. The resources are there.
The last thing we need on a planet subject to periodic spasms of natural disasters is a reduced population of drones.
“Our education system is geared more into creating drones for the hive than entrepreneurs.”
Yes, and it isn’t just the government. For almost 10 years I had a street vending license, worked part time on weekends selling jewelry, some made by me and some bought wholesale. It made a nice supplement to the family income and I enjoyed relating with the people in my neighborhood and being creative. I also served for almost 4 years on mayoral task forces on vending, while the big business interests of the city did everything they could to wipe us out. Govt. officials were bribed and accepted payoffs from the more financial equipped vendors. Laws and taxes were passed that made it much harder for small, part-time vendors to start or stay in business. Requirements were recommended for fancy, expensive carts that would be used by corporate sponsored vendors in the best areas. Always the need to control the workers. Eventually I had to give up my license because of taxes I had to pay even when I did not work while caring for dying family members.
Nevertheless, population excess is a very serious problem. I am not talking about government controlled/forced family planning. I am talking about the voluntary services which have been seriously curtailed in the current century. Part of this is related to a strong urge on the part of some to prevent women from controlling their won lives. Where such services are available, women will use them. I just read an interesting old article about welfare mothers in New Jersey. When NJ caped welfare payments at children already born, there was a significant drop in childbirths by welfare mothers.
I am not as worried about a cosmic catastrophe killing lots of people as I am about the coming reduction in food availability and the wars and revolts it will produce. Between high fuel prices, high food prices, and unstable and increasingly unpredictable climate worldwide, the only thing in the short run (the next few decades) that will prevent terrible bloodshed is a serious effort to reduce overpopulation. If you think the government expects a large “tithe” now, wait ‘til you see what we will pay to maintain our military in an increasingly unstable world. We will also be called on to help feed starving millions, which we may or may not be willing or able to do under current conditions. Don’t flame me now, just follow the news for the next year and write me next year at tax time.
“I thought I also heard that 2012 is when Social Security is supposed to go belly up for all of us Baby Boomers. Maybe the Mayan knew something about government financing when they came up with that date.”
Maybe that’s why Congress doesn’t care.
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