Take this glyph for example:
It says -
"When it's yellow, let it mellow.
When it's brown, flush it down."
Posted on 07/22/2009 2:07:26 PM PDT by decimon
Hug a tree, slay a virgin ping.
BFD. Most ancient people knew how to manage their resources so they didn’t starve or run out of raw materials. The successful ones at least.
lol!
Me oh Maya...
So wouldn’t that indicate that this idiocy of worshipping nature and valuing it more than human life is all part of a mind set that has existed for a long time? Some of those ancient cultures are not quite what the academics like to make them out to be. I used wonder why God (in the OT) would tell Israel to destroy a certain group of people until i learned that it often was because they were murderers and practiced horrible child or infant sacrifices.
Take this glyph for example:
It says -
"When it's yellow, let it mellow.
When it's brown, flush it down."
I’m calling BS on this one. I seriously doubt they would have had enough people to wipe out an entire forest—much less even care about replentishing it.
Who comes up with this nonsense?
Tree-Nazi’s with agenda’s?
xactly! How could they affect the world, given the existance of the amazon, africa , which they were probably not aware of.
I think whales and seals did this first though.
Followed by Mayas, then Incas, Aztecs, Egyptians, Zulu...
Then homosexuals, then feminists.
Then people of color.
Then Eskimoes and Native Americans.
Then the white man came and killed them all and raped their children and ate their food, stole their resources and poisoned mother earth. Now honkeywhiteycrackers are warming the whole globe with global warming.
ping
Some years ago, here at FR, there were articles about the Amazon basin being not in a natural state but as planned by defunct human cultures. Despite the tree-hugger kinda feel to this article, they may well be right.
Yeah, they also practiced human sacrifice, but hey at leaast they waited until they were born before sacrificing them.
Man, I wish I coulda been there for that.
I suspect they were done in by their investor class who speculated on the value of trees and raised the price to where the population was thrown out of work building temples. Social disorder set in.
parsy, who fears the rich will always be with us.
The Mayas simply did not have the technology.
Did someone ignore the fact that essentially the entire continents of North and South America were essentially STONE AGE civilizations without steel, without even the WHEEL and were still using pre-historic (by European Standards) construction methods (no keystone)... for them to build large buildings required megalithic stone as they did not yet invent the keystone.
They simply did not have the technology to cut up the fast growing MesoAmerican rainforests fast enough. They also had no need for firewood such as European civilizations as they did not practice animal husbandry and had virtually no animals when compared to Europe, Asia and Africa.
Total BS.
Should clarify:
Forests were not much of a resource for Mayas, so it was ignored. Sort of like a gas station to a man without a car.
Many of Europe’s forests were cut for firewood. Europeans had also developed fine woodworking skills using STEEL saws and tools. The Mayas did not have woodcrafting skills that could be used for architecture as they were essentially stoneage. They did not have iron or steel.
The Mayas did not need to burn firewood to heat their homes. They lived in Mexico where it is warm.
They did not need to cook much food as they did not practice animal husbandry and no stock animals. No chickens, no cattle... nothing. The only Pre-Columbian American civilization that domesticated animals in any numbers were the Peruvians (llamas).
They had no wheels.
They had no iron or steel.
They had no way to cut and process lumber.
They had no need to cook meat except for what was hunted.
They had no need for wood as a fuel or for heating.
The forests were simply not a hugely useful resource.
Stupid academics putting their Socialist/Green/Vegan ideas first and setting the science up to follow their pre-conceived notions.
However, they were fervent vegetarians and like us, had a corn-based diet. Thus, as night follows day, it is clear that the lordly Sapodilla trees were killed by Carbon-based methane emissions from the throngs of well-fed and happy workers who built their temples, while enjoying free health care, including elaborate open-heart surgery.
As the glyphs plainly reveal, Mayan scientists were on the verge of a breech clout-mounted catalytic converter breakthrough, when who should show up but savagely capitalistic Spaniards. Not Hispanics, who are good, but Spaniards. White people from Europe, who are bad.
They set Mayan Civilization back many millenia.
Yeah, it was called “stone axes”.
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