Professor Says Mayan Calendar Does Not Portend Earth's Doom (2012AD)

Tuscaloosa News ^ | 1-1-2003 | Steve Reeves

[blam]

We're all gonna die!!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Professor says Mayan calendar does not portend Earth’s doom

That's a relief.

[Prodigal Son]

We have but 9 yrs to conquer the globe ;-)

[KneelBeforeZod]

they mayans supposedly moved every few hundred years or something....Chichen Itza was the last place, with a trail of places behind them to the south. I always figure that 2012 was their next moving date.

I've been hoping to run into a joker in person who believes the end of the world thing...so I cold test them on this bit of history but luckily I never have.

[Dog Gone]

“It’s kind of hard to say exactly what they meant,"

It's kind of hard to take any culture seriously who murdered the winning team as a sacrifice in their version of basketball.

[Congressman Billybob]

Several years ago, there was a shaggy-haired, very ernest young man outside a Metro station in D.C. with a sign that said, "The world will end on September 18." Starting on 19 September, I never saw this young man again.

Congressman Billybob

[Sparta]

[Semper Paratus]

The Mayans couldn't predict the end of their civilization, I doubt they would have a clue about the rest of the world.

[Oberon]

Some researchers believe that date is important because it coincides with the winter solstice, and on that date the Milky Way galaxy, on which the Mayans placed great significance, will align with the sun.

Is it just me, or is this sentence entirely devoid of meaning?

[Mr. Mojo]

I know.....What exactly does "the Milky Way galaxy will align with the sun" mean? The sun is within the MW galaxy, just one of countless millions of stars situated on one of its spiral arms.

[IronJack]

It's always amazing how many people who reject Christianity as too mystical and complicated willingly accept the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stone. It's like the Steve Martin routine where he said "If I didn't have my lucky astrology mood watch, I'd have nothing to believe in at all!"

[Bob]

It's worse than you think. I just checked my new calendar and it'll happen December 31st, 2003 not in 2012.

We're doomed, doomed, I say!

[LibWhacker]

. . . and on that date the Milky Way galaxy, on which the Mayans placed great significance, will align with the sun.

Huh? We're IN the Milky Way, more specifically, in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. So in what sense are we "lining up" with it? Astrology columnists shouldn't be allowed to write on science!

[gcruse]

It's kind of hard to take any culture seriously who murdered the winning team as a sacrifice in their version of basketball.

I don't know.  The winner of the Super Bowl  has lousy draft picks and used to
play a tougher schedule the next year.  Of course any culture that elevates basketball
is in deep doodoo, anyway.

[FITZ]

I always figure that 2012 was their next moving date.

It's probably the date of the last Mexican heading out of Mexico --to the US.

[gcruse]

It's ironic to me that people who cast aspersions on literate, pyramid-building, successful cultures as 'savages' turn around and swallow whole the invisible-man superstitions of desert dwellers from thousands of years ago.

[FITZ]

the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stone

True ---they had a good calendar but they never got around to inventing the wheel and had to drag or push everything.

[AnAmericanMother]

Several years ago, there was a shaggy-haired, very ernest young man outside a Metro station in D.C. with a sign that said, "The world will end on September 18." Starting on 19 September, I never saw this young man again.

LOL! Sorta like this guy:

William Miller (1782-1849). Predicted the world would end on at least three separate occasions in 1843 and 1844.

What's really odd is that his church not only survived the failure of the prophecy, but prospered. Go figure.

[VOA]

That's a relief.

Jeez, having a university academic assure me that the world won't end in 2012 is
about all I need to convince me that 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it today...

[Billthedrill]

Nuts. Looks like I gotta return those library books after all...