Posted on 12/31/2011 5:36:59 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Makes sense to me.
Anyone out there know what the GREEK word “APOCALYPSE” means???
My calendar ends on 31 December. Does that mean the world ends tonight?
My calendar ends on 31 December. Does that mean the world ends tonight?
I think it’s like our own calendar.
Every 365 days we start over. Only
the Mayan calendar starts over
every 2000 years.
You think we should all freak out
on December 31st (many do anyway)
just because it’s the last day of
the calendar? Doesn’t mean the
world is going to end.
I like your reasoning too. Pretty
funny.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Mark
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The Mayans accurately predicted so many things (too numerous to list here) that I cannot help but trust them on the end of the world date.
Reminds me of a comment from a 101 year old woman in Troy Michigan when asked if she’s lived in Troy her whole life.
She said “Not yet”
Well ... let’s chat this time next year. ; )
————Every 365 days we start over. -——
Actually the number is at least 1461.
4*365 +1=1461
1 is Feb 29
Unveiling or something along those lines.
Those of us christians know the world won’t end in 2012. We know tribulation is coming perhaps soon but after that Christ sets up His millenium rule on earth—of course 1000 years. The end of the age might be upon us but not the end of the world.
They were accomplished astronomers.
If there’s any indication from the known Mayan artifacts that this whole calendar issue is in relation to some recurring astronomical phenomenon, I’d think further study would be in order, rather than popular hype or the flip side of that, ridicule.
There was a large meteorite that was believed to have exploded over the Alps around 3100 AD, as best I recall, and the backplume of that explosion has been speculated to be the cause of the destruction of two rather infamous cities.
FIts rather well with their cycle, if I’m not mistaken.
“Apocalypse” and “Revelation” mean the same both being the title of the final book of the New Testament: as noted, a `revealing’ an `opening’ as of a book or prophecy.
“Apocalyptic” is often misused to connote “catastrophic”, “civilization-ending”, “end of the world as we know it” (well.... that is sort of what is predicted in the Book of Revelation).
Anyway, what makes the ancient Mayans so far-seeing? They practiced human sacrifice (after killing their victims the priests wore their flayed skins - yuk!), couldn’t even invent or use the wheel, had no knowledge of metallurgy and wielded knives made of chipped obsidian, and got walked over by a handful of Spaniards with primitive muskets.
So what’s to admire or learn from?
“-——over the Alps around 3100 AD “
Huh?
>>My pet theory about the Mayan calendar ... the calendar maker was busy making up the calendar, and when he got to the year 2012 (our time, A.D.) the Spanish conquistadores came in, said to the calendar maker “It’s time to roll” and put the calendar maker in a Catholic mission.<<
The Mayan calendar is an extremely complex mechanism made up of “wheels within wheels” gears that accurately marked time — much more than the one we use.
The 2012 date is when all the gears hit the end of the mechanism.
I married a Mayan. Trust me, we have nothing to fear. ;-)
That is generally my take, maybe they just stopped there for some reason. A second idea I have is that it is like your car reaching 100,000 miles, the odometer just flips over to start again.
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