Posted on 12/31/2011 5:36:59 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Mayans couldn't even see their own End of Days
MY prediction for the year 2012, which I am told begins tomorrow, is that the world will not end. This is despite the belief that the Mayan calendar says that it will. The calendar was devised 5,125 years ago by the Mayans of Central America, a people who never had the wit to invent the wheel, but it runs out on Dec. 21, 2012. The End of Days, so to speak.
If, as some seers suggest, thats an accurate prediction, you have less than a year to get your affairs in order and shed your worldly wealth so you can go unencumbered into the darkness. Feel free to put that burden on me. You know where to reach me.
On the other hand, before you write those cheques and put them in the mail or hand over your liquor cabinets, you might want to consider some other things. Its possible the Mayan calendar ends next Dec. 21 simply because they couldnt count as high as 5,126. Lots of people cant, and who cares when you are counting things like calendar days, which are arbitrary anyway.
The year as we know it today has 365 days, except that it doesnt exactly. That is why 2012 -- theres that date again -- as well as being the Mayan end of world, is also a leap year in which February has 29 days instead of its usual 28 so that we will not fall behind in time. One supposes that, if it werent for leap years, we would have a few more months at least before the Mayan calendar comes crashing down on us.
Another thing to consider is that the Mayans, clever as they were -- their calendar was unusually accurate even though it didnt go very far -- were not any more prescient than any other people. They didnt know what the future holds any more than you or I do. If they had known, they might have been better prepared for the Spanish conquest that began in the 16th century and has reduced them today to being not an empire, not even a nation, not even a tribe. For the Mayans, the End of Days came cruel and early, long before their calendar had run out.
People forget that calendars are arbitrary things, that we measure time by our wrist watches and wall clocks that gods and cosmic forces pay no attention to. The world is too much with us, thankfully, and, one hopes, will be for some time. In the meantime, its worth remembering some age-old advice -- live every day as if it were your last. Dont wait until Dec. 21 to make things right with your relatives or to kick up your heels. But if you insist on believing in Mayan doomsday prophesies -- and I know there are some of you out there -- dont forget to write.
Why, I was referring to future history of course, lol.
I meant BC.
Love it — CC you made me chuckle for the first time today - Tanks!
Actually the number is at least 1461.
4*365 +1=1461
1 is Feb 29
Remember years ending in '00' have no leap year.;)
Let me guess ... is her name Maya?!? : )
Too much time wasted on this theory that was thought up by westerners when the really interesting part is the amazing calendar the Mayans came up with.
If I were Mayan I’d be rather irritated with the whole thing.
I think we have more to worry about Obama ending civilization, than some ancient calendar.
The mayans however knew because they calculated their calendar with absolute precision
Their basis was facts and precise math
“Anyone out there know what the GREEK word “APOCALYPSE” means???”
Yes.
If you look at the Mayan long-count calendar, 12/21/2012 is simply the end of a long cycle, or b’ak’tun. Then a new b’ak’tun begins.
The long cycle beginning on 12/21/12 will itself end on 03/26/2407; the calendar goes forward til 10/13/4772, using the Gregorian calendar, in A.D.
I have a friend who absolutely swears the world’s going to end on 12/21/12, so that’s why she doesn’t feel she has to worry about paying her credit card bills. I’ve told her (repeatedly) she’s going to be awfully disappointed when the world DOESN’T end as she’s looking forward to. She subscribes to the Planet X/Nibiru theory. That being said, I will confess to enjoying immensely the film “2012”; chowing down on popcorn and guzzling Pepsi while billions perish in an unprecedented cataclysm is a highly satisfying experience. I love disaster movies, and “2012” was pretty much the be-all end-all of disaster films. Somewhere, Irwin Allen was smiling.
Happy New Year to one and all, by the way. Wishing everyone a good 2012.
So....... The cycle is longer than I thought
Right. Right. The Mayans New Age begins shortly.
It is our Christian background that predicts 3 billion rotting bodies in the street.
Happy New Year!!!!
I believe that the world will end on December 31 2011 because that is when my calendar ends.
The Köfels, Austria impact event is what I was recalling.
There’s almost as much hype and flimflam swirling around that one as there is this, since there’s some cuneiform tablet reputed to be an eyewitness account.
But, the factuality of the impact and the timing of it are not a topic of controversy that I’m aware, and it’s that, that gives me a little pause.
Oddly enough, the Aztecs, however, *did* very accurately predict their own end, to within a week or two.
A very regimented society, strictly ruled by their calendar, which predicted the end of the world on the first day of their month of “Corn”, aka “1 Corn”. Either way, it would have been a disaster, with either the return of Quetzalcoatl and the end of their world, *or*, if the calendar were wrong, lots of priests were going to meet their end and they would have to rewrite their calendar, a nationally traumatic experience.
But right on schedule, runners came in from the coast, bearing news of giant things that came out of the Sun, carrying with them tall beings with six legs and shiny skin.
In this case, Spanish ships arriving from the East at dawn, from which descended armored Conquistadors on horseback.
This to people who had never seen ships, armor or horses, was pretty intimidating. Very easy to confuse with Quetzalcoatl. So the general consensus was that everybody was going to die.
Once the Conquistadors arrived in the capital, it didn’t take long for the Aztecs to figure out that they were not gods. But they were still entirely alien, and could not be explained at all by their calendar.
This meant that their reality was shattered. Nobody knew what to do anymore. By the time the diseases hit, many of them had already given up. And though they eventually drove out the Conquistadors for a time, the game was over and their world destroyed.
It should be noted that many empires in Mezoamerica were fatalistic, for the simple reason that they were surrounded by the ruins of other empires that had fallen apart.
And though we have no evidence that they ever invented wheels for vehicles, they did grasp the concept of the wheel, as some of their children’s toys had wheels.
Here is the calendar that fouled everything up.
http://rainbowcrystal.com/altar/P-90azteccalendar.jpg
And one more thing. If you just walked in off the street and listened to a story about Christianity, what would stop you from saying “They believe in human sacrifice and cannibalism” ???
I have to say that I think that the 3 billion rotting bodies in the street are already here.
They collect welfare checks, form flashmobs to go on shoplifting sprees, and carry “Occupy Wall Street” signs!
Happy 2012 to everyone as well.
Sincerest condolences
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That is the SAME design on a large bowl my wife keeps in the cupboard!
We freqently use it for nachos and salsa and such.
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