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Professor Says Mayan Calendar Does Not Portend Earth's Doom (2012AD)
Tuscaloosa News ^
| 1-1-2003
| Steve Reeves
Posted on 01/01/2003 3:18:59 PM PST by blam
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We're all gonna die!!
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:18:59 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Professor says Mayan calendar does not portend Earths doom That's a relief.
To: blam
We have but 9 yrs to conquer the globe ;-)
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.
To: blam
Its 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.
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:30:52 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: KneelBeforeZod
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
To: blam
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:36:05 PM PST
by
Sparta
To: blam
The Mayans couldn't predict the end of their civilization, I doubt they would have a clue about the rest of the world.
To: blam
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?
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:39:29 PM PST
by
Oberon
To: Oberon
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.
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:44:30 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: blam
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!"
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:49:14 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: blam
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!
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:51:14 PM PST
by
Bob
To: blam
. . . 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!
To: Dog Gone
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.
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posted on
01/01/2003 3:59:01 PM PST
by
gcruse
To: KneelBeforeZod
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.
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posted on
01/01/2003 4:02:20 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: IronJack
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.
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posted on
01/01/2003 4:03:06 PM PST
by
gcruse
To: IronJack
the rantings of a bunch of cannibalistic savages who scratched crude drawings into stoneTrue ---they had a good calendar but they never got around to inventing the wheel and had to drag or push everything.
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posted on
01/01/2003 4:04:23 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: 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. 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.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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...
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posted on
01/01/2003 4:06:34 PM PST
by
VOA
To: blam
Nuts. Looks like I gotta return those library books after all...
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