Well, my last day of school is on the 21st December and to me it's like a warning thing. There's this girl I like and I told myself I would ask her out before school ended, but I still haven't, so to me it'll be the end of the world if I never ask this girl out.
I'm not kidding when I say I had completely forgotten about this for 6 months until you brought it up. Doesn't that say something about how unimportant it is?
I'm not kidding when I say I had completely forgotten about this for 6 months until you brought it up. Doesn't that say something about how unimportant it is?
I was playing Assassins Creed 3 and it reminded me.
Believing in any sort of conspiracy is pretty..err..let's just say you shouldn't expect anything good from it. They are typically exploits, whether it's religion, religious monetizing, or monetizing in general. For instance, the movie "2012" While a decent movie, you can imagine why this conspiracy helped its sales.
I like to think of the mayan calendar as their way of building a long lasting clock, and i can understand why we have misinterpreted it. I think they may have meant to make something a bit like this. http://longnow.org/clock/
Imagine future life discovering that, would they think we were counting down time? maybe, they may make that mistake but of course, we know we were simply counting time.
I'm not in the typey mood to type out my usual rant on this so I'm just C/P Wikipedia:
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date on which the calendar will go to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, will be on October 13, 4772.
Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.(FAMSI), notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". She considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[23]
This apocalypse is just dumb. It is gonna turn out like the Judgment Day thing several months ago - everyone is gonna wake up on December 22 and think, "Hey, I lived! Totally did not call it... /sarcasm"
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Some people really need to stay away from the government propaganda department. Let the brain-washing machines have a day off, they must need maintenance by now.
*Resists urge to go on a 5 hour long grammar nazi rant*
I'd just like to politely note that it is "Maya" not "Mayan" e.g. The Maya people are indigenous to Guatemala, NOT The Mayan people are indigenous to Guatemala.
It is only the end of the world because the Mayans died off before they couldn't finish the stupid calendar. There have been hundreds of theories the would would end before this one and they all been proven false. This one will be just as the same.
It is only the end of the world because the Mayans died off before they couldn't finish the stupid calendar. There have been hundreds of theories the would would end before this one and they all been proven false. This one will be just as the same.
Except not. That's like saying our society predicted the end of the world because our 2012 calendar ends on December 31rst. They did not stop their calendar, they began a new cycle, a new Bak'tun.
I'm not in the typey mood to type out my usual rant on this so I'm just C/P Wikipedia:
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date on which the calendar will go to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, will be on October 13, 4772. Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.(FAMSI), notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". She considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[23]
Except not. That's like saying our society predicted the end of the world because our 2012 calendar ends on December 31rst. They did just stop their calendar, they began a new cycle, a new Bak'tun.
Y'all wrong about 2012. The world won't end. It will just get way cooler.
Evidently, the real reason why life can seem so boring at times is because we are trapped in a very long filler segment. The author simply ran out of ideas and is stalling so that they have time to work on whatever is supposedly happening in 21st December.
What do you think about the 2012 Apocalypse?
I was playing Assassins Creed 3 and it reminded me.
I like to think of the mayan calendar as their way of building a long lasting clock, and i can understand why we have misinterpreted it. I think they may have meant to make something a bit like this. http://longnow.org/clock/
Imagine future life discovering that, would they think we were counting down time? maybe, they may make that mistake but of course, we know we were simply counting time.
Source.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
Or the Maya calendar and culture in the first place.
I'd just like to politely note that it is "Maya" not "Mayan" e.g. The Maya people are indigenous to Guatemala, NOT The Mayan people are indigenous to Guatemala.
Carry on.
Except not. That's like saying our society predicted the end of the world because our 2012 calendar ends on December 31rst. They did not stop their calendar, they began a new cycle, a new Bak'tun.
Actually look up your facts before spouting random stuff. If everyone did that, this whole Maya calendar mess wouldn't haves started to begin with.
IT IS THE END OF A CYCLE, WHICH STARTS ANOTHER CYCLE. THE MAYA CALENDAR DOES NOT END, LET ALONE PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD.
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Except it is on the 21st, not the 31st.
Their calendar ends on the 21rst. Our's ends on the 31rst. We have different cycles - Our "year" is not the same as their "bak'tun"
Oh well... Then nvm...
Evidently, the real reason why life can seem so boring at times is because we are trapped in a very long filler segment. The author simply ran out of ideas and is stalling so that they have time to work on whatever is supposedly happening in 21st December.