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.
Just in case anyone needs to refer a panicked acquaintance to someplace that dispels the silly end of the world mania that they are sure to get bombarded with this year.
****That being said, I will confess to enjoying immensely the film “2012”****
“2012” is rubbernecking on a grand scale, it hones in on that aspect of the human psyche very well. This movie has very engaging CGI that looks plausible enough to hold a persons attention, even though the events are incredibly extreme.
I have a 3”, gold-plated medallion with that calendar on it.
I think its just the end of their calendar not the end of the world. The calendar starts over from what I understand.
Note: this topic is from December 2011. Thanks DogByte6RER.
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An 12th century rabbi by the name of Rabbi Yehuda ben Shmuel nor Moses (he talked about the End of Days, in Hebrew “Acharit haYamim,” in the Torah).
12TH-CENTURY RABBI PREDICTED ISRAEL’S FUTURE
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-century-rabbi-predicted-israels-future/
His predictions were the following based on the status of Jerusalem and the Jubilees (50 year spans of time). This rabbi died in 1217.
1. Jerusalem would be occupied by the Turks for eight Jubilees. The Turks did hold Jerusalem from 1517 to 1917. The Ottoman Turks fought the Mameluks from 24AUG1516 to 20JAN1517 which started with the Turks invasion of Syria. What’s really interesting about that Turkey invaded Syria for a second time exactly 500 years later on 24AUG2016.
2. Jerusalem would become ownerless for one Jubilee. This happened from 1917 to 1967.
3. Jerusalem would be in the hands of Jews again in the 9th Jubilee. This occurred in 1967 until current time (2016). This 9th Jubilee period would be the leading up to the End Times. The date that started this lead up was 14SEP1966 on Rosh HaShana.
4. During the 10th Jubilee Jews would control Jerusalem and the End Times would begin. The date that began the End Times was 3OCT2016 (actually the evening of 2nd).
2017 will be a year remembered for decades to come.
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