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.
Well ... let’s chat this time next year. ; )
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.
>>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.
I think we have more to worry about Obama ending civilization, than some ancient calendar.
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.
I believe that the world will end on December 31 2011 because that is when my calendar ends.
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
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I saw a cartoon similar to that: Two Mayans are looking at the stone wheel and the one says, “I’m out of room on this one.” The other one says, “That’s really gonna screw with somebody in the future!”
“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.”
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For the record, by the time the Spaniards arrived, the once great Mayan empire was just a shadow of it’s former self, reduced to a cluster of warring city-states confined to the Yucatan. By that time it was the Aztecs who dominated Mexico and were the main targets of the Spanish conquest.
