MAYANS, WITH SUPER-ACCURATE CALENDAR, PREDICTED END OF WORLD DECEMBER 22, 2012

www.religioustolerance.org | 18 November 2001

[satchmodog9]

Maybe they never got around to go to Hallmark to get the calender for the next eon.

[Rightwing Canuck]

the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world

The horror!

Smiling mischieviously as the "Blame Canada" crowd becomes "Blame Maya" thus allowing the Canadian World Domination League (c) to proceed with Operation Frisky Beaver.

[general_re]

Good call. As for me, before that I'm going to start borrowing as much money as I can (personal loans, home-improvement loans, credit cards - who cares, and who cares about the interest rate?), all with payments starting in January 2013. ;)

[WindMinstrel]

Turns out that it's not the end of the world, it's just the Mayan Y2K bug!

[El Sordo]

This is clearly incorrect. My own calendar ends on Dec 31st. Therefore the end of the world is truly near.

Dunno why they bother to print more calendars every year when they all show the end of the world on Dec 31st.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

The date is interesting when I recall from a post earlier this year about an asteroid that is supposed to be on a collision course with Earth and is to hit it in December, 2012 ! The date is an estimate.

This was from an article from a scientist.

[aruanan]

MAYANS, WITH SUPER-ACCURATE CALENDAR, PREDICTED END OF WORLD DECEMBER 22, 2012

Calendars, to be accurate, rely on cyclical events. Since the end of the world, by definition, can only happen once, it cannot be cyclical. Thus, there is no accuracy in calendar making that can predict the end of the world.

[aruanan]

Gee. That's like eleven years away. Does the Mayan calendar say whether Buffy will still be on the air then?

You think Tara and Willow will have settled down with a house full of cats by then?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

" J. Eric Thompson determined that the first day of their calendar (0.0.0.0.0) was on 3114-AUG-11 BCE"

They missed the BEGINNING of time, so why believe they knew when it will end?

[crystalk]

Both in the Bible and in the Maya cosmos, what is predicted is NOT the "end of the planet" (ball of rock in space), but the end of the AGE or ERA (state of affairs, regime, such as the one that at present has 365 days/yr, etc.) Thus we should neither UNDER estimate, nor OVER estimate, the degree of change forseen, --and we should realize that only some celestial accident, some cosmic event, could cause the calamitous renewal of the ages that is forseen.

I think too much has been read into Jesus' saying that no one knew the exact day and hour of this: he is quoting a rabbinic tradition, according to which perhaps great a great Tzaddik might know the YEAR--and perhaps, when the time drew nigh, even children and beginners would be able to calculate the year, and probably much nearer than that--the time of the end of the Age...

B. The Maya were not conquered by Pizarro, nor by Cortez, and their prophect Chilam Balam of Chumayil DID foretell both the coming of the Europeans and that they would successfully impose Christianity on the Land. This prophet lived in the 15th century, not more than a hundred or two years before the events. The Maya lands were conquered only gradually and with extreme difficulty by the Spanish, and as late as the 1870's the Maya drove the few Hispanics in their realm back into the walls of Merida, leaving the natives in charge of the whole realm for the time being...That was the last of several times, that Yucatan petitioned for annexation by the USA, which refused to take it.

[martin_fierro]

6.19.18.1.5

Isn't that Bill Gates IP address?

6.19.18.1 belongs to the Army Information Systems Center.

19.18.1.5 belongs to Ford Motor Company.

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[woofer]

...allowing the Canadian World Domination League (c) to proceed with Operation Frisky Beaver.

Oh no! Not the Frisky Beavers!

[Cultural Jihad]

And, they predicted the end of the world on December 22, 2012. They will be found to be wrong, AND, I can safely say that the world will probably not end before that time.

Reason? Jesus in the New Testament says NO ONE knows when the end of the world will occur except for God. So, it's not going to end when the Mayans said it would and it will more than likely not end before so people can see that they were wrong and have one more chance to repent.

Such hubris! You claim to be able to safely say that the world will probably not end before that time, in contradiction to your own argument. Then you proclaim that the Mayans are wrong because they are humans, but neglect to ponder the possibility of lucky chance or divine favor. Furthermore, you do Christianity no honor with your 'filthy Spanish' remark in post #8.

[boris]

Well, how's that add up in terms of saroses?..or is that sarosii?

A saros is:

saros -- the eclipse cycle with a period of 223 synodic months, or 6,585.32 days (18 years and about 11 days).

After one saros, the eclipses, they repeat.

--Boris

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[tet68]

You just don't get it,it's a personal thing.

We are talking about my vision of the world and I plan on dieing on Dec.22,2012.

Have for years,wouldn't want to upset the Calender.

[widgysoft]

Can't beat my prediction!
"The World ends, when the last chip butty is served!"

[clintonh8r]

Did they have tinfoil back then?

[PUGACHEV]

Well, the writing was on the wall for the Aztecs. Their calendar foretold that in the year 2 Reed Quetzocotl would return in the form of a white man with a red beard and that this would mark the end of their empire. Call it coincdence if you like, but the year 2 Reed was 1519 AD by our calendar, and was the year that Hernan Cortez, a white man with red beard, landed on the coast of Mexico, founded the city of Vera Cruz and began his march to Tenochtelcan (Mexico City), which did indeed result in the end of the Aztec empire. It was their foreboding, based on the calendar, which paralyzed the Aztecs and kept them from crushing Cortez when they had the chance.

As for the Mayans, they did'nt go anywhere; they and their language still exist today in the Yacatan and the highlands of Southern Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. To some extent, their religion has also survived in an odd synthesis with Catholicism. The Mayans simply devolved from a high culture into something less centralized, but they never disappeared.