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Mayans never said the world would end. The Mayans knew what they were talkin about when it comes to measuring time and date etc. I think it's safe to say that they knew more about calendars than most FB users
You see. They had two calenders. They had the 365 day calender (which was used for planting crops) BUT They also had a ritual calender where each year was 260 days. This calender was used for ceremonial dates. These two calenders synchronize every 52 years, totally separate from our daily calendar, which is why they had no leap year (nor a February for that matter )
The last day on their calendar happens to be a syncronization for the 260/365, which happens to fall on OUR Dec 21, 2012. Still they never claimed that the world would end that day, but merely hinted that something might change (ie rotation angle of earth or the speed) that could afffect the way time can be measured the way we're used to measure and create our hour/day/month/year.

To expand (and probably reiterate) on what B said (I wrote this yesterday so I'm just copy/pasta-ing)...

The way the Mayans calculated celestial movement in developing their long-count calendar, there was no need for leap years. This is a very Euro-centric, biased assumption that the lack of leap year would negate the Mayan achievement of an even more accurate calendar far more advanced than the Julian or Gregorian systems. Nor did the Mayans reference or have knowledge of either system in developing their own. So when everything says repeatedly “December 21, 2012”. It isn’t because the Mayans said that. It’s because that’s how it translates out into Gregorian time. Thinking otherwise is like discovering the Hindus had a dish they called hamburger, then pointing out the error associated with eating bovine product in their religion assuming their hamburger must be same as all other hamburgers because it's called a hamburger.

Also, Julius Caesar didn’t “invent” leap years. He sanctioned his astronomer, Sosigenes, to come up with a solution to the seasonal flux in the 355 day Roman calendar to get it closer to being synched with the seasons and fix the equinoxes. Pope Gregory revised it again in the 16th century to the “century divisible by four” rule, which will still leave us with a random day in about 10,000 years or so. Mayan long-count calendar, still accurate.

Also also, the calendar doesn’t predict a doomsday. But rather the beginning of a new world-age marked by the once-every-26,000-year-occurring solar-galactic alignment. Which was (unrelated to the Mayans) also the system Plato came up with in calculating the “Great Year”. Which has less to do with mysticism and more to do with arcane modalities.

Um...

You both realize that this was supposed to be a joke....right?

TRAGChick wrote:Um...

You both realize that this was supposed to be a joke....right?

On your part, yes. I know your personality better than that.

But when I first saw it rounding tumblr it had the original link to the Facebook post, and that person was dead damn serious. And so was everyone else reposting it. Which is pretty frightening.

TRAGChick wrote:Um...

You both realize that this was supposed to be a joke....right?

You may have used it as a joke, but I dont think the person who created the pic meant it as a joke. Regardless , it doesnt hurt to get a bit of education, while joking around, so on behalf of Rhi and I : You're welcome

Rhiannon wrote:But when I first saw it rounding tumblr it had the original link to the Facebook post, and that person was dead damn serious. And so was everyone else reposting it. Which is pretty frightening.

Behshad wrote:You may have used it as a joke, but I dont think the person who created the pic meant it as a joke.

Did the two of you mind meld today or something?

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Did the two of you mind meld today or something?

No. Maybe.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote:But when I first saw it rounding tumblr it had the original link to the Facebook post, and that person was dead damn serious. And so was everyone else reposting it. Which is pretty frightening.

Behshad wrote:You may have used it as a joke, but I dont think the person who created the pic meant it as a joke.

Did the two of you mind meld today or something?

Rhiannon wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Did the two of you mind meld today or something?

No. Maybe.

brandonx76 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Did the two of you mind meld today or something?

No. Maybe.

I could draw that. Make you both like Siamese twins joined at the brain!

"Nora may have THOUGHT it was a joke...BUT NO...it's a VERY REAL situation....the Aliens said so."

Rhiannon wrote:To expand (and probably reiterate) on what B said (I wrote this yesterday so I'm just copy/pasta-ing)...

The way the Mayans calculated celestial movement in developing their long-count calendar, there was no need for leap years. This is a very Euro-centric, biased assumption that the lack of leap year would negate the Mayan achievement of an even more accurate calendar far more advanced than the Julian or Gregorian systems. Nor did the Mayans reference or have knowledge of either system in developing their own. So when everything says repeatedly “December 21, 2012”. It isn’t because the Mayans said that. It’s because that’s how it translates out into Gregorian time. Thinking otherwise is like discovering the Hindus had a dish they called hamburger, then pointing out the error associated with eating bovine product in their religion assuming their hamburger must be same as all other hamburgers because it's called a hamburger.

Also, Julius Caesar didn’t “invent” leap years. He sanctioned his astronomer, Sosigenes, to come up with a solution to the seasonal flux in the 355 day Roman calendar to get it closer to being synched with the seasons and fix the equinoxes. Pope Gregory revised it again in the 16th century to the “century divisible by four” rule, which will still leave us with a random day in about 10,000 years or so. Mayan long-count calendar, still accurate.

Also also, the calendar doesn’t predict a doomsday. But rather the beginning of a new world-age marked by the once-every-26,000-year-occurring solar-galactic alignment. Which was (unrelated to the Mayans) also the system Plato came up with in calculating the “Great Year”. Which has less to do with mysticism and more to do with arcane modalities.

This is one of the most interesting, intelligent, and well thought-out posts I've read on this forum since TNC's disapperance.

so..... do we buy Christmas presents or not?

slucero wrote:so..... do we buy Christmas presents or not?

Fucking great. Almost a milk-through-the-nose Deano moment here.

slucero wrote:so..... do we buy Christmas presents or not?

Rick wrote:

slucero wrote:so..... do we buy Christmas presents or not?

artist4perry wrote:

Rick wrote:

slucero wrote:so..... do we buy Christmas presents or not?

My birthday is Dec 21st and I have been wondering why my powers are getting stronger every year... Hmm. Now I am at the point where I can move a glass with my mind. My mind tells my hand to move the glass and it happens like magic... Now i just need to use my mind to move my ass.