2012, Mayan end date.
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Ah herd dat.ify_ said:
Can you imagine telepathic telemarketers? I'd probably shoot myself if it came to that.
Time is an illusion created by man. The grand scheme of the universe does not work on our time, because frankly our time is measured by our sun and orbit around it. You can't possibly predict the end of everything by a single year compared to the billions maybe trillions of years past. For people trying to think big on this, they surprisingly miss the larger picture.
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Anyway that aside I don't think 2012 will be of any major importance. Regardless of what a book or calendar says, I do find the astrological side of things interesting. But neither disturbing or joyful.How dare you make such powerful accusations.
It was their creation myth. The Third Creation ended at the end of the twelfth baktun, and the fourth creation began.0110100110 said:
The point is that this had already happened, and was not expected to happen again. There are distance dates recorded in Mayan carvings (future dates in Mayan notation are recorded as the current date plus the amount of time to pass until the date indicated) which will not come about for another two thousand years or more, and they do not indicate a change in or reset of the calendar.
No, you just stick new numbers on the front, happily the set of real integers is infinite.
The Mayan calendar works the same way, except since it works in base 20 not base 10 (Mayans counted in base 20) you need less digits to record spectacularly large numbers (using only the significant digits the Mayans had individual names for, their version of hundred, thousand, etc. you could nearly express the full age of the solar system without running out of digits).
The Mayans were brilliant at predicting their absorption by the Aztecs, as well as the general end of their culture. Why shouldn't we trust them when they say the world will end?
I mean they're obviously the ONLY culture that has predicted the end of the world...
It's not like there is currently a 100% inaccuracy rating on theories about "the end times"
It's not like the European conversion of the Mayan Calendar is completely off...
It's not like Astrology is complete bullshit anyway...
Right?
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I mean they're obviously the ONLY culture that has predicted the end of the world...
It's not like there is currently a 100% inaccuracy rating on theories about "the end times"
It's not like the European conversion of the Mayan Calendar is completely off...
It's not like Astrology is complete bullshit anyway...
Right?
(/Sarcasm)
Not even that. Our conception of time as the linear progression of events happening after each other, is woefully inaccurate.YukoValis said:
THAT THEY HAD MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO. Or died. Or noticed they couldn't make infinite calenders to they figured covering a few hundred years would suffice at the time...0110100110 said:
How fucking arbitrary can you get before you notice these things are complete bullshit? Did you honestly expect them to make calenders ad infinitum? THEY ARE DEAD. ALL OF THEM. They were all subdued in 1697, during a colossal war (which I think kinda pushed the priority of "calender making" down a bit)... They had calenders setup for 315 more years... What the unholy fuck do you think that means? I'm guessing, they were doing calenders, then one day "oh shit, there's a war... Should I fight it or die finishing those last days in a calender that'll only be any good in over 300 years???? I don't know!".
I think people are taking it too literally. I would say that they had good enough reason to end their calender about 500 years after their entire culture was wiped from the face of the globe. Screw it, my calender goes about a week from now. I'd say they were technologically brialliant, but simply laid back, not predictors of the apocalypse. Really.. calm down, everyone.