02-10-2009, 10:35 PM
Quote:If you want to understand the calendar of a civilization from 1500 years ago, google and youtube search them. I'm sure they must have posted a video explaining themselves.
The 2012 junk is not taken seriously by anyone with expertise in Mayan culture. It is a silly misinterpretation of the longest cycle of their calendar round, and nothing more.
-Jester
Yes, that's exactly what I was saying: 1500 years ago the ancient mayans created a calendar which ends on December 21, 2012; and then created Livejournal so all of us emo 21st centurians can whine and bitch about the end of days! Google and Youtube totally didn't come around until the complete extintion of the mayans, the two being found of course right next to the calendar and a scroll of parchment that said "README: Idiots guide to interpreting this calendar and other various instructions on how to use this here alienware laptop to post it on this thing call the internet which doesnt actually exist yet".
I'm not saying these theories are 100 percent accurate, or even at all in the ballpark of fact, they do however all take themselves somewhat seriously and go to great lengths to convince those who dare to read about them of there importance and some of them even present evidence backing said claims.
See: Nostradamas (sp?)
And from my understanding the Mayan caldendar is not cyclical, it has an ending. And that ending is somewhere around the Winter Solstace of 2012 (I'm not saying this day is the end of the world, only the end of the calendar).
"It requires an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
--Alfred North Whitehead
--Alfred North Whitehead