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Mayan prophecy pegged to wrong year..? End of the Earth Postponed

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It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)

The Mayan calendar was converted to today's Gregorian calendar using a calculation called the GMT constant, named for the last initials of three early Mayanist researchers. Much of the work emphasized dates recovered from colonial documents that were written in the Mayan language in the Latin alphabet, according to the chapter's author, Gerardo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Later, the GMT constant was bolstered by American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, a Mayan calendar and almanac that charts dates relative to the movements of Venus.

"He took the position that his work removed the last obstacle to fully accepting the GMT constant," Aldana said in a statement. "Others took his work even further, suggesting that he had proven the GMT constant to be correct."

But according to Aldana, Lounsbury's evidence is far from irrefutable.

"If the Venus Table cannot be used to prove the FMT as Lounsbury suggests, its acceptance depends on the reliability of the corroborating data," he said. That historical data, he said, is less reliable than the Table itself, causing the argument for the GMT constant to fall "like a stack of cards."

Aldana doesn't have any answers as to what the correct calendar conversion might be, preferring to focus on why the current interpretation may be wrong. Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed
 
All u niggas that took out all them loans, thinking that when the apocalypse comes you old have t pay shit..... :itsawrap:
 
Rossini said:
Yea but whatever was supposed to happen in 2012, may not happen. That "great change" might be 50 years away.
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Nope its happening now, remember all of the earthquakes this year, the economy going into the shitter and last weeks lights in the sky display? Not to mention this war the U.S. in.
 
LennyNero1972 said:
Nope its happening now, remember all of the earthquakes this year, the economy going into the shitter and last weeks lights in the sky display? Not to mention this war the U.S. in.
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Their have always been wars and earthquakes, and these so called aliens have been making apearances since the 1950's.
 
So when 2012 comes and goes, and everyone is still going on about their daily live, when should we expect the next Apocalypse? the year 3000? And wasn't the jew zombie suppose to return 10 years ago? What happened with that? Partying like it was 1999 wasn't enough to raise him from the dead?
 
I'm still saving for my plane. I start fight school in a week. This is a trick to people calm while they build those arcs in China.
 
Rossini said:
Like I said, the media and the internet make it seem more fequent, did you have youtube 20 years ago? did people have 24/7 access to cell phone cameras 20 years ago?
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Does it matter? Were we in a full scale conflict 20 years ago, was the economy this bad 20 years ago?
 
I don't know why people interpreted 2012 as the end of the world anyway. All it means is it's the end of an age and that a new one will begin. What's scary about that?
 
Hmmmmmmmm. Time to create survival kits. $50 a pop. :yes: Or maybe invest in bibles and crosses.
 
A convenient "save". Not one other person in over 1000 years caught that? I never believed it, but I do think something is up. The paradigm has shifted agin.
 

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