Mayan calendar not ending in 2o12 after all!

Turns out 2012 isnt the end, at least not quite - the calculations to convert the Mayan calendar to the Gregorian may be up to a hundred years off. That should give conspiracy theorists time to come up with even wackier end-of-the-world scenarios :2thumbsup:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed

 

Who cares about some calender man?!


Haven't you heard the world is ending in 2012?!

 

This has been known for a long time. First off it doesn't have an end, its cyclical. Not to mention many scholars have had conflicting ideas on how our calendar correlates to the Mayan system of timekeeping. If they can't figure out what day it is how the hell can they figure out the end of the world?

 

damn it

 

Did you cancel your plans for New Years eve 2012 as well?


Now I have to make new ones.

 

yeah i think i am depressed

 

can't blame the conspiracy theorists on some "scholars" mistranslation

 

my credit card dont expire til 2014.. I think the banks know what they are doing..

 

you may be the only person left who does :mickey:

i didn't have much faith in the mayan predictions.. how can ya trust a culture that couldn't predict it's own extinction

 

mayan culture isn't extinct.

There are over 1.5 million mayan people living today in mexico, belize, guatemala, and honduras. Many of them are fluent in the various dialects of mayan language of which hundreds of forms exist.

 

many of them are cocaine smugglers too...

 

and not one of them thought to point out that their calendar is outa sync? my lack of faith was justified

 

The vast majority of these people are christianized, and use the roman gregorian calendar like the rest of the world. Very few people, if any, follow the traditional timekeeping system.

 

doesnt' that mean the culture (being the culture of the people who initially made the prediction, not the mayan race) is extinct?

 

lol im putting this in my sig

 

The 'prediction' was not made by an indigenous person. All the 12/21/12 predictions are inferences drawn from scholars/conspiracy nuts who studied the Mayan timekeeping system. The calendric system is only used by the smallest fraction of maya today. The fact that it is even around stands tantamount to the other less than subtle evidence of the survival of their culture.

 

at the risk of repeating myself...

 

:sultan:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...the-end-of-the-world-Mayan-elder-insists.html

Rarely do the indigenous folk speak out to correct such nonsense but the above is one example. Thats all i can really tell you. Can't speak for the maya people.

 

Living the 'mayan calender' is just living to the natural rhythm of time without clocks, planting to the moon and honouring the turning of the year, solstices, equinox's etc-
I studied/lived the maya when I was dwelling in a forest for 3 months. Things shifted and I burnt my mayan calender I used to study everyday. Why? because my partner and I could not relate to the rest of the world we had evolved and shift in energy. It was hard to be in a reality that wasn't everyone else's, blissful and magikal and very different to how we live now totally out of sync..

I cant wait til the world catches up, it was a truly amazing feeling and I really look forward to living the 13 moontime once again with people who have caught up with the dream spell ...
The mayans I believe left there homeland to populate the rest of the world they exist today and we are all part of the first nation peoples-