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2006-03-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Breaking : 2012 not the End Of The World As We know It

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-17 11:49|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Age of Nefarious... Hucksters.

Posted by Glirong Whong8693 2006-03-17 12:24|| 2006-03-17 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, I noticed those door knockers stop coming to my house after 2001. Guess we didn't pass on then either. Something in the book about thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not use thy Lord's name in vain. Who says the maker doesn't have a sense of humor. Oh you were expecting what? Surprise!

Posted by Wheresh Chuling2906 2006-03-17 12:45|| 2006-03-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Ng! That article doesn't explain *why* the professor thinks the popular interpretation of the Mayan calendar is bogus. I hate it when they do that.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-03-17 14:43|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-17 14:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Not only that, but he also mentioned that there is a more recent calendar that was being used at the time of the conquest. Now *that* calendar did have a day for the end of the world, which coincided with the arrival of the conquistadores. So if you took *it* and extrapolated the date for the next time the world was supposed to end, what is *its* magic date?

Of course, the whole thing gets really screwy when you figure that Spain was on the Julian calendar at the time of the Conquest.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-17 15:48|| 2006-03-17 15:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Kerry end(ed) 2004

Posted by Captain America 2006-03-17 15:52|| 2006-03-17 15:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll turn 50 then. If that's not the End Of The World, then what is?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-03-17 19:39|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-03-17 19:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't worry about it. You're already 50 in dawg years.

Posted by 6 2006-03-17 19:43|| 2006-03-17 19:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Anonymoose: that end-of-the-world day happened every 52 years (actually 365 * 52 days). To the Aztecs it wasn't necessarily the end of the world, just a time when it was a very real possibility. The dominoes just happened to line up in 1519.

Wikipedia has a good overview of the topic here, including why 2012 is not the end of the world - more like a super-duper Y2K (lots of zeros). The Maya loved those dates with lots of zeros.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-03-17 20:39|| 2006-03-17 20:39|| Front Page Top

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