 About that Mayan Calender, D'oh! |
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  Oct 20 2010, 03:29 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 10-January 10 Member No.: 18,025  |
Well.....I had wondered if it had been translated accurately http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/19/...ypse-postponed/ not that this changes shadowrun any, since the calender simply flips from 5th to 6th world. But it is kinda interesting |
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Oct 20 2010, 06:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 427 Joined: 24-June 09 From: Earth...I hope... Member No.: 17,317 |
I can't stop laughing now...AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Oct 20 2010, 07:23 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,351 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Behind the shadows of the Resonance Member No.: 17,653 |
Me neither!
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Oct 20 2010, 08:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
So it was really 5,000 years ago the dragon at Fujiyama buzzed the bullet train?
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Oct 20 2010, 08:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542 |
I remember reading something similar years ago that said the actual calculation was Oct of 2011.
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Oct 20 2010, 09:03 PM
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Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
QUOTE (Rayzorblades @ Oct 20 2010, 03:55 PM)  I remember reading something similar years ago that said the actual calculation was Oct of 2011. All Hallows Eve! |
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Oct 20 2010, 09:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
That will make Snow Fox happy.
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Oct 20 2010, 11:25 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Why? Is she another halloween baby?
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Oct 21 2010, 02:20 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
No, Wiccan.
I'd like to go on a long boring rant about how it would be approrpiate because of [edited due to too many readers falling asleep] but there has been a lot of note on that whole mayan calander things and it's generally accepted only 1 tile in the whole freaking archeological history mentions this. Even the frakking Mayan's got tired of the fear. |
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Oct 21 2010, 06:11 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,245 Joined: 27-April 07 From: Running the streets of Southeast Virginia Member No.: 11,548 |
Besides, how do we know that someone isn't trying to put out bad information so as to catch everyone unawares?
Hmm? |
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Oct 21 2010, 08:30 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Rayzorblades @ Oct 20 2010, 04:55 PM) I remember reading something similar years ago that said the actual calculation was Oct of 2011. I've heard dates ranging from Oct 11, 2010 all the way to Dec 21, 2013. |
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Oct 21 2010, 08:54 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Well if it's October 11, 2010, I hope they get it over with already before my birthday. I'd rather die at 29, if it's all the same to the rest of the cosmos.
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Oct 21 2010, 08:59 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 21 2010, 04:54 PM) Well if it's October 11, 2010, I hope they get it over with already before my birthday. I'd rather die at 29, if it's all the same to the rest of the cosmos. That was 10 days ago. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) |
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Oct 21 2010, 10:09 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
"Ladies and Gentlemen; We Regret To Inform You That The Impending Apocalyspe Has Been Temporarilly Postponed Until Further Notice. We Appologise For Any Inconveinience. Thank You, and Have A Pleasent Day." (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
Even better than God's Final Message To His Creation. |
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Oct 21 2010, 11:04 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Or it happened and we slept through.
So long and thanks for all the fish! |
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Oct 22 2010, 02:32 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
QUOTE (Draco18s @ Oct 21 2010, 04:59 PM) That was 10 days ago. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) The Mayans are Latin Americans. Did you really expect them to be anything but two hours late to their own party? |
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Oct 22 2010, 02:39 PM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 9,675 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 22 2010, 10:32 AM) The Mayans are Latin Americans. Did you really expect them to be anything but two hours late to their own party? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) You should note, however, that modern Maya may be Latin Americans (though there is a fair bit of conservativism as far as their original culture goes), but the people who made the calendar were Mesoamericans. A very different culture. Timing was of cosmic importance to them. |
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Oct 22 2010, 02:42 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (pbangarth @ Oct 22 2010, 10:39 AM) A very different culture. Timing was of cosmic importance to them. Hence a giant calendar that predicted events thousands of years in advance. As a side note, if the Mayan practices were still in effect anyone born in the "in between times" (that is, the last 25 to 50 years or so) would have been sacrificed to the gods at birth. No, I have no idea how they would keep population numbers up doing something like that. |
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Oct 22 2010, 02:44 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 21-September 10 From: Livermore CA Member No.: 19,060 |
Perhaps there WAS an apocalypse... and we just didn't open our doors.... the light.. it burns...
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Oct 22 2010, 02:59 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Yama King @ Oct 22 2010, 10:44 AM) Perhaps there WAS an apocalypse... and we just didn't open our doors.... the light.. it burns... I think you might want to close that door, it looks like you're getting a radiation burn. |
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Oct 22 2010, 04:53 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
I've seen dates ending in December-ish, 2028 or 2038. I had always figured that those Mayans were making their calendars, saw some sort of huge cosmic lining-up, and turned to each other and been like "It's only X year here, and this calendar is good for the next Y thousand years. Why don't we stop at this obvious stopping point and write down our calculations so when that calendar finally starts to get towards the end someone else can pick it up?"
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Oct 22 2010, 05:01 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
Also true. But a lot of the 2012 superstition comes from the way Mayans thought about the ending of a B'ak'tun, in that it was a time of great upheaval, throw in some religious superstition,* etc. etc. and you get Tin Foil Hat theories.
*4-leaf-clover-horse-shoes type stuff. Only with angry gods. |
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Oct 22 2010, 05:04 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
I seem to remember a while back about some article coming out that said that the Apocalypse-Mayan-Calendar was directly a result of uneducated (in this subject) people on the internet getting a hold of the calendar and adding suppositions and superstitions. I think it was also linked on these forums sometime past.
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Oct 22 2010, 05:09 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
That's what I meant by Tin Foil Hat Theories.
Modern superstition with regards to ancient superstition. "They thought it was true, so it must be true!" I will, however, say that if something does happen, I won't be surprised. But if nothing happens I wouldn't be surprised either. (I wasn't surprised by the financial crisis either. A friend I knew was milking the system in advance of it going belly up. Shame I haven't seen/talked to him in 5 years) |
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Oct 22 2010, 05:27 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
Well, I also heard a theory that the "massive upheaval" would be political in nature (or at least not purely natural)... And looking at Iran getting a nuclear facility, China owning more of America's debt, and the Democrat/Republican schism being more stark in contrast seems to fit that theory, as well as many other political examples booting around.
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