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2012 maya calendar
Not Myself:
Ah good, I understood the claim correctly then.
twik:
To be fair, the Maya, like many mesoamerican cultures, did consider that major "roll-overs" in the calendar were likely to be times of chaotic change. However, the world did not end on the 12th or 13th baktun, so I'm not sure why it would end on the 14th.
Tedward:
--- Quote from: gtvc on February 24, 2012, 09:51:39 PM ---Well this is it, the last year.....of the Maya calendar. By the way today we had an earthquake in Colombia but everybody is OK, the weather is very warm in my city which most of the time its cold and we saw 2 circular halos around the sun with rainbows at the beginning of this month which its a phenomena that never happened before in Bogota and I see Latin countries around the world are watching this phenomena in different dates since 2009, so maybe the Mayas are right about changes or maybe the weather is a mess around the world, what do you think? :o
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I have to ask, how do you know this has not been seen before?
ChrLz:
I give you..
A solar halo at Bogota (surely that is close enough..)
or
A sundog at nearby Caldas..
Sure, sundogs are not all that common (I've only seen 4 and I'm a bit of a skygazer), but I too think, Gtvc, you need to back up that comment about them never being seen in Bogota.. And then try to somehow link them to an impending doomsday fantasy..?
twik:
--- Quote from: gtvc on February 24, 2012, 09:51:39 PM ---Well this is it, the last year.....of the Maya calendar. By the way today we had an earthquake in Colombia but everybody is OK, the weather is very warm in my city which most of the time its cold and we saw 2 circular halos around the sun with rainbows at the beginning of this month which its a phenomena that never happened before in Bogota and I see Latin countries around the world are watching this phenomena in different dates since 2009, so maybe the Mayas are right about changes or maybe the weather is a mess around the world, what do you think? :o
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gtvc, why do you think the Maya are privy to some sort of information that no other culture was? What about the European Christians who believe that the world would end in 1000 and 1500, and westerners of various beliefs who fastened on 2000 as an "end time"? They were clearly wrong and off-base, do you not agree? Why would the Maya be any more reliable?
Yes, the weather is "messed up", a bit this year - but then, find me a year when the weather has *not* been messed up. I think an awful lot of people assume that prior to their own existence, life ticked by for people with nothing exciting ever happening. Except for minor stuff that wouldn't count to the Maya - you know, like Krakatoa exploding, the New Madrid quake, the San Francisco quake and fire, and the "little ice age" of medieval times. A well-known weather phenomenon appearing one day in Bogata makes those things look like small potatoes, I suppose.
Remember, for your theory to make sense, you would have to presume that the Mayas were able to accurately predict that something would happen in our year 2012, and backdated their whole calendrical system to match that date. Either that, or you have to believe unabashedly in numerology - "Oooh, it's a round number! That must be significant!"
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