[quote]horsepuss wrote:
you guys familiar with the idea that something either great or horrible is going to happen on december 21 2012.[/quote]
Yes, the great thing that happens on that day: The story about the end of the mayan calendar proves to be false and stops cropping up every 3 months on internet forums around the globe.
If only every bullshit myth had an expiration date…
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
if you are interested in just what that other 90% of your brain is doing.
We use all of our brains.[/quote]
I like to think that we only use 10% of our hearts, imagine what the world would be if we all used 100%
[quote]DR. J wrote:
I like to think that we only use 10% of our hearts, imagine what the world would be if we all used 100%[/quote]
Alright, who invited this guy?
[quote]DR. J wrote:
Malevolence wrote:
if you are interested in just what that other 90% of your brain is doing.
We use all of our brains.
I like to think that we only use 10% of our hearts, imagine what the world would be if we all used 100%[/quote]
Sub 1hr marathons?
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
I don’t need to be told about how great they were. I know they were a very advanced civilization, and I’m not trying to take anything away from them… I just get very pissed quickly when people think the motherfucking world is going to end because their calendar ends. That’s all.
As for me being a dumbass, go fuck yourself. [/quote]
Okay, let’s get the facts straight about the Maya calendar. Here are the basic units of the Maya calendar:
A katun consists of 20 tun (about 19.7 years), a baktun of 20 katuns (about 394 years), a pictun of 20 baktuns (about 7.9 centuries), a calabtun of 20 pictuns (about 158 centuries), and a kinchiltun of 20 calabtuns (about 3.1 million years). years)
So much about the “ending” of the Maya calendar. A
Also, although Mayans are generally considered an “advanced” civilization in cultural, political and partly sociological terms, they were also a stone age civilization that distinctly lacked one of the key requirements for an advanced civilization: urban centres.
Most of the spectacular ruins found in Yucatan and Belize were, in their prime, palace complexes and temples without a corresponding urban population, regardless of the high population density.
[quote]etaco wrote:
DR. J wrote:
Malevolence wrote:
if you are interested in just what that other 90% of your brain is doing.
We use all of our brains.
I like to think that we only use 10% of our hearts, imagine what the world would be if we all used 100%
Sub 1hr marathons?[/quote]
I think our blood pressure would increase tenfold and arteries would pop.
[quote]loppar wrote:
Also, although Mayans are generally considered an “advanced” civilization in cultural, political and partly sociological terms, they were also a stone age civilization that distinctly lacked one of the key requirements for an advanced civilization: urban centres.
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That and they also believed sacrificing a virgin would protect them.
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
DR. J wrote:
I like to think that we only use 10% of our hearts, imagine what the world would be if we all used 100%
Alright, who invited this guy?
[/quote]
What, not a fan of “wedding crashers”?
[quote]etaco wrote:
brucevangeorge wrote:
Weren’t we all supposd to die around the begining of the millenium?
Apocalypse and all that? And Y2K?
The history of Christian eschatology makes for an amusing read. Over and over, groups of common folk would go nuts- oftentimes they were considered heretical, though sometimes not- getting all worked up in their preparation for the second comming, only to be left standing at the alter. All that autoflagillation for nothing.
These movements occurred with some regularity until people started realizing that either it wasn’t going to happen, or they sucked at predicting them. I think Joachim de Fiori’s heresy and the batch he inspired marked the final burst of the golden age before things started slowing down on that front.
In every historical period though you can find substantial bodies of people who believe powerful person X is the antichrist, and that this is the final age. It seems a wee bit arrogant to me to assume that out of the 100s of generations since Christ, “I” am living in “the one.” But whatever.[/quote]
This is more a problem who don’t understand biblical escahtology. The current popular thought on it being a perfect example. Charles Darby came up with it a little under 200 years ago, and now you have everyone reading their news papers, and saying look it matches perfectly. Perfectly except for the misinterpreting the passages thing.
The biblical apocolypse happened in 70 AD with Jerusalem being sacked. As for a second coming It is a seperate event, and contrary to popular belief There won’t be some rising army to take on Jesus…
This is the view that the majority of Christiandom held through out the years. You are right though there has always been a few nuts out there that made people drink cool-aid.