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| 2012 Not The End Of The World? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 20 2010, 01:52 PM (103 Views) | |
| Post #1 Oct 20 2010, 01:52 PM | James |
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Source:yahoo.com t's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already. A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.) The Mayan calendar was converted to today's Gregorian calendar using a calculation called the GMT constant, named for the last initials of three early Mayanist researchers. Much of the work emphasized dates recovered from colonial documents that were written in the Mayan language in the Latin alphabet, according to the chapter's author, Gerardo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies. [Related: More details on the Mayan Calendar and 2012 prophecy] Later, the GMT constant was bolstered by American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, a Mayan calendar and almanac that charts dates relative to the movements of Venus. "He took the position that his work removed the last obstacle to fully accepting the GMT constant," Aldana said in a statement. "Others took his work even further, suggesting that he had proven the GMT constant to be correct." But according to Aldana, Lounsbury's evidence is far from irrefutable. "If the Venus Table cannot be used to prove the FMT as Lounsbury suggests, its acceptance depends on the reliability of the corroborating data," he said. That historical data, he said, is less reliable than the Table itself, causing the argument for the GMT constant to fall "like a stack of cards." Aldana doesn't have any answers as to what the correct calendar conversion might be, preferring to focus on why the current interpretation may be wrong. Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes. |
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| Post #2 Oct 21 2010, 12:06 AM | Alex |
| I don't believe any of that anyway. The world is going to end when it ends. I don't think anyone can say when and there's nothing anyone can do about it. |
 
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| Post #3 Oct 21 2010, 11:33 AM | Chris |
| Well that's a relief. Now I won't have to live in horror. |
Hol-ee Jesus! What is that? What the fuck is that!
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| Post #4 Oct 21 2010, 01:50 PM | The Comedian |
| The whole 2012 stuff is pointless |
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| Post #5 Oct 21 2010, 03:23 PM | That English-Edge |
| Lol, the fact that our own calander is off by a few years anyway should have given it away... |
Carlsberg don't make members...
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| Post #6 Oct 22 2010, 01:13 PM | Alex |
LMAO! You crack me up,Chris! |
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