SKIER_4_LI
which book is better? has all the information i would want to know on the subject of 2012.. it really interests me and there are so many books on it, which do you think is better?
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People start rumors about things like 2012 to sell books. Just look at the following:
Time line for the End-of-the-World:
1982: Jupiter Effect, March 10th, 1982.
1988: 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 88 (and On Borrowed Time both by: Edgar C. Whisenant 09-25-1932 â 05-16-2001).
1999: Nostradamus, In 1999 will come the Great King of Terror...
Again, 1999: Y-2K, 01-01-2000.
Just last year, 2008: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) September of 2008 will open up a huge black hole that will swallow up the Universe...
Today: December 21, 2012...
Today: The December 21, 2012 End Times Date might be off by only a hundred years or so...
Donât believe any of it! Nothing happened in 1982, 1988, 1999, 2000 or 2008. Nothing world-ending will happen in 2012 or even a hundred years after that. Doomsayers just love to start End Times rumors but guess what? They are NEVER right.
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People start rumors about things like 2012 to sell books. Just look at the following:
Time line for the End-of-the-World:
1982: Jupiter Effect, March 10th, 1982.
1988: 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 88 (and On Borrowed Time both by: Edgar C. Whisenant 09-25-1932 â 05-16-2001).
1999: Nostradamus, In 1999 will come the Great King of Terror...
Again, 1999: Y-2K, 01-01-2000.
Just last year, 2008: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) September of 2008 will open up a huge black hole that will swallow up the Universe...
Today: December 21, 2012...
Today: The December 21, 2012 End Times Date might be off by only a hundred years or so...
Donât believe any of it! Nothing happened in 1982, 1988, 1999, 2000 or 2008. Nothing world-ending will happen in 2012 or even a hundred years after that. Doomsayers just love to start End Times rumors but guess what? They are NEVER right.
H
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qwertyuiop
why did the mayans stop at 2012, did they get tired of writing? :)
Answer
Back in 1966, in a book titled "The Maya", Michael Coe mused that "if the Mayans viewed their long count calendar as beginning at the Creation of the world, did they view its end in 2012 as the Apocalypse?" or words to that effect.
It was just a researcher considering the viewpoint of the culture he was studying. NO ONE has ever suggested that the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar was ACTUALLY the creation of the Earth. That would be about 3110 BC. Do YOU think the Earth was created in 3110 BC? If you are one of the many people claiming pertinence of the ENDING date of the Mayan calendar (as many have suggested in the answers to your question) then they MUST place equal importance to its beginning.
Oddly, no one does. People that WANT to find supporting evidence to their CRAZY claims will "pick and choose" the available data, throwing out the stuff that doesn't agree and using only that which does. This isn't fair and it CERTAINLY isn't science.
After Coe's book came out, a disreputable Art Historian named Jose Arguelles (who now calls himself Voltron Viagra, or something and claims to be a reincarnated Mayan Priest), wrote a book using the speculation of Michael Coe as its principle theme. Of course, very few people paid attention.
As we get closer to the mysterious 2012 date, more people have cited the works of Arguelles (safely ignoring the fact that he is CRAZY) as evidence that "The Mayans KNEW something!". Of course, they didn't. Facts, however, get in the way of hysteria.
Please stop by 2012hoax.org if you have any more questions. There is a section about the LHC which I didn't get into here. You won't find any crazy claims there thrust at you with no evidence, like you get here in Y!A.
Enjoy!
Back in 1966, in a book titled "The Maya", Michael Coe mused that "if the Mayans viewed their long count calendar as beginning at the Creation of the world, did they view its end in 2012 as the Apocalypse?" or words to that effect.
It was just a researcher considering the viewpoint of the culture he was studying. NO ONE has ever suggested that the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar was ACTUALLY the creation of the Earth. That would be about 3110 BC. Do YOU think the Earth was created in 3110 BC? If you are one of the many people claiming pertinence of the ENDING date of the Mayan calendar (as many have suggested in the answers to your question) then they MUST place equal importance to its beginning.
Oddly, no one does. People that WANT to find supporting evidence to their CRAZY claims will "pick and choose" the available data, throwing out the stuff that doesn't agree and using only that which does. This isn't fair and it CERTAINLY isn't science.
After Coe's book came out, a disreputable Art Historian named Jose Arguelles (who now calls himself Voltron Viagra, or something and claims to be a reincarnated Mayan Priest), wrote a book using the speculation of Michael Coe as its principle theme. Of course, very few people paid attention.
As we get closer to the mysterious 2012 date, more people have cited the works of Arguelles (safely ignoring the fact that he is CRAZY) as evidence that "The Mayans KNEW something!". Of course, they didn't. Facts, however, get in the way of hysteria.
Please stop by 2012hoax.org if you have any more questions. There is a section about the LHC which I didn't get into here. You won't find any crazy claims there thrust at you with no evidence, like you get here in Y!A.
Enjoy!
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