My Thoughts On The End Of The World
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My Thoughts On The End Of The World
I'm not inclined to pay attention to the Mayan colander, that thing has more holes in in it than a sieve.
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So you want me to believe a culture who predicts the end of the world.
That when Cortez and his conquistadors came onshore with Damacus steel swords, and matchlock muskets, faced a people with stone tools and weapons?
That when Cortez and his conquistadors came onshore with Damacus steel swords, and matchlock muskets, faced a people with stone tools and weapons?
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rule #1 -- don't show up to a matchlock musket fight with a stone knife... :)
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ColanderMescalero wrote:So you want me to believe a culture who predicts the end of the world.
That when Cortez and his conquistadors came onshore with Damacus steel swords, and matchlock muskets, faced a people with stone tools and weapons?
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My thoughts are if they were so smart they would not be extinct. ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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Griff, love the cartoon. Blane, enjoyed the pun.
You guys need to get out more. Mayan is still a spoken language in southern Mexico, all of Central America and the Caribe basin.
There is a resistance and independence-from-Mexico movement in Mayan villages of Yucatan and Oaxaca.
If you drive the roads in Yucatan, all of the highway bypasses into the villages have military guards keeping the turistas out and keeping the radicals in.
The Mayan calendar ends on the solstice of 2012 for the same reason our calendar ends on December 31 - it starts over. And if you asked a Mayan, he'd tell you the same thing. The last page of the Codex, which pop culture describes as a picture of the end of the world, is a prayer to the water goddess, asking her to bring bountiful rain.
"Sacred" Mayan scribe caves in Guatemala have glifs referencing dates after December 21, 2012.
Cortez got in a few firefights, but it was measles and smallpox that destroyed the Mayan, Aztec and Inca civilizations. God works in mysterious ways.
Neil Young and pop-culture romanticizing their civilizations don't get it.
Cortez and the conquistadores were God's men, stepping out by faith, just as we're instructed to do today.
The Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayans were blood and death cults, taking land by annihilation, selling the women to slavery and blood sacrificing the men and children. The cenotes of Yucatan, Quintanna Roo and Belize are filled with the bones and skulls of children showing knife and axe cuts before they were thrown in.
I'll say it again, I really like the picture of truth Mel Gibson produced and directed in Apocalypto.
Cortez was God's man in 1520 just as Enrico Fermi was God's man in 1940.
And btw, the Mayans are wonderful little people, who will love you if you make friends with them. They are so oppressed and prejudiced against by Mexican society, it makes them feel good to have friends whom they believe to be superior to the Mexicans.
You guys need to get out more. Mayan is still a spoken language in southern Mexico, all of Central America and the Caribe basin.
There is a resistance and independence-from-Mexico movement in Mayan villages of Yucatan and Oaxaca.
If you drive the roads in Yucatan, all of the highway bypasses into the villages have military guards keeping the turistas out and keeping the radicals in.
The Mayan calendar ends on the solstice of 2012 for the same reason our calendar ends on December 31 - it starts over. And if you asked a Mayan, he'd tell you the same thing. The last page of the Codex, which pop culture describes as a picture of the end of the world, is a prayer to the water goddess, asking her to bring bountiful rain.
"Sacred" Mayan scribe caves in Guatemala have glifs referencing dates after December 21, 2012.
Cortez got in a few firefights, but it was measles and smallpox that destroyed the Mayan, Aztec and Inca civilizations. God works in mysterious ways.
Neil Young and pop-culture romanticizing their civilizations don't get it.
Cortez and the conquistadores were God's men, stepping out by faith, just as we're instructed to do today.
The Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayans were blood and death cults, taking land by annihilation, selling the women to slavery and blood sacrificing the men and children. The cenotes of Yucatan, Quintanna Roo and Belize are filled with the bones and skulls of children showing knife and axe cuts before they were thrown in.
I'll say it again, I really like the picture of truth Mel Gibson produced and directed in Apocalypto.
Cortez was God's man in 1520 just as Enrico Fermi was God's man in 1940.
And btw, the Mayans are wonderful little people, who will love you if you make friends with them. They are so oppressed and prejudiced against by Mexican society, it makes them feel good to have friends whom they believe to be superior to the Mexicans.
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Apocalypto was a good movie.
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If I absolutely HAD to leave the USA for some unknown reason, Belize would be wonderful. I toured there with the band for two weeks. Mayans were warm, pleasant people. English is the national language.
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took regular trips along Quintanna Roo and into Yucatan all through the 80s - it was nicer then - no tv or pizza
You'd pick a restaurant (Mayan hut) because it had a power line, walk out to the dock and see what fish carcasses were fresh.
There were only few hundred American expatriates along the whole coast then - there are 100,000 now, and all the cottage industry that has grown to support them.
You'd pick a restaurant (Mayan hut) because it had a power line, walk out to the dock and see what fish carcasses were fresh.
There were only few hundred American expatriates along the whole coast then - there are 100,000 now, and all the cottage industry that has grown to support them.
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BlaineG wrote:If I absolutely HAD to leave the USA for some unknown reason, Belize would be wonderful. I toured there with the band for two weeks. Mayans were warm, pleasant people. English is the national language.
I've been there several times. Wonderful place. First time down there we spent two weeks sailing from Belize City south down the coast and then back north. It was like sailing through a giant aquarium !
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In addition to the Mayan ruins, the snorkeling is the reason to take the trip down Quintanna Roo.
There are two kinds of coves - barrier reef coves and limestone coves that are the mouths of the underground rivers.
But I'm sure all my favorite places have been over-run by tourists.
When I went, the roads ended at Ascension Bay.
I need a Belieze trip. Sailing it would be a blast.
There are two kinds of coves - barrier reef coves and limestone coves that are the mouths of the underground rivers.
But I'm sure all my favorite places have been over-run by tourists.
When I went, the roads ended at Ascension Bay.
I need a Belieze trip. Sailing it would be a blast.
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Blaine, the people who believe the world will end on 12/21 have cooked noodles for brains. I have never sauce such idiots. I really don't want to meatball any more of them. I wonder if they will have weddings scheduled so that they can marinara on the day the world ends? And, if so, will they be indoors or alfredo? I wish we could lock them all in a mushroom somewhere and throw away the key.
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bigfoot, UFOs
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Please, treat yourself the next time and book a day on English Cay for that desert Isle feel, and snorkeling heaven.bulldog1935 wrote:In addition to the Mayan ruins, the snorkeling is the reason to take the trip down Quintanna Roo.
There are two kinds of coves - barrier reef coves and limestone coves that are the mouths of the underground rivers.
But I'm sure all my favorite places have been over-run by tourists.
When I went, the roads ended at Ascention Bay.
I need a Belieze trip. Sailing it would be a blast.
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in our Quintanna Roo travels, the only thing we ever booked was the Aero Mexico and two nights on Isla Mujeres. We dickered for a rental car when we arrived. Everything else we did was off the cuff (and reading Fielding's) - they were great times. We arrived at Chichen Itza when the turista buses were leaving at noon. We hired an educated, elderly guide for $10 and had the whole place all to ourselves all afternoon. Same with Xel-Ha and Tulum, Coba - we found coves to snorkel listed in Fielding's that had not then been commercialized. But we also saw tv and pizza slowly arrive over the decade...
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I saw a special on the History Channel last week that was about 12/21/12 and they had Mayan Experts who were digging in the ruins saying that they've found Mayan carvings about the 14th Katun starting on 12/22/12 so the 'end of the world' stuff is debunked.
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I don't really care if the world ends.
Nothing here very interesting anyway.
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Nothing here very interesting anyway.
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Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
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I've been waiting nigh onto 50 years to retire and sit on my azz, or do what I want...if it ends, I'm holding you personally responsibleFWiedner wrote:I don't really care if the world ends.
Nothing here very interesting anyway.
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Blaine,
The story has no legs.
But that would be a kick in the ___!
The story has no legs.
But that would be a kick in the ___!
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Damnit!COSteve wrote:I saw a special on the History Channel last week that was about 12/21/12 and they had Mayan Experts who were digging in the ruins saying that they've found Mayan carvings about the 14th Katun starting on 12/22/12 so the 'end of the world' stuff is debunked.
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Let's set the record straight.bulldog1935 wrote: The Mayan calendar ends on the solstice of 2012 for the same reason our calendar ends on December 31 - it starts over.
I don't know any Mayans, but I put a lot of credence in our friend up North, KirkD.
According to the Leverguns calendar that he sold me a couple of months ago, it is apparent that the end of the world will be September 30, 2013 - when the calendar ends!
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I don't watch many movies but I did see that one. All those heads rolling down the steps..the beating heart.Hobie wrote:Apocalypto was a good movie.
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I enjoyed that movie. ![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
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A neighbor has set up a Mayan Sucks party for next Saturday where we'll celebrate their miscalculation. His invitation says the party starts at 7:00 . . . however, if they're right the party is cancelled!
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Don't blame the Mayans for pop culture
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bulldog 1935,
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Sixgun wrote:I don't watch many movies but I did see that one. All those heads rolling down the steps..the beating heart.Hobie wrote:Apocalypto was a good movie.
I kinda think this is the way presidential succession should be handled.
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Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
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Hmmm....Not bad...Perhaps the country could take a stab at that and see how it works...FWiedner wrote:Sixgun wrote:I don't watch many movies but I did see that one. All those heads rolling down the steps..the beating heart.Hobie wrote:Apocalypto was a good movie.
I kinda think this is the way presidential succession should be handled.
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Mayan astronomy and mathematics is the most amazing thing about them. The are 365 steps on their pyramids. They recognized and calculated the mathematical precession of our solar system fully 1000 years before Johannes Kepler.
It's not their fault charlatans in our modern age figured how to make a buck by misrepresenting their artifacts.
It's not their fault charlatans in our modern age figured how to make a buck by misrepresenting their artifacts.
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speaking of astronomy, here is the best piece of astronomy of our modern age
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/
solving Johannes Kepler's quest 400 years later
not bad work for an Aggie law professor.
if you ever have the chance to see Dr. Larson's presentation, I strongly recommend it.
Otherwise, get the dvd - you will be blessed.
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/
solving Johannes Kepler's quest 400 years later
not bad work for an Aggie law professor.
if you ever have the chance to see Dr. Larson's presentation, I strongly recommend it.
Otherwise, get the dvd - you will be blessed.