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Old 05-14-2010, 05:36 PM
 
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Sheesh, will somebody please help this thread end...
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Old 05-14-2010, 09:03 PM
 
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Don't worry...it's going to end promptly on the morning of December 22, 2012.
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Old 05-15-2010, 05:46 PM
 
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Sheesh, will somebody please help this thread end...
nope. of course not.
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Old 05-15-2010, 10:47 PM
 
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Don't worry...it's going to end promptly on the morning of December 22, 2012.
So can I assume that you will not be doing any christmas shopping, or even paying your bills that are due by the end of the month. Of course you won't be buying any 2013 calendars.

Or will you?

But wait, can you explain why as a so called christian, you are putting so much faith in a calendar from a pagan (in your eyes) religion?
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Old 05-16-2010, 06:01 AM
 
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So can I assume that you will not be doing any christmas shopping, or even paying your bills that are due by the end of the month. Of course you won't be buying any 2013 calendars.

Or will you?

But wait, can you explain why as a so called christian, you are putting so much faith in a calendar from a pagan (in your eyes) religion?
I'd much rather find out how I became a "so-called Christian," an accusation that fascinates me because I happen to be Jewish.

So I suspect that I won't be doing any Christmas shopping. And the only faith I have in calendars revolves around their ability to tell me what month it is. The ancient Mayans (who didn't use the Christian calendar) calculated that the end of the current world cycle was going to occur on their very specific date of 4 Ahau 3 Kankin--which translates to December 23, (not the 21st) 2012 on the Christian calendar now in use.

Do I believe this? I do not. And I guess I wasn't clear enough when I made that earlier posting: it's not that I think the world will have ended, but exactly the opposite. It ain't happening. At least, not on a specifically prophesized date.
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:02 AM
 
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I'd much rather find out how I became a "so-called Christian," an accusation that fascinates me because I happen to be Jewish.

So I suspect that I won't be doing any Christmas shopping. And the only faith I have in calendars revolves around their ability to tell me what month it is. The ancient Mayans (who didn't use the Christian calendar) calculated that the end of the current world cycle was going to occur on their very specific date of 4 Ahau 3 Kankin--which translates to December 23, (not the 21st) 2012 on the Christian calendar now in use.

Do I believe this? I do not. And I guess I wasn't clear enough when I made that earlier posting: it's not that I think the world will have ended, but exactly the opposite. It ain't happening. At least, not on a specifically prophesized date.
My bad, should have paid more attention to the post above yours
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Old 05-20-2010, 08:03 AM
 
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"Last Days" cults were very popular in the 19th century. They usually "knew" when the exact date that the world would end was going to be, too. Most of them died out, but some survived and morphed into mainstream religions. The LDS church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Seventh-Day Adventists all started out as end-of-the-world cults in the 1800's.

Does anyone remember back in October, 1990 or 1991, when the world was supposed end on a specific date? It was here in the US--I remember seeing people with the last date painted on their cars, but it was also very popular amongst Christians in Korea. People deserted the army over there, left their families, and sat waiting in churches. They were SURE this was the date.

Should be fun to watch in 2012.
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Old 05-20-2010, 08:05 AM
 
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I wonder, if the Mayans were so damn smart, why they didn't foresee that their culture would crumble and their descendants would be sneaking over our borders to cut our lawns.
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Old 05-20-2010, 10:58 AM
 
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I think the Mayans spent more time working out their calendar than they did trying to preserve their culture. Or perhaps it was the case that they separated the two; whatever happened to their culture was going to fit within the framework of their predicted world cycle, so that whoever or whatever was strutting around on the date 4 Ahau 3 Kankin was going to have to deal with the cataclysm.
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Old 05-20-2010, 01:44 PM
 
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I think the Mayans spent more time working out their calendar than they did trying to preserve their culture. Or perhaps it was the case that they separated the two; whatever happened to their culture was going to fit within the framework of their predicted world cycle, so that whoever or whatever was strutting around on the date 4 Ahau 3 Kankin was going to have to deal with the cataclysm.
Or they just ran out of water and dispersed.
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