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Old 01-24-2008, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Mississippi
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I'm surprised that no one has even mentioned the fact that every year on December 21 there is a winter solstice?? I'm really quivering now....
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Old 01-24-2008, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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I'm surprised that no one has even mentioned the fact that every year on December 21 there is a winter solstice?? I'm really quivering now....
sorry Troop,but I thought that was a given,every ancient culture knows that.
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Old 01-24-2008, 11:13 PM
 
Location: USA
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So the Mayans could predict the end of the world, but they still aren't around???
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Old 01-25-2008, 12:52 AM
 
Location: oregon
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actualy, its a 26000 year cycle that has to do with the planets woble as well as the alignment, which makes the winter soltice significent. they say theres gonna be major flooding and that coincides with a major flood 26000 years ago. not supose to be the end though, but a new begining.
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Old 01-25-2008, 07:15 AM
 
Location: New Mexico
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actually yes they did,they knew exactly the day month and year that they would show up and knew exactly what they would look like,their only problem is that they thought they were gods not conquerors.
Are you referring to the Maya or the Aztecs here?
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Old 01-25-2008, 10:06 AM
 
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Not really,they were also great astronomers,you'll find that many ancient cultures run along the same train of thought,they were all very good ancient astronomers and most of them observed the same sky,so it's only logical that they would come to the same conclusion,amazing the similarities, is it not?
I have to agree with this post. There have been indigenous cultures across the globe, in every corner of the world, including Africa, North America, and Australia, whose ancient teachings and traditions mark the same point in time, the year 2012. These teaching have been around for hundreds of years, thousands of years. I have always found that similarity remarkable.
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Old 01-25-2008, 10:13 AM
 
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Actually, its a 26000 year cycle that has to do with the planets woble as well as the alignment, which makes the winter soltice significent. they say theres gonna be major flooding and that coincides with a major flood 26000 years ago. not supose to be the end though, but a new begining.
There is also a school of thought that says one purpose of the warnings of "earth changes" that may occur at that time, has had its desired result, and that drastic change is now NOT seen as inevitable. In other words, enough people paid attention to the warnings, changed how they treat the earth and other people, began living in more peaceful ways, with less violence and aggression....to have reduced the intensity of the event.

So according to that strand of thinking, the shift has actually occurred and we have already entered the next period. We have averted and changed that "potential outcome."

The purpose of a prophecy is not doom and gloom, or to get on the cover of the National Enquirer, but to AVERT doom and gloom.

We have free will as humans how we treat each other and the planet. One potential outcome or "ending to the story" is doom and gloom. Another potential outcome is living more responsibly. When a critical mass is reached by enough individuals, it tips the outcome in favor for everyone and the planet. Some say that is now occurring and the birth into the next world for our planet has gently come to be.
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Old 01-25-2008, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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Are you referring to the Maya or the Aztecs here?
I stand corrected, it was the Aztecs not the Mayans who encountered the Spanish, the Mayans never encountered the Spanish, however it is believed that the Aztecs were influenced by the Mayan culture at that time. Thank you for catching that.
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Old 01-25-2008, 10:57 AM
 
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So the Mayans could predict the end of the world, but they still aren't around???
Well, Nostradamus could predict the end of the world also, and he's not around either.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Oz
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Well, Nostradamus could predict the end of the world also, and he's not around either.
Anyone can predict the end of the world. As yet, nobody has been proven correct about it.
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