NOW THAT IS WEIRD.
I've been thinking about a lot of conversations I've been having lately with people concerning the supposed end of the world.
Here's a review for all of those who are rusty on the subject (using a few excerpts here and there):
-The Mayas created a calendar with remarkable accuracy and complexity. Other than the Aztec calendar, the Maya calendars are the best-documented and most completely understood.
-"The Mayan Calendar is something profoundly different than just a system
to mark off the passage of time. The Mayan Calendar is above all a
prophetic calendar that may help us understand the past and foresee the
future. It is a calendar
of the Ages that describes how the progression of Heavens and
Underworlds condition the human consciousness and thus the frames for
our thoughts and actions within a given Age." (keep in mind, this is just a general idea from several sources)
-The calendar was based on
a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of 365 days. Taken
together, they form a longer cycle of 18,980 days, or 52 years of 365
days, called a "calendar round."
-The 365-day year was divided into 18 named months (uinals) of 20 days plus one month of 5 “nameless” days, called Uayeb.
-The Mayans pretty much marked everything on stone slabs and pillars marking important dates and events. They have this long count system on the stone slabs that starts on 4 Ahau 8 Cumku (3113 BC) as the base date for the start of the present era, due to end in AD 2011.
So.... will the world end?
Part of me wishes it would but all these years of studying and reading and working and "saving the fun for later" would have all been a waste. I would have invested all my hard work and time into nothing.
I'm kind of getting annoyed with all this talk about the end of the world. So what if the world were to end soon - what would you do about it, really now. I guess... if the world were to end, I would avoid doing work-study in college and just file for loans so I don't have to work and have a blast in college.
Do you believe in all this doomsday business?
Okay, if this isnt a good example, I don't know what is. This was today's Non Sequitur
If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you that you looked good as I walked away. -Jack Johnson ;]
Comments (4)
doomsday? i think it's real. however,
i don't know when it is. i don't want to know when it is.
and i don't think anybody knows when it is.
i end up thinking about it really often.
i hope it's not too soon, before i get to do some things.
I think that, even though the Mayans were highly intelligent and all the stuff that you probably already know....the world wont end. If it does then oh shit to me. I think earth has many many thousands of years left as well as humans in general.
UYABBB!
Eh. I'll stay up waiting for the year to roll over to 2011 just like I did for the 2000, wondering if all technology was going to die. If the world ends, it's ironic (and the Mayans are laughing at us from wherever they are). If it doesn't, then I actually get to use my degrees from college. Huzzah.