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No Mayan Apocalypse in 2012 … But There’s Alot of Other Interesting Stuff Happening
NO MAYAN APOCALYPSE IN 2012
Contrary to a widespread myth – as parroted by the History Channel, the movie and Internet buzz – and contrary to all of the hype from Mexican tourist agencies, the Mayans did not prophecy that the world would end on December 21, 2012.
Initially, there are many dates recorded on Mayan calendars which are well beyond 12/21/2012. The 2012 date was apparently only found on a single Mayan inscription.
And the Mayan elders themselves are having none of it.
As AP noted in 2009:
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists.
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Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
But you don’t have to believe just any Mayan elder.
Similarly, Ricardo Cajas – president of the Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala – said the date did not represent an end of humanity or fulfillment of the catastrophic prophecies, but that the new cycle “supposes changes in human consciousness.” (Translation).
And Maya Grand Elder Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj is the leader of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala, Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar, 13th generation Quiche Mayan Spiritual Leader, the “roving ambassador for the Maya”, a founder and Grand Elder of the Continental Council of Elders & Spiritual Guides of the Americas, an Extraordinary Ambassador in the Guatemalan government representing the indigenous pueblos, and an international lecturer on Mayan culture.
While Oxlaj certainly warns about man-made problems, he says that December 21, 2012 is not the end of the Mayan calendar:
Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
Indeed, some Mayan spiritual leaders are angryabout the whole 2012 apocalypse myth because it mischaracterizes Mayan beliefs.
MAYBE 2012 WILL BE A GOOD THING
New Age folks claim that Earth will be exactly aligned with the center of our galaxy on December 21.
I’m not sure whether or not that’s true. For example, a Cornell astronomer says that the Earth is frequently aligned with the galactic center.
But even assuming it’s true, is it necessarily a bad thing? What do other ancient cultures say?
Ancient Yogic texts claim that the center of our galaxy emits some type of frequency or radiation which helps humankind to evolve.
Indeed, they claim that – the closer Earth gets to the center of the galaxy as it travels around its around the galactic center – the happier and more evolved we become.
(I’m not promoting the ancient Yogic view; merely pointing out that a very old tradition – which, like the Maya closely studied the stars and had time-keeping systems spanning tens of thousands of years – had positive associations with the center of the galaxy.)
DON'T THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER
Although the whole Mayan 2012 thing is fake, that doesn’t mean that what happens in space can’t effect us.
As I’ve previously noted, the Sun affects many more aspects of our lives than scientists had realized.
For example – believe it or not – what happens inside the sun can change the rate of radioactive decay in particles on Earth. And solar activity could render virtually nuclear power plant a ticking time bomb.
In 2008, scientists said that the sun’s solar wind is at a 50-year low. Since the solar wind shields Earth from harmful radiation originating outside of our solar system, such occurrences could affect us.
The same year, scientists discovered that we were being bombarded by high-energy cosmic rays from an unknown source outside of our solar system. More interesting still, scientists aren’t sure whether the cosmic rays came from a conventional object or something more esoteric … like dark matter.
And Nasa scientists have recently discovered that black holes – like the one at the center of our galaxy – have “pulses” of radiation, and that our galaxy’s black hole has at times put out much more radiation than it is currently emitting.
Nasa has also pointed out:
The Sun – in fact, our whole solar system – orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Indeed, before you get too cocky in doubting that things further away than our Sun can affect the Earth, you may wish to note that a region of space in the Centaurus Supercluster is so dense and has such a massive gravitational pull that it is pulling our entire galaxy and all of the nearby galaxies towards it at the speed of 1,000,000 miles an hour.
What does this mean for us?
As I noted in August:
The science of the affect of space events on Earth is in its infancy, and that there are many fascinating discoveries in our future. When scientists understand all of the ways that the Sun and Earth [and other regions of our galaxy and beyond] interact, we will know alot more about the Earth and our place in the universe than we do today.
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Dumbass
double-dumbass on you!
Words cannot express the profound psychological devastation I am suffering from the massive, existential body-blow inflicted by your rapier-sharp and caustic wit. Please, sir, have mercy!
For example – believe it or not – what happens inside the sun can change the rate of radioactive decay in particles on Earth
And yet people still believe in the religion of radiometric dating and the earth is 4.6 billion years old, despite this evidence and others that the earth could not possibly be older than about 15 million years.
Oh no, you're one of those
One of what? Facts are facts.
Please see this
http://tiny.cc/ubtss
Thanks, I did read your link. The majorty of the evidence is for a young earth. Please see this #9.
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=print&ID=1842
But also, what do you think of soft tissue inside dino fossils supposedly 65+ million years old? This would decay in thousands of years.
The Mayans certainly didn't run that calendar out to 2012 for our benefit. If they couldn't see their own collapse in 800AD, I'm not really interested in their opinions about our collapse.
Exactly ... some joo jerk once said that all we have to fear is fear itself.
And all I see in this '2012' crap is a massive fear-mongering trip.
Jezus! ... isn't actuality enough? ... why this inane need to make-up shit in the face of what we actually know about our situation?
How the fuck does any of it help?
Next we'll get the the Kalki Golden-Age fuckwits spruiking their silly crap at zh.
That's what they want you to think. Their civilization didn't collapse, they left the planet before SHTF.
I'll worry when all of the dolphins vanish one day with the only message left behind is 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish'.
Mexico's Grand Warlock predicted US President Barack Obama would fail to win re-election and two more Latin American leaders would be diagnosed with cancer, in a traditional New Year's forecast Tuesday.
The Grand Warlock, or "Brujo Mayor" in Spanish, leads a Mexican tradition of "brujeria" or sorcery centered in the southeastern city of Catemaco.
The Grand Warlock, also known as Antonio Vazquez, said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who claims to have beaten an unspecified cancer, would have a "terrible relapse."
http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-grand-warlock-predicts-obama-loss-2012-000...
See. See. It ois true. Wait'll I tell one of my bat shit crazy New Age Democrat neighbors who believes all this shit. He'll go apoplectic. I love watching Grand Mal Seizures
Yawn.
Interesting reading, but sophomoric and much is presented out of context. The worst was the comment of the Sun's output affecting the decay of radioactive particles,...please...as if some internals of the Sun is going to increase the output of neutrinos by massive orders of magnitude necessary to make this happen...nuclear power plants blowing up from this...really? But also appealing to innumeracy by making the "speed of 1,000,000 miles an hour" sound importantly big. This was an absolutely pathetic commentary on science education in the USA.
Wrong... You obviously did not read the linked articles regarding the danger of solar events to nuclear power plants.
So you read an article raising a scientific question based on a few observations and are ready to extrapolate it to a dire engineering safety threat? No, you are wrong.
NIST disproves: "The maximum neutrino flux in the sample in their experiments was several times greater than the flux of neutrinos from the sun. The researchers followed the gamma-ray emission rate of each (gold-198, NOT investment grade ;) source for several weeks and found no difference between the decay rate of the spheres and the corresponding foils."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/27/more-follow-up-on-the-solar-neutrinos-radioactive-decay-story-experimental-falsification/
This is almost proof that the Solar neutrino flux is inconsequential on the decay of radioactive isotopes.
Given your articles on Fukushima, I question your motivation in raising this false alarm, and its implicit attack on nuclear power.
I can't believe... I actually read this...
In my street lives a nut who tell shit like this every time you bimp into him... One day i'll actually break his neck just for the fun of it.
Contempt prior to investigation....
He may be right, you know.
Ask him if he'll sit your dogs for free, sign up for that pet sitting thingie.
Arbitrage the future for money today.
Beginning to sound like I've lived in California way too long.
no apocalypse for you!
apocalypse nazi
> The Sun – in fact, our whole solar system – orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
I thought the world, the Sun, in fact the whole universe revolved around me. Man, that wrecks my day.
http://cdn.randomfunnypicture.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/truth-about-2012-mayan-calander.gif
Were the Mayans ever right about anything?
They did fuck up that whole Cortez incident all royal like, didn't they?
Cutting off heads and ripping out hearts did keep them viable for a while though.
i found all of this enlightening....thank you for posting it - especially the mayan horse shit myth....
the Hopi Indians came to the same conclusion as the Mayans! for the first time, Webbot has no data for 2013!
I have to assume that you are not talking about the Hopi Changi Indians --- their predictions are for shit.
So's their...
No, I can't go there. Not tonight. I have to get a good night's sleep.
Link on Hopis, please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0n4QG8fvpw
In the final days many strange animals will walk the earth. Well duh. Fukishima is leacking shit all over and will cause freaks like crazy.
I would love to change and revert back to a natural way of life. Unfortunately I've been poisoned with mercury/silver amalgam fillings. And I'd have to burn down a google data center to plant any crops. So tough shit huh.
The people will walk as ghosts barely moving. Ya radiation fucks up your metabolism.
I don't think they are describing anything other than phonomenon of people being tightly ordered and controlled finally rebelling against it cracking to pieces.
It reminds me of a new age book. Journeys out of the body. The guy who wrote it is pretty crazy. But he does acurately describe the power structure that fits on earth. But since the power structure that fits on earth is full of shit how can you not directly infer that spiritual teachings aren't just as full of shit.
I think there are ascension moments. Large groups that can no longer be controlled who've gone through the process too much to be fooled by enough of it and I think thats all this is.
All spiritual leaders aren't full of crap. They just either know what's up or just parrot what they are told.
http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2009/01/latest-nasa-report-support-hopimayan.html
Someone please see the Sovereign Credit-Default Swaps blowing out on Hungary, Egypt, Japan.
Should we call it PHIIGS now ? who will bail-out Hungary ? Hungary is now more risky than Ireland !
Egypt SCDS has increased 40% in 2 months.
Japan SCDS has increased 30% in 2 months. Japan is more risky than Panama !
SOMETHING IS ON THE MOVE !
Today Hungary became more risky than Ireland.
"Egypt SCDS has increased 40% in 2 months."
M m m...my sharia!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021WZBh1R4I
The trifecta collapse (Hungary/Egypt/Japan) could take down the entire mess. Its getting worse by 10% to 20% every month since November.
By 0 day (Dec. 21, 2012)...Japan will have sucked in the entire Western world, Egypt the entire Middle East, and Hungary all of Russia.
China will then populate their empty cities.
Heading our way at Warp 10...this year, or what remains of it.
All economies will be sent back to the stone ages. Got Gold ?
y espana?
edit: agree re japan, how many 88 yr olds can keep buying bonds?
does anyone know anything regarding the volume in the march 162 and 160 calls on gld yesterday? 14500 and 15000 contracts respectively
all green china +12.54%
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38451750
not just sov across the board
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-04/credit-default-swaps-in-u-s-...
(repost)
here's something still happening.
fresh pictures, actually the ONLY pictures I've seen of what is happening inside the melting fukushima reactors
actual pictures of melted slag that was cored for analysis.
a lab worker took the pictures, the samples cooled from 400c / 752f to 100c /212f and highly radioactive at 500mSv/h.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-whistle-blower-talks-co...
the samples came from UNDER the reactor building, meaning the container vessel has most likely partially melted, then melted through the floor of the building.
edit: this is all unverified for what it's worth, that's why TEPCO and the Japanese government need to be more transparent.
Transparent? Riiiiight.
Somehow I don't think that's very high on their to do list. I think the word they use is obfuscate.
They have an entire Ministry set up for obfuscation, right? Helps grow the employment figures.
2012:
Hopefully, the year of the noose and guillotine.
i'm working on a razorwire noose! no final jerk action, just a nice clean cut! for my avatar, blunt razorwire!!!
As long as the yield on the Mayan bonds stays under 7% everything will be OK.
told you it's a finance quest...eh under 7%? Sh't bearish.
This comment deserves many more up votes. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read it.
I suggest avoiding any collateralized human sacrifice obligations.