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Originally Posted by Joe Wicked
Edit: the thing people fail to make a point of in this is it is supposed to be the Mayan gods passing the judgment. This means that if you are buying into the Mayan calendar marking the end of times then you are buying into the Mayan gods as the true gods. The Mayan Calendar (as with all aspects of Mayan culture) are based on the Mayan religious belief system (which includes the stars and cosmos). The Mayan calendar dates when the Mayan gods will pass judgment. If you do not believe that the Mayan gods wield any power, then the calendar has no significance.
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True to a certain extent, but all societies create 'gods' to a) explain stuff that they can perhaps 'measure', but cannot explain scientifically and b) assuage their fears of death.
ALL religions, including (ESPECIALLY?) the big 3 current ones, originating in the Middle East, (Islam, Judaism and Christianity) are basically the same in the premise that "my invisible friend is more powerful than your invisible friend".
NO gods wield any power (not just the Mayan ones), because
there are no gods of any kind, and the sooner we all start to accept that, the fewer, unnecessary Jihads or Spanish Inquisitions or Crusades will be undertaken on behalf of one "invisible friend" or another...but I digress...
The Mayans were extremely advanced in their measurement of planetary phenomena and the cyclical nature of the universe, but they were unable to EXPLAIN a lot of these issues, so they consequently laid a lot of the blame/explanation around their "invisible friends". Their calendar is just one of many historically based 'documents' that are pointing to 2012 as a significant 'change date' for Earth history. One predicts the 'end' of the Catholic Church, one predicts the next shift in the Earth's magnetic poles (quite possible given the DRAMATIC changes in the earth's magnetic field over the last 20 years or so), one predicts the Hubbert Peak for
oil to occur in 2012 etc. etc, but they all predict NOT "the ending of the world", but a "significant change in the Earth"...whatever that means.
If you DO believe in "an invisible friend", then one can base the explanation on that, but if you study physics, geology, sociology and astronomy then there are some very interesting, multiple physical and social phenomona that seem to be coming to some kind of climax at around the same time...who knows?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Glyn
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