reply to post by NuclearPaul
How do I know this? Well every time any topic revolved around anthropology comes up, and my knowledge is questioned... I feel its pertinent to tell
you im getting my ph d in anthropology with an emphasis in archeology.Others on this site say im showing off, although I dont know why getting a
degree in something is showing off. So I do know a tad about the maya culture. And yes, they would laugh at us for turning their simple calendar into
a doomsday, ascension day device. Dont believe me? Take the time, go to your local college, community or otherwise, and go ask the head of the anthro
dept about their views on what the maya calendar means.
After giving a condescending chuckle, because they get that question in every intro 101 class, they'lll explain how the maya calendar was divided
into two parts. So he or she will ask you if its the short round calendar or the long count calendar that predicts this doomsday. Both have cycles
that repeat and, when translated into our every day calendar, can never be matched correctly. IT simply stops. Not a predictor, it just stops. As
others do. The mystery and lure to this calendar is that it stops, as does the civilization. The Mayas have become folklore because no one knows how
or why their civilization ceased to exist. My opinion is the use of slash and burn for crops caught up with them, and they dwindled down to minuscule
numbers.
So since they've been giving the lost city of Atlantis mystique, the calendar that stops now carries that same mystique. Add that with all the new
age theories of ascension, and the strange egocentric thought of your generation will somehow be the generation to face the end of the world. And we
have the 2012 Phenomenon.