Well, obviously.

It doesn't take a Mayan to figure out the hype is because of ignorant people. In fact, being a member on ATS grants a person perfect access to information regarding the 2012 myths. It also drives most ATSers crazy, including myself.

I can't stand hearing about it anymore. It truly gets annoying after years. It just does.

FACTS: There were several mayan calendars. They all end on different dates. One ended in the 1950s. Needless to say, the world didn't end. It also didn't end in 1997 from some other prophecy. It also didn't end in 2000.

When people don't know what they're talking about, they can be afraid. Happens all the time.

If people would just read a damned book for once in their lives (one thats not about vampires) and garner some information the world would be a better place.

For the record though, the mayan culture today isn't remotely what it was back then. The Mayan elders of today know nothing about their ancestry other than what archaeologists can provide for them. They spoke spanish, as the mayan language was lost. Most of them still speak only spanish, but the mayan language (again thanks to archaeologists) is being taught today.

The Mayan elders certainly know more than we do. Is there going to be a cleansing? Surely. The "end of the world?" Nope!!

2029

book it.

google it

4-13-2029

It's a shame that no respect is given the Mayan people, especially the Elders.

SpeakerofTruth thank you again, I also believe we will have a cleansing, if not in 2012 sometime soon after..our beautiful Gaia will always be here, not so sure about it's inhabitants.

Originally posted by Schmidt1989

For the record though, the mayan culture today isn't remotely what it was back then. The Mayan elders of today know nothing about their ancestry other than what archaeologists can provide for them. They spoke spanish, as the mayan language was lost. Most of them still speak only spanish, but the mayan language (again thanks to archaeologists) is being taught today.

The Maya lost their language to the Spanish. They must have lost a great deal of ancient knowledge when they were assimilated into the European culture. I bet the Mayan Elders don't even know why the long count started when it did. They can probably guess, but where is the written record?

The Gegorian calendar is anchored to Jesus birth. The Mayan Long Count has to have a legend as to why the countdown needed to start and then end.

Some of the 2012 theorists I think definitely have some some good observations, there is a lot to be learned from some of the theories out there. Remember, apocalypse really just means great change.

Regardless of how many good or positive theories there are out there, the media is grabbing a hold of it and turning it in to some doomsday thing for their very own ratings.

Even if all the stuff that people are saying about our consciousness raising is true and something special does happen to our consciousnesses and culminates on that special day, it is going to likely go unnoticed by the majority of people. Even if it is a serious change it is highly likely that most people will not notice it right away and 2012 will come and go and be swept under the rug in the same exact way that the Y2k bug was.

Hey wadda ya know, if it does turn out to be something 'big' with vast potential but largely unnoticed, it will surely play into the hands of the powers that be if everyone is expecting this cataclysmic event and it doesnt happen, so why not hype it up like that?

But you know. If something really is going on and the people that are working with their consciousness at this specific time in our history do feel positive effects from this period of time, maybe it is better that not everyone is turned on to this side of it.

I expect that most people are going to be 'disappointed' with 12-21-12. At the same time though, I think it has been empowering people to look deeper within themselves, and that there, is great.

Howdy Schmidt

Right on target with your comments

One little note thou

They spoke spanish, as the mayan language was lost. Most of them still speak only spanish, but the mayan language (again thanks to archaeologists) is being taught today.

I worked around Merida and to the SE. We found that a number of the men hired to work our archaeological sites didn't understand Spanish at all or very little. They were still Maya (speaking one of the thirty dialects). Which one now escapes me. We were deep in to the scrub jungle there where schools were few and 'civilization' less so. That was the summer of 1973. I suspect the Mexican government hasn't made much in the way of educational inroads there but I may be mistaken.

Regards

Hans

I don't understand all the hype.

There are some Maya left, but the civilization basically fell apart. Do to some outside influences and because of some of their own mistakes.

If they knew anything about the future, they would still be around in full force!

Basically, they sucked at predicting their own future.

This seems to be how it goes, remember Y2K and Hale Bobb, there is always something to doom us. The end of the World has been happening any day now for thousands of years now.

lol it is very funny to read this artical beacuase the mayans do not exsist when the spanish conquistadores discovered these ancient mayan cities they where abandened with no trace of its people just little indian tribes around them which where baffled them selfs to see these ancient cities looks like some people need to study more one this subject i should know Guatemalan myself allot of people from my parents country tend to do so they say they are mayan which in reallity they are from tribes unretated to the mayans

-TECUN

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what do you mean by the mayan's in Europe can you elaborate me with more about that? Aquarius1