Because Mr Pixtun said so!

[RICHARD]

Mayan elder says world won't end in 2012

A Mayan elder says he is sick of people asking him whether the world will end on December 21, 2012.

Apolinario Chile Pixtun says the date will not bring the end of the world - despite claims the Mayan calendar shows that time will "run out".

"I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," he told the Daily Telegraph.

Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayans does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012.

The Mayan civilization, based in modern day Mexico and Central America, reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD and had a talent for astronomy.

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 BC, marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around December 21, 2012.

A Mayan stone tablet found in Mexico in the 1960s says something is supposed to happen involving Bolon Yokte, the god of war and creation, in 2012 - but the end of the prophesy is illegible.

"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin.

"The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."

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When I was a kid I saw a fiberglass copy of the Calendar at the local musuem.



Look,

If the Mayans had to hang a piece of rock THAT large on the wall to tell what day it was?

You draw up a calendar in stone to chart a few thousand years, then try to explain it to the whole world or produce enough for the population....You'd stop at a certain point and say, " I got nothing, the world ends on Dec 22, 2012...."

[smokey the elder]

It makes sense that it's the end of a long cycle of time; does each year end just because the calendar ends on Dec. 31? No, you START OVER!

[RICHARD]

It makes sense that it's the end of a long cycle of time; does each year end just because the calendar ends on Dec. 31? No, you START OVER!

Mr. Pixtun thanks you.

[smokey the elder]

I think there's a tendency for people to gravitate toward any kind of doomsday stuff. It sure makes good copy. So far they have all been wrong, thank goodness! One thing that's odd, though, is how it's claimed that a lot of "independent" things are pointing to that same date. IMO, I think it's a case of "first plot the graph, then we'll add the points".

[RICHARD]

IMO, I think it's a case of "first plot the graph, then we'll add the points".

Ah,

Oh Dear, I didn't do well with the X and Y plotting stuff and my scatter plot looks more like a firing range target.....I tend to use my eraser way too much.


I tend to like the Exploding Sun in a Million Years theory.

I won't be around and hate the really hot weather.

[RICHARD]

I just read that the web site Fandango did a survey about the cities that people would like to see destroyed, it was tied to the movie, 2012.

El Lay 25%
Vegas 17%
and
Wash D.C. 15%

Mr Pixtun laughs at all the haters who responded.

[wombat2u2004]

I tend to like the Exploding Sun in a Million Years theory.

I won't be around and hate the really hot weather.

Yellowstone might go up with all of these earthquakes and stuff happening.
That place is rising a little each year they reckon.