The Mayans Ran Outta Room on Their Calendar ... Just sayin'

Warning: there is some random stuff in here, but it's based upon the research I've done and where it randomly took me at the time. I encourage you to think about things and let your critical thinking take you to places you've never been. Because we live in a world of naysayers, I have included links to the sites from which I have derived my information at the end of this piece. I challenge you to read all of the information in the links provided and dispute my opinion. 

I'll buy the drinks at the location of your choice for an open discussion, but you must read ALL the material in the provided links and be prepared to have a reasonable discussion. Otherwise, I reserve the right to ignore and/or ridicule you in subsequent articles.

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We've all heard it: the prognostications and predictions about the end of times based upon Mayan calendars and predictions. Some have spun it into tales of ends of days because the "AntiChrist" has come and we're all DOOMED. Most of this seems to be coming from a fringe who are hell-bent on doing whatever they can to discredit PBO and each and every (or any) success he's ever had in his life.

I challenge you to look deeper.

There is a relic commonly called the "Aztec calendar stone" (some claim it is technically not Aztec) or the Mexica Sun Stone which is currently in a museum in Mexico City which is believed by some to point to destruction. The legends regarding it are similar to some of the Mayan ones.

I would challenge that there really is no controversy surrounding the Mayan calendar and the end of days; they just ran out of stones.

Or maybe they just intended to start over. 

So, Sugar, in Southern terms, the "end of days" ain't Obama's fault - no matter how hard they try. 

We've been on this collision course for a long freakin' time. There are many who won't have even gotten this far in my article and I'm okay with that. At this point, I'm not aiming for the fringe ...  I'm just tired of the BS and want to address it for my own satisfaction. Totally self-indulgent, and I'm okay with that.

"The end of the world as we know it" is how it is referred to. 

You know, I can get behind that to a certain extent. (But for the record, that really hurt my grammatical sensibilities.)

I'm ready for the end of the world we are currently experiencing.

Seriously, this sucks. The world that we know is full of sensationalist BS and doom-and-gloom prognosticators who have little behind them besides a hatred of a political party, or a race, or a religion, a gender, or a sexual orientation, or any particular issue.

To quote a line from the move French Kiss, "You people make my ass twitch."

Correlation # 584283 talks about the Mayan calendar based upon a 260-day calendar. This correlates to the average gestational period. 

Okaaaay ... so now we're basing this upon a pregnancy calendar rather than our traditional lunar calendar? We know how little men think of women during pregnancy (we're hysterically hormonal and totally unreasonable). How could anything be based upon this? Women are sooooo unpredictable. They've only been having babies in 9-month cycles for millennia ... Seriously.

So let's start here:

The Mayan calendar (which is the basis for a lot of this BS) started in 3114 BC and lasts for 5126 years until 2012. With the end of the 4th cycle comes ... OMG, wait for it ... the beginning of the 5th cycle! The Maya believe that in the 5th cycle the ancient wisdom of the Maya will be rediscovered by the world and it will be a new dawn for mankind!

They reveal that the Mayan calendar prophesies the end of our own "Age of the Jaguar", the fifth and final "sun" in 2012 AD. This, according to Cotterell's sun-spot theories, will be brought about by a sudden reversal in the earth's magnetic field.

Okaaaaaay ... Jaguar was the first Mac OS X release to publicly use its code name in marketing and advertisements, a practice that has continued in subsequent releases of the operating system. Does that mean that a computer operating system is really what we should be afraid of? In that case, wouldn't that make Steve Jobs the AntiChrist, and then again, wouldn't that only be if you were Bill Gates and Microsoft pimping Vista? There are lots of commercials out there addressing that issue. Hi, I'm a Mac ... and I'm a PC ... Just sayin' ...

But wait, there's more.

In the Mayan system, neither the Tzolk'in nor the Haab' system numbered the years. The combination of a Tzolk'in date and a Haab' date was enough to identify a date to most people's satisfaction, as such a combination did not occur again for another 52 years, above general life expectancy.

Okaaaaaay ... given that life expectancy in the world is currently estimated at anywhere between 31 and 84, this throws the calendar off a bit since the rough average could be 57 instead of 52 using only the lowest and highest numbers. (The world average is actually 67.2 years.) Either way, that would throw the calendar off by a few years. The math could be affected and 2012 might be affected ... again, just sayin'...

Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a "true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine" in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a "change in the nature of consciousness," assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use...

Okaaaaaay ...  I could interpret this to mean that dudes will finally realize how totally awesome chicks are, and give up being such jerks trying to prove themselves.

I could totally get behind that movement, being of superior Chickness. As far as the psychedelic drug use goes, I'm not into that, don't advocate it, and figure that if you have to go there you probably don't/won't get it anyway. Loser.

But there's more: When the Spaniards came across the Mayans, they considered them to have pagan practices associated with the devil. Because of that, once they conquered them, they began to burn and otherwise destroy most of the writings of their civilization (known as codices).

Soooo ... that basically means that some wanker took exception to what the Mayans were doing originally and sought to denounce them because the Mayans didn't follow what that one weinerhead believed. Got it. Let's base our opinion on the one dude that destroyed any credible evidence, especially if we considered him the devil. Yeah, I'm totally behind that too in all my wicken-ness.

Some say that "either something terrible or something very good will happen in or near the end of 2012" - so, once again, let's go with the fatalistic approach because it's soooooo fabulously sensational and headline-worthy Woo hoo! Works for me (Faux news and right-wing evangelist BS worthy - how fun!).

Okaaaaaay, let me see if I'm tracking the research so far  ...

If this is to be the end of "civilization" as we know it, count me in! 

So far in my lifetime, I've seen our "civilization" denigrate and deteriorate into loss of the civil liberties we fought for in the 60s (for those insignificant 3/5 of a human beings) and the loss of personal freedoms in this century such that we have to take our freaking shoes off and expose the holes in our socks to get on a freaking airplane, subject our personal phone calls (cell and land lines) to being listened to for "code words" that might tag us as terrorists. How many terrorist threats or activities have that actually stopped? No one is providing the actual number, but frequently says how safe we are because of it.

Okaaaaaay ... again, blonde Aggie but do I really have to just accept that at face value with no substantiation? Which makes me more of a blonde Aggie? Let's talk in circles about what might have happened but never really did. I was discouraged from that kind of thinking as a child, weren't you?

Off topic, but I have a big, unrelated question. If we can pass something like the Patriot Act (Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001)-supposedly in the best interest of US citizens-why can't we get our proverbial shit together and pass something like health insurance reform so that a huge portion of our citizenry can be protected from bankruptcy if faced with a health care crisis? That's the REAL terrorist crisis! I'm just sayin' ... We're supposed to be the great and powerful OZ capable of anything ... are we really just the man behind the curtain?

We say we are interested in preventing "catastrophe" ... okaaaaaay, I get that, but what about protecting us from the financial meltdown and personal bankruptcies we've experienced from the internal economic terrorism wreaked upon us from the likes of Merrill Lynch, CitiGroup, AIG, Enron, MCIWorldComm (yep, it started back then) and so on?

Wow, that's seriously messed up.

And we think the Mayans predicted all this? I want what they were smoking, and why weren't the previous administrations inhaling THAT stuff?

Were they too busy snorting and drinking and dodging? 

Bummer, dude. Daddy must have been seriously powerful.

Reference material:

ttp://www.greatdreams.com/mayan/mayan-calendar.htm

http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/mayan/

http://alignment2012.com/fap3.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Maya_Calendar

http://www.michielb.nl/maya/calendar.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.2

http://www.visionrevisited.com/End-Times/End-Times.htm?gclid=CMmgmfjRqZ0CFR4eDQodlWTFiw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar

http://www.cogwriter.com/end-mayan-calendar-2012.htm

http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/mayan/

http://www.markswatson.com/Depression1.html

Inflation, while bad, is not as bad as deflation. Deflation would be a disaster in two easy steps. With inflation, there are about 10 steps, but each road leads to the same destination; insolvency. Economists, not paid by the US government, large tax-free foundations and the financial press have been warning the American people about the real state of the US economy. The problem here is that no one gets heard in the US mainstream press unless he belongs to one of the three afore mentioned groups. They are increasing becoming an axis of economic disinformation, designed to keep the unsuspecting in the markets to be fleeced by corporate America.

http://www.cogwriter.com/kingofthenorth.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_recession

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act

The Patriot Act was introduced into the Senate as the USA Act of 2002 (S. 1510) [4] where a number of amendments were proposed by Senator Russ Feingold,[5][6][7][8] all of which were passed. The final bill was introduced into the House on October 23 and incorporated H.R. 2975, S. 1510, and many of the provisions of H.R. 3004 (the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act).[9] It was vehemently opposed by only one Senator, Russ Feingold -- the only Senator to vote against the bill. WTF??? Wasn't he the one that introduced it? Am I having a major blonde moment? Dude, that's messed up. If you haven't read the provisions of this bill, you should because it will scare the bejeebers out of you. Yeah, Obama the AntiChrist was after you years before he was elected to office.

http://www.crystalskulls.com/mayan-2012-predictions.html

http://www.mayamusic.com/Music/No%20Little%20Girl.mp3 - just to see if you're listening, and don't treat me like a little girl ... you will seriously piss me off.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of sites to research, but go find your OWN and form your OWN opinion.

Read it, I dare you. ;-)