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Showing Original Post only (View all)Scholars Release The Latest Date For Apocalypse - June 3-4, 2016 [View all]
Scholars Release The Latest Date For Apocalypse - June 3-4, 2016
As four years after the deadline for the end of the world (as set by the Mayan calendar) came and went without incident, scholars across the world have been trying to put their heads together to understand how the advanced knowledge of the Mayans had gone wrong.
Turns out, it hadn't.
Modern day scholars were the ones who got the date wrong. A series of miscalculations led to the faulty date, which has now been revised to five days from today, June 3-4 this year!
It was earlier believed that the end of the calendar marked the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. This would mean a new era of positive energy on Earth and the beginning of a new age. This is believed to be a cryptic message marking the end of the world.
As far as we know, the people of Mesoamerica, the Maya included, didnt care about leap years, Anthony Aveni, an expert in ancient Mesoamerican astronomy at Colgate University told the National Geographic.
Our philosophy about leap year is a complicated scheme to make the seasons jibe with the calendar, Aveni said. They were more concerned that time should be unbroken, not interfered with, and that the count of time should have continuity.
As four years after the deadline for the end of the world (as set by the Mayan calendar) came and went without incident, scholars across the world have been trying to put their heads together to understand how the advanced knowledge of the Mayans had gone wrong.
Turns out, it hadn't.
Modern day scholars were the ones who got the date wrong. A series of miscalculations led to the faulty date, which has now been revised to five days from today, June 3-4 this year!
It was earlier believed that the end of the calendar marked the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. This would mean a new era of positive energy on Earth and the beginning of a new age. This is believed to be a cryptic message marking the end of the world.
As far as we know, the people of Mesoamerica, the Maya included, didnt care about leap years, Anthony Aveni, an expert in ancient Mesoamerican astronomy at Colgate University told the National Geographic.
Our philosophy about leap year is a complicated scheme to make the seasons jibe with the calendar, Aveni said. They were more concerned that time should be unbroken, not interfered with, and that the count of time should have continuity.
Oh, my.
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Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2016
OP
Well if we are gonna have a new positive energy Earth and a New Age..I'm for it.
bkkyosemite
Jun 2016
#1
Guess I'll watch the Warriors game and eat my final meal — lobster, steak, a gallon of . . .
brush
Jun 2016
#22
Your are 100% correct. But the so called scholars are good for a laugh.
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2016
#20
Oregon, always ahead of the nation and entire world, knew this was coming and planned for it:
L. Coyote
Jun 2016
#23
Thanks. No sense in driving to work tomorrow. I'll await oblivion from the nearest Ben and Jerry's.
lindysalsagal
Jun 2016
#35