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Originally Posted by lasher511 
Did you actually look two at the posts directly behind mine or did you just assume that you are always right? The posts right before mine involved a list of things for a Poll that would be the cause of the end of the world.
I upped my sanitary measures, up yours!
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Originally Posted by Lardmeister
Good grief lasher511, I like your posts a lot better than the predictable poppycock posted by joshSCH. He seems to intimidate a lot of posters with his "terrible English" jerk stuff.
Cheers. I must say the threads are alot more enjoyable when josh does not post on daniweb for a while.
I still think that alot of the arguments based around 2012 being the end of the world because all these things match up are nothing but selective hearing/reading. Picking out the things that are relevant to the theory that the world will end in 2012, bunching them up together and ignoring anything that might say otherwise. This makes the whole thing seem more significant then it really is.
What i really want to know is why are all these people so obsessed with an inferior civilization and their dating system. There is no evidence to say that the myans knew something that we don't.
As far as i can tell this whole thing is the equivilent of believing a childs predictions of the end of the world.
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The Mayan way of time keeping was actually more precise than our current way of keeping time.. their calender has been known to be prophetic, and it's predictions have come true.. this is why people are so 'obsessed' about it.
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Originally Posted by joshSCH
The Mayan way of time keeping was actually more precise than our current way of keeping time.. their calender has been known to be prophetic, and it's predictions have come true.. this is why people are so 'obsessed' about it.
Whats this based on or rather what did the Mayans base this method on? Also in what sense is it actually prophetic? What did they base their predictions on? Also how accurate have these predictions been?
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The clocks are messed up because of Daylight-Stupid Time
Daylight-saving time uses more gasoline
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They could predict eclipses over thousands of years away.. their calender's time is precise within a fraction of a second.. much more accurate than our own.. no one knows exactly what their predictions were based on b/c one day most of them simply disappeared from their cities.. and no one knows what happened to them.
As for the prophecies, they apparently predicted the exact day that the spanish conquistadors arrived.. That's the only prediction I am aware of.. saw it off the history channel
As for the prophecies, they apparently predicted the exact day that the spanish conquistadors arrived.. That's the only prediction I am aware of.. saw it off the history channel
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Originally Posted by joshSCH
They could predict eclipses over thousands of years away.. their calender's time is precise within a fraction of a second.. much more accurate than our own.. no one knows exactly what their predictions were based on b/c one day most of them simply disappeared from their cities.. and no one knows what happened to them.
As for the prophecies, they apparently predicted the exact day that the spanish conquistadors arrived.. That's the only prediction I am aware of.. saw it off the history channel
That is pretty impressive that they could predict things like eclipses based on the time period that they lived in then.
I never really got into South American history(more into european ancient history) so excuse all the questions but how accurate was the prediction that the Spanish did arrive though? Because anyone can predict something and chances are it will happen eventually. Also does anyone know how they actually went about Prophesizing these things? Was it drug induced/Divining (sitting in a cave full off smoke sort of thing) or was it something more to do with the sacrifices etc.
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In the 8th century AD, it predicted that "..white skinned bearded gods would arrive from across the sea on march 5, 1519." On that precise date, Cortez and his conquistadors arrived in the new world.
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i am always a little skeptical about things like that but that sort of accuracy is kind of trippy.
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Yeah, and nostradamus predicted everything, but somehow it always seems to be some kind of revision after the fact.
Plus if all these modern day "future seers" are so damn good, why are they not using their skills to play the stock market or at Vegas, instead of peddling mush to those people who've only got mush between their ears.
Put this in your local paper, and see what happens...
"Wanted - psychic. You know who to call".
Plus if all these modern day "future seers" are so damn good, why are they not using their skills to play the stock market or at Vegas, instead of peddling mush to those people who've only got mush between their ears.
Put this in your local paper, and see what happens...
"Wanted - psychic. You know who to call".
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