Armageddon is not coming

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Sam Axe

Sam Axe

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The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for another billion years – or more.The ancient inscription is estimated to be the oldest Mayan almanac found so far. It dates back some 1,200 years, at least 600 years older than previous examples. In many ways, however, the new calendar corresponds with others.The initial results of its study have been published in Science magazine by experts from Boston University. They say the calendar precisely describes solar and lunar cycles, as well as the motion of the brightest stars. Most probably it was used to conduct ceremonies and rituals, synchronized with the positions of celestial bodies.The astronomical table was found in the ruins of an ancient Mayan city, lost in a rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. It was preserved in good condition, inscribed on the walls of a tiny cell, measuring little more than half a meter square.Its calculations say the Mayan 6,000-year-cycle does not end with doomsday, as cycles succeed one another for an unlimited period of time.
The discovery means that December21, 2012 merely marks the beginning of a new calendar cycle, not an apocalypse, as was previously thought.On one wall of the ancient astronomers’ workshop is a Moon calendar, tracking the Moon's phases for about 13 years. The adjacent wall contains figures indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6,700 AD.
The walls are also adorned with portraits of kings. It is for them that the priests kept their records, to give sound advice when times demanded a tough decision.​
“What you have here is astronomy driven by religion,”
says expert on Mayan astronomy, Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.​
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http://rt.com/news/maya-calendar-guatemala-discovery-973/

Still, that won't stop the religious nut bags predicting the end of days.
 
did you hear about that **** who took peoples money in 2011 because he would guarantee them going to heaven or something?

he then went on to explain when the world hadnt in fact ended that he 'got his calculations wrong'. no **** sherlock.

i swear i read it on the BBC website a few months back... i dont know if anyone could find it lol
 
Swamp said:
did you hear about that **** who took peoples money in 2011 because he would guarantee them going to heaven or something?

he then went on to explain when the world hadnt in fact ended that he 'got his calculations wrong'. no **** sherlock.

i swear i read it on the BBC website a few months back... i dont know if anyone could find it lol
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The current mormons used to be a sect that predicted the world would end, didnt they?

some guy jumped off a roof or something on the day
 
Armageddon isn't actually the end of the world, it's just the place where the final battle between good and evil will take place before the apocalypse.

Just sayin' <whistle>
 
thefanwithnoname said:
who?

most of the 'religious' would argue that there is a defined process for the end of the world
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That Camping twat is one example. He predicted the end of the world twice last year <doh>

Let's face it, the end of the world will be predicted by science, not religion; and not for a few billion years.
 
Sam Axe said:
That Camping twat is one example. He predicted the end of the world twice last year <doh>

Let's face it, the end of the world will be predicted by science, not religion; and not for a few billion years.
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As I said religion describes a process

and ALL religion says that the time of the hour is not predicted

so those claiming to 'know' are not religious
 
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