"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, January 2, 2012
Mayan prediction of the end of the world silly superstition
Yeah, a bunch of obsidian knife-wielding primitives who didn't understand the mechanics of rainfall had a total lock on the end of the world. Because they could count.
Someday, some archaeologist is going to unearth another Mayan Long Count calendar that begins on December 22, 2012, and goes for another 5,000 years. The wailing and gnashing of teeth among the doomsday cults will be epic.
That was just the end of their cycle. They probably ran out of paper and Staples wasn't open so they just forgot to begin a new cycle.
ReplyDeleteJust as plausable as not.
Nuts. I was counting on the end of the world to get more time off from work, without using any of my vacation leave.
ReplyDeleteDang, now I suppose I'm gonna have to get out and find a job.
ReplyDeleteI hate when that happens!
Yeah, a bunch of obsidian knife-wielding primitives who didn't understand the mechanics of rainfall had a total lock on the end of the world. Because they could count.
ReplyDeleteGotcha.
Someday, some archaeologist is going to unearth another Mayan Long Count calendar that begins on December 22, 2012, and goes for another 5,000 years. The wailing and gnashing of teeth among the doomsday cults will be epic.
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