Many gather to ponder end of Maya days

www.latimes.com...

"Hundreds of people gathered near the Golden Gate Bridge over the weekend to ponder the enigmatic date of Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the ancient Maya calendar and the focus of many end-of-the-world predictions.

In these times of economic distress, participants shelled out $300 each to attend the sold-out 2012 Conference, where astrologers, UFO fans, shamans and New Age entrepreneurs of every stripe presented their dreams and dreads in two days of lectures, group meditations, documentaries and, of course, self-promotion."

"People come to an event like this because they are hungry for information," he said. "You don't need to be a New Ager to know there's a lot of weird things going on in the world."


Is it just our perception, or is this really a climatic time?

reply to post by Jezus


This is another one of those topics that demonstrates the gullibility of people.

A solar year is approximately 365.2419 days, so any calendar carved in stone that counted the number of days each year would need to be modified periodically to compensate for the fractional day. If the calendar in question has the leap year calculated in its rotation, it would still need to be modified between 400 to 800 years to drop a leap year.

Many primitive cultures realized this fraction of time in the solar year and made an adjustment, some simply made calendars that focused on seasonal indications while the others that used daily calculations had to create calendars that covered a specific span (age of…) of time.

So, which do you think is more likely, an ancient civilization has predicted the end of our world or an ancient civilization noticed something odd about the math of their calendar and made the required adjustment?

I'm having an end of Mayan calendar conference at my place. Tickets are only $250 so hurry to beat the rush and book now.

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A fool and his money soon go separate ways, eh?

Nice gimmick, if the people are just bent on embracing ignorance, why not make a buck?

Originally posted by Jezus
RE: www.latimes.com...

In these times of economic distress, participants shelled out $300 each to attend the sold-out 2012 Conference,

"People come to an event like this because they are hungry for information," he said. "You don't need to be a New Ager to know there's a lot of weird things going on in the world."

first off--- the people who attended had $300. 'extra cash' to spend,( iow-> they were grossly overpaid), just another example of the housing/credit/stock-market/paycheck 'Bubbles' which made most everyone feel giddy with illusionary wealth.

next off, the 'hundreds' of attendees... were most likely those who were not adventurous to attend the 'Burning Man' event in the desert !
Or Else, the local was so close, they attended because of the social implications rather than 'learning which you liken to a 'thirst for knowledge'.... humbug !

i remain a friend type person...
signed: 'El Cynic...StUdio