more 2012 nonsense-debunking-of-awesome

[rivendellrose]

Snagged from fellow-skeptic seachanges: How skeptics know the world is not going to end because of some supposed Mayan calendar in 2012. AKA actual real information on the subject, with primary sources and everything! ♥

Comments

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I'm sure actual Mayans aren't at all offended by this misuse of their mythology.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Nope, not in the slightest.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeeah. Oh, people. Why can't they consider the fact that these are real people who probably won't like having their culture co-opted by a bunch of morons to cause havoc and sell idiotic books?

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked!

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

The National Geographic site has a similar debunking. It further goes on to say that the 2012 thing is, in the Mayan calendar, no more monumental than a new year, decade, or century is to any calendar. It's just the start of another time cycle.

People are so dumm.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's the end of a calendar cycle, not the end of the freaking world. Of course, people are too stupid to notice the difference in our calendar system, too - look at the whole ton of people who insisted the world was going to end in 2000. *Sighs*

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

And add to the double-annoyance of the people who thought we'd end at 2000 was that year 1 itself was pretty much just arbitrary, because nobody really knows when Jesus was born (assuming he actually existed as a historical figure). Does the majority of our species just actively choose to not think, or is just an American/European/Christian thing?