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Yes, I know they got it wrong about the 2012 or was that the scientists?

I direct you attention to a fable of world wide destruction now being portrayed on the silver screen...NOAH! Could this have been the end of the world they predicted...well they didn't predict, their calender stopped, except their calender was circular in nature. What goes around comes around.

Thoughts? ;)
 
Zeb_Carter said:
Yes, I know they got it wrong about the 2012 or was that the scientists?

I direct you attention to a fable of world wide destruction now being portrayed on the silver screen...NOAH! Could this have been the end of the world they predicted...well they didn't predict, their calender stopped, except their calender was circular in nature. What goes around comes around.

Thoughts? ;)
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Hey Zeb, do you ever listen to Dean and Rog on 107.3 in the morning? They were busting on that movie something fierce. Made it sound like an over the top crap fest.
 
Right on the circular business. It's those who have misinterpreted the Mayan calendar who have bungled it. The Mayans didn't believe that the world ended at the end of this calendar; they believed that that calendar ended and a new one started. It didn't have anything to do with the end of the world from the Mayans' perspective. (Of course their world ended a long time before 2012.)
 
Saxon_Hart said:
Hey Zeb, do you ever listen to Dean and Rog on 107.3 in the morning? They were busting on that movie something fierce. Made it sound like an over the top crap fest.
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Yeah, well I would expect it to be...it does star Russell Crow. So it has to be a stinker.
 
Zeb_Carter said:
Yes, I know they got it wrong about the 2012 or was that the scientists?

I direct you attention to a fable of world wide destruction now being portrayed on the silver screen...NOAH! Could this have been the end of the world they predicted...well they didn't predict, their calender stopped, except their calender was circular in nature. What goes around comes around.

Thoughts? ;)
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Many people seem to have a general perception that ancient cultures had some sort of "wisdom" that eludes our most advanced scientists today. But if they were so smart back then, how come they ain't around anymore? :rolleyes:

Naah, I wasn't surprised that we survived 2012. The movie was impressive in 1080p Bluray though...
 
The Mesoamerican calendar system is pre-Mayan -- Toltec, IIRC. Mayas added some nice tweaks to the dating system, and to the existing math system, inventing zero, only the second culture on Earth to do so -- or maybe the first, possibly predating the Indus Valley mathematicians.

(BTW, Mesoamerican calendars were manipulated for political purposes. Sort of like having the greatest generals all born on 4 July, all the top saints born on Xmas, etc. It's a tradition.)

When I was down in Chiapas state, just north of Guatemala, I visited the site in Chiapa de Corzo where the then-oldest-known stelae (pillars) incised with that dating system were found. Nifty awesome stuff.

Anyway, the whole recent Aztec-Maya-Tolmec calendar idiocy derives from stoned Newage (rhymes with sewage) mystics who could barely add, let alone transliterate. Ah well, they sold a bunch of books and videos and seminars, made a bunch of money, without actually robbing anyone. Do gullible victims deserve their fate? Was it just another goddam learning experience?
 
The story of Noah ignores the important role played by the Tooth Fairy (who was left out because he/she was rumored to be a hermaphrodite.) Because of this omission, I can't take the story of Noah seriously.
 
DeeZire said:
The story of Noah ignores the important role played by the Tooth Fairy (who was left out because he/she was rumored to be a hermaphrodite.) Because of this omission, I can't take the story of Noah seriously.
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And THAT is one of the best responses I have read on Lit. Thank you.

Puts me in mind of Bill Cosby ('Noah')

PS. There's also the problem of the Dragon or even the Unicorn.
 
My bio teacher friend is currently teaching evolution. One of the kids asked this week how mermaids evolved. She was serious.
 
patientlee said:
My bio teacher friend is currently teaching evolution. One of the kids asked this week how mermaids evolved. She was serious.
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Got that from watching too much late night animal planet. Once a week they run this bs about mermaids and how they exist and they have this proof. Bad videos and some body they had that the cops took away from them, blah, blah, blah. It's even worse that Finding Bigfoot.
 
Handley_Page said:
How was that explained ?
Mistaken identity with (I believe) a Manatee?
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I believe that's the usual explanation, but Zeb's right. The Animal Planet channel ran a show about mermaids, and how they're out there but no one knows, and they now had exclusive footage, etc.

People believed it. And I'd bet that's where the student heard about it and why they asked.
 
PennLady said:
I believe that's the usual explanation, but Zeb's right. The Animal Planet channel ran a show about mermaids, and how they're out there but no one knows, and they now had exclusive footage, etc.

People believed it. And I'd bet that's where the student heard about it and why they asked.
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Well, technically it's impossible to prove with certainty that mermaids don't exist.

One might argue how unlikely it would be for a large creature to remain undiscovered in this day and age of course - even an aquatic one - but that could be explained away with human or near-human intelligence. If I was a mermaid I'd hide too...
 
StrangeLife said:
Well, technically it's impossible to prove with certainty that mermaids don't exist.

One might argue how unlikely it would be for a large creature to remain undiscovered in this day and age of course - even an aquatic one - but that could be explained away with human or near-human intelligence. If I was a mermaid I'd hide too...
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And if the premise of Splash was correct, they might be walking among us without our knowing it.

Who's to know...they might be the ones orchestrating Global Warming so the oceans get bigger and the land we live on smaller.
 
The House of Windsor (English Queen etc) has in their official family tree, a mermaid called Melusine.

And, I'm sure I saw a Discovery Channel show about some South African scientists finding a skeleton of a mermaid near, er, near...

oh yeah now I remember - near where MH370 went down and is in 1,753.36363 pieces (computer analysis of English and EU 'intelligence' satellites).

Right next to where Osama bin Laden's body is too, as a matter of fact. Not to mention the birth records of Obama - and my tax records!
 
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