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Houston Museum prepares exhibit debunking Maya

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Houston Museum prepares exhibit debunking Maya calendar doomsday myth


World | 208171 hits | Oct 27 2:56 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Some might prepare for the end of the world by checking off items on their bucket list. But at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, curators are launching an exhibit designed to demystify the Maya and debunk the myth that the ancient culture predicted d

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  1. by CrazyNewfie
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:55 pm
    "The date coincidentally lines up with a rare event..." Ok, sure, it's just a coincidence.

  2. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:06 pm
    It's sad that there has to be a Museum built to explain a myth on par with the Easter Bunny.

    People are mostly sheep.

  3. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:58 pm
    So does this mean I'm gonna have to pay for all the neat stuff I just bought? :oops:

    Damn I just finished paying off my Y2K bills. :D

  4. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:42 pm
    The museum would really demonstrate a pair if they scheduled the opening for Dec. 22. 8)

  5. by CrazyNewfie
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:44 pm
    It's definitely funny that a museum is dedicating a whole wing to explain this to people. My first comment was more meant to say we don't give ancient people enough credit, who's to say they didn't have a great understanding of the cosmos and built their calendar knowing of these celestial events. To just dismiss it and say it is just a coincidence to me is ignorant.

    Now I am not saying something will happen on that day, personally I believe we will wake up on the 22nd like any other day, but something people either forget or don't know about is that the Maya weren't the only ones to put a significance around this date. There are other completely seperate groups of cultures's around the world that have signified 2012, or the end of it as being important in some way...It wasn't just the Mayans.

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:05 pm
    "CrazyNewfie" said
    It's definitely funny that a museum is dedicating a whole wing to explain this to people. My first comment was more meant to say we don't give ancient people enough credit, who's to say they didn't have a great understanding of the cosmos and built their calendar knowing of these celestial events. To just dismiss it and say it is just a coincidence to me is ignorant.


    Then I'm ignorant. I do give ancients much credit, as one of my hobbies is a craft that dates back to Egyptian times, and hasn't changed much since then.

    But: "Coincidence is not causality."

    "CrazyNewfie" said

    .. but something people either forget or don't know about is that the Maya weren't the only ones to put a significance around this date. There are other completely seperate groups of cultures's around the world that have signified 2012, or the end of it as being important in some way...It wasn't just the Mayans.


    Last year, I had a calendar that ended on Decembmer 31, but the world didn't. I was not upset by this. But to say that the cosmos will obey the whims of an ancient civilization who's numbering system was limited, I believe is woefully mistaken. The Universe does not care what the Mayans thought.

  7. by avatar andyt
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:11 pm
    What celestial events did the Maya know about, Newfie, that we don't? You're essentially saying they had better astronomical information than we did. Or, that they were able to accurately predict the future. In that latter case, did they give a resounding meh, when they predicted the collapse of their civilization?

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:28 pm
    I take it back. Lucasfilm just got sold to Disney.

    The world will indeed end.

  9. by avatar stratos
    Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:34 pm
    Andyt I think Newfire is referring to the fact that on 12-21-12 is that our solar system lines up exactly in the middle of the Galaxy. Not positive on this but I heard something along those lines about a year ago on some documentary I was watching.

  10. by avatar SprCForr  Gold Member
    Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:41 pm
    I think ol' Tzechopoxcatl said "Fuck it" and put down the chisel.

  11. by avatar stratos
    Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:48 pm
    "SprCForr" said
    I think ol' Tzechopoxcatl said "Fuck it" and put down the chisel.


    R=UP

  12. by avatar sandorski
    Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:05 pm
    Impending Doom don't give a shit what some Museum says. 8)

  13. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:17 am

    as one of my hobbies is a craft that dates back to Egyptian times


    Ya know all those desiccated bodies you have in your basement is a little creepy. learn to paint or build models for Christssake



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