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Old 06-21-2008, 02:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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@ Tully Mars: It's 21 Dec 2012.

I actually found this really neat lecture on the Mayan Long Count and what the end of that calendar meant. As it was stated, the Mayans believed in this over-consciousness of everything, and that is what they were keeping track of. As it happens, this consciousness is evolving, much as our universe had, more and more complex things are forming in it (first hydrogen turned to helium making stars, and then stars to planets, then our planet with life, with life to civilizations, from civilizations to coffee, from coffee to double shot cappuccinos, etc).

It claims that the Mayan Calendar was remarkably coincidental to point out the calendar started 14 billion years ago (around the same time as the universe) and consciousness was accelerated on every fifth "day" while terrible stuff happened on every fifth "night" of an era.

It was a neat presentation. Seeing the history of things and where they fell on the calendar was kinda breath taking. It had a new-age hippo undertone that it will not be the end of the world, but the end of our individual consciousness and we will become part of all things (think the omega point).

Just remind yourself that if it is the end of the world: apologize to the people you hate, tell the ones you love that you do, and then sit back and watch the fun.

For the record, I hope it ends, so no stock piling anything for me.
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