Besides Nibiru being a made-up world that has been debunked repeatedly, the Revelation passage also has some issues. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, told Live Science earlier this month. Original article on Live Science. Jeanna has been a part of Live Science since , drawn to the site for its quirky character and thorough articles about the mysteries of Earth and human behavior. Previously, she was an assistant editor at Scholastic's Science World magazine, where she gained an appreciation for the curious minds of kids.
Jeanna has an English degree from Salisbury University, a master's degree in biogeochemistry and environmental sciences from the University of Maryland, and a science journalism degree from New York University. When she's not helping to shape Live Science, she enjoys all forms of exercise; reading works by her favorite author, Haruki Murakami; and playing with her sons. Here's Why We're Still Here. Today is the day. Top 10 Doomsday Threats ] And, in fact, his current forecast seems to have long roots: All this is to say, the doomsday prediction is bogus.
Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor Jeanna has been a part of Live Science since , drawn to the site for its quirky character and thorough articles about the mysteries of Earth and human behavior. The Mayans used many different calendars and viewed time as a meshing of spiritual cycles. While the calendars had practical uses, such as social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks, there was a very heavy religious element.
Each day had a patron spirit, signifying that each day had specific use. This contrasts greatly with our modern Gregorian calendar which primarily sets the administrative, social and economic dates. Most of the Mayan calendars were short. Within the Calendar Round were the trecena 13 day cycle and the veintena 20 day cycle. Obviously, this system would only be of use when considering the 18, unique days over the course of 52 years. Being keen and highly accurate astronomers they formed a calendar based on the location of Venus in the night sky.
Using the Calendar Round is great if you simply wanted to remember the date of your birthday or significant religious periods, but what about recording history? There was no way to record a date older than 52 years. The Mayans had a solution. Using an innovative method, they were able to expand on the 52 year Calendar Round.
Up to this point, the Mayan Calendar may have sounded a little archaic — after all, it was possibly based on religious belief, the menstrual cycle, mathematical calculations using the numbers 13 and 20 as the base units and a heavy mix of astrological myth. For starters, it is numerically predictable and it can accurately pinpoint historical dates.
However, it depends on a base unit of 20 where modern calendars use a base unit of So how does this work? Each zero goes from and each represent a tally of Mayan days. So, for example, the first day in the Long Count is denoted as 0. This count continues until 0. Therefore, if I pick an arbitrary date of 2. This is all very interesting, but what has this got to do with the end of the world?
The Mayan Prophecy is wholly based on the assumption that something bad is going to happen when the Mayan Long Count calendar runs out. Experts are divided as to when the Long Count ends, but as the Maya used the numbers of 13 and 20 at the root of their numerical systems, the last day could occur on When does this happen?
Have you seen the problem yet? The Mayan Long Count ends years later on December 21st, Doomsday When something ends even something as innocent as an ancient calendar , people seem to think up the most extreme possibilities for the end of civilization as we know it. A brief scan of the internet will pull up the most popular to some very weird ways that we will, with little logical thought, be wiped off the face of the planet.
Archaeologists and mythologists on the other hand believe that the Mayans predicted an age of enlightenment when If anything, the Mayans predict a religious miracle, not anything sinister. Myths are abound and seem to be fuelling movie storylines.
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It looks like the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is even based around the Mayan myth that 13 crystal skulls can save humanity from certain doom. This myth says that if the 13 ancient skulls are not brought together at the right time, the Earth will be knocked off its axis. This might be a great plotline for blockbuster movies, but it also highlights the hype that can be stirred, lighting up religious, scientific and not-so-scientific ideas that the world is doomed.
Some of the most popular space-based threats to the Earth and mankind focus on Planet X wiping most life off the planet , meteorite impacts, black holes, killer solar flares , Gamma Ray Bursts from star systems, a rapid ice age and a polar magnetic shift. Mayan archaeo-astronomers are even in debate as to whether the Long Count is designed to be reset to 0. As Karl Kruszelnicki brilliantly writes:. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January.
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I personally believe in Jesus Christ. Not a buncha goofy people dressed in Halloween costumes. Halloween costumes aside did you read the actual article — comprehending all the words, if there were any you needed help with, let me know. Which photo are you referring here, there are several. Each has a link to the image as a single jpg, The names of the images are suggestive or descriptive.
You might want to check the specific image you need information for and give us the name it was assigned when it was created as a link in these UT pages. IMHO this reveals our overly materialistic thoughts. A very trivial thing, really. A little sooner or a little later, but we all get there someday. Our human concentration should be focused on love for one aother, friendship, all around humanity. I thought it was some sort of coincidence, both of us having the same experience.
Turns out the mystic, Uri Geller, has had the same happen to him.
It is possibly to you that your experiences as you relate them and as they have occurred over time to actually be reinforcing a common, central tenet you hold. In other words, are you not stating a conclusion based on self held tenets rather than dispassionate observation wherein you are not the experiment but the experimenter. Paul i am also getting the same numbers You, James Howard, are sounding like the typical non-American and blaming everything on Americans. Ever hear of the Oneness Movement? Find the Oneness University website. Take a look at the history part under the About Us heading.
That building at the bottom… less then 8 years to build and is the centerpiece of a complex spanning several thousand acres. Their charging scheme keeps changing, but they are making insane amounts of cash. Oh, the founders of this group are from India and are based in India.
I will let you find their references to , there are a few of them on their main site and they have been talking about it since almost the beginning of their enterprise. But you knew that, right? You research sooo hard. Oh, and we like to research. There are a couple other research related things Americans have done over the years, nothing too big, just the internet, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive. I guess what I am trying to say… stop judging us by the few crazies we have and by our government, and maybe you might learn a thing or two.
You are right about one thing, we are arrogant, but with good reason. Enjoy the internet, a free gift from America, even to those who hate us. If you do YOUR research, you will actually find that the internet was a British invention, but you probably think that the car was invented by Henry Ford, too.
They just generally couldn;t afford to develop them. To Paul and Vikas. Notice which decade this is? Of course you are seeing the numeral 1 often. Oh no… the number 11! Take a look at how clocks are organized. The numeral 1 appears more often because we have 10am, 11am, 12am. Take a look at calender days.
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Saying that you see 1s everywhere is like saying you see green everywhere. Oh no, the world will end in a green mist! One number had to be more common then the others, and it happens to be 1. As for the Mayans, google Stele 1 at Coba. Pay attention to the date the Mayans wrote on that sucker. Their world ended when Europeans arrived and they never saw it coming a few years before Oh yeah, they were greaaaat at predictions. Try some basic research directed at scientific works instead of watching TV for your research. AHAHA lol thats true! Sorry but i believe that someday, whether it would be decades from now or weeks, there will come a judgement day.
Sooner or later a comet or a rock the size of texas will strike. When one does it will not matter what calender you will be using. How many of you saw that huge comet hit the sunlast week? That came from the other side but we got to see the show. It seems the more smarter we get the larger our imaginations grow. Not even the Angels know the end of the world, but God… and Jesus will come like a theif in the night… When you least expect it… So Chill out people… Read the Bible!
Well, what if Religion out rules science in everything? I am a Christian… not a scientist. Science is not always the explanation to everything. I would have to agree with Bridney Gibbs! Man was not the creator of this earth so how is man going to predict such a thing, God is the ruler of our earth and man is known for just going off technology and so on.
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I honestly think if something does happen in like a world changing disaster, then it was not God trying to end the world! Why do you think T. To have mind control over your mind, so that they can send a so called positive message and we would believe it! Excuse my language but the Illuminati are not fooling me!
The messages are clear in music, movies, children cartoons, etc. My mind is made up though, the news is bullshit! Oh yeah and if the illuminati is successful with their planned world disaster there is a underground facility called FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency and what this so called positive Agency does is help surviving individuals during massive world disasters!
But we all know that bullshit! They only allow private clubs and other wealthy individuals who are on their list! I have my own beliefs but I follow god! You can choose to make your own pathway of life and follow god or just let the illuminati take control of your mind and possibly your life! What have creation to do with anything? Oh yeah and I do agree with you that the world created itself from a natrual process, what I meant to say in my first commet is that god created man. And that know man can predict such a thing, sorry for the confusion everyone!
Actually he is right. They have been doing this for a really long time. Its hard to believe because the truth is always hard to take in. Not sure when the end will come. I believe when Mother earth is through with us, she will spit us off and learn to grow trees from disposible diapers. New life will go on. As for the bible, and yes, I have read it. Yeah, they knew it all. Vote 1 — Mother Nature The world Earth as we know it will end only when the Sun inevitably grows and heats up this puny planet to a point making it incapable of sustaining any form of organic life.
But anyway at the rate we are abusing this world we will bring about our own Judgement Day much sooner, maybe not in our lifetime but soon enough. You know I mean I really do just sit back and think wow look how evil our world is and how we all go to work and try to make a living off of just pieces of paper money. But it is just the world we live in! I was actually reading an article about FEMA stating that they have a massive stock of food and water and even growing crops underground and I just think to myself: And that breaks my heart to know that our country is that cruel and so addicted to money!
There is no way that any man on Earth can determine when the end of the world is going to come about. The mayans created a calendar that outlasted them. Its supposedly gonna end on Dec. It clearly states in the bible that no one knows or will know when judgement day comes and also for u none bealivers, thers is clearly proof and scientific studie that disprove all these predictions on how and when the world will end.
Dnt get me wrong, something major and significant will happen soon or around the end of , but it will be a new step for man in a new era.. I love this Green-Blue planet so much. I mean, really, one could continue on forever making the calendar.
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Or they were just tired of making it. Doomsday tomorrow, the world ends on Oct 21st, and the world ends again Des 22nd The world as we know it might end with Aphopis in , though. Or when Yellowstone blow. If the Mayans had thought that were to be a doomsday they would have left more evidence to warn of that and the idea of a religious miracle, or a period of enlightenment as I like to think of it, makes a lot more sense when you look at the culture and values of the Mayan people.
I also was not aware of the binary number system the Mayans used and the concentration on the numbers 13 and Nothing but a whole lot of bullshit. I do believe that doomsday will come, but no one knows when it will come, its like we get hints because of the typhoons hurricanes, or tornadoes, but those are all normal and the rain,,, thats only here , at ohio sooo its all right I dont think the world is going to end because how many times did they predict that it was goin to end and it never happened if you think it goin to end just be ready all i think whats goin to happen is everyone is goin to panic and start something big.
All science gives are theories and scientists have all differing opinions. Religion is faith based.