How do you react if world end as per Mayan Calendar on Dec 12 2012
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I think the guy that was making the calender just up and died.
Nope... he (or she) just ran out of rock.
But ... they sure-as-heck produced an amazingly accurate piece of mathematics, did they not?! (Hmmm... did they use Windows-7 or just Windows 3.1 to do all this stuff?)
I am afraid your education is sadly lacking
they invented many ingenious things for life in the desert
eg the ultra-sonic didgereedont for use as a dog whistle, calling the wild dingos
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I am afraid your education is sadly lacking
they invented many ingenious things for life in the desert
eg the ultra-sonic didgereedont for use as a dog whistle, calling the wild dingos
Yes my edumacation is sadly lacking, I don't do BS as well as many people
As far as I understand it, the Mayan calendar doesn't really "end" at that point but runs out of places and sort of "rolls over" like an odometer.
Hopefully it means the end of a current Kali-Yuga and the onset of a fresh Satya-Yuga. I wouldn't mind growing to 21 cubits in height and living for an extra 99,920 years or so.
If you read the Revelation of St. John as an elucidation of ancient Mystery traditions using Christian symbolism, as many initiates do, the four Yugas of Hinduism are the famous "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," the bottom four points of the tetractys.
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As far as I understand it, the Mayan calendar doesn't really "end" at that point but runs out of places and sort of "rolls over" like an odometer.
Hopefully it means the end of a current Kali-Yuga and the onset of a fresh Satya-Yuga. I wouldn't mind growing to 21 cubits in height and living for an extra 99,920 years or so.
If you read the Revelation of St. John as an elucidation of ancient Mystery traditions using Christian symbolism, as many initiates do, the four Yugas of Hinduism are the famous "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," the bottom four points of the tetractys.
That's just way to heavy before 5am in the morning foodown.
If you read the Revelation of St. John as an elucidation of ancient Mystery traditions using Christian symbolism, as many initiates do, the four Yugas of Hinduism are the famous "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," the bottom four points of the tetractys.
To me, the Revelation of St. John (which BTW was by no means the only extant example of the apparently very-popular "God's gonna come ridin' in real soon now and kick your enemies' butts" books) is one tradition, and those of Hinduism are simply another. Confucianism... Really, every human culture's got its own flavor. And it was not until extremely recently that they had any contact with one another ... let alone an IP address. To me it's kinda silly to try to draw parallels between them. They never met... (And the Hindu traditions happen to be lavishly beautiful, and eerily graphic.)
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