martinss01;1403437; said:
actually researchers now believe the year christ was born was misinterpreted. the current thinking is he was born 6 yrs earlier than previously believed. which of course means the current date is actually 2015 and the earth blew up 3 years ago...
.... I'm pretty sure the Mayan calendar doesn't care about who Jesus was (would be?) when it was devised 2,600 years ago, or whenever it was. The Mayan calendar is closely tied to celestial events, so it doesn't really matter when the corresponding Gregorian dates were attached to it to make the end of the Mayan calendar "important."
If the current date were indeed 2015, then the Mayan calendar would end corresponding to Dec 21, 2018 on the Gregorian calendar.
As it is, the Summer/Winter solstice on Dec 21, 2012 (at 11:11 GMT) corresponds with the alignment of the sun, it's path, and the equator of the Milky Way.
The real mystery is how the Mayans could predict such precise celestial events such as this with mathematical precision that the rest of the world only figured out within the past 50 years or so. The Mayans were accurately mapping the path of the sun, moon, and earth, AND the precise orientation of the Milky Way galaxy while the rest of the world was arguing that the earth was flat.
It's really quite amazing, despite the fact some opportunistic doomsayers will seek to profit from the event, and I'm sure Jerry Bruckheimer or Roland Emerich have some shitty movies in the pipeline.
