[Coco] OT: End of the world

[Frank Swygert]

Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:11:04 -0500
From: Arthur Flexser<flexser at fiu.edu>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Bob Devries<devries.bob at gmail.com>  wrote:

> You'd have to wonder what reasons the Mayans had for making this prediction?

My impression is that the calendar simply ended, without the Mayans
having predicted anything particular being associated with that.
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That's basically my understanding. They apparently thought this date would be the "end of an era", which doesn't necessarily mean the world will end. Sort of like the Y2K "disaster" that never occurred. End of a millenium, but what does nature care about man's calendars, no matter who created it?

I can visualize some Mayan scholar sitting somewhere computing out the calendar for days/weeks/months, and finally saying "None of us are going to be alive, nor anyone who remembers how this started or who did it, why don't I just quit this stupid crap now?"  Then getting up and walking out, leaving us "modern" people to wonder why he quit right then...

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