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End of the World Question
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RE: End of the World Question
(December 18, 2012 at 5:53 am)popeyespappy Wrote: Oh hell Kichi I was just trying to be a smart ass. In any case Mesoamerican calendars were quite sophisticated, and there is no reason to believe their concept of time was limited to what they had the space to carve on a single piece of stone

For example

Quote:The inscription on Quirigua stela F, or 6, shows a Long Count date of 9.16.10.0.0 1 Ahau 3 Zip (March 15, 761 Gregorian). The huge distance date of 1.8.13.0.9.16.10.0.0 is subtracted and the resulting date is given as (18.)13.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 1 Ahau 13 Yaxkin, which is equivalent to a day over 90 million years in the past. There is another distance date on Quirigua Stela D or 4, that gives a date of 9.16.15.0.0 7 Ahau 18 Pop (February 17, 766 Gregorian), to which is added 6.8.13.0.9.16.15.0.0, to give a date of (13.)13.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. This is over 400 million years after the date the stela was erected.

So they actually recorded dates 90 million years in the past and 400 million years in the future. Those are just surviving examples...

good morning Pappy!

Yeah I know. Heart

but I also wanted YOU to know I knew the difference Heart

(December 18, 2012 at 5:51 am)cato123 Wrote:
(December 18, 2012 at 1:53 am)clemdog14 Wrote: Of course, this argument would only make sense given the direction as well as the cataclysm itself. If the whole world just blew up, it wouldn't matter.

Thoughts?

The christian argument only makes sense if christ came back as lightning from the east, with trumpets of course.

See how this mythology shit works?

It doesn't.

And that is the whole point clem. Angel Cloud

To point out the painfully obvious...

The mesoAmerican culture had a better dating system than the xtian culture of the time period.





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End of the World Question - by clemdog14 - December 18, 2012 at 1:53 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 1:58 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Cato - December 18, 2012 at 2:14 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Gilgamesh - December 18, 2012 at 2:03 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Jackalope - December 18, 2012 at 2:10 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 2:13 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Voltron - December 18, 2012 at 2:10 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 2:18 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Cato - December 18, 2012 at 2:23 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Brian37 - December 18, 2012 at 2:26 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 2:36 am
RE: End of the World Question - by popeyespappy - December 18, 2012 at 5:36 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 5:44 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Cato - December 18, 2012 at 5:51 am
RE: End of the World Question - by popeyespappy - December 18, 2012 at 5:53 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 6:02 am
RE: End of the World Question - by LastPoet - December 18, 2012 at 6:32 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Zen Badger - December 18, 2012 at 6:36 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 8:26 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 19, 2012 at 1:28 am
RE: End of the World Question - by popeyespappy - December 20, 2012 at 2:03 am
RE: End of the World Question - by frankiej - December 18, 2012 at 8:26 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 8:43 am
RE: End of the World Question - by frankiej - December 18, 2012 at 8:59 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 18, 2012 at 9:05 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Gooders1002 - December 19, 2012 at 3:50 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Dee Dee Ramone - December 19, 2012 at 4:04 am
RE: End of the World Question - by Cinjin - December 20, 2012 at 1:22 am
RE: End of the World Question - by KichigaiNeko - December 20, 2012 at 11:46 pm

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