Today I received a book I ordered called The Mayan Prophesies by Gerald Benedict.It delves into the Mayan calender and hieroglyphics that supposedly foretells the end of the world.I can't say that I take stock in any of this no more than I did all the hysteria about Y2K.It would be interesting however to find out where these interpretations came about and what exactly they were based on.So has anyone read this?I currently have 4 more books on the go so it may take ages to read this unless it's one of those books you can't put down.

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The Mayans predicted the end of the world will be December 21,2012.

Bummer man. We've only got 657 days left.

They sure didn't predict their own demise did they?

When was the last time a Mayan bummed a cigarette from you at 7-11?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrs6xsdG6c

I haven't read this one but I have read things about the subject. December 21, 2012 is the date the Earth will be the closest to the center of the galaxy it has ever been in recorded history. No one knows what this means, many speculate that the mayans predicted the end of the world but if you read other materials the mayans predicted the end of the world as we know it.

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Some kids from Athens,GA predicted the same thing. I don't believe either of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrs6xsdG6c

I recently read that though the Mayan calender ends in december 21. 2012 doesn't mean that the world is going to end. It just means it's end of an era. The Mayan calender is over 5000 and based on math and the rotation of the stars (remember that english is my third language), and there are 400 era's in these calanders. When one era ends the next one takes over and when the 400th ends the number 1 starts again and that is what is going to happen in december 2012.
Remember the Mayans were masters of math (they had symbol for zero long before Europeans) and studied the sky but they were not prophets.

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I don't believe a word of it. Not one word.

However, I'm always ready to admit when I'm wrong, so if the world actually does end on 21 December next year, why then I'll happily hold my hands up and say I was mistaken.

Strangely, you never get the same thing from the millennialist doom-sayers, do you? You never hear from them the day after the world didn't end.

For example, a few years ago there was a bunch of cultist lulus who'd gathered somewhere in Russia for the end of the world. They were interviewed plenty before the predicted date, scoffing at the rest of us for not preparing properly for armaggedon. And then whadayaknow, the world didn't end. That was the point at which I wanted to see them interviewed, with sheepish, disappointed looks on their faces having to admit that they'd been a bunch of gullible oafs ready to swallow any old guff in order to invent some sort of meaning to their lives.

But they'd vanished into the woodwork. They always do...

Cheers - C

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It makes me wonder why so many are listening to what the Mayans had to say. Aren't they the "Civilization" that used to throw virgin girls into a volcano to appease their Gods?? Hardly a culture I'd be looking to for any reliable information about anything.

yeah i am with you marvin... i always turn to ancient extinct civilizations to predict the end of the world much like i consult the stars to see how my day is going to go.

Can't say I've read the book but on the subject of the Mayans....



The Mayan Telecaster is a tasty look'in axe!

Enjoy!

Andy

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very cool... but it will fall to pieces in 2012 so you better play the hell out of it now.

that has got to be thee ugliest tele i think ive ever seen.
i dont think they predicted the end of the world thats just when their calender ended. i think "we" just took that as a sign they thought the world was gonna end.
maybe some shiot was going down in "their world" and the last thing they were worried about was their star gazing hobby?

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Uh-hu? Well each to his own (which is an idea someone needs to tell strat789 about. Oh wait, they already did...). WCjr, I believe there was an ancient Mayan prophesy that you wouldn't be purchasing an inlayed Telecaster. Sounds like it's going to come true!

I think that's a cool piece of inlay - the work of Larry Robinson if I'm not very much mistaken. I've never seen that Mayan guitar before, but I know his Celtic Tele, which I guess is a sister piece:



If I remember right that's real granite on the top. Good grief, imagine having to accurately carve into that for all those hundreds of inlay segments! Streuth; some of us will do anything to avoid actually sitting down and practicing the damned instrument...

Cheers - C

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heres a link to a good friends site.
http://www.destroyallguitars.com/verrilli
hes a builder/artist himself if you like those
other two guitars ceri.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Ha - those are lots of fun! Didn't know him before; thanks for the link.

Cheers - C

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frank is a trip and all around good guy.
ive seen and/or played most of the guitars on the link.
that battery/speaker guitar is suprisingly loud and has a cool tone to it too.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."