Out of Pod Experience

Even if the end of the world happens i'm refusing to acknowledge it since i'm seeing my GF again next saturday.

That will happen.

That is one of the few times I would laugh over that kind of circumstance.

Culling the herd, indeed.



edit: 4 typos if you can believe that.

None of this has much to do with the thread anymore, and you're just derailing it.

You don't seem to really understand how a sexegesimal math system works, and got confused about it having no zero, so i'm not sure you're qualified to comment. I'll take the opinion of all the math historians who say the sexegesimal system is more complex than one based on zero, if you don't mind. Anyway, lets leave the Sumerians behind.

We lost some information in the Library of Alexandria, but you'd be surprised how much still exists, out of the public eye. Knowledge is power, and some people want to keep that power to themselves. You won't be taught it in school or on TV, but it remains to be found by anyone who searches hard enough, and can separate the wheat from the chaff. Sure the common people with their herd mentality may dismiss it on the grounds that it's not what they were taught in school so must be lies, and never consider it any further, but they're just societal dead weight, anyway. Anyone who can't use their mind to its full capacity, and instead takes the easy route of consensus trance, is no better than an animal.

But back to the Mayans and the remote possibility of doom in just 4 days.

More dubious info from the people gathering at that mountain in France.

And businesses predictably looking to cash in on the hysteria. Featuring the 'Burgergeddon'. I'm surprised that took so long. For 2000 everywhere i looked for months prior there were "don't pay a cent until 2001" sales going on, hoping to take advantage of anyone silly enough to think they'd never have to pay.

Meanwhile the Mayans aren't sweating it.

it wasn t the romans who burned it down it were the citizen of alexandria itself more preciesly its christian population , and they burned it down because the library contained works that questioned the their truth about the bible

It would take more than 300 years before we had a new golden age of science and that was during the golden age of islam ( 700 to 1100 AD) and sadly ended when a influencial Iman proclaimed it all to be the devils work

the world had to wait till the 17 th century when people like descartes , gallileo and newton (and many more) would finally shatter the bonds of dogmatic religions



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the mayans and other central and south american culture might have had a good sense of time keeping , afterall their upperclasses had not much else to do between sacrificing countleess number of humans
but their knowledge was in time keeping , noway do they even approach a understanding of the universe as our scientist have now
actually their view and understanding where ratherr primitive and to be honest laughable , the maya s actually believed earth was flat and less than 10000 year old , if you do have a good knowledge of the universe you would know better



this whole doomsday started when some new age guru claimed to found the meaning of the mayan calender throwing a whole bunch of pseudo science to proof his point and make some good money out of it
others followed and jumped on the doomsday band wagon writing books about the end of the world the more ccraziness and absolutre nonsense they could write in it the better , the only people who will really be laughing the 22 nd are those who made alot of mooney out of this hoax

the romans may not have destroyed it completely. but it did get damaged in several roman campaigns there. caesar damaged it during the egyptian revolts following cleopatra's elevation to power. and augustus certainly caused it harm during his siege of alexandria during the final months of his conflict with marcus antonius.

it's hard to pin down who is most repsonsible. the library was subjected to fire many times.

again not the romans atleast not during the first and second triumvirate ,you are mentioning if i remember correctly octavian was proclaimed emperor Augustus in 29 bc , please correct me if i m wrong on the date
the city itself wasn't touch nor were the great monuments , the library and the lighthouse damaged and Alexandria went into a second golden age , when egypt became Roman province, becoming the Major trade and city of learning c in the classical world untill emperor constantine decided to make constantinopel his capital even then the city flourished and was one of the major trading hubs ; its decline only started after the fall of constantinople in 1457 and the Ottomans decided to make that city the major trade hub but by then all the great monuments had dissapeared and Alexandrie faded into history

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Why do people assume the Mayans had a greater knowledge of the universe and its working even when a small climate change litteraly brought down their civilization ,all because their agricultural system was rather primitive compared to agricultural systems in Europe, north africa and Asia

No nothing will happen this friday and i think hyping such things is even dangerous

one thing however is certain ,in 5 billion years our sun will have burned its last hydrogen and its outer sphere will expand swallowing the 3 innerplanets and maybe mars aswell ending the exsistence of this planet , tho i doubt we still will be there if that happens that is the only prediction i will believe in

And unless somebody comes up with hard scientific evidence , all others are scams and hoaxes

Edit you partly right about the great library it was actually destroyed 3 times and rebuild last time in 391 by christians , and never rebuild after that

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

I don't follow. Are you saying that: -The Dogon didn't have the technology to see the planet -Therefore, that proves that they did not know that it exists? Just because current science can't explain how they knew it, that doesn't mean that they didn't know it. That's a problem with Western science, I think. It denies anything which cannot be proved. And by proved, they mean measured and quantified. Measured using only the tools and theories that are currently available. That Cartesian thinking, of breaking things down into discrete, measurable components, works well for concrete things like engineering. But Heisenberg's theory has shown, not everything in the universe can be pinned down, broken into its components, and measured with a 21st century measuring tool.

I personally think that "paranormal events", "miracles," or whatever you want to call them do happen. And that there's a scientific explanation for them. We just haven't found it yet.

actually, medusa is real. she works in HR at my hospital. she's put on a good deal of weight though.