“Ask nothing that is not clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong.”
~ Andrew Jackson
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The movie ‘2012′ is breaking box-office records around the world. According to the New York Times reports:
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“Columbia Pictures took in $230.4 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Sony said the movie that uses the Mayan calendar and other end-of-days prophecies to depict the world’s demise came in above its initial box office estimate on Sunday of $225 million globally. Moviegoers in North America chipped in $65.2 million, while international audiences contributed $165.2 million.”
This is a great Sci-Fi story, but people here are the facts from the Anthropologists and NASA’s Astronomers. Unfortunately, there are people who take fiction literally and also we have a number people who are paranoid about everything and in these financial times of hardship this type of Hollywood Sci-Fi adds to their depression and anxiety. So, to help you through this hysteria, here are the basics about the Mayan prophecy, upon which the movie is modeled and the scientific reality from NASA. One other thing the Mayans seemed to be great astronomers with their power of observation and record keeping, considering they had no observatories (high tech telescopes). Too bad the Spanish Conquistadors destroyed over 99% of the records or documents the Mayans amassed throughout their civilization.
The Mayans (or Mesoamericans) — like China, India and early American civilizations — discovered some of the secrets of the heavens. The Mayans were especially skilled as astronomers, or “sky watchers”. Some of their findings are used even today. Following the findings discovered by the Mayans centuries ago, GMT or “Universal Time” calculations today enable our global village to communicate with no concern of distance or time zones. (more…)
