11-17-2009, 05:45 PM
<!--quoteo(post=248953:date=Dec 20 2007, 02:36 PM:name=stainboy)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (stainboy @ Dec 20 2007, 02:36 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=248953\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecAh hah! A challenger! Seriously, no offense to the Mayans of modern day...(that's not what I intended...) I'm just saying no scientific theory supports the end of the world currently and ancient Mayan predictions hold no more weight for me than my Uncle Harold's prediction that his life will end by slipping on a gumball.But if you are serious in assuming the wildly vague and incredulous Mayan prediction, do me this favor:Bet me.You can bet me your entire mask collection. Because if the world is ending, you risk nothing, right?<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndI'm not a Mayan, I don't believe it, and I'm not a history major - but the reason that they have been given some credability is that so far, they have (fairly) accurately predicted other events such as wars and pole shifts (when the earth rotates on its lattitutde rather than longitude so the poles move). I watched a documentary on this the other day and they took core samples from Australia and Alaska and proved that at some point in the past, they had actually been where the arctic & antarctic are now. Around 5,000 years ago. And it happened quick - like overnight. I don't need to tell you what would happen if New york suddenly became thenorth pole and covered in huge deep ice sheets!I'm not a geologist either so I can't personaly verify any of this but the fact that pole shifts have happened before is scientific fact (as close as we can get with our primitive earthling brains anyway)