I guess if you're into things like the Book of Revelation, and study
end-time prophecies, then you might say it "ends" -- but the calendar
*is* cyclical, AFAIK there will be more rounds to make in my lifetime.
I used to think the world was going to end on that date, but I decided
to assume it is not and move on with valuable things in life. Not that
the end of time is worthless, but rather that thinking it's almost over
is too defeatist for me to handle... so even if time does end somehow,
it is not clear if we would also end. I have studied a number of
end-time prophecies, however, esp. in regards to each other (comparing
and contrasting), and as always, there is a spooky amount of similar
info in the various creation myths, stuf about a number of creations,
each one coming to a close eventually. We're near the end of the 5th
and final creation, IIRC -- and the most interesting stuff to me relates
to the lost 13th tribe being found & re-integrated, referenced by both
the bible and a number of native american indian myths. Cool, 13!
shanti
Ben
PS - yada yada new-agey mayan translations, yada yada... There is a
rather large private party out in the coastal range, to celebrate the
day(s) out of time and new year's, started last night and goes through
sunday; I was told about this last night just after being lectured about
the incorrectness of the popular "Mayan calendar" -- the common person's
solar calendar was 18 months of 20 days, plus 5 days-out-of-time (tnx)
but people were named for the day of the secular count, 20 tribes x 13
tones (the 260-day cycle), which they were born on. The 20-day "months"
were also used to measure the agricultural time (ie, to help track how
often to weed the fields). See the book, "Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries
of the Moon" for some of the recent research on things Mayan...
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:35:29 -0700
Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:54:21AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:
| > anywhoo, it's a neat
| > calendar, and ties into a software project I've been scheming on: a
| > completely redesigned calendrical user interace, that allows one to
| > select a single date, or compare multiple dates and/or ranges --
| > allowing for multiple (and switching) views on the same information,
| > between calendrical systems and also say different calendars within
| > the mayan system. I don't quite know how to describe my ideas yet,
| > but "cyclical forests", anyone?
|
| The mayan calander ends in 2013 so your program has a fixed EOL.
| (Kind of like unix in 2038).
|
| Cory
|
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