Hope you didn't spend your retirement money

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Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience Senior Writer
livescience.com – Tue Oct 19, 7:35 am ET

It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and over hyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)

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[McD]

Thanks brother... a little late but thanks anyway.

I should have learned my lesson after the Y2K BS!

I still think Hoffa is buried in Giants Stadium though!

[Lefty]

This ain't no BS.

Back in 1999, I actually had a bank customer who believed there was a problem with Sept. 9th, 1999. (09/09/99) He seriously thought all the bank computers would roll over like an odometer and screw up accounts. I would have laughed him out of the building except this dude kept $8 million in his checking account, so I humored him. We made a big production of taking the money out of his account on Sept. 8th, put it in a cashier's check, and placed the check in a safe deposit box in the vault, all under his supervision.

Just before Dec. 31st we went through the whole process again for him. After New Year's, when everything turned out okay, I learned I was the only banker who humored him out of all the other banks where he had accounts. He brought another $2 million to my bank from the competition in appreciation and closed his accounts with them.

[Flesh Thorn]

The truth is that the world could end from a gamma ray burst before you finish reading this post or you may choke to death on a chicken bone at lunch or even worse, you have a malignant tumor developing in your body right now. One thing is for certain, we will all die from something.......

[Bushwack]

Like my late father said,"None of us are getting out of this alive".

[rgrwest]

The truth is that the world could end from a gamma ray burst before you finish reading this post or you may choke to death on a chicken bone at lunch or even worse, you have a malignant tumor developing in your body right now. One thing is for certain, we will all die from something.......

It's not a tooomor, it's a headache!

[merlyn]

I only have four things to say about prophecy.
The book of Revelations

[RangerX]

Life is a sexually transmitted disease which is 100% fatal.

Prophecize that.

[Shock]

Just keep in mind that none of the mayan people believe that 2012 is the end of the world, if they're not worrying why should I?

[Slowpoke]

OOPS!

[Hayve]

I always liked: "Father time is undefeated! You may take him to overtime, but he is undefeated!"

[RangerX]

Crap! That means all my plans for "last minute payback" are down the drain! What am I gonna do with all this ANFO?

well, let's see how the elections go in a couple weeks.....