Mayan Calender Correct – Speaker Bohner Surrenders - End of World

The end of the world, according to the Mayan Calendar, has been widely reported by the major media as predicting the “end of the world” on 12/21/2012. I am still here, enjoying a generic shot of whiskey (yes, I know: cheapskate, on your last day could you at least pop for a bottle Jack Daniels?). Not surprisingly, these propeller-heads got it wrong.

Or did they?

THE TEA PARTY WINS!!!

Surely the end of the world? The tail wagging the dog? For weeks, the Speaker signaled that he would surrender to the Prez, increasing taxes on “the rich”, acceding to the call for class warfare: rich are evil, poor are being cheated. He put all his chips on the table, and put forth his official surrender document for the vote. It lost big time in the House, and you can pin the defeat/victory on the Tea Party. Congress is going home for Christmas with their families, and the proposed surrender of the Republican Party by the Speaker has not occurred.

Either: Hallelujah!!!, or This Is Truly The End.

ABOUT THE MAYAN CALENDAR

Oddly, many moons ago (forgive the rather authentic use of the Coastanoan language), I took a brief archealogical course on Mayan numbering, calendar, and glyphs. You may have heard that they did not have the concept of the number “zero”, and was therefore inferior to the Arabic numbering system.

Poppycock.

The Mayan calendar is based on cycles, ranging from one day to 60 million years. When you reach the end of one cycle, you crank up the next higher level cycle up one and restart the current cycle at “one”.

12/21/2012 marks the end of the current “Baktun” cycle, which occurs every 394 years. This will advance the next “Piktun” cycle, which is 7,885 years per, by one cycle. [accordingly, if we count from the very beginning of the Mayan culture to today, we have not yet traversed one Piktun cycle; yes, there are 4 cycles above the Piktun].

FYI, the lower cycle is “katun”, which is every 19 years. So, by the logic of the NY Times, the world should end every 19 years.

What stupidity.

[note: I no longer have the textbook from a coupl'a decades ago, so the actual numbers above, of which I am not 100% sure, I borrowed from Wikipedia].