A fair point indeed. Centuries of imperialism is to blame for the crazy apocalypse scenarios!
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Except the Mayan civilization collapsed on it’s own. The Spanish killed the AZTECS, several hundred of years later in a different part of the world.
*its not it’s
*Its, not it’s
hm, no … it’s “its” in this case, not “Its”. It would not be capitalized.
its clear u failled spellig and grammer school if u think otherwize.
He capitalized it because it is the start of his sentence maybe?
‘hm, u, failled, spellig, grammer, otherwize’
Nice try.
yeah right. “chipmonks”? nice try, it’s “chipmunks” dummy.
the grammar gestapo is out in full force today I see.
BACK IN YOUR HOLE! GIT! GIT!!!
It’s grammar Nazis and the spelling Gestapo. Don’t combine the two.
I swear, if the comet is rushing toward us this December 22 and the world really is going to end, the last communication from Earth will be:
“IT’S, NOT ITS!”
lol this ^
For your information I am fully aware that the correct spelling for the rodent is chipmunk, but as my alias is a name rather than being directly related to the animal (and it includes ‘lol’ for f’s sake) the spelling does not matter. My name could be f432ljhfdas and it would still be valid.
Not if he is a full fat friar
This whole thread is like a Faith No More song…..
And the Inca too.
The end of the calender is purely a mathematical function.
No more, No less.
But there IS an end insight, if people dont stop the current insane world controllers.
but Prophesy?
I say not…..more like a logical outcome when the sheep ignore the few on the boarder of the pen, raising the alarm that the wolfs are creeping up.
*drools* oh look, a new cell phone derp derp
I totally agree. The Mayans fell mysteriously circa 1000 CE and archaeologists have not been able to tell why, except they have a few leads, such as overpopulation and exploitation of resources. Hernan Cortes captured Moctezuma II and defeated the Aztecs. Francisco Pizaro defeated the Inca near modern-day Peru.
And to drive the final nail in the coffin, the diseases the Europeans brought with them killed far more natives than any other reason.
Yep they died by the droves of measles and smallpox a half century before the Spaniards arrived.
We know why the Mayans died out. They didn’t. A significant part of the southern mexican populations speaks mayan as their first language.
The Mayan *cities* were abandoned because of ware and famine brought on by drought and unsustainable farming methods. The population moved back into the jungles and lived in small, sustainable populations.
Also, too…the apocalyptic words at the end of the Mayan Calendar?
“Buy the nect cycle calendars, on sale December 2012″…
The Mayan civilization had collapsed and stayed a mystery.
Their 2012 end of civilization was an overshoot, clearly, they died suddenly because they totally miscalculated.
It’s was also suspected to be due to continuous horrible years of crops as well as civil unrest.
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Nice AoE reference
well, the Aztecs didn’t finish their calendar either
Damn you. I was going to post the EXACT same thing. Good for you, mate, you’re not a dumbasss ignorant
=D
The mayans were a culture in decadence when the spanish arrived in México, and that on the picture is the Aztec Calendar…
Just sayin’…
*Mayans
*Spanish
*calendar
just sayin.
*saying.
Just saying.
Das ist sehr gut!
german is for queer’s
German is for Germans. And people who want to talk to Germans
no it isn’t
It’s the language of love!
Entschuldigen Sie bitte, das muss ein Irrtum sein.
Français, c’est la langue de l’amour, n’est-ce pas?
*Le Français
You wouldn’t say “Entschuldigen Sie”, “Entschuldige/Entschuldigung/Sorry/sry” is more common at the internet.
Actually, German is for English speakers. Germans speak Deutsch…
Mein Luftkissenboot ist voller Aale.
queers*
Just saying.
*German *queers.
You are wrong there as well. German is not for queers, it is for anyone who wants to speak it. Th’art a simpleton.
Ur Momm is for queers, otherwise you would have been aborted.
That’s the “Sun’s Stone”, a ceremonial prop, not a calendar.
“Just saying.” – this is not a complete sentence.
I’m saying this to make you aware of this error.
You are mistaking formal writing rules with casual conversation. The “I’m” is implied, and it would end with three periods not one.
Just Sayin’…
No. It’s sayin, or sayin’. It’s a phonetic thing. Dean Clean was right. You can’t correct something that is purposeful slang. Well, you can. It’s just not valid.
Just sayin’.
*mayans
*spanish
Well if im correct those are not names, they are cultures. So in fact that they are not at the start of a sentence they must not be capitalized.
Well just saying*.
In English, nationalities and languages have to be capitalized.
Just saying.
Correcting a native Spanish speaker I see. In Spanish, none of those words are capitalized, and you get what you see.
Buuut…you’re not typing in español, are you?
No, Señor Ryan, but when your first language isn’t inglés, there is a strong tendency to merge it with one’s language habits.
This must come as news to the Mayans who live to this day on the Yucatan Peninsula…
I came here to post the same thing. I was talking to a Mayan just a couple months ago. Not to mention… as someone pointed out… that’s not a Mayan calendar.
yes it is
No it isn’t.
That is the Mexica Sun’s Stone (commonly known as Aztec Calendar).
That’s like saying you went to Italy and talked to a “Roman”. It won’t happen because although ethnic descendants of “Romans” may exist, their society, culture, etc. are long gone.
So, in conclusion, poop on you.
Yeah, or saying you went to Greece and talked to a “Greek.”
If by “Greek” you mean a Greek that lives in the Greek civilization a couple thousand years ago, then yes, he does mean that. Otherwise: nope.
in fact they are still mayan people… just saying.
Please re-read the comment.
You may as well say there are still “cavemen” because, incidentally, their descendants still exist.
You’re mixing ethnicity or genealogy with culture and civilization.
If you go to Rome, Italy you do meet Romans. I live in Southern Mexico and Mayans are still alive and well. They may not have the huge cities anymore, but they haven’t for thousands of years. In cities, like Merida, not just small villages you will hear people speaking Mayan, they practice the religion. There is a house built next to the Airport in Cancun (under the bridge) for Alux, which the Mayan workers insisted on building because they were convinced that the Alux were responsible for the accidents that happened while building the airport.
Go ahead, correct my grammar and punctuation because I’m sure it’s not college thesis quality here, but that’s just a diversion from your own ignorance.
You beat me to it as well… not to mention roughly 40% of Guatemala’s population is Mayan.
THANK YOU I was just coming here to say that, but hoping someone else already had. Why does everyone think they don’t exist anymore?!
This whole Mayan Calender bullshit has been bugging me no end for years now. Perhaps someone might explain how so many people decide that the Mayans were magically able to predict the end of the world?
Hows this for a better explaination? They spend years figuring out a super accurate astrological calender that lists dates thousands of years into the future and decide “Eh, thats far enough, we’ll make a new one whe the old one runs out”
Or more likely, “We set this thing up pretty good so it just resets when it reaches the end of this big cycle. No need to write the next one down just now.”
Except the Maya peoples never disappeared, and the 2012 date at the “end” of their calendar is just the end of a cycle/era/age/whatever, not the end of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Maya_collapse
Why would anyone expect any kind of accuracy from someone whose vocabulary is so lacking that they can’t come up with a better word than f***ing?
As a history nerd.. part of me just curled up and died.
la cultura maya desaparecio antes d ela llegada de los españoles o_o sigue siendo un misterio!
*sigh*
The greater Mayan civilization collapsed centuries before the Spaniards invaded the continent. The Mayan people still existed, and still continue to do so, but they weren’t exactly writing calendars at that point.
no they didn’t
and yes, they were.
The Mayan civilization most certainly did collapse before the Spanish arrived in that area… roughly 300 years prior.
no they didn’t
Yeah huh. Retard.
well look who took another name to disguise his ignorance… nice try
What a compelling argument!
It must take you a long time to come up with your debate schemes…
Noone wiped out the Mayans, there are more of them than ever.
I like Mayan Anjelou and Mayan Rudof, shes hot.
I mean Mayan Rudof, not the other one LOL!
It’s so funny how everyone scoffed when someone said the world might be coming to an end in 2011, and then it comes to people’s attention that the calendar of the Mayans (an extinct people) ends in 2012, and everyone suddenly loses their minds!
Wait, extinct people, I’m thinking of the Aztecs. Never mind about the extinct people part.
yeah thats hilarious
The world ended on my birthday last year!
HISTORY TEACHER HERE, facts:
1- The spanish NEVER saw the mayas, they were all wiped out (some studies indicate that the mayas were kidnapped by the other civilizations BUT they didn’t killed them, they turned in warriors to protect their owners).
2- Believe it or not, the calendar IS complete, but it’s NOT the end of the world it’s the end of 2 things:
– End AND beginning of a new cycle of agriculture.
– End of a COSMIC era and beginning of another (not end of the humanity, the earth, sun or solar sistem).
3- The picture IS the aztec calendar.
4- Maybe we were trolled… is this some kind of thing like the ‘troll quotes’?… wrong calendar, wrong facts… just saying.
I have two theories.
A – They just didn’t have a bigger stone.
B- They thought “Let’s see what they will do in 1000 years or so that is such an awesome prank let’s hope we’ll be able to watch from heaven…”
HAHA, epic win. But when I said we were trolled I was talking about the OP. Haha, a student of mine said the same thing of the hypothesis of the bigger stone.
They didn’t believe in “heaven”
Not exactly heaven… but something similar, extra points in your test tomorrow if you tell the class what they believed in…
Doesn’t matter, they’re still trolling us from beyond the grave.
Again, THEY are NOT trolling us, is the OP, the mayans did their calendar, nothing wrong, nothing about the end of the world, WE the people (present) are the ones trolling each other with no fundaments.
here’s some theorys for you:
1. ur an idiot.
2. ur the biggest idiot ever.
C. you have a rank and unpleasant odor.
Here, troll. Have a bucket of fish scum, since nobody seems to be feeding you.
^win
A fifth fact would be that they have dates after the end of the 13th period(I think that’s right) in other words the Mayan calender simply was never continued.
Another thing is that it would be like if they made calenders with all the holidays for the next the next year, but by that thousand years they decided not to print another calender for that year.
A friend of mine (history teacher too, but WAY to in the mayan history thing) say that the mayas finished the calendar and apparently they didn’t need another cause the new beginning was unpredictable (sounds silly I know but…), they KNEW how the agriculture works, they knew about the stars and the movement of the earth (or stars, in their point of view), but the new beginnig, according to them was going to be a end of MAYBE the agriculture so they can start again. It’s like, if you see a tiny plant, YOU don’t need to be a mayan to know it will keep growing, but you are not sure if in the future a wallmart will be there and, so long little green thingy…
It’s relatively simple why they didn’t need another. It starts over. When December 31st is coming to an end, no one thinks, “Oh man, what the hell is coming next?!” Everyone knows January follows. The Mayan calendar is the exact same thing, only on a much grander scale (thousands of years vice one year). This is coming from a professor I had that isn’t just way into Mayan history… She’s one of the go-to intellectuals for Mayan culture, especially in terms of pottery.
Wal mart has little green thingy’s on sale this week……
Not THE green thingy you saw on the first place, see? that’s what they say, they know ‘well, this fertile land will be here at least til 2012′ that will be you saying: ‘ok, this little plant will grow… unless a walmart comes and put a parking lot on it’. By the way, with ‘green thingy’ you mean ‘lettuce’ right?.
No, but the adult shop across the parking lot might be able to help you with that.
This ^
I have to agree about the trolling…this picture has so many fail points it’s hard to take it seriously.
I’m not sure the Mayans were “wiped out” – there’s still plenty of tribes around today that speak the Maya language. It’s hard to believe they were kidnapped either, considering the only civilisation that could come close to matching their power were the Aztecs, who didn’t really get going until a couple of hundred years after the Mayan collapse. Personally, I go with an environmental cause.
or maybe they realized that the calendar wouldn’t be accurate forever, and decided to make a new one in 2012
*kill
Sorry, I just had to do that. Back to the point, it is commonly speculated by archaeologists that the Mayans died of overpopulation and over exploitation of resources. 2012 is just the end of the Mayan long count calendar, and a new one begins after this one, lasting another several thousand years, when the calendar actually does end.
From a 16 y/o AP World History Student.
What is everyobdy talking about. You say the “mayas … were all wiped out”. If they Mayas were all wiped out, then how come they are still alive today? Hmm.
There are literally 7 million Mayans in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, etc.
Just sayin’
Doesn’t belong on failblog, it’s not a fail, stop posting this dumb crap!
Saying that the Aztec calendar is Mayan is a HUGE fail
I so agree. It’s culturally insensitive. It’s like saying that all ancient cultures are interchangeable. OP is a huge failure on that point. However, the whole “end of the world” crap is also a fail. It is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. That is all.
TL;DR
OP fails and anyone who falls for the end of the world crap also fails.
That image is Aztec not Mayan and the Mayan civilization decayed before the Spanish arrived.
Course there is. Didn’t you all hear the zombie worshiping crackpot, whats his face? The rapture is coming but it got delayed back in October.
Every year my calendar ends on December 31 and then I get a new one. The only difference here is the Mayan civilization went extinct before anyone bothered to make a new Mayan calendar.
….and, if Inigo Montoya’s father hadn’t been killed by a six fingered Mayan, they would have had no reason to kill them. Wait, what?
Bearing in mind that there are actually still many Mayans alive today.
The Mayan calendar ended on December 23, 2012 BUT, they claimed that the world would undergo a “spiritual rebirth” and actually IMPROVE.
“Improve”? As in, the Chinese taking over the world’s economy?
* December 21, 2012
And yes that is one theory.
No. I actually read that they thought December 23.
Well, people must be really ignorant if in 5 years of hysteria they couldn’t finally use google to realize that it’s NOT Mayan calendar…it’s friggin aztec sun stone >.<
the mayan calendar was finished, it is a cycle, there is no ending, only a zero point where everything resets naturally.
ah como hay gente tan pendeja! esa es la piedra del sol AZTECA, no tiene nada que ver con los mayas y el texto en si es la estupidez mas grande que jamas haya leido pero de seguro el que lo “posteo” se ha de creer la chingadera mas inteligente, vaya pendejazo!
Amen hermana, amen!
y para los que quieran culturizarse: Los mayas desaparecieron misteriosamente luego de su apogeo, hasta la fecha se desconoce como decayó tan gran civilizacion.
For the ones who think i am mexican… i am not. Oh and if you want to know what did i said… well its fair to you to use google translate sometimes XD
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!…Red robes are one of our many weapons…”
+1
wow… again, Does gringos know what happens out of their country?… and where they have wars?
We know our grammar, spic.
Then explain me why do 25% of all Americans confuse “then” with “than” without telling me they share the same phonemes, because they don’t.
I thought ‘spic’ was a racist epithet for Asians.
And you can’t expect a non-English speaker to have a full grasp of English grammar. The only reason YOU know the grammar is because you were raised in it.
The same can’t be said of manners, though…
LOL nice fail. This is why people should never assume anything. 1) Spic is for Spanish/Portuguese. 2) I can totally expect it because i know a lot of immigrants who speak it fluently including myself who was NOT raised in an English family.
To whiteoverblue
You fail with assuming things too. Not every English speaker comes from America…
You’re not very scrupulous in your observations, Mr. Pot.
read the conversation again.
That’s the aztec calendar.
Problem?
maybe if they expected the Spanish Inquisition…
I love that people think the calendar was “incomplete” when it was obviously carefully carved in a stone to be exactly as they wanted it to be.
I mean, it’s not like the calendar has a rough spot where they stopped working on it.
Doomsday or not, the Maya and Aztec firmly believed the Fourth World would end in destruction just like every other era. Passing it off as “the calendar just wasn’t finished” is something only ignorant people do when they know nothing about their religion.
Furthermore, the Maya OFTEN discussed dates and astronomical events past 2012. Their calendar went thousands of years into the future. No calendar has ever been more complete.
“Shut the f**k up and get back to work”?
More like, “Shut the f**k up and continue taking it up the a*s in an unfair hierarchy where just to feed your family you have to labour all day at a job you hate, and the world will never become better so just accept your sh*tty fate.”
You are thinking of the Aztecs and the Incas. The Mayan Empire happened centuries before the Spanish arrived. Probably drought, disease and famine decimated them. But there are still Mayans today.
date in the maya calendar resemble ip address
It is the Aztec calendar in the picture.
I’m spanish, we build a time machine to go and kill the mayans way before the past spanish conquers arrived.
So stop saying that we didin’t killed them.
Mayan are you stuck in the past arrived to early got killed by ancestor create time paradox
I’ve always imagined the Mayan calendar ended because the guy calculating it just decided, “F**k it, that’s plenty enough years. If someone else wants to work on it past 2012, be my guest.”
By the way, yes, I know it’s not 2012 in the Mayan calendar; obviously I meant the Mayan equivalent. But if I don’t point this out there will be another 17 trolling messages about this and 49 nasty replies to those. Just let it go, okay?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Fgew5.jpg[/IMG]
http://i.imgur.com/Fgew5.jpg
picture of Asda calendar
The calendar ended in the US in about 1736 A.D. The old style calendar New Year was in March.
The Jewish calendar is somewhere in the 7000s.
The Roman calendar has never “ended.”
The Muslim calendar is only in the 1100s or so.
The Eastern Christian countries didn’t accept the Gregorian calendar, because the Patriarch had ex-communicated Pope Gregory. (Greg had ex-communicated the Patriarch, so it was a draw.) So they do the Happy Birthday Jesus on their church signs on January 6, when every Western Christian knows Jesus was born on December 25, 0.
The Mayan calendar cycles were something like 57,000 years long. They never even came close to finishing the Long Cycle
I’m too lazy to look up the correct dates on whichever calendar is your favorite.
.
Why are religions run by juiceless old men, usually with long beards and scowly faces?
His name wasn’t Jesus, anyway.
What your mention are timescales not calendar systems.
i notice we have no calendar based on cats or the year 0 in fear of dividing it..
Mexican history fail. Read books, and post pictures
Its so sad to know that people believe Mayans were wiped out by the Spanish conquerors.
The Mayans disappeared looooong before the Spanish came to America :/
Remember, Gringos weren’t taught that “America” refers to the longest continent in the world. They were told in school that America refers to the country between Canada and Mexico… and that “The Americas” are 2 continents.
Can you believe the English school system?
Please help me with my ignorance on this topic. Why is it okay for you to call white people Gringos? What does that word actually mean in Spanish? Also, is it actually capitalized as a proper noun? I’ve seen it both ways. I’m not trying to be rude or anything, I genuinely want to know.
The literal meaning is simply “foreigner” (esp. from the US), but the connotation may vary (from neutral to offensive), and the etymology is not fully clear – see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo
It’s not an actual proper noun, so it does not necessarily need to be capitalised.
“Gringo” is simple, Western, Spanish slang for “person from USA,” and it is mostly used with caucasians.
It can’t be anglicized since it is a bastardization of the words “green go.” When you ask some people about its origin, they tell you that it has something to do with green uniformed soldiers from USA.
The term is 100% informal, so capitalization is optional, and its nature depends on how it is being addressed to the person:
It can be friendly if you’re on good terms with the person…
or it can be as rude as the term “beaner.”
Friendly or not, professionals are forbidden to use it, whatsoever.
Gringo is slang. It was derived from the two terms Green Coat, The color the border control wears, and with the heavy accent the us folk interpreted it as gringo, the Hispanic/Mexican folk took to calling them that (green coat) and away it went.
There is no formal place for gringo in the world just as there is no place for the term wet back, or beaner. Gringo has evolved into a derogative term used to describe self righteous and racially inept white folk.
The only time it is used for fun is in the midwest where people have no idea the word they are using ( a couple local restaurants owned by white folk have ‘menus for gringos’ and there food sucks. or between friends, much like the black folk use of the term niggga (take your pick of the spelling)
Also wrong calendar…
Nope. It’s not just for the racially elite, white, American folks. It’s for Americans in general (specially the white people). Go to many towns in Latin America, the people prefer to call them gringos instead of “Estado Unidences,” and they’re NOT trying to be derogatory. I also know it because 99% of my Mexican folks use the term exclusively, be it offensively or not.
Thank you all for the replies. *bows*
hahaha i bet this was made by an ignorant gringo, who really didn’t knew mayans disappeared way long before spanish came to mexico and s**t.
Ignorants everywhere.
I’m selling 2012 insurance, if your property gets damaged and you survive you can claim on it. No refunds though.
And one problem with this 2012 end of the world nonsense based upon the mayan calender, people are only reading the scare mongering stories and false information, which in turn developed from that. As do other end of the world stories., which people believe will happen, giant planets or gods etc The Earth will either change by natural means or human means someday, but there is no actual date for the end of the world I believe mentioned anywhere in any form of scripture or ancient writing.
Actually no one wiped them all out, there are still a few million Mayans left (in countries like Guatemala, Belize, Honduras).
My opinion is they were tired of making a calendar that they were never going to be alive to see lol
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I can´t envy your education.
Not a mayan calendar. Welcome to failblog !
i think the only think that can’t be based on imperialism is the abomination that is pineapple on a pizza aaaand the advertising b**ch
that’s the aztec calendar not mayan you stupid.