Exploring the fundamental flaws of fundamentalist thought
Did the Mayans accurately predict the fate of humanity?
No.
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about 9 months ago
Nothing I’ve read from credible Mayan archeology supports the view that they were even trying to do that.
about 9 months ago
Brian, I just read Stephen Gould’s “Questioning the Millennium-A Rationalist’s Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown”. I love Gould (and miss him) and have read most of his books, but this one is really good and concise (~160 pages). Some of what he writes about calendrics and millennial apocalypticism bears exactly on this type of nonsense. It infuriates me that people are so hungry to believe in their own (and their planet’s) demise from some supernatural occurrence, when we are slowly bringing it about by our actions in the here and now.