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Taalit wrote:I wasn't personally referring to him, but I was using his post as a sort of springboard to discuss that idea. I don't think it's reasonable to say that humanity is bad on average.

The median is bad, however the average is relatively good.

Easy.

I don't believe that the world would ends on Friday.



Could be something different.

I really don't believe in a "spiritual change" of sorts. If there will be, why that particular day? It's just a random day in our calendar. Except for that it is another winter solstice.

"Spiritual change"=General embarrassment felt by some.

- ak - wrote:Easy.

I don't believe that the world would ends on Friday.



Could be something different.

The end of the world in the Bible happens on Friday.
Also generally it is a bad, unlucky day in the Christian culture - the Flood and Jesus' death both happened on Friday.

Really?Which verses said those events happened/will happen on a friday?

I really don't believe in a "spiritual change" of sorts. If there will be, why that particular day? It's just a random day in our calendar. Except for that it is another winter solstice.

Good point XD (winter solstice)

But it reminds me how this Mayan Calendar differs from ours because (as I remember reading somewhere) the shift between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar.

And we don't even understand what the purpose was of the Mayan calendar "ending" on that day anyway, it could've meant anything, and we automatically assume "apocalypse?" Why?

And we don't even understand what the purpose was of the Mayan calendar "ending" on that day anyway, it could've meant anything, and we automatically assume "apocalypse?" Why?

Because most (modern) western cultures perceive time as a linear phenomenon: it has a beginning and an end. I blame christianity for the doomsday/apocalypse talk.
For some other cultures time is cyclic, never-ending. Everything just starts over again.

random day in our calendar

-Winter Solstice (For us in the Southern Hemisphere)
-Day that the Sun will be in alignment with the galactic plane

and a few others.

Ooops. Here's Mum...

Boingo, Vortex pointed that out, lol.

Because most (modern) western cultures perceive time as a linear phenomenon: it has a beginning and an end. I blame christianity for the doomsday/apocalypse talk.
For some other cultures time is cyclic, never-ending. Everything just starts over again.

I see...Interesting.

I would go with the cyclical culture It's strange how people put their beliefs into things they know little or nothing about.