• weedazz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      When the world was extra ridiculous over the past decade I would always tell my friends/family "the Mayans were right, the real world ended in 2012, and we have been living in a fucked up facsimile of it ever since purely for the amusement of the Mayan gods. They want to see how much they can turn up the “ridiculousness” dial on the simulation until the planet quite literally explodes

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      10 months ago

      Actually, the Mayan calendar stated that 2012 is the start of a new epoch under their date system, it never said anything about the world ending. The claim that they predicted the world ending was based on nothing but “indigenous mysticism” by white people and Hollywood.

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        Actually, the Mayan calendar stated that 2012 is the start of a new epoch

        The end of The Fifth Age and the beginning of the Sixth Age, the reawakening of the great dragons, and the start of goblinization, and the return of magic to the world.

        You know, basic Shadowrun lore XD

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          Still waiting for the magic, not sure if I want a deck port in my brain given how many add I see on my phone.

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            You don’t need to wait for magic. You can just go train with some tibetan buddhists and you’ll have magic powers.

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        Given how the Mayans are usually portrayed as an ancient, vanished people, I was surprised to find out that if you want to know about Mayan beliefs you can just ask them. They’re the guys stood outside the archeological sites selling t-shirts.

        • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The damn calendar was a circle.

          How damn hard was it to figure out?

          Also, completely hated by caledar companies - buy one calendar and it lasts forever.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but the world ending in 2012 had nothing to do with the Mayan calendar and everything to do with aliens destroying the moon and using it to end all life on Earth, just after scanning us all for re-creation in their matrix in the year 29000 AD

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      1 year ago

      It’s good to find someone else who’s aware of this, and of our current state of existence.