Anything YOU Wish to Share Before . . .

[bobover3 (imported)]

If we're not all dead on time, I'm going to be very disappointed.

Kidding aside, there's the fact that we're all going to die anyway ... eventually. People seem to be unhappy with the idea of individual death. Collective death is somehow more reassuring. What difference could it make if we all die together or die alone? I suppose the idea of survivors grieving or, worse, ignoring our passing depresses some people.

[bobover3 (imported)]

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Father ... 91.html?dr

Father Carves Pentagram into Son on 12-12-12: Police

By Frank Heinz

Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

A Richland Hills man has been arrested and charged with assaulting his son after telling a 911 operator he carved a pentagram into his 6-year-old son's back.

Just after midnight Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a home in the 3700 block of Ruth Road after the boy's father, identified by police as Brent Troy Bartel, called 911 and said: "I shed some innocent blood."

When the dispatcher asked what the man meant by that, the man replied: “I inscribed a pentagram on my son.”

The dispatcher asked why, and the man said: "It's a holy day."

At the same time, the child's mother called 911 from a neighbor's home and said her husband was hurting their child.

Officers arrived at the home and found the child cold, standing in only pajama pants with a large pentagram carved into his back. The carving covered most of the boy's back, police said.

Officers wrapped the boy in a jacket and turned him over to paramedics. The child was transported to Cooks Children's Hospital for treatment. Child Protective Services and a crime victim liaison are working with the boy and his mother.

Police said Wednesday afternoon that the carving wasn't deep enough to require stitches and that the child is expected to physically recover.

At the scene, officers also recovered a box cutter they believe Bartel used to make the carving.

Bartel was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-family member. He is currently being held on $500,000 bond.

The father's call to 911 was placed at 12:10 a.m., just minutes after the day 12-12-12 began.

It is not clear what Bartel meant by calling Wednesday "a holy day."

However, Catholics celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. And the Dec. 12, 2012, date, along with Dec. 21, 2012, has draw attention from numerologists and those concerned with doomsday prophecy.

[gareth19 (imported)]

The Mayan calendar is actually much, much more accurate than the Gregorian calendar, -certainly more than the Julian, so if an apocolypse were to happen then there should be some accurate account of how things would transpire written in stone somewhere.

The Julian calendar reckoned the year at 365 days and 6 hours; the Gregorian calendar at approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes. The Mayan calendar reckoned with two different cycles of 260 days and 365 days; the two cycles together coincide every 52 years; the Maya also recognized that the 365 day year was inaccurate and compensated by recognizing a 360 day year and multiplying it by 18 to reckon a tun; 20 tun made a katun and 20 katun made a baktun; 13 baktun made a long count which is the cycle that will end on 21 December 2012, but the Maya also recognized that a pictun was made of 20 baktun, a calabtun of 20 pictun, a kinchiltun of 20 calabtun and an alautun of 20 kinchiltun. Thus, the end of the long count is by no means the end of Mayan time reckoning. It is clear that the Maya understood that the tropical year was not quite 365 days and 6 hours, but we do not know what the precise figure they used was because unlike the Western calendars in which the length of the solar or tropical year is the basis, that was not the basis of Mayan time reckoning. Therefore it is not correct to say that the Mayan calendar was "much, much more accurate than the Gregorian." The Revised Julian calendar, adopted by the Orthodox Church in 1923 reckons the year at 365 days, 5 hours 48 minutes and 48 seconds and is the most accurate of those in use.

[Dave (imported)]

Do I have anything to say before the world ends?

BYE! Don't let the Universe hit you on the way out...

But really, seriously... (baloney)

Months end without fanfare. Years end without the world falling apart.

Decades end without the sky falling. Centuries, millennia, and leap years all have ended. Nothing happens.

If you think I'm going to bare my soul in hysterical foolishness and reveal the "one great truth" that I have hidden away...

HAH! All Calendars are artificial constructs and mean nothing.

Bite me! Bite me hard!

Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha,

[~Tiamat~ (imported)]

Rosebud

I think a lot of people will be doing emergency Christmas shopping on the 22nd!

[Riverwind (imported)]

I am with Dave on this one and send money, it will be worthless on the 22nd anyway.

River

[A-1 (imported)]

Hey, us Mayan wanna-be's will be celebrating the Mayan New Year. Now if I can just finish chiseling my new stone calender by the big day. Do you think that tequila would be the most appropriate tipple for the big day? A big pitcher of margaritas with a plate of cactus worms for snacks perhaps? And I'm not sure of the proper ritual. Is it appropriate to sacrifice a virgin, perhaps tossing him or her into Mt St. Helen's volcano? These big celebrations are so complicated.

Transward

Virgin sacrifice? Good luck finding a 10 Yr. Old THAT UGLY...

If you throw them into the Yellowstone Caldera they will more likely be spending the night in th

e Yellowstone Lodge than getting burned up with lava...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Father ... 91.html?dr

Father Carves Pentagram into Son on 12-12-12: Police

By Frank Heinz

Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

A Richland Hills man has been arrested and charged with assaulting his son after telling a 911 operator he carved a pentagram into his 6-year-old son's back.

Just after midnight Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a home in the 3700 block of Ruth Road after the boy's father, identified by police as Brent Troy Bartel, called 911 and said: "I shed some innocent blood."

When the dispa

tcher asked what the man meant by th

at, the man replied: “I inscribed a pentagram on my son.”

The dispatcher asked why, and the man said: "It's a holy day."

At the same time, the child's mother called 911 from a neighbor's home and said her husband was hurting their child.

Officers arrived at the home and found the child cold, standing in only pajama pants with a large pentagram carved into his back. The carving covered most of the boy's back, police said.

Officers wrapped the boy in a jacket and turned him over to paramedics. The child was transported to Cooks Children's Hospital for treatment. Child Protective Services and a crime victim liaison are working with the boy and his mother.

Police said Wednesday afternoon that the carving wasn't deep enough to require stitches and that the child is expected to physically recover.

At the scene, officers also recovered a box cutter they believe Bartel used to make the carving.

Bartel was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-family member. He is currently being held on $500,000 bond.

The father's call to 911 was placed at 12:10 a.m., just minutes after the day 12-12-12 began.

It is not cl

ear what Bartel meant by calling Wednesday "a holy day."

Sounds like he meant a hole day. The cops should have cut a swasti

ka in one of the mo-fo's carotid arteries, or BOTH of em!

However, Catholics celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. And the Dec. 12, 2012, date, along with Dec. 21, 2012, has draw attention from

numerologists and those concerned with doomsday prophecy.

Here I though that it was only the Reform Jews that cooked people and ate them.

I think that I may have eaten a loopy Catholic Lady once. We were pretty drunk. I didn't cook her first, though.

P.S. I have been telling those idiots that they have another 100 years. it is 12-21-21-12 NOT 12-21-20-12! The assholes probably FLUNKED remedial math number recognition...

[moi621 (imported)]

We are there.

If anyone would like to apologize for past wrongs on Moi, now is your chance to purify your spirit/soul before . . . .

Good Luck to us all.

Bob3 Ex-BFF I meant everything I said.

River, Kristoff, thank you for your tolerances, and then some.

Wolfie, we shared Yoli.

Slammr, met a young man today who agrees, bring on the cliff. Respect you for putting your body out there with Occupy.

Looking Forward To . . . .

Moi

Covering Bases for Spiritual Purity.

Happy Yule Season, May Your Yule Log Flame To Morning.

[george2u2 (imported)]

Local supermarket had end of the world cakes. Red velvet with the sun stone and Dec.21,2012. One had Dec.12,2012. I bought more than one and they all were delicious.

[bobover3 (imported)]

The Mayans have their say:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/ ... 5V20121219

Mexico's ethnic Maya unmoved by 2012 'Armageddon' hysteria

Wed, Dec 19 2012

* End of a 5,125-year cycle in Maya Long Calendar

* Majority of today's Maya people are Roman Catholic

By Alexandra Alper

IZAMAL, Mexico, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of mystics, New Age dreamers and fans of pre-Hispanic culture have been drawn to Mexico in hopes of witnessing great things when the day in an old Maya calendar dubbed "the end of the world" dawns on Friday.

But many of today's ethnic Maya cannot understand the fuss. Mostly Christian, they have looked on in wonder at the influx of foreign tourists to ancient cities in southern Mexico and Central America whose heyday passed hundreds of years ago.

For students of ancient Mesoamerican time-keeping, Dec. 21, 2012 marks the end of a 5,125-year cycle in the Maya Long Calendar, an event one leading U.S. scholar said in the 1960s could be interpreted as a kind of Armageddon for the Maya.

Academics and astronomers say too much weight was given to the words and have sought to allay fears the end is nigh.

But over the past few decades, fed by popular culture, Friday became seen by some western followers of alternative religions as a day on which momentous change could occur.

"It's a psychosis, a fad," said psychologist Vera Rodriguez, 29, a Mexican of Maya descent living in Izamal, Yucatan state, near the center of the 2012 festivities, the site of Chichen Itza. "I think it's bad for our society and our culture."

Behind Rodriguez, her two children played in a living room decorated with Christmas trees and Santa Claus figurines.

Mexico's government forecast around 50 million tourists from home and abroad would visit southern Mexico in 2012. Up to 200,000 are expected to descend on Chichen Itza on Friday.

"It's a date for doing business, but for me it's just like any other day," said drinks vendor Julian Nohuicab, 34, an ethnic Maya working in the ruins of the ancient city of Coba in Quintana Roo state, not far from the beach resort of Cancun.

Watching busloads of white-haired pensioners and dreadlocked backpackers pile into their heartland, Maya old and young roll their eyes at the suggestion the world will end.

"We don't believe it," said Socorro Poot, 41, a housewife and mother of three in Holca, a village about 25 miles (40 km) from Chichen Itza. "Nobody knows the day and the hour. Only God knows."

FOREIGN INVADERS

Tracing its origins to the end of the 4th millennium BC, the ancient Mesoamerican civilization of the Maya reached its peak between A.D. 250 and 900 when they ruled over large swathes of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.

Famed for developing hieroglyphic writing and an advanced astronomical system, the Maya then began a slow decline, but pockets of the civilization continued to flourish until they were finally subjugated by the Spanish in the 17th century.

Today, ethnic Maya are believed to number at least 7 million in Mexico, Guatemala and other parts of Central America.

The vast majority are nominally Roman Catholics, though many still uphold elements and rites of their old beliefs. According to a 2000 Mexican census, there were also a few hundred Jews and handful of Buddhists among the Maya.

Tales of human sacrifice, pioneering architectural feats and an interest in the stars burnished the Maya's supernatural reputation. So too, say experts, has the misguided notion that the Maya died out with the arrival of the conquistadors.

"That idea that they disappeared culturally back in the deep past is one of these things that feeds into this idea that they are mysterious, that they are otherworldly," said David Stuart, a Maya expert at the University of Texas.

The reality is that many Maya live in rural areas where water can be scarce, communications poor and education patchy.

Even as some shrug their shoulders at the awe and reverence December 21 has inspired, others worry it has become a free meal ticket for sharp-witted businessmen.

"There's the legend and there's the reality," said Yolanda Cornelio, 21, a tourism official in the city of Merida, whose mother speaks Maya at home. "Some people take the legend and abuse it, using it to make money. There's a lot of con artists."

With scores of old Maya ruins, temples and monuments dotting the landscape between southern Mexico and Central America, locals have plenty of opportunities to impress foreign visitors.

One of the most popular attractions lies in a leafy grove near the crumbling pyramids of Coba, where a large stone tablet records the Maya creation date of August 13, 3114 BC - quite literally the cornerstone of the 2012 phenomenon.

"This is a very powerful, sacred place," said Jonathan Ellerby, 39, a writer from Canada. "I feel something energetic, emotional, and I feel I'm in the right place. I really do."