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Originally Posted by hndog609  I'm not trying to be contentious to your point but having something studied in universities doesn't necessarily carry much intellectual credibility with me. Consider:
Brown offers a course called "Black Lavender: A study of black gay and lesbian plays and dramatic construction in American theatre"
UVA can give you "Marxism: What is to be learned from it?" Described as declaring Marxism the "standard against which all subsequent social thought must be judged".
Indiana Bloomington- Star Trek & Religion
I'm sure there are numerous other examples. Anyway, I just don't want to give any subject any real degree of gravitas because somebody is studying it in a class somewhere. Finding Mayan culture interesting enough to study is one thing. Having people convince themselves that the Mayans (or whoever) figured out some date X in the future is the end/beginning/whatever is another thing entirely. |
You are correct to an extent. None of these classes mentioned above are legit IMO. I did not insinuate that one should take this prophecy as fact. As stated by a previous poster the Mayan understood the cosmos better than any other civilization before and arguably since. They were great mathematicians and their skill lends enough credence to at least study and contemplate their observations. I advocate no more or less. I would just suggest people study it and decide for themselves. (They never stated it was the END of existence, just this period of time and did not indicate what, if anything would happen.)