Loonies on the Radio!
There was a nice little documentary last night on R4 about people who think that there's about to be some sort of catastrophe. This is it.
I think they're all insane. Mind you, if you're planning to listen, it might be an idea to do so before Friday, just in case the Mayans were right.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 8:49,
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A big part of me would want the prophecy to be true.
Just because it will clear up any question of there being some divine power.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 18 Dec 2012, 9:35,
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No it wouldn't.
It might, conceivably, indicate that there's something utterly different to anything we know already; but it's not at all clear that that'd be the same as divinity. What, in fact, could possibly count as evidence for divinity, to the exclusion of every other possibility? I'm not sure that there would be anything. Divinity, in fact, seems to be one of the worse explainations for any given phenomenon.
Alos, if it really is the end of the world, you won't get an answer to your question, because you'll be dead.
More importantly, it's all nonsense anyway.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 9:58,
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I'll just have to bundle this one up with the rest of my angst then I think :)
I would get my answer if death wasn't instantaneous(edit: well the moment of death would be instant, I mean its approach and if it is signposted). The big reveal would have to be raining fire and sulphur as opposed to it being like flicking off a light. I can understand that it wouldn't confirm the divine, just that the Mayans were on to something.
I doubt I'd be able to think through that this would be getting towards an answer at the time though. I think I'll watch Melancholia again tonight.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 18 Dec 2012, 10:17,
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What's pathetic about anything to do with the Mayan civilisation
is they got the concept of a 'civilisation' completely wrong; with some religious, all-impervading priesthood ruling theocracy, that so fucked off the population in the end, the entire Mayan civilisation inevitably collapsed and vanished into the night. They didn't predict that. So fuck any other prediction their superstitious, mystical, religious bollocks might have predicted.
I remember all the muppets seriously convinced it was going to end in 2000, just like every other doomsday that's been and gone.
One day humans will wake up from the nightmare of the daytime that is religious, superstitious belief and get on with reality
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 10:32,
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For the first time in recorded history, Mitch Benn made me smile on Friday
on The Now Show with his joke about how, if the Mayans were so good at predicting things, they failed to predict the arrival of the Europeans.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 10:37,
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Hahaha
They were sharp, that lot weren't they. Perhaps they should have built more pyramids or something
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 10:45,
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It annoys me
that even R4 says "the Mayans have predicted the world will end", when they've done no such thing. They also said that they disappeared thousands of years ago, when actually it's only a few hundred. And they didn't even disappear in a mysterios way, they just moved.
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