What's so dumb about world-ending Mayan prophesy or rapture-date prediction?

[skip fox]

There's no future in it.

That's a joke, of course, but also true. Such charlatans that spread their ignorance like a cultural stain may be able to bilk the gullible for the short term, but they always end disgraced in the long term; hence there's no real future in their future.

[tama]

1. Don't blame the Mayans

for Western rapture interpretations of their calendar. Mayans themselves are most annoyed by the hysteria.

[FSogol]

6. If only the Mayans had predicted the coming of the Spaniards.

[tama]

8. They didn't?

How do you know?

[Flashmann]

2. disgraced in the long term

Not all that long,in my opinion........I'd wager that,if 6 months down the road,the same crowd that pushed the 12-21 doomsday,now shift to another near future date,the same folks who bought into THIS will buy into that....Leading to....OH NOES!!!!...Disgraced...Discredited....Rinse...Lather...Repeat....

[RC]

3. Anybody know what time today the world is supposed to end?

BTY, I'm in the Central Time Zone.
I wanta know if I have time to take my morning nap or not.

[ladjf]

4. In light of the 4.5 billion years of the existence of Earth, predicting it's demise down to the

exact day would be betting on bad odds, to say the least.

[skip fox]

9. That's the general sense I meant. Any bookie would take that bet!

[Octafish]

5. Forecast is Category 5 Scary

[font size="1"]From the Bartcop Collection[/font size]

[FSogol]

7. Great graphic, however that's an Aztec calendar behind it.

Mayan calendars were rectangular.