From Wikipedia on Mayanism; Speculation about this date can be traced to the first edition of The Maya (1967) by Michael D. Coe, in which he suggested the date of December 24, 2011 as one on which the Maya believed "Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation."[11]. If you were not a fraud, then you'd offer the true facts of the matter. This site sucks ***.
Oh wait you're just talking about someone who speculated about this date being 12/24/11 sorry Starheart missed that although i doubt you'll be back.
Then by your definition we must not be frauds, because on the Mayan Prediction page we say:
The first book to suggest that end of the Long Count calendar might have apocalyptic implications was The Maya (1966) by Michael D. Coe,3 in which he said:
There is a suggestion … that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [baktun]. Thus … our present universe … [would] be annihilated on December 23, 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion.
This apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date is widely disputed, with most scholars insisting that it simply marks a resetting of the calendar to Baktun 13.0.0.0.0
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
Hello StarHeart,
If it's possible to make any progress here on the issues you mention, we're more likely to make it if we start out by granting the possibility that we all want to arrive, eventually, at the truth.
I'll make only one observation, which I hope will demonstrate 2012hoax's good faith. That observation is that I put very little trust in Wikipedia. I once documented that they were misquoting John Major Jenkins in a way that was damaging to him, whereupon they replied that the misquote would stand because it was from a reliable, verifiable source.1
I told you the above in hopes that it might (1) encourage all of us in this thread to refer to sources more reliable than Wikipedia, and (2) suggest to you that do I try to be somewhat of an honest man. As further evidence of that, I'd add my posts in this thread, and my authorship of this article, in which I confess that I unwisely helped popularize a serious error committed by debunkers of 2012. Please note that I wrote that page with the explicit approval of Astrogeek, the founder of this website.
I hope this helps. I won't be participating further in this thread.
"I was glad to be able to answer him promptly and with confidence. Without hesitation, I told him I didn't know." Mark Twain
StarHeart, did you even bother to read the Mayan Prediction page? And in case your conspiracy-addled brain gets the notion that we added the part about Coe after you mentioned it, you can check the revision history for yourself.
I've a hunch you won't come back to apologize and admit that you were completely wrong.
I thought it was my job to tear these guys a new one? Thanks for stealing the show! *Sob*