The Mayans Were Morons

[Tessera]

The Mayans Were Morons


Today is December 21, 2012.

Millions of people believe that the Mayan calendar predicts that the world will come to an end on this day. On this very day... December 21, 2012.

Well, guess what..? It didn't... it hasn't... and it won't. We're still here. Gee, what a surprise..!!!

All of this phony "Mayan prophesy" bullshit is just another example of the dangers of magical thinking. And it is also further proof that MAGICAL THINKING = STUPIDITY.

One of the most pathetic aspects of magical thinking is that it persuades people to believe that the older something is, the more true it must be. Modern discoveries and modern thinking are shunned, in favor of Bronze Age baloney and 1000-year-old Colombian crappola. "Those people have been saying this shit for thousands of years... so it must be true..!!!" Uh huh...

Let me clue everyone in on something here. The Mayans were savages. They did not possess any mystical, secret knowledge. They were a people who played football games in which the losers were killed. They punched holes in their penises. They ate their own babies. They were PRIMITIVE BABOONS... not prophets and mystics.

The same is true for the Bronze Age buffoons who were responsible for monotheism. Judaism, Christianity, Islam... all three of those reigning monotheistic religions can trace their roots straight back to the Bronze Age. A very primitive era in human history, when people still believed in magical spirits and miracles. And those nitwits made equally false prophesies in their day... not a single one of which has ever come true. And yet, there are still billions of human beings who cling to that nonsense, primarily because each successive generation has brainwashed their offspring into believing in a bunch of mythical horseshit.

So it isn't just the Mayans who have fallen flat on their faces, so far as their mystical prophesies and magical nonsense is concerned. Let's not forget that the Book Of Revelations in the Bible likewise predicts that the world will come to an end.

Well, according to Revelations, the world was supposed to come to an end over a decade ago. And we're still here. And they're still full of shit.

We live in a universe dominated by quite ordinary physical laws. There is no magic. There is no mysticism. There are no supernatural entities. There are no prophets. THERE ARE NO GODS.

If such things actually did exist, then we wouldn't need to go searching for the proof. Nor would we need to describe them in cryptic and mystical terms. We would be seeing the evidence of such things all around us. The universe is extremely huge and even if such things only manifested themselves once in a blue moon, the sheer number of opportunities for such magical stuff to appear in the universe would be nothing short of astronomical. The proof would be everywhere... not just within some ancient book written by ancient idiots, who didn't even know that the Earth actually orbits the sun.

Here's what it all boils down to, so far as the mythology of religion is concerned. Contrary to the tenets of magical thinking, the older an idea is, THE MORE LIKELY THAT IT IS DEAD WRONG. Not the other way around. Ancient religious books and beliefs are not "more right" than modern scientific thinking. There is no possible way that they could be.

So I would like to thank the ancient Mayans for demonstrating, once again, that magical thinking (which includes any belief in religion) is, far more often than not, completely and absolutely false. Furthermore, magical thinking is one of the primary ways that humans engage is self-imposed stupidity. The actual facts of the world make the truth of that statement crystal clear.

- Tessera -

[Cat]

Yep, I'm not dead yet.

[Farrell McKinsie]

Damn, I wanted to see Zombies!!!

[Will Never]

Remember the film Apocalypto?  I liked Gibson's depiction of the Mayans.  :laugh:

[Cylnar]

The Mayans themselves never predicted the end of the world, just the end of their "Long Count" calendar (and the beginning of a new Long Count). The claims of "end of the world" came later from Westerners of an apocalyptic (and moronic) bent who took something they didn't really understand and ran with it.

Still, the point that Bronze Age or Stone Age people somehow knew more than us modern folks about, well, anything other than how to fuck goats, not having any sort of scientific method or non-magical way of seeing the world, is well-taken.

And the Mayans of Apocalypto were basically the de-urbanized descendants of the Mayan Empire that was destroyed by the Aztecs (who were the villains of the piece, rounding up people to be sacrificed). They were not meant to represent Mayans at their cultural peak, but as a diminished people in decline.

[Farrell McKinsie]

Not to mention, I can't hold a people blame for something they wrote centuries ago, only to have us Modern folk interpret it how we want. Mayans, morons?  Nah.....
People who believe that the world was to end today.... oh fuck yeah!!!

[Schu]

I don't blame the Mayans.  Some were highly intelligent, many were possibly savage, and of course there were a lot of morons.  Hell, they were a human civilization, so what else is new?  I blame the Conquistadors and the idiot monks they brought with them, who destroyed thousands of books that were written by both the Mayans and the Aztecs. 

Christianity at its best again. Let us destroy that which we don't understand, so that no one will disbelieve in our god, and only listen to us, the chosen of God.
Go Christ...morons.  This of course now means, we have no access to the Mayan knowledge or history, and we aren't even positive that we can read the long count calender properly...figures.

Where did the 12/21/12 bullshit come from anyway?  It wasn't from the Mayans.  All of their knowledge was destroyed centuries ago, and their legends are no different than those from any civilization...story's.

[Tessera]

The underlying point of my OP is that magical thinking is a type of self-imposed stupidity.

[Cat]

Grumpy cat sums it up.

[Jerethi50]

I'm not sure i would discount the Mayans intelligence entirely, You must also consider the idiocy of the people looking at these old stones and assuming some pieced together knowledge is absolute proof of anything, especially since ti seems like some one was saying the calendar was saying something different every few months, and now they are saying that the calendar is somehow cyclic and unending. I would have to say, we cant assume the only stupidity going on here was the Mayans.

[Tessera]

You must also consider the idiocy of the people looking at these old stones

I am... and I was... and I actually intended them to be the targets of this thread.   

"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
~ Obi Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars"

[mu6best]

Given the context of the times they were in, I don't know if I'd call them morons.
Now, the people who thought the end of the world was coming because the calendar reached a certain day?  Yeah, they're morons.

I blame society

[SlstcZro]

Given the context of the times they were in, I don't know if I'd call them morons.
Now, the people who thought the end of the world was coming because the calendar reached a certain day?  Yeah, they're morons.

I blame society

You hit the nail on the head, good sir.

[shilp9049]

LMAO @ Topic. Dumbass Mayans and even dumber dumbass's who fell for it lol