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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:04 pm
I have received an unusual amount of attention from you lately, Ed.
I'm confused.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:06 pm
"According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world.[12] The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 14th b'ak'tun.
The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.[13] There is only one reference to the current creation's 13th b'ak'tun in the fragmentary Mayan corpus: Tortuguero Monument 6, part of a ruler's inscription.
Maya inscriptions occasionally reference future predicted events or commemorations that would occur on dates that lie beyond 2012 (that is, beyond the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun of the current era). Most of these are in the form of "distance dates" where some Long Count date is given, together with a Distance Number that is to be added to the Long Count date to arrive at this future date.
For example, on the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of the text projects into the future to the 80th Calendar Round (CR) 'anniversary' of the famous Palenque ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal's accession to the throne (Pakal's accession occurred on a Calendar Round date 5 Lamat 1 Mol, at Long Count 9.9.2.4.8 equivalent to 27 July 615 CE).[14] It does this by commencing with Pakal's birthdate 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ajaw 13 Pop (24 March 603 CE) and adding to it the Distance Number 10.11.10.5.8.[15] This calculation arrives at the 80th Calendar Round since his accession, a day that also has a CR date of 5 Lamat 1 Mol, but which lies over 4,000 years in the future from Pakal's time—the day 21 October in the year 4772. The inscription notes that this day would fall eight days after the completion of the 1st piktun [since the creation or zero date of the Long Count system], where the piktun is the next-highest order above the b'ak'tun in the Long Count. If the completion date of that piktun—13 October 4772—were to be written out in Long Count notation, it could be represented as 1.0.0.0.0.0. The 80th CR anniversary date, eight days later, would be 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol."
Mayans: Totally bad-a** with base-20 calendars.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:07 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:07 pm
It could simply be thinly disguised sexual overtures made on my part in regards to you.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:08 pm
Designated Hero How can they be asexual when Smurfette is very clearly a female? But she only shows feminine traits. Who says she's female? For all we know, she's a male Smurf acting like a woman. Canonically, she was made by the villain, but was soon turned into a good Smurf by the old Smurf. Technically, she's neither sex. In fact, the Smurfs fighting over her could just be a form of them trying to show dominance for a pretty Smurf, not a pretty woman.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:10 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:12 pm
Vintrict Designated Hero How can they be asexual when Smurfette is very clearly a female? But she only shows feminine traits. Who says she's female? For all we know, she's a male Smurf acting like a woman. Canonically, she was made by the villain, but was soon turned into a good Smurf by the old Smurf. Technically, she's neither sex. In fact, the Smurfs fighting over her could just be a form of them trying to show dominance for a pretty Smurf, not a pretty woman. Either Smurfs are asexual and just pop out of the ground, or Smurfette is secretly the heir to the throne of the Smurf Queen, who dwells undergound laying hundreds of Smurf eggs and developing quirky personality traits and matching names for each of her brood. That, or Smurfette is a huge slut.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:14 pm
Smurfette is a Daemonette in disguise. With that said, 'scuse me while I go hang with my buddies for a few.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:18 pm
Why in God's name do you know so much about smurfs?
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:20 pm
Tenkai Matsumoto Either Smurfs are asexual and just pop out of the ground, or Smurfette is secretly the heir to the throne of the Smurf Queen, who dwells undergound laying hundreds of Smurf eggs and developing quirky personality traits and matching names for each of her brood. That, or Smurfette is a huge slut. You will realize that the same number of smurfs has always stayed the same: 99, with 100 being from Smurfette herself. Thus, no, no Queen. @Hero: Curiosity.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:20 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:24 pm
*looks at stadium*
...
*eye twitch*
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:30 pm
Don't even say a thing about Cog not posting. sweatdrop Please.
Unless you're referring to something else. In which case nevermind me.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:37 pm
Oh no. It isn't Cog. Cog's cool.
BUT IT IS SOMEONE. SOMEONE IN THIS VERY ROOM.
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:40 pm
*points at door and waits for Silver to walk into it, so he can point to Barthavos*
...where I am presently retyping the post Gaia ate when it crashed earlier.
Also, Cog has yet to see me get decidedly angry. I think he's just terrified of the concept. Like it'll become some kind of warp-level anathema to reality. Maybe not so much anymore now that I'm more accustomed to SEETHing though.
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