Is there a specific reason the mayan calendar is given such reverence by people in terms of the end times? Yea they were astronomers and were mad smart for their time, but I mean...the Christians were convinced (well some of them) that in 2000 Christ was gonna come down with an army of Angels and pass out some whoopass...Nostradam us and Y2K was going to make nuclear power plants across the world explode....Aliens were making a lot of appearances around Mexico City in the 90's which people were sure was a sign of a coming invasion....
So why the faith in this one? If I understand correctly their calendar just "stops." Wouldn't that imply that the cycle restarts? Why do people assume it means "END." Why not "and back to the beginning"?
I am probably a lot less educated on this than I think. Anyone care to summarize?
