This happens once in a lifetime - tomorrow!

Originally posted by rbmorris
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

This is such an excellent song.

Originally posted by Coconut
It'll happen every hundred years

but so will the exact time I'm posting this message.

Next year we'll get 02:03:04 05/06/07

This kind of thing happens every year now up to and including 2014.

Edit: For extra credit, why won't it happen in 2015?

Originally posted by Suzianne
This kind of thing happens every year now up to and including 2014.

Edit: For extra credit, why won't it happen in 2015?

Shouldn't that be 2013? Only 12 months in a year?

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Shouldn't that be 2013? Only 12 months in a year?

Sort of, but nope. Think just a little harder and you'll get it.

Edit: The date of the last one in a row would be 12/13/14.

Edit: So, yes, there are only 12 months in a year, but the month's place is 2 away from the year's place, so add 2 to 12 for the last year of 2014.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Shouldn't that be 2013? Only 12 months in a year?

had to be you. lol.

Originally posted by Suzianne
The Mayan calendar is also said to actually be a galactic calendar, with the current rotation to end on the famous date in December, 2012. Others say it may more closely relate to the tilt of the earth and the procession of the equinoxes, but hey, I think either one is pretty good for an ancient civilization.

I have researched the matter a little now, and here's what I came up with. The "galactic" calendar is in fact the tzolkin calendar where certain "energies" are associated with individual days within the respective cycles (also some references spoke of the good and bad days identified by the cycles of Venus in relation to earth). You'd think that a "galactic" calendar would be measuring the repetitive movement of our galaxy in relation to some other object in the universe.

This definition of "galactic calendar" sounds more like a subject suitable for the spirituality forum since it's a matter of faith rather than actual observations of interstellar bodies moving in repetetive cycles in relation to each other. In short, the mayan galactic calendar is a spiritual calendar.

I think it's safe to say that a spiritual calendar makes as much sense as measuring distance in the vacuum of space using your ears.

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Suzianne: What day is it today?
Stocken: It's monday.
Suzianne: Isn't it in fact tuesday?
Stocken: Nope, I can feel within me that it's monday.
Kaboomba: I think it's thursday.

(Even though I used the gregorian calendar as an example, I think you get my point.)

Originally posted by stocken
I have researched the matter a little now, and here's what I came up with. The "galactic" calendar is in fact the tzolkin calendar where certain "energies" are associated with individual days within the respective cycles (also some references spoke of the good and bad days identified by the cycles of Venus in relation to earth). You'd think that a "galactic" ...[text shortened]... ar makes as much sense as measuring distance in the vacuum of space using your ears.

I think you misunderstood what I said. I said that some say that it IS an actual galactic calender (not a spiritual calender, as you said), based on one revolution of our system around the galactic core, just as an Earth year is one revolution of the Earth around our sun.

I wasn't talking about any sort of spiritual calender, so we agree there.

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Tomorrow happens every day. Every time a new day starts, it's called tomorrow. What makes you think tomorrow only comes once in a lifetime? You're confused.

My local is serving free beer tomorrow.

Originally posted by Suzianne
but the month's place is 2 away from the year's place

In most countries it isn't.

Originally posted by invigorate
My local is serving free beer tomorrow.

Are you saying that would be a once-in-a-lifetime event? 😉

Originally posted by Nordlys
In most countries it isn't.

Well, then they can talk about it on May 4th, then. 😉

Originally posted by Suzianne
Sort of, but nope. Think just a little harder and you'll get it.

Edit: The date of the last one in a row would be 12/13/14.

Edit: So, yes, there are only 12 months in a year, but the month's place is 2 away from the year's place, so add 2 to 12 for the last year of 2014.

Oh yeah right - you do the month and the day the other way round to us in the UK [and europe] 🙂

Originally posted by Suzianne
I said that some say that it IS an actual galactic calender (not a spiritual calender, as you said), based on one revolution of our system around the galactic core, just as an Earth year is one revolution of the Earth around our sun.

Could you provide me with a reference? If the mayans actually observed the galactic rotations around it's own core, then I'm mighty impressed. We can't even see the galactic centre of the milky way today, let alone calculate the time of one rotation. All we have are estimates based on what we can observe from our little planet at the edge of our huuuuuge galaxy.

Since the calendars invented in the mayan cultures are all somehow related to the observable rotations of the earth, venus, mars, jupiter and our sun, they hardly make for an accurate galactic calendar. I would be most interested in reading a full text on the matter to see if I'm missing something here, so a reference would be appreciated.

I suppose it's possible that the mayans put together a calendar that happens to correlate with galactic rotations (even though they based their calendar on different observations), but I seriously doubt it.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Oh yeah right - you do the month and the day the other way round to us in the UK [and europe] 🙂

Weren't you wondering why all the hoopla about this on April 5th, then, instead of May 4th?

Originally posted by Suzianne
Well, then they can talk about it on May 4th, then. 😉

My reply was regarding 12/13/14, which we won't have here. It has already been mentioned earlier in this thread that it would be May 4th instead of April 5th in Europe (and many other places).