Now that we are in 2012,
prepare yourself to hear all the hoopla surrounding the “End of the
World”. The date - December 21, 2012.
Here’s my prediction: On December 21, the sun will
rise in the east and set in the west, just like every other day. At 11:59:59PM,
the day will end just like every other day and we will face a (GASP)… December 22,
2012. We’ll be preparing for Christmas Day and New Year’s, just like
every other year and we will laugh at yet another end of the world doomsday
scenario. Then someone will pop up in the media stating the calculations were
off and the real end of the world will by June 6, 2013 at 4:32am.
The popular story is that the ancient Mayans predicted
that on 12/21/12, our Earth will cease to exist and we will all perish - simply
because this is when the Mayan calendar ends. Hollywood producers, media, and
the guys that stand out on the street corners with “The End is Near” signs are
all spreading this story. While it is true that the ancient Mayan calendar ends
in 2012 – there has never been a statement made from the Mayan civilization
that the world was going to end on that date. The calendar simply just
ceased after a period of time.
The Mayan calendar that is referenced as the latest
gospel of doomsday contained over 5,000 years. So how does this mean that they
knew the world was going to end? Let’s take a minute and look at some
possibilities:
- Creating
5,000 years can get a bit tedious, maybe the individual or the “Mayan
Committee of Calendar Creation” just simply got bored or found a new
hobby.
- Maybe
the calendar creator died after he/she finished 12/21/2012. No one else
wanted the job.
- Maybe
the spouse of the calendar creator said “Oh for Heaven’s sake, you and
that darned calendar – it’s either me or that stupid calendar.”
- The
calendar guy put the unfinished calendar in the garage to complete it
later. We do get to all those unfinished projects, don’t we?
All right, we are just having a little fun, but truth
is no one here knows why the calendar stopped at a certain date, but it could
have been a number of average “non-doomsday” scenarios. Our calendar that hangs
on our walls stop at December 31 each and every year, how can someone simply
claim the world will end because the calendar stops?
There have been many claims of the end of the world,
and they have all been wrong. Remember Y2K? Our computers were a little
haywire, but that was human-error and the laziness of computer programmers who
looked at shortcuts and programmed code for two-digit years, not thinking about
a change in the millennium. In 2011 there were two more doomsday
predictions – still here.
This year will bring a
catastrophic tidal wave of books and movies where “experts” will tell you to
kiss this world goodbye. Over the course of human history, there have been
thousands of doomsday scenarios. Truth is, no one can predict the end of the
world. Be especially leery if they have a book to sell or a movie to hype.
Some ancient civilizations thought the world was flat
and you would fall off if you get near the edge. How did that turn out? The
Titanic was “unsinkable”, yet we are in the 100th anniversary of her
sinking. Don’t fall for the hype.
What if I’m wrong? You can yell at me in the afterlife. But I think we’ll be
waking up on December 22 – so don’t tell your boss what you think of them the
day before. Eating crow in the morning is never delicious…
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