2012: An end to intelligence.
Posted on 12/10/09 07:43
Because of a movie, people are now up in arms and in a panic over the date Dec 21, 2012. The sky is falling! We're all gonna die! Everyone is pointing to the end of the Mayan calandar, but there is a Mayan elder out there saying "what about the date 4772? There are inscriptions at Mayan sites that mention dates far, far beyond 2012. Only the calendar ends in 2012, and it ends because the folks who wrote the calendar only inscribed 13 eras called Baktuns (or eras), because 13 was sacred to the Mayans. In other words if they were still around to make calendars...they probably would have inscribed another 13 Baktun calendar for us. Hey, they worked in advance. Look at the calendar on your wall. It only goes to the end of December on any given year. This doesn't mean that January 1 will never come around, it just means we have an easier way of making a new calendar--a printing press--we don't have to use rock cutting tools. We don't have to make a nice big one that will last until the next stone worker decides to start looking for a good rock to carve.
This won't stop folks from being in a panic because of a movie. Everyone was equally terrified over the weather when "The Day After Tomorrow" came out, and holy crap the fuss that was made out of 2000 was amusing. When I was a girl I remember people declaring that the world would end in 1976, as this was the 200th anniversary of the New World and somehow that was significant; people looked at Revelation and pointed out passages that "proved" 1977 would never come. For as long as there have been people, there have been end time prophesies of one kind or another which seems convincing enough but if you look closely at it you realize that the "answer" to surviving the apocolypse being predicted, or the key to redemption after it, revolves around following one person of group or cult's or religion's belief systems.
December 2012 is just another date. If you don't believe that, if you think I am full of it and that the world is gonna end and I am going to be completely unprepared, then do me a favor and on December 11 of that year, turn over all your savings, real estate, stocks, and jewelry to me. You're not gonna need it anyway. I'll take good care of it all for the 24 hours I have left, ok? :-p
This won't stop folks from being in a panic because of a movie. Everyone was equally terrified over the weather when "The Day After Tomorrow" came out, and holy crap the fuss that was made out of 2000 was amusing. When I was a girl I remember people declaring that the world would end in 1976, as this was the 200th anniversary of the New World and somehow that was significant; people looked at Revelation and pointed out passages that "proved" 1977 would never come. For as long as there have been people, there have been end time prophesies of one kind or another which seems convincing enough but if you look closely at it you realize that the "answer" to surviving the apocolypse being predicted, or the key to redemption after it, revolves around following one person of group or cult's or religion's belief systems.
December 2012 is just another date. If you don't believe that, if you think I am full of it and that the world is gonna end and I am going to be completely unprepared, then do me a favor and on December 11 of that year, turn over all your savings, real estate, stocks, and jewelry to me. You're not gonna need it anyway. I'll take good care of it all for the 24 hours I have left, ok? :-p
