My wife and I watch The History Channel, The Learning Channel and most other cable networks showing UFO, Nostradamus and Mayan prophecy kind of stuff. It's interesting to note that so many prophetic calendars have marked the end of our way of life because of stars lining up in the Dark Riff, which purportedly happens approximately every 26,000 years.
I have to admit to giving the prophecies a certain pause, allowing for the potential to the end of days, but my wife is really nervous about this whole thing.
What would the end of the world look like? Is it an attack by ET coming to deplete our natural resources (we've mostly accomplished this already), an as yet undetected meteor slamming into the Earth, nuclear holocaust, another ice age, rising oceans, solar flares, Obama gets re-elected in 2012,etc?
I don't really know if any of the predictions are true. I always have to ask if the doomsday prophecies are correct, why didn't the seers predict their own end? Why would the Mayans predict an end to life they were unaware of--or did they think they would be around 5,000 years later?
Do a bunch of stars lining up have some extra-terrestrial effect on our little rock? Who knows? But I know I don't have any control over it one way or the other and I also know humans are like roaches...we're pretty resilient and if this is the end, short of the Earth being completely destroyed, we'll hang on and start over again. Unfortunately, this means having to learn all of the hard lessons again, as the possibility for mostly idiots to somehow survive tragedy is a given. Mostly intelligent people will probably discount the last of days and will be obliterated.
If you've never read anything by Douglas Adams, I highly recommend him. He was truly a prophet and speaks to this phenomenon in the funniest way possible. Hey Douglas....So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
I read something somewhere that the Mayan calendar doesnt account for the days added when the "Leap Year" was created...and if that's the case the world should have ended 7 months ago lol
ReplyDeleteYou can't take all of this too literally.
ReplyDeleteThe Mayan's rather predicted 2012 as the summit of the age of changes. and we see these in all sorts of ways from middle eastern government tyrants being deposed, to earthquakes, sunamis, and the occupy wall street movement. But the progression of changes will follow all throughout the rest of the year, the energy has been unleashed, and the minds are now starting to apply it.