Posted on 12/19/2010 9:20:01 PM PST by truthfinder9
2012, Just Another Year
It’s like Y2K all over again. People are making a fortune writing and talking about 2012. The movie 2012 was entertaining, if not largely implausible. Really, are you going to escape an exploding supervolcano? Or you can breeze through Apocalypse 2012 which is an entertaining book that looks into all of the cataclysms we are overdue for and those who peddle end time theories. In any case, this whole “the world is going to end in 2012” started with the Mayan calendar.
The ancient Mayan calendar resets itself at the end of 2012. Technically it is known as the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and once it reaches the end of the latest 144,000 day period on December 20, 2012, it will reset to zero.
Then what?
Well, nothing. The Mayans didn’t claim the world was going to end.
Sounds like another Y2K bust. On the other hand, humanity hasn’t faced a civilization-wide disaster in some time. Maybe not in 2012, but we have been living scott-free for awhile now. The more we study ancient legends and the geology of the planet the more signs of global catastrophe we find. The last Ice Age and the Neolithic era of humanity may have ended because of an impact event (see Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes). There’s a lot of debate about that one, but many ancient accounts seem to be referring to some major disaster. In fact, there seems to have been more than one. The end of the Bronze Age may have been hastened by a similar event that ignited volcanoes around the globe and civil unrest. Perhaps not coincidentally, this is about when the events of the Exodus are dated (see The Miracles of Exodus). A global crisis would explain why the mighty Egyptians half-heartedly pursued the Hebrews and let them go to begin with. There’s also a biblical reference to Sea Peoples showing up about this time doing the invasion thing. Displaced from some destroyed land perhaps?
Maybe instead of worrying about 2012, people should be looking to the past to see how mankind made it through such disasters, how it shaped us and what we can learn.
Afterall, when we have localized disasters like hurricanes, floods and oil spills, we have nothing but chaos and confusion. What would we do if something really big happened?
The movies the author referred to were not efforts to ‘predict’ WHEN and HOW the End of the World occurs, but WHAT people will do if it does.
So, the answer to the last line in his article is that the movies are attempts to answer that question.
I only see one movie reference in the article. But yes, I guess the movie does try to answer the question.
No doubt the Mayan calendar carving dude just got tired and quit so 12/22/12 will be another normal day. However, what will “normal” be in two years with the usurper and his puppetmaster at the helm?
Looks clear to me ... oh, wait ...
Actually, I think he lost his grant and had to get a real job.
It’s a ~rock~.
Eventually, you’re gonna run outta room.
Who’s to say *another* rock isn’t lying around somewhere, undiscovered with “Continued from Rock 1” chiseled on it?
:)
I have several theorems.
1. The Mayans stopped their calendar in 2012 because they ran out of rock, knew they were not going to be around then anyway, and thought it would be a good joke on us.
2. God did create the world in six days but he planted all kinds of false clues about evolution just so he could screw with the non-believers. (God has a warped sense of humor.)
I like them both....:)
[and why should I trust the “predictions” of folks who *didn’t* see the coming of the Conquistadores?]
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