Dec 21 2012
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So I stayed up way too late last night. Stayed up and watched the history Channel's take on the year 2012. I find it oddly ironic that the "History" channel is showing me something that is supposed to occur in the "future," but I digress.
Supposedly 2012 is the year we go boom. Yes, I know, my first thought was, "rubbish- people have been saying this for centuries". Someone creates a date, a date we're all going to die, it comes, and nothing happens.
But this time it's supposed to be different. This time multi-historical references, including the most threatening: The Mayan calendar, states all is doomed on a December day in the year 2012. Now the Mayans never impressed me much. After all, their descendants "The Mexicans" named my much loved Taco Bell Burrito after their little burros. Yes that's right the same people who tell me I'm eating a miniature Donkey somehow have predicted the end of life as we know it. How's that for vendetta, anti-immigration supporters?
Basically the show says the earth tilts off axis, and thereby all of us monopoly pieces get thrown into the sun. Or atleast that's one theory.
Supposedly this same doomsday scenario is also supported by Merlin, John the Baptist, and several other whack-jobs throughout time.
The difference though this time, the show suggests, is that the track record for the prophets who predict this event in 2012 has been flawless up till this point.
The date is December 21st, 2012, and that's when the Mayan calendar ends. Even if we would survive, the Mayans would have no clue what day it is, and that's reason enough to call it quits on 2012. This of course will piss off numerous Christian's hoping to get one last Christmas in before Armageddon, but what's a believer to do? You've maxed on your visa at Toys R'US but never get to play with your toys. Damn those Mayans and their anti-christian end game.
The program goes on to suggest that this is a repetitive event, a cycle if you will, and we will be entering the 5th time that this has happened. This part I believe. I don't think this is the first attempt man has had a technological world.
But here is where it gets interesting. It's not just Merlin, the Chinese, or even Revelations that state 2012 is the day the world ends. It's technology. Algorithmically math based software bots that collect key phrases from the Internet and compile them into statistical data has pointed to the year 2012. This same software predicted 9/11, Katrina, and the Killer Tsunami. It's now predicting the events of 2012 to begin by 2009 with a the equivalent of a nuclear detonation.
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Sybil, the roman prophet, prophesied 2012 and she's held by Christians in high regard as she predicted the birth of Jesus.
We've mentioned Merlin, but remember this guy predicted the first colony of the new world thousands of years before it actually was discovered.
Then there is Mother Shipton, who predicted the Spanish Armada, the death of Henry the VIII, WWI, WWII, and Queen Victoria by name.
The Hopi Indians have done a little bit more by actually producing a national radio ad describing the Hopi's predictions of the 2012 disaster.
Next is the Chinese and their "I Ching" or book of change. It's one of the oldest Chinese texts in the world, and even though it sounds like "I Pod", or "I Phone", it clearly states "I Die" in the year 2012. To be more precise, the IChing follows an exact time line derived from symbols that ends in the year 2012.
Even Einstein hinted at a theoretical disaster of pole re-alignment back in good ole 1955. He suggested this occasional natural occurring resetting of the earth is a repetitive feature of our planet.
The commonality of all these profits, are that they all independently decided 2012 is zero day: the end of time.
Perhaps Carl Sagan said it best when he stated "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."
Is it all coincidence, or merely vague promises we've fitted to our idea of Armageddon. Will 2012 come and go, or will it truly be the end of the world as we know it?
