Dearest Crazy,
You say you've read one of my posts or this, that or even a mass market other thing or two, and now you actually believe the world is going to end on the 21st of December 2012?
No, you sweet-idiot, the world is not going to end on our watch.
And, to be perfectly honest, I don't know. But I do have reasonable and logical reasons to think so. If I distill these reasons into a List of Facts will it be easier for you?
1. The 21st of December is the Winter Solstice (day with the least amount of daylight) in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. In the Southern Hemisphere the 21st of December is the Summer Solstice (day with the most amount of daylight).
3. The Ancient Maya lived in Mesoamerica, which was in the Northern Hemisphere.
4. These Mayans kept track of time with a large quantity of different calendars.
5. One of their long calendars kept track of time for a little more than five thousand years.
6. Many people have "matched up" this long calendar with our current (Gregorian) calendar. There are almost as many different "match up" solutions as there are people who have tried to match them up.
7. There is a small consensus of people who think the "correct match" is the one that lines up the last day of the Maya long calendar (when it clicks over to all zeros) with the last day of the solar year.
8. Which is the first day of the solar year in 1/2 the world.
My point is that even if the calendars have been matched correctly (volumes of books have been written to refute or proclaim the calculations) it is only a calendar coming to an end.
On the 22d of December 2012, the new Mayan calendar begins and, for the entire modern world, the first of January 2013 will be just another new year.
But I waste my time, don't I crazi? You don't want logic; you want to witness the end. Your strangelovian-dream has always been to be Slim Pickens hasn't it?
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. — Oprah Winfrey
2 comments:
*sotto voce* That's, err, Slim Pickens, you mean.
Granted, if I were any character in 'Doctor Strangelove', I'd want to be Slim Pickens' Major Kong. At least he embraced being the first statistic at ground zero with a hearty whoop and a holler.
And you've got crazy apocalypse fetishists reading your blog! You've come a long way, baby!
Thank you Davecat, Slim - not Sam - I've made the pen-n-ink correction. I'm terrible with people's names, but can recall a film's name, or scene, like ninety!
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