Dec. 21, 2012
I’m using the above date as the title of my post today because millions of people believe it to be an auspicious day. The world as we know it will end on this very specific date, or so they believe.
The basis for this frightening scenario is an old Mayan calendar, the last day of which is Dec. 21, 2012 . By implication, after this date, there will be no more time. And therefore no more Planet Earth.
Scary thought? Yes and no. I, for one, do not believe that the world will end on this date, or any other date in the near future. On Dec. 22, 2012 , the world will still be turning.
Why then are so many sites in the internet devoted to this date, a mere 37 months from now? Besides the Mayan calendar, other “facts” say that a galactic alignment involving our little blue planet will occur on this day.
Doomsday sites tell us that a new ice age will occur very suddenly after a meteor hits the earth on Dec. 21, three years from now. It happened before and it will happen again. One thing they’re not telling us is that there is no factual basis for this. But still the number of sites continues to grow.
Even Hollywood is getting into the act. A movie simply titled 2012 is coming soon, and it deals with this exact same subject. I’ve seen the trailer of the movie and it shows a tsunami destroying everything in its path in what appears to be the Himalayas . A poster for this film, meanwhile, shows that giant cement statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil collapsing. The Statue of Liberty might have been visually better, but a poster of the destroyed statue in New York harbor was already done for a monster movie a couple of years ago.
No, friends. The world will most certainly not end on Dec. 21, 2012 .
Most of us will still do the same day-to-day things that we are doing now. The Christmas season will be upon us at that time, with the big difference being all of us will be three years older than we are now. We will all be around to greet each other a Merry Christmas by then.
Count on it.
JOEY III
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