Doomsday
On the supposed Mayan end of the world…
Excuse me while I laugh hysterically.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Seriously though, I have no idea why people are getting so hyped up about the Mayan calendar ending on the twenty-first of December. I bet the reason it does what it does is something that went down like this:
Calender maker guy 1: *sighs* Why do we have to have dates for stuff that will happen LONG after we’re all gone? I say we just stop here. We’ll all be dead, anyways.
Calender maker guy 2: Yeah. I’m tired. *puts down his calendar that he’s engraving* Let’s go home.
The Mayans leave. Three days later, some priest looks at the penguin calendar he just ordered.
Mayan priest: Hmm, it stops on December 21st, 2012. That must be the end of the world! I shall spread the news that the world ends there!
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Now, I’m sure something else is the reason that it stops in this year, but I like to think of it that way.
But seriously, how do I know for sure that the world won’t end on Dec. 21st? One simple object. The Bible. Matthew 24:36 says, referring to the Second Coming;
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36
New International Version
Thus, ANY prediction for the end will be wrong. Not even Jesus knows when. Note that I am not saying it won’t happen this year, as there is definitely the possibility of that, but I am saying that it will not happen on December 21st. The Bible is the TRUTH. Anything it says is God’s word, and it’s true.
On that last thought, Gecko Out.
I pretty much thought that there was no point for the Mayans to go any further. It isn’t as if they would keep engraving indefinitely. They have to stop somewhere. And, like someone I know said, “My Snoopy calendar ends on December 31, 2011. Oooh . . . we’re all gonna die.” Obviously not.
I’ve often thought that verse’s implications. If we got everyone in the world to predict a certain day for the end of the world, we could put off the end of the world. Or maybe we could predict every single day except one (pretty impossible), and everyone would therefore know that day would be the end of the world, therefore the world would not happen on that day.
(Of course, I’m kidding.)
Accoring to Wikipedia, Dec. 21, 2012 is only the end of the 13th Mayan B’ak’tun, which is about 394 years. Which means that the only event happening on the 21st is the Mayan calendar switching over to the 14th b’ak’tun. So why didn’t people get all hyped up 394 years ago, in 1618? That was a “switchover” date, and the world didn’t end, did it?
And why are we even so paranoid about something the Mayans created so long ago? That was their date system, just like ours. All that’s going to happen in December is their 13th century turning over to their 14th. Just like 2000, 1900, 1800, 1700, 1600, etc.