As the famous Peanuts creator Chuck Schulz once said, “The world isn’t going to end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” I hold this statement to be quite valid, and regardless of what time it is in Australia, we should not be worried the danger that might occur tomorrow. I believe that the sun will rise and then set, as we perceive it. However, there are people out there who still view the End of the World is on a set date and that we will either be sucked into a black hole, burn in Hell, die of starvation, or get hit by an asteroid or comet. I saw one saying that the End of the World will occur on December 21, 2012. I’ve heard numerous lies regarding the Apocalypse. Nostradamus said the end of the world would occur in 1999, many believed Doomsday would come upon us in Y2K, film fans and many more believed 6-6-06 was the coming of the devil, and the Large Hadron Collider was going to create a black hole engulfing the entire Earth. What makes 2012 different?

The video immediately starts the video out trying to set 2012 apart from other events, as does any doomsayer who tries to make a quick buck selling books on New Age material. I got through that crap. The song of course is “Only Time” by Enya. Of course, the song evokes my memories of a planetarium at a high school. The New Age song only exacerbated my fears of Apocalypse as the astronomer mentioned the Sun will explode. Some kid told me it wouldn’t happen for six billion years, but still, it scared the crap out of me. The fact that it could burn out and we wouldn’t even know for eight minutes scared me. Any mention of sun spots or the like was material I didn’t want to know about. It was when I was in fifth grade after Y2K, which I didn’t totally understand.

Anyway, the video continued to say that the Mayan calendar would end on December 21, 2012. When the Gregorian calendar ends, we get a new one and start over with a new year. The video mentioned that Nostradamus predicts great doom for the world. This is too vague and any of his works, mostly consisting of bad poetry, could be interpreted so liberally that they could be used to fit any agenda. By the way, if he predicted the end of the world in 1999, how can he be right about this one?

St. Malachy predicts that there will only be one more Pope; the current Pope is Benedict. Since when do saints make predictions? How much do we even know about St. Malachy to say that he is a credible source? The video went on to say that NASA predicts an asteroid will hit the Earth soon. If they did, more people would know about it and then the 2012 argument could have something in favor of it.

People will still say that the date December 21, 2012 is ominous because of this: 12/21/2012. Wait, there are two many ones and twos. This could be bad. I wouldn’t go to work that day. You add them and multiply them 52 times and you get 666! Ah! 666 – the Number of the Beast! A note on 666. 6-6-1906. 6-6-1806. Dates when nothing happened except people woke up, worked, and then went to bed. Brace yourself for 10/10/2010.

Folks, we’re not supposed to know when the Apocalypse is. If you are religious, you would believe that only God knows according to the Bible. It’s the part of the Bible fear mongers leave out to scare us. These fear mongers are the ones who interpret everything in the Bible literally except for Revelation. Example: the Lamb of God represents the cotton industry and that leads to demand for slaves and then the United States has a civil war and then Russia has a civil war and it becomes the Soviet Union and then America and the U.S.S.R. are one button away from Apocalypse.

Folks, we can’t pick out which parts we want to use to push our agenda. We also need to hold these people accountable when they get it wrong and don’t try to b.s. their way out of it.

Believers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11iCmzGnOI8

Skeptics
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2030157220