First, I would like everyone to remember the dire predictions concerning Y2K. Billions of dollars were spent around the globe changing computer programs. Top scientists were warning us of all the power grids that would shut down. I well remember computer programmers and software experts who told me they were worried and there was no way change all the programs in time, etc. etc. World governments formed commissions and task forces to deal with the problem, The nightly news told us how to prepare for the impending disaster. Then the movies started coming out showing the end as computer, power and communications systems blacked out across the globe on January 1, 2000.
What really happened? Nothing. We had computers at home and work without the Y2K fix. Nothing happened. The computer time and calendar reset itself to 1989 but all my programs ran just fine. The media and experts who had been screaming and wringing their hands ad naseum, didn't come on air and apologize or say "we made a mistake." The silence was deafening. It was just as if the Y2K scare never existed.
Now we have 2012 the end of the world because of the end of the Mayan Clandar. Well, being a guy who is inot Indian cultures, what do the Mayan shamans who are calendar keepers say about all this?
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So why all the end-of-the-world hype?
The movie "2012" is based on the 'predictions' of the Mayan calendar. In response to all the 2012 buzz stirred up by the movie, NASA launched a FAQ page called "2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End" to handle all the rumors.
The Mayan Calendar
The ancient Mayans had an advanced understanding of mathematics, astronomy and writing. The Mayan "Long Count" calendar ends a 5,000 year cycle on December 21, 2012. According to some scholars, the end of a cycle was actually considered a time for a celebration rather than a doomsday warning.
On winter solstice in 2012, for the first time in approximately 26,000 years, the sun will come into alignment with the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers say it would have been impossible for the Mayans to know that.
Some believe the end of the Mayan calendar predicts a giant catastrophe that will end civilization as we know it while others predict it will be the end of a negative cycle and will begin the start of a new 'awakening.'
The Los Angeles Times interviewed a Mayan shaman/calendar keeper in Guatemala City just before the release of the "2012" movie. The shaman, Calixta Gabriel, said that the earth would suffer "hunger, wind and thunder" but said the prediction of the end of the world is an exaggeration.
Another 'calender keeper' Gregerio Chayax explained that the end of the Long Count calendar actually spans 40 years and right now, we are only halfway through. The calendar keeper told the journalist that "we are out of balance" and "we have become excessive in what we demand."
Source: Examiner.com, Kansas City MO Nov. 13, 2009
There have been dozens of psychics, prognosticators, seers, theologians and scientists who predicted the end of the earth multiple times in the last 100 years or so, offering very compelling evidence and signs in the cosmos to back their predictions. Only they have had to keep moving their dates back. There will be wars and rumors and wars. There will be famine, disease and human tragedy stalking the earth. But these things are not the end. Not yet anyway..
Oh, yes. No one has ever shown reruns of any of the Y2K disaster movies.
