NEWS: OMG APOCALYPSE 2012!!

According to my diary the Apocalypse already happened in the year 2000, so can't we all just move on?

Come on Flux, you know that Carlos Castaneda would never be so petty to let the beliefs of the people he was writing about get in the way of the beliefs he had about what the beliefs should be about the people he was writing about. That would be like, totally unhip man.

But the Mayans said it so it must be true!!!@$@#%!

Much like Pinchbeck . . .

Shouldn't we be more concerned about 2112 (by Rush)?

Wow, finally a mention of 2012 with a heavy dose of SANITY.

All hail Erin! All hail ((nested) parenthesian) dischordia!

Fuck. It's like I'm turning into Tardo.

Flux said

Indeed, excellent job!! And nice explanation for those of us who really only understood

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Yum yum!!

[Have you sent to USA Today??]

When we die, then we die. It's just that simple.

Great article.

The comments tangents rock for sheer entertainment value.

Being my usual, somewhat pedantic self, I say, Let's why not save the planet just in case it doesn't end on schedule, m'kay?

Lovely article. 2012 signals the end of the black years. Personally I'm keeping my eye on 2015. That's the year shit's really suppose to hit the fan.

I know I am going to have read this again in the morning when I am awake/sober. But for now I want to hear more about this:

I mean, I have been having a lot of migraines lately....

Oh yeah, I especially like that the world ends on the Winter Solstice...is that a Mayan thing, or a new age thing?

Marry Me?

The Old Ones didn't return in 1999, and now you're saying humanity won't ascend to a transcendental utopian union with our space mother-father in 2012??

So now what do you expect me to synchronize my internal apocalypse clock to!? This definitely puts me outside of my teleological comfort zone. Anyone know when's the next regularly scheduled end-of-the-world?

Um, if your objective is to increase the amount of bullshit in the world, then I don't see anything wrong with it, either.

Great article.
I always thought that the end of the Mayan Long Count signified a fundamental crisis which would render the world incomprehensible to us today. Some change that is so drastic nothing familiar remains, perhaps. I'd like to ask if this is false- a fabrication of a Western mind looking for magic- or about right.
Also, there could always be an outbreak of one of a great many nasty microorganisms we've created or are in the process of creating. These wouldn't fall on that exact date but would cause such a change in our current system. An epidemic of a genetically modified super-virus could really wipe out most of the population of the earth.

Would you like to know what my objective is? All right, I'll tell you. It is nothing less than the emergence of a new sacred and living paradigm for human civilization that might allow us to survive and evolve into the millennia ahead, in balance and reverent harmony with all life on the planet. Probably sounds like a bunch of hippie-dippy cockamamey New Age malarkey to you, I suppose, but there you have it.

You can castigate all the New Age self-styled prophets for their adulteration and exploitation of indigenous traditions, but in contrasting it with the academics who are preoccupied with historical authenticity and factual veracity, consider this. Academics and agnostic intellectuals tend to view these traditions as sterile subjects for study and debate, removed from any genuine relevance or potential application to our own lives. New Agers (and I don't deny there are many charlatans and self-deluded moneygrubbers among that whole heterodox movement) take traditional teachings and seek to creatively apply them in an agenda of personal and collective transformation. You decide which is the more worthy approach. Personally, I've never been too obsessed with or attached to orthodoxies of any stripe.

If the Mayan calendars serve as a point of departure for all sorts of metaphysical and mystical ideas and paths of creative emergence with a view toward self-knowing and wholeness, then let 2012 be a point of departure for us all.

Well-written and seemingly well-researched!

Though I feel not at all qualified to speak authoritatively on it, I heard another theory that the earth will end upon a full repolarization event of the earth when magnetic north and south switch. I only tipped my toe into the puddle of what's available on this, but I do remember my geology TA telling me that there is strong evidence that these events occur periodically and that we're about due, give or take a few hundred year. She added that it would likely kill of a good chunk of life on earth considering that an event of such magnitude would cause a large, momentary electric field across the planet.

In that vein, what's the deal with people saying, "My professor told me"? Shouldn't we research these things on the interwebs?

Certainly not research, but see the Wiki on Geomagnetic Repolarization: However, Homo erectus and their ancestors certainly survived many previous reversals.

its almost as if the circle was a shape that the human psyche found symbolic and meaningful, regardless or race, culture, or geography!
no es possible!

p.s. I am organizing a killer yoga retreat in December 2012. regardless of who thinks whatever is going to happen, that thing is gonna be a par-tai!

Humm.






Also, excellent use of parentheses!