Happy Birthday…It's The Apocalypse

I wouldn't be too worried about the end of the world, Bert. The Mayas couldn't even predict their own demise. You probably have a better chance of choking to death on a piece of cake...

Just in case, I vow to publish a Happy Birthday article for you daily until that date.

So I don't need to start stocking up on beans and shotguns?

ROFL

Jim G...Enjoy the ride!

Tristan...birthday cake can be lethal...I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the reminder.
That link is fascinating! It's truly amazing (and amusing) how many of the "doomsday" calculators continued to recalculate and recalculate the date as each one of their predictions failed to materialize.

Sandy...no thanks...I don't need any reminders of how old I am.

Karel...with enough beans, who needs a shotgun...just gas 'em to death!

Sorry...I deleted the comment above to revise it, and now it's out of order.

Are you sure, Bert? As you may have noticed, or guessed, I'm not the greatest hostess but I know all the right people. My friends would shower you with cakes and cards and lots of love.

(I moved mine to help put things back in order)

I've been seeing this around, but I'm surprised it's not accompanied by calls to convert to the true religion as described in the Popol Vuh, and ask the creators Tepeu and Gucumatz (and a bunch of others), who made us from corn masa, to protect us. They would be the ones in charge of this apocalypse, I assume?

The Mayan calendar, apart from being very old at this point and taking in a very long time, was significant in that each day was considered to be a unique entity, each in its own place in a long interaction of influences, like astrology, or dna. So, if the calendar is to start again, does that mean we will go through those same influences in the same sequence again, like a very intricate deja vu? And, I believe they did predict their own demise, something about the white invasion.

Every time I hear about this it reminds me of Y2K. The Mayans were advanced timekeepers, yes. I think however, that 2012 is the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one. Besides, I would rather spend my life living than worrying about dying.

Thanks for straightening out my goof, Sandy.
I recommend that everybody follow the link that Tristan provided. It is fascinating to see how long predictions of the End have been going on...and how often. I think it's hilarious that some of those guys picked a date, and when it passed, they "recalculated" and proclaimed a new one. Some of them even picked three or four dates...hedging their bets, I guess.

I guess "fascination" like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder ... I am "fascinated" by those who would laugh hysterically at what they consider the foolishness and silliness of all who would have a concern for spiritual relationships of a cosmic nature, those of us who would value in any way the tremendous amount of historic lore that indicates such a possible connection.

As if such a connection between realms and or dimensions outside or inside of this objective egotistically blinded earth view could never possibly exist. That the view held by so many who claim such sophistication, that they can take the extreme examples of some and overlay them onto the whole of us that would seek to understand meanings beyond the norm of orthodoxy, actually had more intelligence or wisdom ... ha ha , so funny.

Well, I guess I'll have to start building up my food and water supplies like I did in the 50's with the impending atomic bomb war... or Y2K... or... hmmmm. What was that other one of those end of things?

Jerry...I certainly did not mean to poke fun at your spiritual beliefs. But people who look at the alignment of the planets with the sun or the astrological signs, or some numerological coincidence, and try to predict world events based on those things are just engaging in superstitions no more meaningful than fear of black cats or ladders or the number 13. Many of the predictions on the web site were based on Biblical ideas. They fall in the same category as all the rest.

Donald...I remember those days, when Khruschev was threatening to "bury" us. People were building bomb shelters under their houses. I bought a military rifle through the NRA (Springfield 03A3) from an Army arsenal in Virginia, and built a "survival kit" to defend my family when the nuke attack came and law and order broke down! After a few years, I realized how silly this was and sold the rifle.

wasn't the world supposed to end in 2000?

Bert, I know you were not consciously ridiculing my spiritual beliefs, and I hold no ill feelings against you personally. I just wanted to float my argument that when people take positions that are too extreme, like the ones you have rightly condemned, and the ones that too righteously condemn everyone different than them, the doors of interactive informational interchange close, and we are all the lessor for it.

The farther "out" ideas of the "ending of our world" do not all intend the literal ending, admittedly the more ignorant views of too many do, but the most of those who seek spiritual; truths have come to know it means the ending of the world "as we now know it" ... meaning they hope and expect that new spiritual truths will replace the old corrupted beliefs to where the quality of life for each and all will be greatly improved to the degree that will have little resemblance to the old of the present now.

Because we live in a fear dominated world full of falsehoods, I believe the spiritual realm presents us with certain messages to get our attention, and "they" know that the ones involving extreme fear are often most effective in getting people to wake up to some reconsideration of opinions and perceptions ... after all, change is always going on and sometimes there are "perfect storms" of cosmic proportion. Just maybe the spiritual realm has seen to it that some "signs" have been left behind for us to take into consideration of a "warning" of things about to come upon us ...

People in the mid-west now have come to trust the weatherman when he tells them a tornado is about to hit them ... because he has proven accurate in the past ... maybe a bit more trust of ones personal spirit within is now in order for all people, meant to be a "helpful" intuitive connection to preparing us all for that better future ... just a thought.


When I present ideas that there are conspiracies taking place at the highest levels of our very "organized" society by those who own foundations called "think tanks", that those who buy and sell politicians and lawyers a dime a dozen, that have long range plans for this world and their controlling positions at the top of secretive hierarchies to maintain their positions of power, wealth, and privilege, ... when I suggest such potentials and am accused of being a far left moon-bat wing-nut loony, and all of us that would ever suggest anything similar are just as bad, that we should all be ridiculed first then ignored ... it seems to me that the world is far more "lost" than we are ...

But of course, to each their own, and some of us only want to help rather than play at puffing up egos ... though there are plenty of the others also around ... more than enough said on my part I am sure ... :-)

Jerry Kays: I agree with your definition as to the "end of the world as we know it." It is amazing that this, which is clearly stated by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer, is completely distorted by the infantile thinking of the "literalists". "Thy Kingdom Come on Earth as it is in heaven..." doesn't mean the heavenly Kingdom but a religious government that has survived "organized religion" to become a truly spiritually motivated governing system "as it is in heaven." Most people can't understand this because they really don't have a clue as to what religion is all about. To them it has become a rote, "repeat after me" sort of thing led by presumed authorities who also haven't a clue about what they are talking about... which is bound to happen when you are 2000 years from the origin and your civilization has progressed significantly in the meantime.

Sometimes I wonder how much we have "progressed," Donald. Certainly we have made technological and scientific leaps and bounds, but we haven't learned a thing about getting along with each other.

I always felt that I should start to develop a chart detailing all of the past end-of-the-world predictions. . .and their status one day after the date foretold. But I have too many activities, already, vying for my attention.

A million thanks for another one of your mentally stimulating articles, Bert!

Dunno Bert. Don't underestimate the Mayans. After all the people who gave us corn can't be all wet.

I have one of those 60's era bomb shelters on my property. We use it for the occasional midwestern tornado threat, our "fraidy hole." Of course by the time we got the dogs, birds and backup drive out there the twister would have done it's work but it makes the wifey happy.

Nice to hear from you, Enoch. It's been awhile.

Sam...I'll bet there are quite a few of them around the country. I read somewhere about one enterprising soul who turned his into a wine cellar.

In central Alabama both my grandmothers had a "storm pit" which was a hole dug into an embankment. We were all more afraid of snakes & spiders than the occasional tornado.