Relax & Breath Already

The world in not, and I repeat NOT, going to end in 2012.


I could go into great detail as to why it won't, but they say it better in this article I read in Yahoo News.

What I want to talk about is a theory I have as to WHY everyone thinks (or should I say WANTS) the world to end.

I think the biggest reason is that a lot of self-described "righteous" people, want to be able, as they ascend towards Heaven and Eternity with God, to wag their collective fingers back down at those of us left behind and say, in a sarcastic taunting voice "You should have listened to Us and Jesus. Now it's to late and we're going to Heaven while you go to Hell."

Well, boys and girls, people have been predicting the end of the world nearly since the beginning of the world and have been looking for any system, sign, or portent that would point to the date of Armageddon.

For Example;

• The Jupiter Effect - Based on a 1974 bestselling book by John Gribbin, people believed that an alignment of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto would create monster earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault and elsewhere, and that this catastrophe would occur on March 10th, 1982 and the world would come to an end. They didn't take into consideration that the gravitational force of this event would be no greater than in the year 1128 AD (or CE if you want to be politically correct), and the world didn't end then either.
• 666 - Today, most Biblical scholars believe that this so called "Mark of the Beast" was actually a numerological code for the Emperor Nero. So everyone waiting for a baby to be born with this number under his hair, either go see a different movie, or hop in a time machine and go back to the year 68 AD.
• 1998 - Believed by many to be the year the Anti-Christ was born because 1998 is 666 (see above) times 3, a sort of unholy trinity.
• 2000 - Millennium madness. Everyone thought the world would end, Jesus would return, and the righteous would ascend, or at the very least the world's computers would crash or become self-aware and launch all the nuclear bombs. 9 years later and we're still here. They also thought the same thing in the year 1000 AD, and 1,009 years later . . . .

Well, let me make a prediction. The world will end one day. It will happen in approximately 5 billion years from now as the sun runs out of it's supply of hydrogen and begins to expand. Now, since it is highly unlikely that any one reading this will still be alive in the year 5,000,002,009 AD, give the whole doom and gloom, end of the world death wish scenario a rest.

None of this is to say that I still won't go see the movie 2012, but I'm not going to go and say the world will end that year. Some will, but not me, and the people who do probably wouldn't go in the water in a swimming pool after Jaws came out, or went back to the Catholic Church after they saw The Exorcist, or went to the Devil's Tower after they saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind. These are just movies people. You shouldn't use them to predict the future or control your behavior.