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How Have the 2012 Doomsday Myths Become Part of our Accepted Lexicon?
The whole “December 21st, 2012 Doomsday” hype had pretty much fallen off my radar. I hadn’t received an email from a concerned or fearful person for months and no one had alerted me to any new breathlessly hyped end-of-the-word videos for quite some time. Optimistically, I began to think that the Mayan-Prophecy-Pole-Shift-Nibiru (et. al) nonsense was just a passing fad.
But, somehow it seems, doomsday hype has made it into the public’s psyche. I recently saw a local newscast that mentioned the world would be ending soon, albeit jokingly, and sometimes even well-meaning publications give the Mayan prophesies undue credence with unfortunate headlines. But a couple of recent polls say that 10-12% of people have doubts they will survive past Dec. 21st of this year. And a few conversations I’ve had with those who have been on the front lines of debunking the 2012 doomsday predictions reveal that an upcoming “end of the world” is somehow very real for a measurable segment of the population.
How has something that is steeped in nonsense with no scientific accuracy whatsoever managed to capture such attention?
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“Steeped in nonsense” ? “Scientific Accuracy” ?
The fact is that the Mayans created a Calendar more accurate than any other of that time or since…fact not “nonsense”. NASA will confirm the Mayan Calendar’s “accuracy”.
“Capture such attention” ? Well again, the facts are the facts. The Mayans, Aztecs, and many other Mesoamerican people did things that are attention worthy.
The pyramids they built without the use of metal tools or the wheel.
They fed tens of thousands of people without beef, chicken, or pork. The only domesticated animals they had were dogs, small birds, etc.
They studied the stars with the naked eye only. They understood about the Earth’s wobble 100′s of years before US astronomers figured it out in the late 1800′s.
Facts are facts.
The fact is, the Mayans believed that the Earth had beed destroyed 4 times and created again after each time.
The end of the 4th Sun is December 21, 2012 and the beginning of the 5th.
The Mayans believe the God Bolon Yokte will return on that date and bring with him destruction
NASA will admit that the end of the Mayan Calendar is on a date that coinsides with a rare astronomical event called the Galactic Alignment that happens every 26,000 years.
The fact that the Mayans knew about this event in a 26,000 year cycle, using only the naked eye to study, and ended their Calendar on that exact day, is worthy of “Attention”.
It is a bigger mystery why people like you cannot appreciate or understand the significance of what the Mayans had done, and at least wonder how they did it.
If their belief in a returning God is a myth, legend, or fantasy, they have done enough historically to deserve the respect to see what actually happens on December 21, 2012