PC wrote:
> Usenet2008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Also, I am curious as to why you are waiting for 2012? What will
>> happen then?
>
> Discovery Channel has been running apololyptic shows recently and
apparently
> several ancient cultures have pegged 2012 as the end of the world. For
> example, the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012. Some psychic who
lived
> in North Carolina in the 20s or so predicted such horrific events as the
> earth suddenly slowing down in its spin causing massive upheavel of the
> earth's crust. Oceans will spill into continents; the Great Lakes will
> empty into the Mississippi and drain into the Gulf of Mexico. Jesus
claimed
> that judgement day would come at the "end of his age". He was born at
the
> start of the age of Aquarius and that age ends in - you guessed it,
2012.
>
> So I guess we might as well just blow all our money and party until
then.
> Right?
>
As was expected for the year AD 1000, AD 2000 (turns out that one didn't
cause much more than a blip in PC systems in spite of the most dire
predictions), also several groups saw it coming for several different
years around 1900 and no telling how many other times. So far, we have
survived each dire forecast. And don't you suppose the Mayas got tired
of chiseling all that stone for a time more than a millennium and a half
old? After all, the calendar in my billfold runs out at the end of 2009;
some things just don't seem very im****tant. Discovery Channel should be
ashamed about offering this sort of tripe. Oh, and by the way, if the
earth lost rotational speed in any degree of im****tance, then 2012 would
be getting farther and farther away, as the days become longer and
longer, so we will have longer to worry about it.
Allen
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