the end is near

Happy win­ter, everyone!

And you know what that means…only four years to go until 12–21-12, the Mayan End of World, as bak­tun 13 comes to its close!

Appar­ently the Mayans didn’t have Hall­mark stores where they could buy them­selves new calendars…maybe some­thing light and fluffy with kit­tens or pup­pies or bloom­ing daf­fodils on it…

At least the Mayans were in tune enough with their envi­ron­ment to end their cal­en­dar on the short­est day of the year. For those of using this Gre­go­rian cal­en­dar: Where’d we ever get this Decem­ber 31 end-of-the-year non­sense? What does Decem­ber 31 have to do with the nat­ural world? The Gre­go­rian cal­en­dar is a boon­dog­gle invented by sev­eral cen­turies of com­mit­tee meet­ings if there ever was one!

Sug­gested sound­track: R.E.M.‘s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” Or, for a view­ing sug­ges­tion: Wim Wen­ders’ epic film, Until the End of the World (which hap­pens to use the R.E.M. song).


December 21 2008 05:00 am | Categories: rambles | Tags: • • • •

4 Responses to “the end is near”

  1. Helen/patientgardener on 21 Dec 2008 at 5:15 am #

    Yes there is no logic to the Gre­go­rian cal­en­dar at all but then I read about the French one dur­ing the rev­o­lu­tio and that was madder

  2. tina on 21 Dec 2008 at 5:53 am #

    Ha! This is funny. My son who is due to grad­u­ate in 2012 keeps telling me the world will end this year as well. I didn’t know why he was say­ing this BUT I remind him every­one thought the world would suf­fer cat­a­stroph­i­cally in the year 2000 as well. And it did not. Have a great day too.

  3. lostlandscape on 21 Dec 2008 at 9:28 am #

    All those human sys­tems lay­ered on top of the spin­ning of the earth or the ris­ing of the moon are pretty arbi­trary, aren’t they? And if we sur­vived Y2K, we should be able to make it through any media-driven armaged­don. It all makes for amus­ing reads, tho…

  4. tina on 21 Dec 2008 at 10:55 am #

    Yes, and do you know the son is STILL adamant the world will end then. He even explained the Mayan cal­en­dar. Kind of sad I had to read it here to believe him but the things he comes up with! Amus­ing reads indeed. Any­how best wishes for Happy Holidays.

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