The End is Nigh! Protect Yourself and Those You Love!
Recently we passed through a very important date for numerologists - the date of November Eleventh. Why is this date so significant, does it have implications on the coming events of 2012, and did you notice?
"The End is Nigh!" is an age old cry. We have written records of claims of it even before the supposed birth of Christ. People in every walk of life see significators and portents in nearly every year of humanity's existence. Archaeology has found a clay tablet dated approximately 2800 years before the common era. This is an Assyrian tablet (Assyria is now called Iran, and parts of Iraq) that states, "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." This is our earliest example of a written prophecy concerning the end of the world or the end of times. And ever since then, prophecies have been given again and again that the end is coming.
There have been some very interesting "end time" predictions made throughout the millenia, but obviously none of them has come true (or else we are all dead or spiritually transfigured somewhere and not really reading this). The first time the Jehovah's Witnesses prophesied an end to this world, it was to take place in 1881. Ten years later, Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, proclaimed that the Second Coming would occur in 56 years. (It is interesting to note, that's 1947, the year when World War II's end would bring a new structure to world politics and the birth of the Nation State of Israel.)
As the year 1899 approached, urged further perhaps by tabloid presses very popular at the time, more and more groups sprang up proclaiming the end of days! Remember, party like it's 1899?
It seems that every decade of the 20th Century had it's doomsayers. I don't think we tended to take these things lightly either - there was, after all (for the first time in human history), an actual scientific method of destroying all life on Earth with the flip of a single switch. No period in history could have ever seemed closer to the actual potential of Man's immorality and banal selfishness actually causing a total destruction. But the 80s coward before the threat of global nuclear annihilation and walls of division began to crumble for us. And then 1999 came and went just like everyday birthday wishes.
Heck! Undaunted by all the failure of Doomsdayanity, the nigh-sayers found another bug to exploit in an effort to gain notoriety and possibly bilk the coffers of the soon to be doomed - a simple computer glitch called Y2K. A complete man-made prophecy that had nothing to do with the motions of planets, the urges of Heaven, or even the whimsical will of an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful creature. A simple short-sightedness in early computer programming technology caused such a stir that millions of people literally expected to start their new year bleakly hungover and completely in the dark (it was a bit of hoax really, and all you folk who paid thousands to ensure your company computers were Y2K complaint could have done the trick yourself in about 2 hours).
Now comes 2012, the Mayan calculation of an ending of a cycle in history. And millions are lining up around the blocks to see the prophecy unfold on the silver screen. I know I will be - I love a great special effects movie as much as the next. But I also know that the Mayans didn't write any prophecies or predict the end of the world. They observed the stars in the sky, the motions of the planets in orbit, and their relationships to seasonal tides. The calendar is excellent at predicting eclipses and other astronomical events, but there are nowhere found in any archeological digs or museums the writings of the Mayan peoples which predict world calamities and new spiritual awakenings. You have to remember, the Mayan civilization vanished mysteriously centuries before the Europeans even knew there were these other continents we now live on.
Yes, the Mayan calendar is exceedingly accurate in its details about planetary locations and solar and lunar eclipses. Yes, this indicates to us that the Mayans had to have been able to accurately calculate the size of our planet, the speeds of all the planets in the sky, and the exact rotation rate of our planet (these are all available for calculation simply by looking at the sky at night, by the way). And yes, the calendar ends on the day of the Winter Solstice in the year we now commonly refer to as 2012. But this alone is no evidence of anything other than a well drawn calendar. My calendar, of which I just ordered a replacement, doesn't end on any solstice or equinox (for reasons I haven't exactly agreed with), but it does end and it does so every year - and I have to order a replacement. But what if we still were following the Mayan Calendar with it's short counts and long count wheels of time? What would this mean on the last day? It would mean you should order your new calendar, where you'll find that the wheels within wheels that make up this very interesting calendar start exactly on the spot where it all began at the very first (and several thousand years later, it will again).
Don't throw your money away listening to those who want to sell you fear. Just ask yourself one really basic question: If the world is going to come to an end, or maybe instead simply change into something wherein nothing that is common today will be of the same value, why aren't they just giving you the books and DVDs for free? I mean, on December 22, 2012, being a millionaire in a world of rubble and dust will mean nothing.
Instead, put your money, time, and energy toward something productive such as your own future on this earth. Put the future in your hands by understanding that you are only a victim of "Time's Cruel Claw" if you so allow it.
Oh, and about that 11/11 thing. I waited and waited to respond to a particular "numerologist" who kept sending me emails about this particular date of doom about how evil I felt she was for trying to sell "self-help" kits to get people past this momentous occasion when "everything is going to change," but she vanished from the Internet completely - her website no longer functioning. Maybe that was the doom she foresaw.