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“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine” - REM song.
poet friend cheryl pointed out my 15 year estimate to the end of the human habitable world was optimistic - 2,300 years ago the mayans predicted the world would end december 12, 2012.
that’s 5 years 3 months from now. and here i was worried about my future - heck, i can fake it that long.
i checked it out: december 21st, 2012 a.d. (13.0.0.0.0 in the long count) is the conjunction of the winter solstice with the crossing point of the equator of the milky way and the ecliptic path of the sun - at which time the sun is supposed to reach the peak of its worst sunspot activity ever which will produce earthquakes and flooding on earth.
this happens once every 26,000 years and will occur at 11:11 am gmt, at which time we pass from the age of pisces to the age of aquarius.
cool. i’m impressed that mayans knew enough to predict the winter solstice 2,300 years down the line, although today’s scientists do point out that the mayan calendar is 34 seconds off in their prediction.
so we have 12.21.2012 11:11, though i like the mayan’s 13.0.0.0.0 better. 1 2 3, what’s in it for me?
the mayans say the fifth world finished in 1987, while the upcoming sixth world will start in 2012 - which means we’re presently in the 25 year gap between worlds… maybe that explains the horrible music on the radio since 1987 (we need more Meat Beat Manifesto).
the 2,300 year old winter solstice prediction is fact, and the precession of the stars moving to aquarius is fact. some folk say since the mayan calendar ends then, the world ends. but they’re missing the point - the mayans don’t claim the world is ending, just that we pass from one age to the next. and they say to make this passing properly, we need to move away from our materialistic consumer society and move back to harmony with the earth. that’s a laugh - not a chance of it happening. we will continue to rape and eat the earth. so maybe it will be the end of time after all.
so, that’s the equation - the mayans’ mesoamerica versus our mess of america.
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