by Patrick Sills

Created on: December 15, 2009   Last Updated: October 06, 2010

Do you want to know what the most pressing concern of December 21, 2012 will be? Those who procrastinate getting Christmas gifts will only have 72 hours of shopping left! Following this, another 11 days will pass and the ball at Times Square in New York will drop down to welcome 2013 as Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest host the umpteenth New Years Rockin’ Eve. By Wednesday, January 2, everyone will go back to work and life will go on as usual. That’s it, folks. Really.

But of course by now, the whole of our populace has heard the latest Doomsday prophesy. On or around that date that lies just 3 years away, we’ll be toast. The world will be destroyed and take all us with it. It kind of sucks, doesn’t it? Good old Earth, our Third Stone from the Sun that has been around for billions of years; will cease to exist. We should give credit where credit is due; for you must admit that this latest flavor of the month regarding mankind's end is at least a bit interesting. Hell, even a major motion picture based on this theory is raking it in at the box office!

Somewhere along the line, a bunch of creative and imaginative individuals employed the use of mathematical formulas to come up with a calendar created by the Mayans, who lived in what is now South America centuries ago. Without going into the varied and complex specifics, those who have analyzed and interpreted this calendar have arrived at the conclusion that the End of Days will take place at the aforementioned time. Sure, guys. Whatever you say.

How many times must we be subjected to the belief that the end is near? A decade has come and gone since the world was supposed to be engulfed in utter chaos due to computers being unable to recognize the year 2000. It was said that planes would fall out of the sky. All electrical power would cease to work. Everything manufactured with parts that relied on computers would cease to operate. Unless you were already accustomed to living as an Aborigine somewhere in the Outback, our society would for all intents and purposes be thrown back into the Stone Age. And guess what? As usual, following these crackpot predictions, nothing happened.

Then there’s the old standby: Nostradamus. The main flaw in most of this alleged prophet’s writings is that the vast majority of his predictions are never mentioned until after the fact!  Basically, whenever a disaster or significant event occurs; man-made or otherwise, those who wish to “prove”

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