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As I typed that title I accidentally stumbled upon another theory that I didn’t realize could be there.  The accident was in trying to type “End”, I had typed eEnd and that sparked a whole train of thought on how the world will end in 2012 but only ONLINE and not in actuality.

Many will suffer a death of sorts if you will.  Many will have to quietly take down their The End Is Nigh sites and other conspiracy theory sort of content but that pretty much sums up my thoughts on that train of thought.  LOL  It was a shorter train than I expected.  Luckily that topic that I wanted to discuss is still here.

Will the World End in 2012?  Do the Mayans have it right or are there other possibilities that have yet to be discussed.  I don’t know and that is the essence of the question that I want to highlight.  No one knows with any certainty and if they did, they know better to keep it to themselves rather than have chaos be the last image of humanity.  It is a scary notion isn’t it?

Doom and gloom aside, the question remains.  Is this the last full calendar year that we will be afforded?  I have to ponder the question because I am sure that I am not the only one who has had the thought of, “Why bring a child into this world when it is doomed already?”  The easy answer to this is, Yes because I can and I want to.  I’m a parent and who’s to say that there isn’t a better place we will all go to?  No one can say that for sure and again that is the gist of the topic today.  With so much uncertainty, why not hold on to those things that are CERTAIN like being a Father to my children, Husband to my one and only Wife and Buddy to so many.

With Facebook I am now Buddy to so many more and while I have learned that Facebook is not the place to be if you are working and or busy, it is still a place where I can go and find something to do, if you consider sitting in front of a computer “Doing something”.  =)  It is on Facebook that I noticed a cartoon that opened up my mind in terms of the possibilities that exist around the Ultimate Question.  When Will The World End?

The Mayan Calendar

The profundity of this cartoon was enough for me to realize that at one time, the sky was falling, the Earth was flat and many other things that we realize was never the case.

Humans in their limited knowledge and capacity back then didn’t know better and so they believed that the sky was indeed falling.

Of course we have been afforded the luxury of Time and Knowledge to help shape who we are so we know that it was most likely a meteorite that was being observed by those ancient peoples.

It also helped me to realize that the Mayans at this time must have had limitations as well that we are not aware of.  Like space!  LOL  Maybe the tree this was used to make the calendar was the biggest tree around.  It is a possibility.

Much like our growing knowledge of our place in the Known Universe.  We now know that there are such things as solar flares, dark matter, massive fields of gravity, space radiation and other nasty stuff we aren’t fully aware of but for sure know that it means doom for us.  In many respects it puts me back in the place of our ancients who stood in awe of a Haley’s Comet and foresaw the immense power that must exists in something we can only observe from a distance.

Our growing bank of knowledge and reach into the Universe is expanding but at the center of all that knowledge still lies that little bundle uncertainty that we build over with our growing aspects of certainty.   It still lies there though, the uncertainty.

It helps those who need it and it holds back those who don’t but it is still there.  Now that we are on the cusp of what could be the most prophetic and dooming piece of human knowledge, we have to consider that Uncertainty MUST have been a part of the Mayan Society as well.  Heck any society of that time will have had LIMITATIONS that we may or may not be aware of.

Obviously the biggest limitation that we are aware of is their lack of technology and information sharing that we have today.  Our biggest limitation is that we have no first hand knowledge of the Mayan Calendar and its creation.  Perhaps it stops at 2012 because the artisan did in fact ran out of room or perhaps they really did know something about what our Fate holds in store for us.

Right now all I can do is continue to live my Life and be a Husband, Father, and Buddy to those that means the most to me.

Will the World End in 2012?  For some yes and I do mean the eProphets but for the rest of us?  Who knows.

If it does, I am not wasting my time.

If it doesn’t, well…we’ll laugh and point because we’re humans but there will be other things for our collectiveness to worry about.

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