Will we be where we think we are?
There’s apparently a lot of attention on the internet regarding the Mayan Calendar, and the end of a long count. Many are interpreting it as the end of the world. However, I don’t believe that. Rather, to me, it is the end of an age, as we know it – the age of ignorance, hidden history, hidden human activities around the world that have manipulated mankind. The truth is coming soon – the calendar states December 21, 2012. In the back of my mind, I’ve waited for this for the last twenty years. The bizarre growth of technology and international events over the years have set the stage for this probability. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to finally understand the mysteries of our mythology – and all the things that had to be taught to the early human minds?
It should be interesting. 
Do you expect anything to change in your life?
Apocalyptic thinking has been around since the development of historical consciousness. Sometimes I think people take comfort in such things as the Mayan “predictions” – if destruction from the outside is assured, there’s no need for us to contemplate what we might be doing to cause our own demise.
I confess I spend very little time thinking about such things. It’s rather like having someone ask that utterly absurd question: “If you knew you were going to die, how would you spend your last days?”
IF I knew I were going to die? Which of us doesn’t know that, if only at a deeply subconscious level. The question is not whether there will be life after death, but whether there will be life before death!
If I were to expect one thing to change in my life it to watch my children to grow in young men. I know when we visited Chichen Itza our guide was Mayan and very adamant of the end of the world. I think he might be disappointed but I wouldn’t mind visiting his end of the world party. I think that would have been a hoot!
I have no doubt it would culminate in a post we could print and frame! I look forward to it. From my experience, it’s rare a writer has the talent to write on so many subjects and fashion them totally entertaining and unforgettable! Keep it up, young lady!
I hope something does happen, Dec 21st is my wedding anniversary.
With you as a sunshine emissary to the universe, it will be good!
I attribute end of day’s people as those creatures that have a short term view of this world and need to feel important in their own life. I figure that since while all we know is what God has allowed us to know, we do not know all that God knows. So we sit around with writing implements in hand, stone, papyrus or keyboard, and we attempt to peer off into the future. At some point way down the road, we say, OK, it’s time for dinner; it’s time to end the line. So we say, Ah, in the year 2258 at exactly 3:15 pm on the 23 day of the 11th month, the world as I see it will end.
Yeah, right.
Your life will have ended a long time before that, and you won’t hear the catcalls of disgrace for being so shortsighted, so what the heck. Man has no idea of tomorrow, yet alone some point down the way. After all, this universe is already some 13.5 billion years old, and I think God is making new universes every billion years or so. We were Version 3.5. God is up to Version 8.3 now, but we can’t see them yet. Voyager is still in our galaxy, so until it gets to the edge, in another 350 billion years, we won’t even know there are more out there.
Thanks for visiting and sharing your viewpoint, Larry. That’s how we learn – adding as many thoughts, ideas and facts as possible to a situation. Personally, I don’t expect to ever “know it all” – just want to know enough to survive and live out the purpose of my life, whatever that may be. Knowing that, I thrive on the perceptions others have of life. Feeling quite comfortable in the space I exist, I am free to be in awe of the mysteries and possibilities.
I rambled on about this when you commented on my website, so I won’t inflict it on you again. I don’t think that the Mayan calendar finishing on 21 December 2012 means that the Earth is going to disintegrate the following day. I just think that the prophet who had the revelations either stopped at that date, or died. Why are we so attached to dates? Time is so relative. It expands and contracts and moves in spirals. It has doors which can be opened, although we don’t yet really know how to do it. Time is variable. Like the weather.
Time is one of the most interesting variables I know. By the way, your ramblings are more valuable than a lot of dissertations.
How very kind of you to say so. I seem to be doing it more and more. I thought it had something to do with old age (which is entirely possible). Elderly people do tend to want to impart knowledge, whether anyone wants to hear it or not. You’ve made me feel a lot better. Thank you June.
Well, my house is supposed to be underwater in one year and three weeks (along with most of Louisiana)– and we just put in a new driveway!
Then again, I’m 71 in two weeks; I have no idea how much longer my Sentence is!
The website of “futurist” Gordon Michael Scallion offers a map of the U.S. as it could appear “after the changes”– he admits it is ‘only’ probabilities and can be modified by various influences, including human consciousness.
I have not ponied up the $30 for the map, so I only have the lo-res images on the website- but, June, it looks like you might have some waterfront property in your future!
Me, being in SE Louisiana, should prob’ly practice breathing water.
It may be again, Ron! My ranch is 700+ feet above sea level. However, abundant in the limestone are deep sea fossils indicating it was at the bottom of an ocean approx 250M years ago. (That’s why we have so much oil and gas; the same as every state north between us and Canada!) Just in case, I’m not paving the ranch road!
I am really concerned for Louisiana. You want us to start making room for you guys?
First-time visitor. Saw your comment at Mags, so thought I’d visit … and Dec 22 will be marked as the day following the 21st and the day before the 23rd … thus noneventful in relationship to the Mayan calendar.
Thanks for the input, Frank! Isn’t earth an interesting place! Mags brings things and events to the screen I would never find on my own.
Hi,
I must say I am a bit skeptical, I have read a lot of different theory’s about the Mayan Calender, but of course will be interested as the time gets nearer and we will see what if anything transpires.
I have no way of knowing if anything is relevant to the Mayan Calender, but we are getting closer to more truth about our world and ourselves. Skepticism is a good thing, and an open mind is the only way to learn what anyone thinks, to allow or reject for ourselves. I prefer that option!