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I think it would be better if is was 2112. I could probably come up with some sort of connections to the Rush album and how Neil Peart saw the end coming. Damn the luck! I think I’ll listen to it anyway!
While it is true that the Mayan’s calendar ends at December 21st, 2012 on our calendar, those people aren’t around anymore. Maybe if they used their powers to predict their own fate, rather than everyone else’s, they’d still be around. This all has to something with what the Maya called The Sacred Tree, which has something to do with the Winter Solstice Sun crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun). at 11:11 GMT on December 21, 2012, all this will come together.
But maybe there whole Mayan calendar talk is nonsense!
Dr. Philip Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is a astronomer and skeptic who runs the website BadAstronomy.com, stated this very clearly. The Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.
But, for the sake of argument, lets say December 21, 2012 is the day of the apocalypse. The general opinion is that apocalypse is a bad thing, but to some it is a spiritual transformation in which humanity will be elevated to a higher level. Doesn’t sound all that horrible.
Sure Michael Drosnin’s 1997 book calms a comet will collide with the Earth or Patrick Geryl predicts a pole reversal. He also predicts that the Earth will start rotating in the opposite direction. Riley Martin claims the Earth is ‘transformed’ in 2012 and Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their ‘Great Mother Ship’. Terence McKenna’s numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.