Even the Maya are Sick of 2012 Hype
source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33261483/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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"MEXICO CITY - Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."
It can only get worse for him. Next month, Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.
"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas.
A significant time period for the Maya does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years."
One ridiculous theory I heard was that the Earth and the Sun will align with the black hole in the center of the galaxy. The problem is there are no black holes! 2012 is just part of the diversification of fear tactics, such as Man-made Global Warming, the Large Hadron Collider, Hurricane Katrina (surprisingly missed thousands of oil rigs), Swine Flu, and of course, you can't forget the greatest staged fear event ever, 9/11.
2012, Global Warming, LHC are all events seemingly out of our control, but will be used as covers for the real plan...terror, terror, terror; fear, fear, fear. Is this how you want to live your life?
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lol The ancient version of the 2000 crisis. Just silly. The Mayans have a very interesting history but to take any of this seriously is to give up on rational thought and common sense. The only major events in 2012 with be the usual major events, a superbowl, a world series, more war and another democrat or republican president. Staged fear events is what this is, I couldn't agree more. They want us to talk and worry about the nonsense while the real important issues fly under our radar, unfortunately, here in the US, we have cable TV to do all that. Nostradamus and all that foretelling and predicting nonsense is fun, but it's as real as the second coming, it ain't happening.
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