Doomsday

(Taking a quick break from the Christmas blogging, just for this.)

Let me start off this blog by first just saying the whole doomsday craze and people getting all up in arms about it is just... stupid. Stupid. STUPID.

Spazzing out about the whole 'end of the world' not only makes you sound stupid it makes you look just as so.

And of course, the explanations behind my very biased reasoning...

There is still no direct link to anywhere that states exactly where the whole Mayan Long-Count Calendar end signifies the 'end of the world'. Yes it signifies the end of a 144,000 day long cycle, or 394 years, and the end of the 13th b'ak'tun, or sun-circle. It has also been noted by many notible historians that in the Mayan writing it is told, we end this 13th b'ak'tun just to begin a new 14th b'ak'tun on the 22nd of 2012. A new era.

99% of what people believe as true about the Mayan calendar's end is all based upon the shit they have read on the internet, heard on the radio, or seen on TV. The whole Mayan Doomsday is a completely Western notion of thinking. Sheeple (humans) are so gullible and so stupid. They will believe anything that the media tells them. Seriously. Anything. People believed the psycho bullshit about Y2K, the Satanic Doomsday on 06/06/06, the Evangelical rapture on May 21st, 2011, 11/11/11, and now this. Really? Are people so gullible and naive to believe anything that they are told? Yes. Anything that is passed over by the mainstream media is taken as instant truth. Which is downright ridiculous.

The scary thing is, people are taking it to the extremes. There is a family with two middle school kids whose children told their teacher about their parents' plan to kill themselves the night before the Winter solstice and 'Doomsday'. This is something we can expect to see a lot more of in the next day or so. I can bet there will be a wave, however small or large, of mass suicides from the Doomsday cults that have been awaiting and preparing for that day.

Aside from that, there is a swir of crap floating around the internet about what's going to happen on Friday to cause the end of the world as we know it.

1. Some say that the world will be sucked into a huge black hole that is 30,000 lightyears away from Earth and wipe us out in the blink of an eye. To be honest, this is absurd. Anything 30,000 lightyears away is much to far to cause any harm to Earth.

2. Rogue planet Niburu or Planet X is going to collide with Earth causing cataclysmic damage and it would be like the Dinosaurs all over again with mass extinction. Again, stupid. There is no such planet as Niburu. Niburu was a minor god in ancient Mesopotamian writing, and in some books it's just another fictional planet. Planet X is a name used by scientists to describe a hypothetical planet, such as Pluto was.

3. Earth's rotation will suddenly reverse and we'll all be thrown off-kilter and die. Not even close. There isn't a cosmic known force in nature that could suddenly just stop the force, speed, and rotation of this planet for no reason and then just reverse it just as easily.

4. Three days of utter darkness will envelope the planet before Christmas. Where the hell did this come from? What, is someone just going to grab the little pull-chain attached to the sun and yank it, dousing us in darkness for only three days, and then pull it again to turn the sun back on? Do they even realize how stupid that sounds?

Etc...

I mean in all honesty, people are batshit crazy about this whole doomsday nonsense. They are obsessed with the idea of a mass extinction of our species. I mean while I agree with the fact that mankind has become a plague on our gloriously beautiful planet, it's not likely to happen due to some huge celestial or cosmic force anytime in the foreseeable future. We're far more likely to kill ourselves off by nuclear fall out from a world war, by killing our planet as She can no longer support us as a species, by some kind of rapidly spreading incurable disease pandemic, or by global-scale mass poisoning of ourselves due to chemical, pollution, drug, etc.

To make my point, there is this: I had a lady client bring her dog into my shop to get groomed today. It was filthy as hell, matted to the skin, and stunk like a rancid pond. Hadn't been groomed in over a year. I was curious as to why, no, after all this time she was bringing it in but I couldn't bring myself to ask her. So I waited and she told me anyway. She said this, and I quote hilariously: "I want him to look beautiful if the world ends Friday."

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I was like "...what." Mental facepalm. Yet I held in my strong insatiable need to laugh until after she left. Oh goodness. The hilarity.

What the hell is the world coming to?

Ah, I suppose it doesn't matter. We'll all be 'dead and gone' Friday anyway. Ha ha ha.

...I mean really, we've already survived 4 'apocalypses', what's one more?