High Ground

12-21-12 is nine days away and doomsday believers hoping to survive the predicted end of days are flocking to Mount Rtanj in Carpathian range, which supposedly has a 'special energy according to the late Arthur C Clark. A French town in the Pyrenees has also been targeted by cultists and the village authorities of Bugarach has warned travelers to Pic de Bugarach that the mountain will be closed on 12-21-12. A Turkish town has joined the hysteria for a safe place to ride out the end of the Mayan calendar thanks to the legend of Jesus' mom ascending to heaven from its mountain. I don't have the money to reach any of these havens, so I'll sit out the apocalypse at the Fort Greene Observatory. I most definitely will have a beer in my hand.

Richard's Ark

Noah was warning by God that all life on Earth was threatened by a Great Flood. Few people believed him, but according to the Bible Noah built a great ark to hold the faithful and two of each kind of animal. The rain of forty days and forty nights cleanse the world of sin and now Fundamentalists claim that the rising ocean will not wipe out mankind, since their Lord had vowed never to use water again to right the wrongs of Man. Only one man is building an ark, however Reverend Richard Greene's forty year quest to construct the ark will offer to shelter to his flock. His folly is bare steel girders set near an interstate in the hills of Maryland. "I am just like Noah. They're laughing and mocking just like they did Noah. But the flood still came, and Jesus is still coming." 12-21-12 is less than 10 days away. And no one is gathering the animals two by two. We are doomed.

12 Days And Counting

Biblical creationists judge the age of the Earth to be roughly 6000 years in agreement with adherents of Islam. During the elections Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) claimed that he had no idea about the age of the Earth, but last week he switched his position of ignorance to the scientific claim that our planet is about that 4.5 billion years old. His admission was deemed to be a conversion to rightful thinking, except I prefer the Buddhist thought that the universe is recreated millions of times every second, which means it ends millions of times every second. Only 12 days separate this existence from the termination of the Mayan Baktun on 12-21-12. Days have only been measured since the coming of Man over a million years ago or roughly 365 million days. The clock is ticking to doomsday. 12 days times 24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds equal 86400 seconds. Live them as if they were your last.

Countdown To Doom Minus 18

December 21, 2012 or 12-21-12 will mark the end-date of a 5125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Positive New Agers are expecting a transition to the new era of enlightenment, while the fundamentalist are predicting a doomsday collision with an unseen planet called Nibiru drawn to our Earth by the Grand Planet Alignment. This gloomy forecast was based on Mayan scholar Michael Coe writing in his 1966 book THE MAYA, "there is a suggestion ... that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the 13th [b'ak'tun]. Thus ... our present universe be annihilated in December 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion." Annihilation? Only 18 days away? NASA and none of the other space agencies have announced impending doom, although that silence may be keeping with the classic line in disaster movie by the leader of the Free World, "We don't want the people to panic." Panic. The world is in a throes of a major economic depression. Wars are fought across the globe. Weather patterns are shifting to challenge the coastal populations with floods and the interiors with drought. But those in control of the world are afraid of panic. If we are not panicking now, we never will, then again I favor the renewal of the world spirit rather than a planet-ending calamity. Peace will rule the world.