The End Is Not Near

by Grandpa Chuck

“Doomsday sayers aren't standing on street corners proclaiming the end of time. Instead they've all gone on the Internet.”  – Ted Daniels, Millenium Watch

It wasn’t too long ago we were reading about the end of the world being May 5, 2000.  Articles such as the one shown below appeared warning us the end was near.

“As I write this, it's D (for doomsday) minus two days and counting. According to prophets of doom, the world will end on May 5, 2000 when a rare planetary alignment wreaks earthly havoc in the form of storms, earthquakes, tidal waves, sun flares and, in the worst-case scenario, a stock market crash." 

Before that it was the year 2000.  Remember the Y2K days, the new Millenium?

It's now official: 2012 is the new 2000. Doomsayers everywhere, from Bible Code decipherers and Mayan calendar exegetes to trans-dimensional "Novelty Theorists," now insist that the end of all things is a mere eight years away.

“The Vedic, Maya, and Hopi calendars all describe our current age as the fourth world. The Maya and Hopi calendars also describe the ending of a great age around the year 2012. Mayan cycles describe the Earth's Great Year (a 24,000-year cycle caused by the Earth's wobble) as well as an additional rotation of our sun and galaxy around Alcyon, central star of the Pleiades. The Maya are one of many cultures (as far-flung as the Australian Aborigines, the ancient Greeks, and several Native American nations) with stories about the Pleiades."

Then again, folks on the fringe have been telling us Doomsday is nigh with annoying regularity for the past two millennia, and guess what — we're still here!

There has never been a time when people weren't predicting an end to life, as we know it.  My prediction, "The end is not near!"

Source:  Urban Legends by David Emery