Counting Down… June 22, 2008
Posted by Enas Yorl in Home, Politics, Science & Technology, Strange & Unusual.Tags: Prophesy, We're All Gonna Die
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I watched a show on the History Channel this morning about Doomsday prophesies of the year 2012. According to the Mayan calendar the End of Times is December 12th 2012. There were others too that point to this same time period where there will be great geological and / or political upheaval. Among those noted: the I Ching, Hopi Indian prophecy, web-bots, Merlin, and of course, The Book of Revelation. Although I thought they kinda shoe-horned that one in since it’s rather vague about a specific date when it hits the fan. Conspicuously absent was Nostradamus in the lineup. I was surprised. Perhaps he had a different date that would mess up their 2012 theme.
That kinda sucks that they predict World’s End during the Christmas holiday week. I’m always on vacation that week. Anyway, we all have only 1,642.97 days to get our shit in order. I’m marking my calendar. How about you?
I’m looking at it like the Y2K fiasco. The question is: how can I make money on this idiocy? People really cleaned up on the Y2K crap.
It’s not that I particularly need more money, but if there’s gonna be a lot of wholesale idiocy, I want to take full advantage of it – just out of principle.
Yah, I thought of Y2K too. But…this isn’t really the same thing though. Y2K was a known technical issue with unknown ramifications. There wasn’t any “prophecy” out there from centuries ago predicting that Humanity’s Thinking Machines were going to blow a nut or anything.
I had a dream in the late 90’s that predicted that Y2K wasn’t going to be a problem BTW. In the dream I was on a little hill talking with someone and we were laughing at how Y2K was so overblown and how nothing really came from it. I started remarking about how beautiful the sky was at that moment (it was near sunset) and all the remarkable colors. Then the massive alien invasion from space started…
Brr. That dream went south in a big hurry.
Damn, Enas. Does this mean we’re all gonna die?
Oh poo.
Stick to your principles, ‘Goo. Keep up the good fight.