Why Is Chicken Little Screaming Again?

Hi Everyone,

Recently I have been doing some online research on a topic that will affect every living thing on our planet, or will it? The subject of today's blog is 12/21/12. Hopefully you have not been living under a rock and recognize that date as the last day of Earth, before the supposed end of the world as we know it.

Thousands of years ago, the Mayan's created a calendar, and not just any calendar. The Mayan's were an advanced civilization who were able to figure out that observations of the sun, moon and stars translated into a method to figuring out how long a day was, how many days there were in a month and how long it took for the Earth to travel around the Sun. Using their new found information, they were able to create a calendar that was not just a yearly calendar, but a two thousand year calendar. Their two thousand year calendar ended on 12/21/12. So does that mean the end of the world, since the calendar ends?  Last year, while doing Christmas shopping, I found 2012 calendars for sale that ended on 12/21/12. Well my research has found some very interesting sites that give numerous reasons for the end of the world. There are other reasons than what I will give you, but these are the top six reasons and are in no particular order.

1) There will be an alignment of the universe that will destroy the Earth.

2) A meteor or an asteroid will strike the Earth.

3) A mysterious planet called Nibiru is on a collision course with Earth.

4) A giant solar storm from our sun will hit the Earth.

5) A polar shift will occur on Earth.

6) There will be a reversal of the Earth's rotation.

Well, well, well!? There seems to be a lot of destruction heading our way. What are we as a planet going to do to avoid the end of the world cliff that so many people truly believe is coming? My reaction was to investigate this further. So I checked out NASA's web site. NASA says that since 12/21/12 is less then 2 weeks away, they would definitely be able to see a meteor, asteroid or a planet heading our way. NASA states that nothing is heading our way, not even a so-called close call one. NASA also says that there is no universe alignment, solar storm, polar shift or a reversal of the Earth's rotation is going to happen. They stated that the Earth is over 4 billion years old and they fully expect the Earth to still be here on 12/22/12. NASA concluded that there is absolutely no science to believe that the end of the world is coming. There is just no evidence!

So, if NASA says the Earth is not going to end any time soon, how did this theory come about? When the Mayan's put chisel to stone to create their calendar, or long count calendar as we call it, they went out two thousand years from when they were living. The long count calendar just happened to end on 12/21/12. It is just like the calendar hung in your kitchen. Every year, your calendar ends on 12/31. Did the world end on the following January first? Obviously not. So it is true with the Mayan's calendar. 12/21/12 just happened to be the end of their long count calendar and 12/22/12 would just be the first day of their next long count calendar. Makes perfect sense to me, doesn't it?

Since the beginning of humans, people have believed in different and numerous Gods. But almost all of their beliefs were based on what was happening with the sun, moon and stars, as well as floods, drought and storms occurring here on Earth. People are entitled to their own beliefs, but not their own facts. And the facts here absolutely don't support the Earth ending on 12/22/12, or any time soon after that, for that matter. So with that in mind, I will be blogging as usual on 12/23/12.

Til next week.

Peter