Apocalypse Not Now

A recent announcement spells bad news for those of us who, like Kentuckian John Kehne, were turning the 2012 doomsday hysteria into a business; and for those of us who, like myself, were actually looking forward to the end of the world, or a pole shift, or a visit from the giant mutant stargoat, or the Big Electron, or whatever the heck was supposed to happen.

Geraldo Aldana of UC Santa Barbara has thrown some cold water on our fires of doom: according to his analysis of the Mayan calendar, 2012 is not the correct end-date. The accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years, says Aldana.

Oops.

But who knows - maybe regardless of whether the interpretations of the Mayan calendar are accurate or not, some sort of intergalactic things with wings, or the Annunaki, or Nibiru, or Planet X, or some rogue comet or something, will show up ready to pummel our paradigm anyhow. Let's hope so - I have a bottle of fine wine I've been saving for the end of civilization and it would be a real bummer to end up drinking it while sitting around watching Seinfeld reruns and doing the laundry.

John Kehne's 2012 Site

Last night WHAS Channel 11 ran a piece about 2012 which focused heavily on a website called december212012.com. The site's a virtual one-stop shop for 2012-obsessives, and just happens to be run out of Brooks, KY by a fellow named John Kehne.

So what's the whole 2012 thing about? Well, see, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar stops abruptly at December 2012, which has been variously regarded as meaning that armageddon will ensue, that our entire universe will end, that time as we know it will cease to exist, that a new enlightened spiritual era of global consciousness will be ushered in, that the Earth will collide with a rogue planet named Nibiru, that the Earth will undergo a pole shift because of galactic alignment with the Dark Rift, or maybe all of the above. Or maybe not.

Or maybe Terence McKenna was right.