INTRODUCTION

There’s a kind of doomsday feel to things right now - have you noticed? It’s not just that the Mayan calendar runs out on December 21st of next year. It’s not even the plethora of new warnings from astrophysicists, doctors and geologists about the possibly catastrophic events that are now known to be on the not-too-distant horizon. It has more to do with the zeitgeist, an undifferentiated sense that things can’t go on like they are forever.
And, of course, there are clues. Almost daily, items half-buried in news reports point to the Doom scenarios just lurking around the corner. Maybe you are too busy or too trapped in denial to notice them all, so this blog is here to help you keep track.

Thursday 29 December 2011

Something to Worry About Today

Okay, this is it. 2012. Time to become a prophet.

Just a few reasons to believe the end of everything will happen this year:

  • The Mayan calendar ticks away till December 21st, then stops for the first time in 5,125 years.
  • An ancient prediction says that the world will end during the reign of the 112th pope.  The present one is the 11th, and he’s in his eighties.
  • The Earth’s magnetic field is dangerously weak, maybe presaging a pole reversal.
  • The Sun’s surface will erupt in unusually violent storms beginning near the end of the year.
  • Volcanoes, mega-storms and earthquakes from space are likely, scientists say.

So, depending on whether you quote vanished Amerindians, St Malachi or NASA, you are eligible for a robe and placard that says The End is Nigh.

Or maybe just, “We’re toast.”


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