2013 (The End Time May Be Running a Little Late)

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Don't ask me to cite the source, but I recall Terence McKenna once suggesting that the Mayan calendar calculations might possibly have been off by two thousand years, in which case it is the year 4012 for which we need to be gearing up, not 2012. That gives us a little breathing room to finish wrapping up our affairs and stockpiling Basmati rice, peanut-butter cookies and Power Bars, and if you have a generator, the complete set of Seinfeld DVDs to help pass the time on those long, apocalyptic nights. And lately survivalists are also recommending stashing huge quantities of Benadryl in order to deal with all the new allergic reactions that the end of the world is likely to precipitate. Clearly the last thing you want to be dealing with when reality as we know it comes crashing down is a runny nose.

Meanwhile, there are many people who remain unaware that we may be getting this 2000-year grace period and thus may have quite a shock in store on Dec 22, 2012, the day after it is all supposed to come tumbling down. There's nothing worse than business as usual when you're expecting the end of the world. Can you imagine the sinking feeling some people will experience on that morning when it slowly begins to dawn on them that rather than toppling headlong into a worldwide collective existential abyss, they instead have to show up for work? It will be reminiscent of those early childhood days of waking to a beautiful, silent, freshly fallen snow, the heart leaping in a Christmas-morning-like rush of freedom and possibility, only to learn that the three-inch sprinkling of powder was insufficient to shut down the local schools.

And just when you thought you'd be off the hook from all your financial obligations for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, instead you end up incurring a bunch of late fees because you had been hoping to slip into the End Times with a few unpaid bills. Rather than hearing the voices of angels guiding our souls to the next station on our way to oblivion, instead the phone is ringing off the hook with creditors who won't take no-or Armageddon-for an answer.

I have a friend who is stuck with about two-dozen 50-pound bags of rice in his basement from the Y2K scare, although when new visitors ask him about it, he has conveniently invoked the impending Avian Flu pandemic as the reason for his hoarding habit, and now as the global bird cataclysm fades from the headlines, 2012 is the logical next scapegoat. Fortunately, the average person doesn't quite grasp that a 50-pound bag of rice will be about as useful in December of 2012 as the rolls of quarters were in the pockets of the Heaven's Gate suicide people. About the only truly useful thing to take with you to the Great Transition might be about 600 mics of pure LSD, to help you leap out of the body just before the world leaps out of you.

Meanwhile, if nothing does happen, Christmas morning 2012 should be a barrel of laughs. "Merry Christmas sweetie! I was going to get you that new hydrogen-powered Barbie Transporter you've been bugging me about, but I was pretty certain we'd all be dead by now. Sorry, my bad. Here, have a spoonful of rice." Then finally, the ultimate insult, New Year's Day, 2013, we're all still here, and not only here, but as miserable and whiny as ever. Or even more so, considering that we had fully expected to be on a permanent vacation from existence by then. Instead, we're faced with Macbeth's tormenting reminder:

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time.

 

Image by AlaskaTeacher, courtesy of Creative Commons license.

 

Comments

fantastic

I very rarely comment on articles here - but this one was fantastic...can't say I learned anything, but it was damn nice to get a good laugh in-between all the serious posts...great work, hope to see more articles from you in the future!

Be Realistic

It pains me to think that so many people are so focused on 2012 being the "end time" or even the "new beginning." What really matters is that you are living in the HERE and NOW. You can't live every day like Dec. 22nd 2012 will be your last. You can't rely on scientific calculations of prophetic claims to estimate total collapsing of world economies or new revitalization's of spiritual uplifting.

 

What you need to do is live your life day in and day out while bringing the most love you can into this world. That is what really matters. Sure its fine to stockpile rice and things like that if you really want to. But you need to be realistic and keep the most important things in check.I would say the most important thing about 2012 is not to worry about it.

 

Don't let a speculation about a calendar date drag you down. As cliche as this sounds, you can't worry about things that are beyond your control. Whatever happens will happen, and thats the way it will be. If there are huge atrocities on or by that date, you will just have to deal with them like everyone else. If something really good happens, then thats cool too. Just don't let it stress you.

 

I once heard someone say, "Life never hands you situations that can't deal with."

end of a world age.

With the sun's cycle shifting and in turn the magnetic fields on earth changing, we may experience a sudden flood of dmt into the human-ape brain from out of the pineal gland on that fateful day in 2012. No didasters, no catastohpe or death, just a blissful awe and awareness. And once the entire human race has had this psychedelic experience we may be able to stop fighting all these pointless wars and get over ourselves to start studying the real mysteteries in the world.

Doomsday. Again?

Along Eliezer's lines, I believe that for a prophet it must be terribly frustrating not to see the mayhem, s/he has devoted her/his life to warn about.

Missing the chance to smugly say: "What did I tell you" would be a blow to anyone, not mentioning the trouble of reconsulting your starcharts or the crystalball to find the miscalculation.

For the rest of us, hopefully 'here and now' and other deep oriental wisdom in western fast-philosophy version, will bring us through unscathed.

Well, the bounderies between the worlds ARE getting thinner, the alpha-male paranoia syndrom stronger and nature weaker.

But personally I'll start worrying seriously, the day religious and political leaders will start acting sensible. THEN the shift is imminent.

 

PS Rice keeps very badly in basements, unless its very dry basements

If you can't cite the source,

it makes this whole article pointless. Terence talked about 2012 hundreds of times, and it mapped out with the I-Ching. Anyways there's no 2000 year grace period when the biosphere is collapsing. This article is vapid and/or disinfo, just very poor commentary. And to end with Macbeth, can you be anymore boring?

what's up

with all the anger/defensiveness? the article was clearly written with a solid sense of humor - it doesn't feel, to me, that he was trying to convert or convince anyone of *anything*. some of the comments above, while containing some very good rebuttals, just seem over-the-top with the anger and the defense...thank god for cj!

i really wasn't referring

i really wasn't referring to your post so much, xanaduxero - i actually really enjoy your take on things - you've got a LOT of energy, and major style

 ....maybe instead of saying 'angry and defensive', i should've said 'serious' - i think what really got me was the oh-so-serious replies to what was basically a light read...

on the other hand

Maybe the rice was in a walk-in cooler?

Meanwhile...

Sign at a monastery in Thailand: 

Cut yourself some slack: 

100 years from now

All new people.

Re eliezering

Cit:

"100 years from now

All new people."

You have to be VERY enlightened to find consolation from this.

not really.

i'm not enlightened and i think its just swell.

if only...

everyone in this world would 'detonate' with as much style, humor, and yang as you, xanaduxero, i'd be routinely pissing *everyone* off...cheers!

not that it matters..

but there is no mention of the end of the world in this theory, but of the end of times, which is quite different.

McKenna also suggested...

Terrence also vibed out on a possible discovery of time travel in 2012...Terrence picked the 2012 date because that was the only date that made his math program for mapping time/history work. I have also thought of how accurate could the date be due to different calendars used through history and foggy start/end dates...McKenna talked about years being different lengths according to dfferent ways of calculating a full yaer... he was tying in the 64's in the Iching with a possible year of 384 days I believe ....but there will also be a major comet or two in the area... Other philosophers have stated that it is here now... possibley the full cycle came with the nuclear tests and Hiroshima matching up with the big Bang... what about the dawning of the age of aquarius... maybe the womens rights movement was the full circle after the goddess religeons were over run with the priest craft... Time seems so flexible and pliable...I have hard time thinking that it will be some big magical switch at midnight...but it's fun to think about...

((( 2012 )))

2012 the end of time as we know is special ... While we are so focussed on the details of the prophetic apocalypse we miss the point that this change is not happening all of a sudden ... it's happening here and now ! The process of ascension is clouded with the doomsday scare ! Fear ? You can choose love as that's all you need to ascend ! ....  080808 , The opening of the crystalline gateway of christ consciousness which brings in new evolving energy is one of the important cosmic gateway openings we shall see as we more foward in this linear time construct ! Yesterday, on the 080808 a beautiful crop circle formed with the figure 8 (Infinity) below Milk Hill, Wiltshire ! It's all connected and our consciousness is not separate from the cosmic consciousness ! We are One ! Love, Laughter & Light ... Mate :)

 

" Follow your Bliss "

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End of the World is Nigh

I guess there is no rush to dig out and dust off my "End of the World is Nigh" sandwich board just yet. Fuck me, have I had some good mileage out of that.

2012: A Paradigm Paradox

If you don't have the tools nor understanding to perceive an event, does it happen?

 Stockpiling goods will sustain you for only a limited time. Better to prepare oneself to be flexible, liquid and resourceful.

A massive paradigm shift takes time to filter through to those who, at first, refuse to believe. A shattered worldview will be the fallout to those who do not understand anything other than linear logic.

My guess is that tachyons and faster than light travel will finally be identified, opening up a whole new world of the wondrous strange and a different understanding of " time. "

Party pooper;) But I,

Party pooper;)

But I, being one who has devised plans for survival in case of any sort of anything, will be chuckling at everyone on January 1, 2013. Why is this? Because all those people who did prepare for 2012 are going to be slightly, possibly extremely, agitated and might take it out on all those who did not prepare...I smell something along some line about like that cooking so I would say it is still good to be prepared for something...who knows...good chuckles though, thanks.

Preservation of Integrity

The preservation of integrity requires the admission that one never "knows". I enjoyed this article and sense it is likelier to be true than "the rest", although I do feel compelled to consider "the rest" and give it precedence on an on-going basis, so what does that tell me? Not sure. And, something is happening, but you don't know what it is . . . do you, Mr. Jones?

It may take a while before

It may take a while before you even begin to figure out what I'm talking about.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLH8Eq1vuw

 

 

Damn..

 

 

STARGATEZERO is DOWN.

 

RACE war is playing on my random iTUnes right at the moments

 

prejudicial homicide..

 

The lyrics.

 

The times we livin in brothers.

 

Sisters.

 

 

Angels.

 

Demons

 

 

THis live version is the shizzle.

 

from 1990.

 

live somewhere I didn't glance lnog nought at the dates when grabbing the link above my head here. if you're following along.

 

anyhow,

 

been flappin my gums over at the STargatezero2012 place and I might be stepping onto new platforms to speak now.

 

Everybody's gonna die.

 

Is the lyric at the moment.

 

It's thu 1043PM.

 

Ever wonder about timing & evenets

 

and frequencies becoming stronger & more vieral in ths sideral reality that's screaming by us in hyperspace in dimension. Www.REalitySANdwitCH.

 

Witch..

 

 

!

 

 

REmember.

 

it's always something.

 

 

Witch..

 

she's a witch .

 

 

burn her at that stake.

 

 

Race war..

 

RAce WAR...

 

 

I cna remember 1990 ..

sorto of.

 

a package arrived in the post today by a old voice.

 

 

ritchie ..

 

cheers, 

 

 

mechanical ritch.

 

 

I remember flying up the highway in some old bad ass blue hot. up an ddown.

 

now that reminds me of another story..

 

back in same yhears..

but i digress.

 

 

YIkes,,

 

you guys can't handle when somebody hijacks a thread, imagine trying to weave them all up & sum it up into one great commentary on existential.

 

Googlley muck..

 

 

 

THe LOrax has spoken.!

"Party like it's 1999"

- Prince