End of the World Silliness

Nope. Don't believe it's happening this Friday. No silliness from me. Just this post.

So I realized something that is fairly odd when you think about it. The reason so many people think it is this Friday that the world ends is because of the Mayan calendar, which is a rather complicated construction. So complicated in fact that if the world does not end Friday, the calendar will be recalculated to some later date, and again, the end of the world is coming! But really, what is that calendar doing?

Now, I'm not an expert of Mayan culture, but this is what I understand. The Mayan calendar can be described as three different sized gears. On Friday, all of these gears align, and thereby reset the calendar. The resetting of the calendar though cannot be the reason people think the world is going to end. After all, calendars reset every year. The one I and many others follow resets at New Years, yet the world has not ended. The Mayan calendar, like all others, will just reset to its first date.

So where does the idea of the world ending come from? Well, from what I know of the Mayan religion, when the calendar resets the god that made the old world is destroyed and devoured by the god that creates the new world.

Here is a question I put to everyone who thinks the world is going to end on Friday. Are you a follower of the Mayan religion? Seriously, we have followers of multiple religions freaking out and doing stupid stuff because they think the world is going to end according to a different religion! I do believe one should be open to learning the ways of religions other than their own, but this is just silly. What makes it worse is the number of people that freaking out and probably would not describe themselves as religious or actively religious. Despite that though they will allow an old religion some would describe as mythology to grab hold of their emotions.

This is silly. This is very silly.

Now, if you are an actual follower of the Mayan religion, then I respectively hope that whatever process may occur on Friday, as predicted by your religion, is not too cataclysmic.