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tabular_rasa) wrote2007-08-08 01:43 am
tabular_rasa) wrote2007-08-08 01:43 am
The End Times Are Near!
Apparently three civilizations (and Merlin?) agree: The world will end on 12/21/12. (Which, in and of itself, is a pretty cool date . . . ).
Oh, and also the sun, because according to its typical patterns of disturbances, it's going to go psychotic with the sunspots and solar flares and such, and we'll have auroras as southerly as Mexico. (Shoot, that reminds me; I never did see an aurora in Minnesota! Poo!).
Oh, and also the Milky Way, because that's the day we puportedly cross over the galactic "equator," which could actually likely switch our poles (which does and has happened to the earth) and possibly slide the earth's crust over the very mantle itself and probably kill everybody.
Yeah, I spent a lot of today watching "Decoding the Past" on the History Channel. (I've known this particular theory for some time, now, though). At least this wasn't as difficult to suspend my disbelief for as the "OMG IF YOU CONNECT THESE STARS, BLOW UP THE PICTURE IT MAKES THREE TIMES, MOVE IT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOLLAR BILL, PUT IT OVER THE PYRAMIND, LOOK AT THE LETTERS IT THE STARS POINTS POINT TO, AND THEN SCRAMBLE IT UP, IT SAYS MASON" everyone-was-in-with-the-Masons American history show. Okay, so a lot of the Founding Fathers were Masons, and they had fun with their Mason-ness, but they were just semi-vain geeks like me who like leaving cute little clues behind for people to find, rather like the wartime Kilroy or ever the middle school "SO-AND-SO WUZ HERE." It's human nature to have that kind of ego, I guess; it doesn't mean they were out to RULE THE WORLD, anymore than the average middle schooler is. Or maybe I should retract that statement, on second thought, looking at middle-school-aged Neil O.o . . .
. . . and, man, do I really miss that show Tory and I used to watch over summers that always focused on a different famous, ancient architecture (like Stonehenge or Chichen Itza-- that's where I originally heard the 2012 date) and be very historical and scientific in the first half the show, describing its (usually highly symbolic) geometry and physics and theorizing about its possible purposes-- and then spending the rest of the show postulating on aliens having come down to earth to explain the physics to the humans, because they couldn't possibly have come up with it themselves. It was awesome, lol . . .
On the bright side, I guess in a weird way it would be really cool to see the end of the world. (Though, you know, it sort of sucks that I'm only going to be about 26 /-: I probably won't even be married, at that point). I mean, how many people get to see that? It would certainly be a sight to behold, I would expect, more interesting than going out in a car accident or something, for instance . . . and though I imagine most people would be going into automatic will-to-survive panic mode, it might be a profound moment for everyone to stop and pause and realize that it all is, indeed, truly over. Maybe we could all hold hands in brotherhood as we all evaporate off the surface of the earth . . . (Lol, I'm such a sap). Maybe most people won't even see it coming, and it'll be a peaceful moment suspending permanently in time, rather like a massive Pompeii. The mantle-sliding-around thing sounds painful, but maybe it'll just be a flash of a solar flare, or something. It certainly makes the desire-to-be-remembered thing I have rather moot . . .
So, don't say I didn't warn you.
. . . and now some The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abriged, because Tiffany bought the DVD when we were at the Renaissance Faire and this is about my favorite part:
Doomsayer: Beware the Ides of March.
Julius Caesar: What's the Ides of March?
Doomsayer: The 15th of March.
Julius Caesar: Why, that's today!
Doomsayer-putting-up-hood-and-becoming-Brutus: *Stab.*
Edit (2:06 am): Dude . . . if that mantle-sliding-around thing turns out to be true, I totally had a prophetic dream, once . . .
Then again, if the earth gets sucked into a black hole, I also had a prophetic (and actually quite immensely uplifting) dream. Also so if a tornado flies into my window and changes colors.
Oh, and also the sun, because according to its typical patterns of disturbances, it's going to go psychotic with the sunspots and solar flares and such, and we'll have auroras as southerly as Mexico. (Shoot, that reminds me; I never did see an aurora in Minnesota! Poo!).
Oh, and also the Milky Way, because that's the day we puportedly cross over the galactic "equator," which could actually likely switch our poles (which does and has happened to the earth) and possibly slide the earth's crust over the very mantle itself and probably kill everybody.
Yeah, I spent a lot of today watching "Decoding the Past" on the History Channel. (I've known this particular theory for some time, now, though). At least this wasn't as difficult to suspend my disbelief for as the "OMG IF YOU CONNECT THESE STARS, BLOW UP THE PICTURE IT MAKES THREE TIMES, MOVE IT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOLLAR BILL, PUT IT OVER THE PYRAMIND, LOOK AT THE LETTERS IT THE STARS POINTS POINT TO, AND THEN SCRAMBLE IT UP, IT SAYS MASON" everyone-was-in-with-the-Masons American history show. Okay, so a lot of the Founding Fathers were Masons, and they had fun with their Mason-ness, but they were just semi-vain geeks like me who like leaving cute little clues behind for people to find, rather like the wartime Kilroy or ever the middle school "SO-AND-SO WUZ HERE." It's human nature to have that kind of ego, I guess; it doesn't mean they were out to RULE THE WORLD, anymore than the average middle schooler is. Or maybe I should retract that statement, on second thought, looking at middle-school-aged Neil O.o . . .
. . . and, man, do I really miss that show Tory and I used to watch over summers that always focused on a different famous, ancient architecture (like Stonehenge or Chichen Itza-- that's where I originally heard the 2012 date) and be very historical and scientific in the first half the show, describing its (usually highly symbolic) geometry and physics and theorizing about its possible purposes-- and then spending the rest of the show postulating on aliens having come down to earth to explain the physics to the humans, because they couldn't possibly have come up with it themselves. It was awesome, lol . . .
On the bright side, I guess in a weird way it would be really cool to see the end of the world. (Though, you know, it sort of sucks that I'm only going to be about 26 /-: I probably won't even be married, at that point). I mean, how many people get to see that? It would certainly be a sight to behold, I would expect, more interesting than going out in a car accident or something, for instance . . . and though I imagine most people would be going into automatic will-to-survive panic mode, it might be a profound moment for everyone to stop and pause and realize that it all is, indeed, truly over. Maybe we could all hold hands in brotherhood as we all evaporate off the surface of the earth . . . (Lol, I'm such a sap). Maybe most people won't even see it coming, and it'll be a peaceful moment suspending permanently in time, rather like a massive Pompeii. The mantle-sliding-around thing sounds painful, but maybe it'll just be a flash of a solar flare, or something. It certainly makes the desire-to-be-remembered thing I have rather moot . . .
So, don't say I didn't warn you.
. . . and now some The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abriged, because Tiffany bought the DVD when we were at the Renaissance Faire and this is about my favorite part:
Doomsayer: Beware the Ides of March.
Julius Caesar: What's the Ides of March?
Doomsayer: The 15th of March.
Julius Caesar: Why, that's today!
Doomsayer-putting-up-hood-and-becoming-Brutus: *Stab.*
Edit (2:06 am): Dude . . . if that mantle-sliding-around thing turns out to be true, I totally had a prophetic dream, once . . .
Then again, if the earth gets sucked into a black hole, I also had a prophetic (and actually quite immensely uplifting) dream. Also so if a tornado flies into my window and changes colors.
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*...quietly shoving Neon Tornado Generator back under bed*
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We should all throw a party on that day, so, if it happens, we'll all die having fun (unless mantle-sliding ruins that).