We can all sleep easier now

[justalurkr]

The oldest Mayan calendar yet found goes past December 12, 2012. I haven't read the whole article, but it looks like we get another seven thousand years or so. Plan your retirement accordingly!

I appreciate the efforts of the CSM, but had already gotten the cosmological information needed to shut my lizard and mammal brains up from the incomparable Neil Degrasse Tyson:

Before that, my fore-brain had information from Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews, combined it with stuff from my Neo-Pagan phase that came from I can't remember where and concluded that moderns were missing the point: Mayan calendars are round. Round things don't end; they start over.

What, if anything, persuaded you that the end of the world isn't actually scheduled for this holiday season? Or were you never really worried? Or was this all ZOMG NEWS TO YOU?

Comments

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

It won't stop all the mockumentaries on History and TLC and Discovery. *g*

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

What scares me is that sometimes, I'm not sure they're mocking. Then, I have to get out the "decline of Western Civ" tag.