Thoughts on the end times
So I'm reading a fan reaction to The Monster at the End of This Book (yes, I know, hush. I just got to that ep in my DVD set, so I'm being all nostalgic) and a random thought comes to me.
I'd harped near the end of last year and the beginning of this one that I had a Bad Feeling about this year. I admit, the Feeling's mostly subsided, but the thought I had just a minute ago has me wondering.
It's common knowledge that the Julean (Georgian?) Calendar is off a couple years, because the folk who made it didn't take into account the years inbetween Roman rulers when there WAS no king/emperor. I think I read somewhere that it meant we were something like 3 years off. If this is the case...then that means all these prophecies for 2012 are ACTUALLY for 2009. Which means all this badness everyone's pinning on 2012 will happen THIS YEAR.
I know I'm a rare breed of nut, to actually put more than an ounce, let alone a whole ton, worth of thought and belief into this. And I fully realize, and expect, the lot of you to laugh in my face when nothing happens (whether it be this year, or in three years after Dec 21, 2012). I know this.
I also know that for my entire adult like and most of my adolensent one, I have had a Feeling that I wouldn't live to reach 40, that I might not even reach 30. I've had Feelings about certain things on Earth. The fault system in California, and the one off the coast of Seattle. Yellowstone, and the melting ice caps. Plague, famine, war, death.
Think me crazy, I don't care. I just can't sit here and Feel things and not share. Do I hope I'm wrong? Hell yes. The last thing I want is to die a damned virgin. To die period. But. If I'm not, it's best to be prepared. Better safe than sorry, right?
Okay, you can go back to your lives now. The crazy is done ranting.
I'd harped near the end of last year and the beginning of this one that I had a Bad Feeling about this year. I admit, the Feeling's mostly subsided, but the thought I had just a minute ago has me wondering.
It's common knowledge that the Julean (Georgian?) Calendar is off a couple years, because the folk who made it didn't take into account the years inbetween Roman rulers when there WAS no king/emperor. I think I read somewhere that it meant we were something like 3 years off. If this is the case...then that means all these prophecies for 2012 are ACTUALLY for 2009. Which means all this badness everyone's pinning on 2012 will happen THIS YEAR.
I know I'm a rare breed of nut, to actually put more than an ounce, let alone a whole ton, worth of thought and belief into this. And I fully realize, and expect, the lot of you to laugh in my face when nothing happens (whether it be this year, or in three years after Dec 21, 2012). I know this.
I also know that for my entire adult like and most of my adolensent one, I have had a Feeling that I wouldn't live to reach 40, that I might not even reach 30. I've had Feelings about certain things on Earth. The fault system in California, and the one off the coast of Seattle. Yellowstone, and the melting ice caps. Plague, famine, war, death.
Think me crazy, I don't care. I just can't sit here and Feel things and not share. Do I hope I'm wrong? Hell yes. The last thing I want is to die a damned virgin. To die period. But. If I'm not, it's best to be prepared. Better safe than sorry, right?
Okay, you can go back to your lives now. The crazy is done ranting.