If Jesus is coming today, he missed the 6:00 PM memo...



I have to say that all of this talk about the world ending had me a little on edge today. As a Christian, I know that no one, not even Jesus knows the day or time that he is coming back. But still. 6:00 has come and gone, so I think Im settling down now. The last time zone to reach 6:00PM is Pacific time, ((I think??)) and thats the time zone that this creeper predicting the end of the world is in. So... waiting for 9:00PM. ;)

Also, since everyone has been on this "world ending" kick, I looked up the 2012 doomsday too. Here's what I found:

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."



Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes.


But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be.


Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point."


University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012 phenomenon comes "from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own."