RE: Pet Hate
July 10, 2009 at 2:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2009 at 2:36 am by Ryft.)
(July 9, 2009 at 3:37 pm)dagda Wrote: The 2012 one is a great announce. Does anyone else think the statement 'the world is going to end' is a little vague? I mean how is it going to end? Is the world going to disappear? Or is it just the human race which has had it?
From my understanding of the whole 2012 thing, what they mean (and often say) is that the world "as we know it" is going to end. They allude to some kind of wholesale metaphysical shift to reality. What that will look like, who will survive it and in what condition, they don't really specify. They roundly agree on the date and there is extensive consensus on the paradigm shift; beyond that the speculations are rather diverse. But in all my reading on the 2012 thing, I have never encountered the suggestion that the world is going to end in the sense of "ceasing to exist" or suffering catastrophic destruction, etc. There are people who think we're going to get slammed by another asteroid impact, on a scale similar to what left the Chicxulub crater, but they are not associated with Mayan eschatology; plus they speculate dates like 2028 and such.
Apocalyptic zeal is unnerving.
As for my pet peeves? Man, I've got like a thousand. People piss me off.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
