My personal opinion on the End of the World

Alright. Here we go. I will lay it straight.

The Ancient Mayans never predicted the end of the world. They had a "calendar" of sorts (hence the quotation marks), but it by no means predicted the end of the world. The calendar looks similar to this: 13.0.0.0.0, which can also be said as (from right to left) zero k'in (1 k'in = 1 day), zero winal (1 winal = 20 k'in OR 20 days), zero tun (1 tun = 18 winal = 360 days = approx. 1 solar year), zero ka'tun (1 ka'tun = 20 tun = 7200 days = approx. 20 solar years), and 13 b'ak'tun (1 b'ak'tun = 20 ka'tun = 144,000 days = approx. 394 solar years). The next number on the calendar that will come to the left of the b'ak'tun is the piktun, which happens when the calender reaches 20 b'ak'tuns.

Think of it as you would an old odometer media.komonews.com/images/0702…. when the number on the right reaches its max, the number on the left goes up one. Basically, today, the 20th of December of 2012, the calendar reads 12.19.19.17.19. The 19 furthest of the right will go up one tomorrow, the 21st of December 2012, and the calendar will read 13.0.0.0.0. The next day, the 22nd of December of 2012, the calendar will read 13.0.0.0.1, and it will start all over again. What the big deal is, is this: people have found a writing somewhere from Ancient Maya that they believe says, and let me emphasize BELIEVE, that on the thirteenth b'ak'tun a "god will descend and..."

That is what it says. Nobody knows what comes after the and. The sun was a god then, so it could mean that it will descend from the sky and rise again the next day. Nobody knows. Yet somehow, this has gotten out and people suddenly believe that it meant, "a god will descend and" DESTROY THE ENTIRE F*CKING WORLD WITH ITS WRATH AND FURY AND UTTER ANNIHILATION WILL RAIN DOWN HOT ACID AND BOIL YOUR EYES TO NOTHING BUT LIQUID!!!! Somehow.

Now, the REAL apocolypse tomorrow will be this: people will go on the internet and post millions of billions of trillions of times that it's the end of the world. The websites' servers will then go down because people are being stupid (I must admit, I will probably be doing this as well, so I am included in the "stupid people" group), and the internet will go down for a day. By the internet, I mean the more popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, deviantART (potentially), among others.

Glad to have enlightened and ruined your end of the world holiday fun.