MORE END OF THE WORLD OBSERVATIONS FROM EVERYWHERE

Ana Veciana-Suarez
Miami Herald

“Of course, plenty of scientists have issued reassurances to the contrary, including this succinct one from physicist Ian O’Neill: ‘There’s no evidence to suggest the Mayans believed the end of their Long Count calendar would spell doomsday.’ But such statements have done little to quell the quacks.”

Professor Geraldo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara
Quoted in The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"To get to 2012, people correlated the Maya calendar to the Gregorian calendar that we use today. The problem is the data supporting the correlation is incorrect."

Robert Blinn,

Core77 Magazine

“Every couple of years a crackpot comes along and prophesizes the end of the world. Fortunately for us, the outcome of the Mayan calendar looks a lot more favorable than reviews for Roland Emmerich's film, 2012. So far, no end of the world cult has gotten it right and as a populace, we remain unsurprised.”

Professor Jo Ellen Burkholder, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
cited in Royal Purple

“There is a tendency to eroticize the Maya and make them into these mysterious, long-disappeared people who only left they’re magical writing. They’re not long dead, missing, mysterious people. Their oral traditions persisted. They don’t think the world is going to end.”

And finally this from a student at North Harford High School, Pylesville, MD

Published in Cry of the Hawk

“December 21, 2012 is the last day of a Great Mayan Cycle, a cycle that has lasted 5,125 years. What happens at the end of that cycle?

“Well no one is really sure, but I am thinking death.

“According to abcnews.go.com, thirteen was a sacred number for the Mayans, and the thirteenth Baktun ends on December 21, 2012.

“You know what this means? Of course not, but I am leaning towards death.”

“The trusty site wikipedia.org lists the ‘Mayan calendar 2012’ under the article ‘Apocalypticism.’

“You know why? Because an apocalypse is sure to occur, and we are all going to die.
   

“The Mayans were really advanced for their times. Their calendar is more accurate than the one that we use today. So if their calendar predicts the ‘end of an era,’ then I am going to believe it.
   

“And the end of an era surely means death.”

*Sigh*

And, thus is the state of contemporary American education. Wikipedia is considered a “reliable” source.

*Sigh*