Long Count

The Mayan Long Count cycle ends in 2012. Some would have us believe that this means Earth is going "down for the long count" when this occurs. It is not the latest - for there are more and more every day - tale of disaster, but it is recent.

Is there proof?
No.
Why is there belief, then?
People believe what they want , or need,  to believe.

What Need of hideous strength compels our belief in disaster scenario after disaster scenario?
What is driving us in this present time?


( I have noticed there are shades and hues of Belief. A lot of people see disaster movies, or read books on coming catastrophes, but they do not "believe" necessarily. However, I have found that the opoinions of the people are shaded from " well, it's not impossible, so it could happen" to a tendency to store the particular disaster scenario away, and then recall it some time in the future.
So we do not have a well-defined list of beliefs about the end of things, or major metaphysical catastrophes, but we do have quite a long sort of "honey do" list of ways to point fingers of blame and bizarre explanations ready to be mustered at a moment's notice.

And we need them. We never learn how to stop the "catastrophe" or the "end of the world".
The "End of Times" is not a physical destruction of a planet . A metaphysical catastrophe is not just a real bad day on Mother Earth.
End of Times is the destruction of the reality created by consciousness; it is the end of the world created by the artists of consciousness - these artists being ourselves. The true drama is consciousness being destroyed, letting itself be destroyed, or, most tragically, destroying itself.
So, how do we learn to stop consciousness from participating in a stage-play where it is the Killer and Victim? )