Mayan Calendar

I finally did it. We were having a chat about the Mayan Calendar and the Long Period and the fact that it is, according to some, ending in 2012. I know an evangelical type who believes, of course, this is end of times revisited.

I said - at last! - that he had to stop thinking! Yes, stop thinking! His head was so full of scripts and screenplays for End-of-Times that he was going "Harold Camping" on us!
Not everything is a sign, no matter how desperately you wish it to be.
For 99.9% of all signs and omens are pre-exisitng in our minds. They are a fulfillment of our own pre-dispostions to disaster or hitting the lottery: fear and exultation.

Emotion alone is not God. Fear is fear, and not necessarily the wrath of God.
Stop thinking before you kill us all.

(It is like Michelle Bachmann thinking that there were two swine flu innoculation periods and both were under a Democratic President. If you were not so intent on analysing what you already believe in and ferreting out the hidden strands you already believe to exist, you would not make such an error.
Struggle to keep your thinking under rational control, not under the control of screenplays, schemes, and scams!)

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