The numerologists are working overtime on 2012 and have an avid audience of Chicken Littles. The turn of every numerical coincidence is a cause for celebration and December 21, 2012 at 11:11am is a gold mine. Even setting aside the computer-like binary nature of the date, the mystical power of the number combination 11/11 has its own special place in the supernatural and is associated with many (failed) forecasts. By the way, the 11:11am addition to the date forecast is truly fascinating as there is no reference to this time in any religion, storyline, Mayan calendar, revelation or documentation of any kind. It doesn’t even have an associated time zone. But it certainly gives the numerologists a warm fuzzy feeling.
Calendars and dates are manmade constructs that, although derived from a sequence of naturally occuring events, are not the cause of naturally occuring events, especially of the disaster type. A common analogy is that we should expect our cars to be in accidents every time the odometer turns over to the next column – that is, we should drive VERY carefully when the car hits 99,999 kilometers.
I am not a cynic, but I am pragmatic. I have hope that the world can reconcile its differences and mitigate the ridiculous wave of destruction purportedly headed our way. I am not worried about revelation forecasts or physics anomalies. My only fear for 2012 is the self-fulfilling prophesy.
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