Apocalypto Doomsdayers

Last night on CNBC I watched a showed called "Apocalypse 2012".  It was all about the believers of the December 21, 2012 Doomsday prophesy.  Most of them claimed they had the scientific evidence that in deed this was the what the Maya meant by their long count calendar end date.  Then it interviewed different people and what their survival strategy was for this date. 

One gentleman was building an underground condo for people to buy.  He's spent millions of dollars on this project and it's not finished yet.  The thing that I don't understand is the people who are buying these million dollar condos. 

The craziest thing I have heard so far though is Peter Gertsen's "Leap of Faith 2012".  He actually believes that he will jump into another dimension when he jumps off a high cliff in the Arizona desert.  He's encouraging others to join him.  I find this man to socially irresponsible.  He claims he's not responsible for his followers.  Which I find such a claim to be so absurd.  The only dimension he'll be jumping into when he jumps off a cliff is the dead dimension.  I surely do hope that no one follows him and jumps to their deaths. 

The fact is that no one truly knows and there is no hard cold scientific facts that specifically state what the ending of their calendar meant.  The December 21, 2012 date is one that was derived by Mayanist Eric Thompson and he did not use scientific evidence to arrive at that date.  Many scientists are beginning to abandon the belief of the December 21, 2012 date.  It simply is a miscalculation.

The correlation of the end of the Maya long count calendar is determined from three calendar systems: the Maya Long Count Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the Gregorian Calendar.   Many inaccuracies flood both the Julian Calendar and the Gregorian calendar is it is next to impossible to pinpoint an exact Gregorian calendar date. 

So before you gamble away all your finances, buy a million dollar bunker, or anything else that is unthinkable on any other day, just remember December 22, 2012 will indeed arrive, and humanity will continue on.