The End of 2012

Edward Owens

I don't necessarily believe that anything is going to happen in the next 5 days.  December 21st is most likely just another Winter Solstice.  If this turns out to be the case I am sure the Mayan Calendar folk will dial it back to what most scholars say about the day. It is just the beginning of a "new age". The idea that the world would end was of course hype.

As I type this I am listening to When Aliens Attack in a different tab on Youtube. In fact that is the reason I am making this post. I am listening to this mix of fiction interspersed with clips of real video and real interviews.

The assumptions we make, even that their math would be anything like what we have, is the height of arrogance from a race that has barely learned to walk and chew gum. Why would a species have to count things to understand them? It is our assumption that our path to sentience and our understanding of the physics of the universe is a "natural" path that all intelligent beings would follow.

I didn't intend to post anything prior to next year preferring to work instead on improving what I had already posted with fresh information and a better layout.  Given the holidays I have been busy doing other things and haven't really gotten around to even that.

I just wanted to post my thoughts on 2012 prior to 2012. Kind of as a "vote" if you will that I can go back to as a "marker".  I am not saying that "the ancients" didn't perhaps know something that we don't. The evidence in fact is all around us that at one time mankind was on a path that should have lead to much greater things by now. But something got in the way. Religion, natural disaster, aliens, who knows? The ancients were supposedly not as sophisticated as us yet our own math that we recognize as a sign of intelligence is encoded in everything they do but even more interesting is that while we have a fairly high level of sophistication and technology we barely have structures that have lasted a few hundred years intact.  With the exception of the casing stones on the Giza Pyramid it has survived mostly intact for thousands of  years. They apparently had a different understanding of what constituted sophistication and engineering achievement.

To make this short I don't think we have anything to worry about from December 21st or aliens.  I think the thing we have to worry about the most is from our own kind.

And that is most likely my last opinion until 2013.

Good luck.