Another year, another Christmas, only a few days left of 2006. It seems like yesterday when everyone was uptight about the Y2K scare which if it came to fruition would bring chaos to the computerized business world we are all a part of. Now there is a concern about the Mayan calendar that ends with the year 2012. Centuries ago the Maya culture devised their own calendar system and scholars have determined it ends with 2012; therefore doomsayers think the implication is that since they saw nothing beyond that year, it constitues their prediction of the end of the world. Hang on for lots of flotsam and jetsam as we draw nearer to that day.
Some in the early Christian church thought the world would end soon after Christ's crucifixion and many lived their lives accordingly. It must have been hard for them to live very well without making preparations for their worldly future. If crops weren't raised and cattle weren't bred, they may well have gone hungry for awhile. As far as I can tell the end of the world will come with the last breath I take. Too many metaphors get taken literally.
Well, I'm off to join the crowds and exchange something I received as a gift, and it will just be the end of the world if I don't get what I want.
