Posted by
Corthell on Monday, June 08, 2009 5:38:14 PM
Inscriptions on a monument in Mexico include a column (on the left-hand side) that gives its date on the Mayan Long Count calendar, which ends - along with the world as we know it, some say - in 2012.
The ancient Mayan calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, prompting some to believe the End Time is nigh.
At last month's Cannes Film Festival, pedestrians strolling along the seafront were startled one night by a thunderous roll of timpani and a fountain of water shooting up from the Mediterranean 10 metres into the air.
It was enough to make you jump out of your skin. It was enough to make you think that the world might be ending, especially after reading the giant green letters projected onto the spray of water: "2012," it said. "We have been warned."
The nonplussed French turned to each other and shrugged: 2012, qu'est-ce que c'est?
If they went home and did a bit of research, they would have discovered that 2012 is not just the title of an upcoming disaster movie, directed by The Day After Tomorrow's Roland Emmerich, but also an enormous, complicated network of apocalypse theories, encompassing hundreds of books, documentaries, films and websites, that lead to one conclusion: The world will end on Dec. 21, 2012.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/only-three-years-left-till-armageddon/article1172103/