2012

Lots of people are sure that something big is coming in 2012 (check out this alarmist website I found). No one precisely knows what. I'm trusting that it's the moment that humans either grow up or die. We really only have two options.


The year 2012 is the end of the Mayan Calendar apparently and as with most humans through history (except us) the Mayans viewed life as cyclical as opposed to having a fixed start and finish. So at the end of the calendar the world is destroyed and renewed. I'm inclined toward the Mayan view of the world given that it reflects ecological realities as opposed to a weird end of days obsession. Life is cyclical. You are born, you grow, you reproduce, you die and your organic matter is recycled into countless other beings and in countless other forms, through time.

What could be more beautiful than that? Everlasting life without Jesus.