The Beginning of The End: 2012

HOW THE 2012 RUMOUR STARTED

I can't remember what year was it when either one of my friends or one of my siblings relayed what the priest said in the mass. I swear that was the first time I guess that I so badly wanted to go to a Catholic mass! The priest talked about the 2012 Doomsday which surprised and amused me at the same time. I was like where the hell did he get that! But then later on I saw this History Channel documentary about 2012, the Mayan calendar, Nostradamus and all the other popular blah ingredients.Ohhhhh so that was it, then put into oblivion the whole kibosh.

Just today at lunch with all the random stuff that comes up into my family's conversation slash gossip slash comedy show, we had a momentary mention of the 2012 theory. It got me asking who started it, the 2012 prediction anyway. We laughed and get on our overly adulterated after lunch chitchat. And so yeah after we ran out of topic and mostly because everyone's gone out to their own business--to work, to school, to siesta--I'm here, researching. Well haha researching sounds grand but whatever, I was surfing the net for whoever or however the rumour started. It was hard at first finding only debates from its believers and non-believers, of people too disturbed to have it called a theory 'cause it's science, etc.

Anyway, I got to the bottom of it and for the benefit of the people who might be asking the same question as I had a lunch ago, LOL, here's what I've found:

A man named Michael Coe, an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author with his specialties on Mayan civilization published this books The Maya on 1966 and Breaking the Mayan Code on 1992. So there starts the 2012 apocalypse speculation. And then there's this woman Nancy Leider. No they don't know each other or anything. It's just that they both contributed to the popular prophecy. This woman others claim was a scientist but then again on her Wikipedia page and other sites, it says she isn't. She's just one person who claims to have contacts with extraterrestrial beings and simply that a Planet X or Nibiru is going to collide with earth. She has this website ZetaTalk and that's where she poured all the bizarre contents of her mind like it's you know normal and true. Anyway, that's mostly that. Added the conpircay theories that NASA's covering up the evidences and all and with 2012 being so near, poof! It became a very popular theory. And more often than not, popular stuffs are mistaken as truth. wink wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_collision

http://www.2012hoax.org/nancy-lieder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Coe

The Best Things in Life

It's raining. Yeah so hard that I could barely hear the TV and even in its fullest volume, the rain just conquers my attention. I'm too distracted of the prettier music the rain plays. Lying on my bed across all the opened windows, I was in a theatre of full green beauty and cascade of cool crystals. I just stare there until I catch myself smiling and sometimes giggling when all the beautiful moments of my life come flashing in my head. I was like oh crap that really happened? Some happy things in life happen so spontaneously that you have no room to analyse it at the moment and you just let it flow. Only after that would you realise that holy shit that was...ugh! And then you laugh. Sometimes we're so lucky to be aware that one of the greatest episodes of our life is currently unfolding wherein time doesn't seem to matter and the whole world blurs that only you and the person/s you're sharing the moment with are in focus. I didn't believe that before--of the world stopping and revolving around you--but what the heck I realised it's true. It's like time really slows down for you. But then in a blink of an eye...it's...wait, over?! Yeah I figured out while remembering all the best things that ever happened to me so far, no matter how abrupt or slow they were, they're just suddenly over and happiness becomes nothing but a memory again. But what the heck, I don't care if we cannot linger in such state too long, at least you have nice ones to think of and more happy ones to make for future reminiscing. Hahaha

Face Without Eyes

November 1st. It was dark and raining. Around 9pm, I took a seat on the porch and rubbed Zeph's belly with my right foot. As I stared past the gate to the road, I noticed something weird. I walked away from my chair and Zeph followed me down to the gate. Ohhh that was it. Nearly all the neighbourhood houses were dim and quiet--empty. Everyone was out. Everyone was celebrating the first of November in the cemeteries. It was not even All Souls Day until the next day. But that was the culture, that was the norm. 

   I am not questioning Filipino's religiosity in following traditions but the capability of reasonable obedience. I know it makes sense that families would go out on holidays because it's one of the rare days they could get together since everyone has work, school or something. And so with non-working, non-school holidays, families and friends grab the opportunity. But..haha the people I know who are with their family like 25 hours a day in 8 days a week, like my neighbours, it's just funny. No I haven't mentioned the funny and at the same time sad part yet. The truth is, on that  recent holiday, it was raining and the cemeteries were practically flooded--corpses and water combine! Oh what a great fiesta of bacteria! I mean, people don't have to go visit the dead on times so threatening to their own lives. They just don't go to the land of the dead because that's what people had been doing for so many years. I mean, they can excuse themselves. Well I know you could say that it's none of my business that my neighbours went anyway to the cemetery though it's so unsanitary and though everyday's a holiday in their homes but my point goes beyond that. They're just somekind of a fable though their not animals, they're a parable or something. For it isn't only the moment that man follows something so unreasonably. The "my father was and so I'll be" thing. We have brains, we should use it. We have to think if what we're believing and doing is still practical and true. We have eyes so we could test it's truthfulness and all the other senses. We couldn't just rely on feelings 'cause what you feel is a nice tickle of a feather could actually be the lion's tail on it's way to killing you. Unless you turn to look what's there, you'll never know until you die.