2012
With the current climate of the world and all the ongoing problems -- economically, politically, heating of the sun & abnormal weather patterns, etc. -- it really does feel [like] something could happen by 2012 that will radically alter the course of that weird thing we call life. [Time] sure feels like it's speeding up, doesn't it? It's not; creation is. More and more is happening in the world in less & less [time], for the good & bad. In every aspect of our lives, change is happening at an accelerated pace, and it's going to continue to accelerate until everything possibly imaginable in creation will exist at the same [time]. So yeah, this leaves a realm of possibility open for more things to occur -- there could be a global cataclysmic-type event that wipes out 1/3 of the population, but there could also be some grand technological miracle/discovery that propels humanity into uncharted areas of novel & science. The biggest misconception among [people] today (namely, archeologists and science-types whose consciousnesses are centered around physical, material evidence -- what they can see & measure only) is that the Mayan Calendar was keeping track of [time] the same way most modern day calendars keep track of [time] -- cycles of visible planetary objects in the sky around other planetary objects/ [earth] around the sun, etc. The Mayan Calendar was actually a meter, or a gauge for the evolution of consciousness across the span of this galaxy. The reason the calendar abruptly "stops" on 12/21/12 is not because of some final doomsday event we're all going to watch unfold; it's because the schedule of creation will have completed. If a technology [like] a time machine (mind you, we've already teleported electrons) comes to exist by that year, what [time] will it really be? What need will there be for a calendar if the limitations of [time] & space dissolve? The truth is that the calendar "ends" because [time] as we know will no longer be linear, and so there won't be a need for a calendar. Now, that might seem hard to swallow at first, but keep in mind that there's a 17 mile long particle accelerator (lhc) under Switzerland that's set to recreate the conditions right after The Big [Bang]. Not so crazy now, huh? This is what's really going to happen if your eyes are open enough for you to see. To whoever is reading this; these next few [short] years are the most important years in the 16.4 billion year long history of the universe. You should be very, very, very thankful to be alive at this [period] in time, because what's coming is bliss!
Paranoid [stranger]: The [world]'s going to end in 2012 and we'[re] all going to die! Me: Smoke some sheeba and celebrate the moment. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
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