I, like always, get my news from Yahoo news. The other day, I came across an extremely interesting article regarding 2012, and the article said the Doomsday Prophecy might actually be wrong. After initially laughing at the fact that this made news, I read further.
History first. The Mayan calendar was divided into lots of different sections, and two of those sections included the "Long Count" and the "Short Count". The Long Count and the Short Count are not explained in the ARTICLE, because, honestly, it's a grueling process to explain the logistics. Basically the Mayans built a calendar based on a 52 year cycle with smaller measuring points in between . . . and there are LOTS of small measuring pieces. Every 52 years is a new "Chapter" and when people refer to the Long Count they are usually referring to one of these cycles / chapters. Additionally, everything is based on the lunar cycles not the solar ones, which is the opposite of how a lot of Western civilization functions, which is why it's complicated.
Ergo, the long and short of it is that "we" may have misinterpreted the Long Count specificity and may therefore be as far as 50 to 100 years off the actual "doomsday" date. Fun, unless, of course, you're one of those people who has forgone all life savings to build a shelter and stock up for the worst, or one of those people who has run up all credit cards to "maximum" thinking it won't make a difference anyways in 2 years. Otherwise, the rest of us can figure out if we want to "Party like its 2012" or just go about business as usual.
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