"Men fear death like children fear darkness", so said Charles Lamb long ago. How enduringly true? The greed to live is prevalent in most human beings except for a few evolved ones!
21 Dec marks the conclusion of the '5,125 year' Mayan calendar. The Mayans are a tribe of Central American Indians and their's is chronicled to be the earliest advanced civilisation in that part of the world. Their successive generations have inhabited and continue to do so in northern Gautemala and British Honduras.
It's on this day, therefore, that the doomsday mongers predict a cataclysmic end to this planet that we live on. Panic buying of candles and essentials in China and Russia, exploding sales of hi-tech underground survival shelters in America have just been a few of the consequential reactions. The exact end remains vague but the majority believe that it would be brought about by the celestial collision between the earth and the mythical planet, Nibiru. A few astrophysicists have advised the people to be prepared for solar flares, radiation and electromagnetic pulses.
My take.
Why fret about something that one has no control of? If a majority of us are going to perish and the remainder is left with a devastated and unsuitable environment, is it worth living on? And what happens when you come out from underground shelters only to realise that many of your near and dear ones have ceased to exist?
Tailpiece.
Let's be ready to drink a toast on 22 Dec to the hoax of the world's end prediction. And perhaps, many of us would have shed the greed to live in the bargain!
21 Dec marks the conclusion of the '5,125 year' Mayan calendar. The Mayans are a tribe of Central American Indians and their's is chronicled to be the earliest advanced civilisation in that part of the world. Their successive generations have inhabited and continue to do so in northern Gautemala and British Honduras.
It's on this day, therefore, that the doomsday mongers predict a cataclysmic end to this planet that we live on. Panic buying of candles and essentials in China and Russia, exploding sales of hi-tech underground survival shelters in America have just been a few of the consequential reactions. The exact end remains vague but the majority believe that it would be brought about by the celestial collision between the earth and the mythical planet, Nibiru. A few astrophysicists have advised the people to be prepared for solar flares, radiation and electromagnetic pulses.
My take.
Why fret about something that one has no control of? If a majority of us are going to perish and the remainder is left with a devastated and unsuitable environment, is it worth living on? And what happens when you come out from underground shelters only to realise that many of your near and dear ones have ceased to exist?
Tailpiece.
Let's be ready to drink a toast on 22 Dec to the hoax of the world's end prediction. And perhaps, many of us would have shed the greed to live in the bargain!
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