They say the world is going end of 21st December next year based upon on the Mayan Long Count calendar system which give us a 5125 year long cycle, next December is the end of that cycle. Obviously it means that the world is going to end. Excellent for big budget Hollywood movies but lousy for basic common sense.
Of course the problem with any man-made calendaring system is that it based upon mankind. For instance the Jewish calendar states that this year is 5772 and to quote Wikipedia: "Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year before the Creation of the world." One can only assume that God was hard at work on his seven day colour coded planner during this year.
The Gregorian calendar which is internationally used is Christian based as in after Christ, A.D. standing for Anno Domini latin for "in the year of the/our Lord". Oddly enough Greece and Turkey didn't adopt it until 1923/6 which may account for their current crisis.
If we forget mankind for the moment and look at the age of the Earth some 4.54 billion years whilst I admit it would never fit on a standard paper calendar or even rolls off the tongue it does give us the true perspective in which to view our dating systems. A mere 5000 odd years looks insignificant in comparison.
Coming back to mankind, the world ends everyday and is reborn everyday. Those that die the world has ended and those that are born the world has started, that is the only perspective people are interested in.
That's people for you never looking at the larger picture.
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