WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON DECEMBER 21, 2012?

For many months I have had a ‘standard answer’ for questions which involved subjects such as ‘Planet X’, ‘Nibiru’, ‘Mayan Calendar’, ’2012′, ‘End of the Earth’, etc. etc. but I have desided to re-compose it since it seems to be pushing all of the wrong buttons on a lot of ‘people’ .

It really is too bad that most people have such knee-jerk reactions when reality challanges any of their personal beliefs. Especially if those beliefs are based upon some sort of ‘pseudo-science’ which gets a lot of air time or, even worse, if it seems to encroach upon some of their cherished beliefs in the supernatural or any sort of organized beliefs holding that the Universe is the result of some omniscient beings whim(s). It just seems to be another measure of how unbelievably stupid and gullible so many people are.

In the last few months (since I started replying to a sudden upsurge of questions about ’2012′) the ‘standard answer’ I have given (and to which I refer above) has been posted literally hundreds of times. And yet, suddenly, I find myself in receipt of violation notices to an answer which has, heretofore, not been considered offensive by anyone. My suspicion is that I have simply ‘tweaked’ someones cherished (and stupidly misplaced) belief(s) in the nature of reality (or the 6:00 O’Clock News).

While my ‘standard answer’ is certainly not any bastion of subtlety or wonderful example of writing style (within the context of contemporary usage of the English language) it certainly seems far less insulting or provocative than the ubiquitouss ‘F–k You’ that shows up on the pages of Y! Answers from time to time.

However…….

It does seem that there have been a huge number of individuals who have been misguided (rather badly, in most cases) in their beliefs. Whether this disinformation to which they have been subjected is accidental or disingenuous in origin is of no real interest. But the promulgation of such untruth(s) (and in particular, such untruths as terrify the younger and more susceptible members of society) without checking their veracity is certainly cause for wondering just how hopelessly stupid some individuals can be. The only ‘people’ of substantially lower moral (and intellectual) caliber are the ones attempting to profit from Chicken Littles irrational belief that ‘The sky is falling!’.

There have been any number of well thought out, well documented, and well presented replies to de-bunk the myth(s) that ancient Mayan calendars, numerology, crystal gazing, spiritual advisors, or other such superstitious nonsense is capable of predicting the end of the Earth. I have lost count of the number of Astronemers (professional and amateur alike) who have refuted claims made for the existence of some ‘rogue planet’ which is supposed to strike the Earth on 21 December, 2012. There are any number of very credible sources on the Web (whose URL’s have been repeatedly mentioned on Y! Answers) providing proof that such things are not going to happen and one would think that, after enough time, some faint glimmer of intelligence reaction to these doomsday myths just might begin to be noticed.

But such is not the case. It appears that, no matter how many times one provides real, factual, repeatable, demonstrable proof of a thing, the ‘popular’ response will shout down reality and those exposed to reality will either change sides, or fail to respond for fear of being ridiculed by those who must be correct since ‘everyone knows it’. Someone once observed that: “Truth passes through three distinct phases. First it is ridiculed, secondly it is violently opposed, and finally it is accepted as self-obvious truth.” It really is a good observation of the average persons ‘mentality’ . Apparently the speed of intelligence is rather slow while the speed of stupidity may approach that of light itself.

Doug