I don't know enough about the Mayan calendar to comment specifically, but I do know that the end of civilization has been predicted again and again. And, of course, it never happened.
rcb30872 said:
...it can't be much worse than the way things are now. It would be good I imagine, chance to start on a clean slate.
Wow. I think things could be far worse than they are now, though obviously they are not as good as they could be. And there is no clean slate- not for humanity as it is. If it's a question of wiping out humans and starting evolution all over, humans as we know them might never come up again. It could happen differently, or not at all- or, if it happened the same, the same problems would probably arise again. And if it's a question of wiping out "civilization"- there's no clean slate there either. The people who would remain would still have their tendencies and history, and the earth would still have its problems, though it is resilient.
rcb30872 said:
On another view point, perhaps it would mean destruction of the earth, but a move would have been made to another planet so civilization would be on another planet.
I find that idea really absurd every time I hear it, and particularly in this case. We're suddenly going to aquire the knowledge and technology to colonize other planets within seven years? Our space travel technology at this point is very limited. We've been lucky to get a little roving machine to take pictures on Mars. But aside from the technological problems, the big problem with that is that humans are adapted for the Earth. The few people who have spent long periods of time in spacecraft have suffered severe health problems due to the lack of gravity- mostly bone and muscle loss. The prospect of how long it would take to get to a theoretical inhabitable planet (of which none are known) pretty much rules out that idea, given our current technology and knowledge. And, if we were to try to colonize, say, the moon or mars- we have no practical way to do that either. The Biosphere II project (the attempt to sustain a small group of people in a self contained and self sustaining enclosure in the desert) was a failure (due to sustainability and interpersonal problems), and no such research has continued. If we can't even keep people alive in such a way on our own planet, it is clear that we can't do it anywhere else. Also, if we were to perfect the ability to live sustainably through that kind of research, it would make sense to apply those principles to living on the
earth. The whole reason we have so many problems in the first place is due to our ignorance of how to live sustainably, and our inability to solve interpersonal problems.
I really don't understand all of the fascination with doom and gloom endtime predictions. So many novels have been written about it, so many religious groups indulge in it, and so much of popular culture is enthralled with it.
If we really care about this stuff, it would help to get off of our a***s and do something about the bad stuff that goes on, rather than wishing it would all just be wiped away.
Aside from the practical stuff, I know that numerology does mirror life, so I don't know about the 11. I started getting 11:11 as a synchronicity years ago, then it switched to 22. I don't know what to make of it. I've read various theories about it, and many of them seem to be all tangled up with alien-ascension-revolutionary new conciousness stuff which just looks like more mythology and religion to me.
Maybe the numbers are just pure energies that we can work with.
