2012, Armageddon and the Women’s Movement
So I was watching The Nostradamus Effect on the History channel this weekend. I think it’s my 500th time watching it. I somehow feel like if I watch it often enough, I will eventually come up with a plan to stop the world from ending on Dec 21st, 2012.
For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, 2012 is supposedly when the world is going to end, according to the Mayan calendar. This brings up a whole bunch of questions…but I just have 1. What is going to happen the day after the world blows up? I find it hard to imagine that, with our planet so densely populated, everyone would perish. There will have to be a few survivors. Let’s say all the survivors are in and around the Toronto area. It just makes sense.
Now, let’s say there are 20 of us. 10 men, 10 women. (This is when years of playing “if I had to” would come in handy for the whole procreation part). My big question, is who’s going to hunt? We (the women) spent the 60’s demanding to be treated equally by men; we asked for the same jobs, we wanted to do the same work, and get equal recognition for it. Way to go ladies. You didn’t think about the end of the world. Now, in less than 2 years, I am going to be in some paradise forest with the 10 hottest men in the world, and we’re going to be fighting over who has to kill a wild boar and who gets to pick nuclear raspberries.
Guess I should start learning how to use a bow and arrow.
Tags: 2012, relationships
February 1st, 2010 at 9:29 am
Actually the Mayans didnt predict the world would end. A closer look at the calendar shows that it stops in 2012, probably because the Mayans figured that a calendar 3000 years into the future would be sufficient and at that point someone else could come up with a new one. But to come up with a calendar that kept going for longer wouldve taken way too long. Why they picked 2012 to stop, as opposed to 2000 or some other year is a mystery. But it doesnt imply the world would end, it just means they got tired of making a longer and longer calendar. Thats just what sensationalists like to say to sell their books and movies, the evidence is anecdotal at best.
February 1st, 2010 at 9:31 am
Way to completely miss the point of the post.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:11 am
Ugh. The History Channel used to be The Hitler Channel, and now it’s The Nostradamus Channel. I just can’t wait until 2012 finally gets here, and passes, so everyone can shut the heck up about it.
I keep telling people, remember Y2K, and how that was supposed to destroy civilization by turning out all the lights?
February 1st, 2010 at 11:41 am
I wouldn’t worry about needing a bow and arrow. Assuming there wasn’t enough damage to kill the entire population, I’m sure a couple of Costco’s would have surived. You could probably surivive 50 years in the canned peaches isle.
Back to December 21, 2012.
Couldn’t the Mayan’s plan better than that? Surely there is going to be a huge party on the 20th with a countdown and all the rest. This is WAY too close to Christmas and NYE where we are already bombarded with parties. Couldn’t the Mayan’s extend their callender to say February 24th 2013? This way we have an excuse to have a party in the end of February when all we are doing anyways is sitting around waiting until Spring. Stupid shortsighted Mayans.
February 1st, 2010 at 1:22 pm
@JR, you’ll be sorry on 22/12/2012. I will be in my bomb shelter, with my 22 year old sperm donor and you will be dead.
@teenwolf I agree. Let’s have a big party on 20/12/2012. Let’s loot some stores. We can get black out drunk and not have to worry about having a hangover the next day.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Sounds like someone needed sex this weekend but didnt get it.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:42 pm
See, thats exactly what the retail companies want you to do. Get piss drunk and act like an idiot in 2012 thinking itll be all over soon. But then you wake up the next day and its not.
Well, let me ask you this, if the world ends in 2012, how will it end? Surely there must be some signs that something is wrong with the planet. But we’ve seen none. And if it does end, Ill go out happier knowing I wasnt one of those imbeciles who tried to do everything they could before they died. Also, if it ends as it did in the movie, a bomb shelter wont save you. The shelter will collapse as the ground under it collapses.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Again, way to completely miss the point.
If you don’t think my bomb shelter will suffice, I will wrap myself in iced bubble wrap.
How will the world end? That’s easy. The dinosaurs are coming back on a massive spaceship.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@Miranda, how on earth do you deduce that?