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Posted: 5:03 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012
Staff Writer
If the human world ends as some predict Friday, and this is being deciphered sometimes in the future by the next intelligent beings to inhabit the Earth, humanity hopes you live long and prosper, and discover the recipe for Doritos Locos Tacos earlier in your history than we did in ours.
It, my friends through time, was the key to our divine happiness.
That said, I am betting hard earned greenbacks our world will still be wobbling around come Saturday, and everyone made those ‘end of the world play list’ in vain. (Click link for inspiration just in case.)
Just to be on the safe side, be sure to give yourself a little pinch Saturday morning to check to see if you are still alive.
Hop around.
Shake your arms in the air like you just don’t care. Freeze. I didn’t say ‘Simon Says.’
After establishing that you are likely still alive and horrible at Simon Says when you don’t know you are playing — check your closet for zombies or rabid chicken just to make sure everything is still copacetic — put this whole world ending thing behind us once and for all.
It seems that every time you turn around, someone is predicting the end of days.
This go around, people think we were goners because the Mayan calender — a system that spans roughly 5,125 years — ends Dec. 21.
Even though many Mayan scholars — people who for starters know what a Mayan is — dispute that prediction, many fret.
Not since Y2K has humanity been so doomed.
About 15 percent of the world population and 22 percent of Americans think the world will end in their lifetime, according to an international Reuters poll earlier this year.
Ten percent of the world’s population think the end of the Mayan calendar could mean it happens this year.
We’d be done in by some horrible natural disaster, evil political or competent evildoer.
Records of end of the world predictions date back hundreds of years.
Many charlatans — Wilbur Glenn Voliva in the 20s and 30s and convicted Cincinnati-based tax evader
Ronald Weinland in 2008 and 2012 to name two — gave specific dates or years. They were wrong with a capital “W.”
Talk show host Harold Egbert Camping famously revised his dates in 2011 when the world keep on keeping on.
I am going to make a prediction of my own here: the world will certainly probably end at some time or another.
Here’s another leap: no one — not even the smartest charlatan — can be certain of when that will happen.
It is understandable that people get all worked up when someone predicts the end.
Armageddon sounds like the sort of party no one wants to attend.
If you do happen to know when the world will end, please don’t tell me.
The fact of the matter is that there is very little anyone can do if the predictions are right.
A few extra bottles or water or a shot gun aren’t going to stop a comet.
There’s something to preparing for the sting, but I would rather not know when the flu shot was coming.
I’ve seen enough commercials for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” to know that it would stink to be the last humans on Earth when the species’ curtain finally comes down.
Think how much of a downer it must have been for dinosaurs when their world finally ended.
All their friends are dying in death pits or turning into birds. Some scientists believe modern bird are decedents of dinosaurs.
It would have been pretty cool being a Tyrannosaurus rex until you realized you were the last
Tyrannosaurus rex and had zero chance of finding a date because all the eligible bachelors are birds.
Gross! Who, besides another bird, would wants to date a bird?
What do you think? Are you afraid the world will end on Dec. 21? Tweet it to us.
Contact this columnist, Amelia Robinson, at arobinson@DaytonDailyNews.com or Twitter.com/DDNSmartMouth
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