The December 21, 2012 Apocalypse

    I question the wisdom of learning about what might kill you vs. learning how to prevent it from killing you.  Instead of learning of all the ways you might be killed, learn how to prevent them from killing you.  Read a few legitimate books on bushcraft and disaster preparedness,  You should do that anyways, just because it's good sense.  Don't climb a high mountain in hopes of avoiding a flood.  Any earthquake large enough to cause a tidal wave can also cause a mountain to crumble and bury you alive.  Don't worry about the apocalypse, because by definition, you will not survive it, so worrying about it won't help.  Maybe some cataclysm will occur on December 21st, maybe not.  On a personal level, who cares?  You might die before then in a car accident, or in a robbery attempt, or in any other number of ways....  One of my friends said she would head for Chile.  Chile has the privilege of having had a 9.6 Richter scale earthquake in 1960.  That's the largest magnitude earthquake that has ever been measured.  Now, you might recall that the Richter is a logarithmic scale.  At magnitude 10, no manmade structure is left standing.  As far as I know, the world did not end in 1960.  How much larger of an earthquake needs to happen for the whole world to be flooded?  I've lived through earthquakes and found out later that people I knew died, also that faults opened up and swallowed not people; but whole street blocks whole.  I've walked by what were formerly buildings that had been reduced to mounds of debris. 
    Don't worry about the apocalypse.  People have been predicting apocalypses since before I was born.  My mother told me that when Haley's comet passed by before I was born people thought it would be the sign of armageddon.  Fail.  When I was a tween, it came back.  I couldn't even see the piece of crap. 
    I finally saw a comet when I was in my twenties.  Pretty.  End of the world pretty?  Not so much.
    I happen to be part Mayan, and I have read the Popol Vuh. It's pretty much a linear narrative.  It doesn't predict much of anything at all.  If anything, it discourages the notion of the end of the world from here on forever; but you know what?  Any way you slice it, a few hundred years from now, the best any of us can hope for is to be fossils. 
Anyways,  I'm not gonna worry about the apocalypse.  My prophecy is that December 21st is going to be a day just like any other.  You might live through it, you might not.  Same as any other day.  Cataclysm my ass.