Today–the longest day of the year–is the summer solstice. These beautiful summer days were the sun’s gorgeous light long lasts into the night.. when fireflies erupt in a spirited dance of lights.. Yes, the days get shorted from here–slowly at first, and then they steamroll away in August.

But this first partial day of summer, a news story has floated around the net: The famed Mayan calendar ‘end date’ of December 21, 2012 may have been an error.. Yea. Maybe.. it’s tomorrow!

Yes.. it’s been a rough few months — we have been through pandemics, historical and profound societal changes.. shutdowns.. earthquakes.. rumors of war.. severe weather.. and future shock.

All of this before Christmas in July!

But this whole Mayan calendar thing took a few by surprise.

We thought this JUMANJI movie we were stuck in would have some other disaster, like Yellowstone or God knows what else.

The origin of this ‘revision’ back some time around October 2019, before any of the shock of 2020 would hit. At that time, it was speculated that the Mayans never said the world would end.. but that a new age would begin.

And it wouldn’t be pretty, doomsayers said.

This from the UK EXPRESS:

“The next cycle of 13 is a cycle related to the air element and ether.
“Within 26 years, if humanity survives as such like now, there will be a special connection between all humans.”
The narrator of the series then went on to explain why the ancient Mayans believe in the existence of “ether” – an unexplainable force in the universe.
He said: “Ether gases have been studied since the first Greek astronomers as a universal bonding agent, an abundant source of energy that forms throughout the universe.

END DATE TOMORROW

BACK TO OUR FAVORITE RAG ACROSS THE POND.

The UK EXPRESS again in with this breathing headline only hours before June 21:

Maya Calendar 2020: Did the Maya predict the world will end on June 21?

Sean Martin writes,

The new conspiracy theory was brought about by a person known as Paolo Tagaloguin, who explained his theory on Twitter.
He said: “Following the Julian Calendar, we are technically in 2012… The number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days… For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years.”

This takes the apparent end of the world from December 21, 2012, to June 21, 2020.

Well that sure snuck up on us, didn’t it!?

At least I started hearing about the December 21, 2012 date well back in the 90s when I was in school. Even Art Bell scared me during some longer summer teenage nights about my upcoming doom.

Little did I know that tomorrow would be the real date.

OR IS IT

NO!

Or at least we hope no.

NEWSWEEK magazine snoozed in with its explanation of why the end times won’t be hitting on the first full day of summer, 2020:

The series of tweets posted by a user called Paolo Tagaloguin have now been deleted, as has their profile. According to the New York Post, Tagaloguin notes differences in the ways calendars are calculated. As a result, several media reports said the actual date the Maya calendar ends is June 21, 2020.
Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, U.K., told Newsweek the Maya never predicted a world’s end or a doomsday. She said the glyph the date appeared on was erected by a king. “Referring to future dates by rulers was not uncommon,” she said in an email, noting we currently use future dates when discussing climate change.
The “calculations,” Graham said, do not add up because the Maya counted in days rather than years. The Maya calendar refers to the end of a major calendrical round or cycle, called the baktun. “A baktun is 144,000 days,” she said. “The Maya did not count by what we call ‘years’. They used only days. So they did not have to worry about a ‘year’ being an inexact number of days.

Good I guess.

BUT..

THE FEAR FACTOR

So let’s be honest..

The rumors of end times coupled with the fact that tomorrow: The Ring of Fire solar eclipse will be seen over Africa and Asia.

Clyde Lewis from the radio program Ground Zero introduced this topic Friday night with this information:

A computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicted that 2020 would be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
So far, the computer data has been reviewed as the first 6 months of this year have literally been seen as apocalyptic due to the plague and the pestilence that we have seen ravage the globe.

There is truth to that comment about World One.

On August 23, 2018, BIG THINK reported that World One reported civilization would end. And they said it was soon.

In fact, 2020 is the first milestone envisioned by World One. That’s when the quality of life is supposed to drop dramatically. The broadcaster presented this scenario that will lead to the demise of large numbers of people:
“At around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes highly critical. If we do nothing about it, the quality of life goes down to zero. Pollution becomes so seriously it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to diminish, lower than it was in the 1900. At this stage, around 2040 to 2050, civilised life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist.”

This aired in 1973:

AS IT WAS IN 2012

I concluded this in 2012 as the year turned to 2013:

The madness that took place in a school in Connecticut only weeks before Christmas was horrific. It was disgusting.. it was thoroughly depressing. It really affected the nation’s national psyche. Also the media did a tragically poor job in reporting it, taking misinformation from Twitter and talking about it as though it was fact, naming the wrong guy as the shooter and blasting his photo across news wires, and misreporting that Adam Lanza’s mom was a teacher. Maybe we will forget those details of the day, but we surely will never forget the day when innocent 6-year-olds were gunned down by a madman..
While adults though the end was nigh, children didn’t know what hit them. 2012 was a tragically bad year for children.. From the United States to Syria, Russia and China, kids who deserve better got the worst of 2012. They laugh in the same language, and cry in it too. This year they cried a lot. Adults need to get themselves off the wasteland of fast-paced nonsense on gadgets and phones and realize that a generation could waste away if they have a few more years like 2012.. It did not seem like a day went on this year that was absent a heartbreaking story about a child being gunned down, bombed, droned, or wasted away by society as we knew it.
But it’s over now.
It’s gone. It came fast and seemed to go even faster.
From Mitt Romney’s mom jeans to moms carrying their children in battle, it’s all gone..
Perhaps not a moment too soon, either.
2012 was a year like all other years: It was mixed with wonderful stories of humanity at its finest and deplorable stories of creatures who cannot be human. This is the planet earth, after all. So what else is new..
Here’s to some memories of ‘12, and the best for ‘13. We just keep marching on, don’t we?
2012. Hope the Mayans start working on a new calendar.
We made it.