While some in the Western world continue to believe that 2012 will be a year of catastrophe due to predictions of the Mayan calender, that idea is being discounted by actual Mayans:
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”
It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood’s “2012″ opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the “Curious? Ask an Astronomer” Web site, says people are scared.
“It’s too bad that we’re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they’re too young to die,” Martin said. “We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn’t live to see them grow up.”
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
Yea but what will the History Channel do for the next three years if we’re not talking about the end of the world ?
Why, Hitler, naturally. They don’t call it the Hitler Channel for nothing.
History Channel has pretty much dumped hitler for shows about pseudo history or prophecies about the future.
HC is just one of a whole group of cable channels that have lost touch with what was their original intent in programming.
AE also known as Arts and Entertainment televises CSI Miami and Dog the Bounty Hunter instead of The Fugitive and Breakfast with the Arts
Sci Fi channel which used to air old science fiction shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Space 1999, now calls itself Scy fy and instead sometimes airs James Bond movies that aren’t remotely sci fi(Live and Let Die) and wrestling
TV Land once the home of I love Lucy and other classic television shows for 24 hours a day, instead fills hours with infomercials and reality shows featuring the likes of Joan Rivers and George Foreman.
There are more examples. HOw long before Retro TV falls into the same trend and dumps 1960’s Dragnet for Cold Case?
Bill,
Yea I’ve noticed that too. They’ve been running alot of these “what would the world be like if every human being just disappeared ?” type shows lately. I watched some of them in the beginning but they’re pretty repetitive. They’ve also been doing alot of Nostradamus lately too.
The Weather Channel has been running its own TV shows while veering away from its 24-hour forecast format, but at least those shows are (mostly) related to weather.
The only catastrophe in 2012 would be the re-election of Obama!!
Every election year is a catastrophe, regardless of who gets elected…
This is true