Am I the Harbinger of Doom?????

Archaeologists have predicted that, after studying the Mayan Calendar, the world as we know it will end on 21st December 2012. This has come about by the intense study of the scribbles on bits of rock tablets and pyramids hidden for centuries in the South American jungles. When the scribbles were translated, the scientists decided that all the predictions engraved on those surfaces were able to be matched with actual events in our history like the fall of the Roman Empire, the invasion of the Far East by Genghis Khan, the slaughter and imprisonment of the Jews under Hitler's rule, among other instances like the first atomic bomb and the end of the world on 21st December 2012.

It is up to each individual whether you believe or not, but as a non-believer, I am sort of getting a little bit worried that maybe there is a grain of truth in the prediction.

Just look at what has been happening over the past couple of years, and especially over the last 2 or 3 months.

Mortal unrest in the Middle East, freak weather conditions throughout the world over the past couple of years and now the devastating floods in Australia, the freezing winter in America and Europe and even bushfires in California. Now we have reported today an earthquake off the East coast of Japan which reached 8.9 on the Richter Scale. This caused a massive tsunami which destroyed massive areas of the coastal town, cities and agricultural areas on the East coast.

The tsunami warning has now gone out to all islands and countries in the Pacific area such as Indonesia, Philippines, and all countries and islands East of Japan including Australia, New Guinea, Guam, Hawaii and now, North and South America. This is shocking news for the island nations in the path of this massive wave of water and hopefully it will pass into oblivion before it does any more damage. Tsunamis are renowned for their instability and could just as easy die out before any more real damage can be done rather than continue on its destructive way. We can only hope.

When the big questions are asked.... "Is it global warming??" .... "Are the ice-caps melting" ... "Are we raping the planet??". In answer to these questions ........... DON"T BE SUCH BLOODY IDIOTS!!!!! (As I say with hope in my heart!!)

History will tell us that the weather and associated events are cyclic. There is always a calm before a storm (ask me, I was a sailor, which also brings to mind several bawdy jokes) and through the investigation of ice tubes drilled from the polar regions, scientists have proven that these events (apart from the human war type ones) occur regularly and frequently every couple of thousand years or so.

So it seems that it is about time that we had such an event, Mayan Calendar or no.