Doomsday

We have something like 12 hours left on Earth if the Mayans are right. They were smart enough, after all, to use mathematics and astronomy. However, they also gave human sacrifices to their gods.

The Mayans were a very complicated people. They had libraries full of their history and their discoveries. Invaders, instead of relishing the books and learning from these volumes chose instead to destroy them. Only four survive.

I am not willing to place my faith in a race of people who while creative and intelligent, were also murderers and cannibals.

Why their calendar ends tomorrow is anybody's guess. Perhaps they thought they would have many more centuries to add to the existing work. Maybe the predictions they made and the signs they tracked made sense to them. Maybe an alien presence gave them information we don't have today. Maybe they were just wrong.

Were the world as we know it to end, well, we wouldn't know it. We'd likely be gone. In the unlikely event that we survive, well, we'll do what human beings do so well--start over.

I am not afraid--not of the world ending, not of the world continuing, not of the world changing. We are resilient.

Should the Mayans be right (even descendants of the Mayans don't believe it), then I'll say good-bye, it was nice knowing you, I wish I'd had the chance to know you better.

But if they are wrong, I'll say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year". I will say "Hello" when next we meet, share the news of the day and get to know you better.

See you tomorrow.