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Depending upon who you talk to, the world may or may not
meet its apocalyptic doom on Friday. If
you’re talking to someone with critical thinking skills, their plans for Friday
may include going to class or work, finishing up holiday shopping, seeing
friends and loved ones, and drinking
heavily. If you’re talking with someone
without critical thinking skills, their Friday agenda may substitute the “going
to class or work” for “sharpening knifes or loading guns” and “holiday shopping”
might involve less Xbox games and more dehydrated meats. Also, “seeing friends and loved ones” will
occur in a bunker. Drinking heavily will
likely happen regardless.
The reason for the impending apocalyptic hullabaloo,
which has grown steadily in recent years, has mainly to do with a severe lack
of fact-checking and a gross misunderstanding about how calendars work. Seeing as I once wrote a term paper on Mayan
cosmology in college and also have access to Google, I feel that it is my duty
to give a little background on the impending Mayan doomsday and set the record
straight. I did concerningly little
fact-checking of my own while writing this piece, but since I’m sure that I’ve
still done more of it than the people who expect the world to end on Friday, I
really don’t feel bad about that.
