A Potpourri of Scholarly Quotes about 2012

Wow — I almost missed it! By some accounts today is exactly one day away from the so-called Mayan “doomsday”: December 21, 2012. (Some say it’s actually in the December 21-23 range, while others, still, say it’s another 50-years away, but–hey–why be picky?) The key word in the above is “so-called.” Because the Maya did [...]

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Top Ten Reasons the 2012 Hype is Hype

I noticed yesterday that my personal blog pops up rather high in a Google search on 2012! I don’t know if that should leave me excited or depressed. So, I thought to myself, “Self, if folks are going to find their way here, they might as well find the truth once they arrive.” [My thanks [...]

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2012: Scholars debunk it again (and again and again and…)

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History is holding their round table effort to beat back 2012ologists with actual facts and research, which they had previously announced in their discussions of the not-new-news Comalcalco Brick. Now, in the news today, one of the members of the scholarly panel has had his comments reported — coincidentally, [...]

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Rain on the Comalcalco parade

Wow — I see I have gotten a lot of hits over the last couple of days for folks searching for information on the Comalcalco brick. Welcome! I’m glad to be of service, as I have seen some false information lately on the matter: hopefully you read my previous post (here: The Comalcalco Brick and the [...]

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The Comalcalco Brick and the 2012 Non-pocalypse

My thanks to GN for passing on to me a new bit of 2012-related news.  The title is terribly misleading (misleading as in false) but the article is worth reading for those who are keeping up with such info: “New Reference to 2012 ‘Apocalypse’” (I appreciate that Express.co.uk at least put scare quotes around “apocalypse”). [...]

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Planet X/Nibiru is still MIA

For those “Planet X/Nibiru” aficionados out there, I’m afraid that your favorite planet killer is still missing in action. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal (“NASA Sees Little Threat from Killer Asteroid” – article behind paywall) explains that NASA believes it has catalogued 90% of the asteroids out there of such size and mass that [...]

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Profiting off of the 2012 Apocalypse

The 2012 Non-pocalypse is apparently great for business! My thanks to Mr. JW who tweeted me a couple of days ago:

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2012′s premature sibling: May 21, 2011

  It’s just too irresistible to resist, and too many are talking about it, anyway. For those who aren’t aware, there are a frighteningly large number of people who believe that the “rapture” will occur this Saturday accompanied by history’s most powerful earthquake and the beginning of the Great Tribulation. (If this is news to [...]

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2012 is NOT a Mayan prophecy

The content of this post is from a blog post I did back on December 24, 2009 on my personal “general topic” blog, Thoughts En Route, titled “What the Maya did & didn’t say about 2012.”  It was meant to debunk many of the claims that the 2012-hype is Mayan in origin when, in fact, [...]

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Planetary Alignment this Week

NASA image of Mars

There is a nice planetary alignment this week involving Mercury,Venus, Jupiter and Mars.  Look for it in the early morning.  But don’t look for anything to happen of cosmic significance.  The effect of such “alignments” has been, to put it kindly, overrated. And read all about it!  Time magazine’s article on the alignment can’t help [...]

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