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Christmas and the end of the World

Dec 25, 2012 News

By Rehana Ashley Ahamad

We have heard many theories about the world coming to an end. December 2012 has been dreaded for many years by those who believe in the ‘Mayan day of apocalypse’ – our Doomsday so to speak.
I am almost certain that many of you have heard that the world would have ended last Friday (December 21, 2012). If you are reading this, my guess is that the world has not yet ended. However, some still believe that last Friday was the beginning of the ending of the world.
I guess time will tell. At least one place in the world took precautions. It was reported on Yahoo.com that the Mayor of a small (178 inhabitants) French town called Bugarach, had declared the town closed to tourists for the four days before the predicted “end of the world”.
According to the article, the Mayans had envisaged that this French town would be the only place on earth to be spared of doom.
As there are believers of everything, there are also non-believers, like those who consider the “ending-of-the-world” theory as being sheer nonsense.
The movie ‘Doomsday 2012’ and many other documentaries on the topic have been quite convincing to some.
Some of these movies and videos portray the predictions of giant meteorites falling out of the skies.
I bet you’ve seen the posters – Aerial views of major cities crushed by a variety of natural disasters, giant waves rushing over the highest peaks of the Himalayas, and the headline “We Were Warned” above an enormous number 2012 written in a silver font that is both metallic and stone-like.
It all looks pretty exciting (who doesn’t get a vicarious thrill out of having a Godzilla’s eye-view of our civilization’s demise?), but what exactly is going on here? Well, I believe that Doomsday 2012 is just a flashy, big-budget disaster movie which was released November 13, 2009, where a small band of humans was struggling to survive in the aftermath of an enormous global apocalypse.
Was the movie intended to give us a sign that some giant well-sealed ship is our only chance to survival? Why hasn’t anybody created one or several of those yet? Or why hasn’t the world ended yet? What signs are we looking for?
Coming to another “rumour”- wasn’t the world supposed to come to an end a little over a decade ago? Aren’t we still alive and well?
Maybe it’s like what the older folks rightfully have said and continue to say “your world ends when you die”.
I am certainly no soothsayer, and I do know the things we’ve heard so far are a figment of people’s wild imagination. No one really knows what will happen.
If we live to see future Christmases, this one may definitely be memorable for some of us. There are those who did a few regrettable things while under the belief that the world would be coming to an end.
I maybe referring to some of my cousins who got drunk for the first time; or I may be talking about one particular friend who smoked marijuana for the first time.
What about those young high school students who “unleashed” themselves at school parties. Or I may be referring to people like my aunt who spent most of her savings on getting the most expensive gifts for her kids.
And let’s not forget about those who have been bad this year and thought that praying would either save the world, or save their souls in the afterlife.
But that memorable thing for me would be that little French village which the New York Times said, activated upped security measures, including putting the French anti-cult watchdog agency Miviludes on alert.

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