Maybe it’s something really bizarre, like the entire human race loses its ability to count, and to write. So no more calendars – but we can still talk about how we miss calendars.
“Dude! Remember that time we saw those lighthouses in Maine?” “Yeah, bro! But not as cool as when the widdle kitten was cuddling with the duckling! What else were they for?”
Sorry, “that time” suggests an ability to count, at least as high as one. BZZZT! Not allowed.
You planning a party? Can I come?
See, I don’t know if the human race’s existence/ability to perceive time is an issue. December 22nd will still happen regardless of whether we are able to understand or experience the day —unless the Earth itself is no longer rotating and circling the sun. I’d like to think the Mayans were more wholistic in their thinking and therefore not limiting time to sentient beings and their reaction to the concept of time. If instead these prophetic Mayan astronomers were espousing a cosmological time end w/r/t the Earth, the Sun, the seasons and the passage of day into night, then the human element can and should be diminished.
And you may as well eat the chocolate.
We have tickets to a Leonard Cohen concert on the 20th. We’re hoping he closes with “The Future.”
Boyo Jim, I like your light switch theory, but instead of ceasing to be, I wish I could be sent to Azeroth (World of Warcraft). I spend about 55% of my time there anyway! 
Thanks
Q
Unusually warm today after a cold snap.
Squirrels running in circles in the yard.
Thought I heard a duck’s caw echo earlier this afternoon.
The signs are there. The writing is on the wall. 19 days to doom…
You take John. I’m going to glue myself to Amanda Peet.
So is the apocalypse supposed to be the 21st or the 22nd? We need the right date if we’re going to prepare. Or party.
It’s the 21st of December, but I don’t know if that’s Mayan time or GMT. Some people may live to see the 22nd depending on where they live on the globe…I’m not clear on this.
No one get’s the 23rd.
At least doomsday will save us from going off the fiscal cliff. More like going over the spiritual cliff, I guess.
I’ve just realised this means I will miss the last four levels of Angry Birds Seasons.
Maybe they should change the name to Apocalypse Birds.
Nothing angrier than that.
The Mayans saw the end of the world in 2012, but didn’t see the Spanish coming in 1520?
Now let us be fair. The astronomers couldn’t have expected the intervening Spaniards, as the Spaniards were terrestrial. If the invaders were from space, they’d have been ready, no doubt.
Remember: *Nobody expects the Spanish Intervention! *
Anyway, the rise and fall of various civilizations is small potatoes compared to the end of time/space.
[countdown] ** Two weeks to go! **[/countdown]
Y’all starving muthafuckas best not be getting all up in here. I will be munching a can of Argentine corned beef while I shoot your happy ass to pieces as I listen to Fareed Farjad on my iPod. Too late now, civilians.
The Thais are really buying into this apocalypse business. I know an American who is a physics professor at a local university. His specialty is planetary mechanics. He speaks fluent Thai and so always gets interviewed during times of eclipses, solar flares etc. Solar flares seem to be an especially big worry here. He says he can explain them in layman’s terms in about five minutes, but someone always interrupts him after about two minutes to ask what about the god of darkness, Rahu.
He was on TV tonight and will appear again tomorrow morning to explain that a solar flare will NOT destroy the Earth during December, but the local consensus seems to be he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Why should we be afraid of you? We have Rahu on our side.
Apparently the French, true to form, have decided to keep out of this apocalypse nonsense and will not be joining the rest of the world in vaporising next Friday.