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Two Days To Go

December 18, 2012 – 8:29 am

In 1990 I visited Tikal with my Aussie friend Cathy. We stayed at a horrible hotel, but slept atop the Mayan pyramids surrounded by the thick Peten jungle. Howler monkeys dashed from tree to tree and the buzz of insects hummed outside our mosquito nettings. This abandoned city had had a population of 90,000 souls […]

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The Hour Of The 13th Baktun

December 17, 2012 – 8:19 pm

A little more than three days remain until the end of the 12th Mayan Baktun, which began on August 11th, 3114 BC. Supposedly the Egyptians invented written language on that date. The rest of the Neolithic world was recovering from the ravages of the Great Ice Age. Agriculture wouldn’t revive in Northern Africa for more […]

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The End Of The World

December 12, 2012 – 12:27 pm

Early Christians expected the return of the Man from Nazareth to Earth. Their Messiah failed to show up to save them and converts gave up on the 2nd Coming for the End Times or ‘days of vengeance’, when their persecution would be revenged by fiery angels. Revelations in the Bible forecast the horrors of the […]

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B’ak’tun Tsunami

December 12, 2012 – 12:25 pm

Doomologists have pinpointed the end-date of the Mayan’s 5,125-year-long cycle as 13.0.0.0.0 or December 21, 2012 without predicting the cause of Armageddon. Various options for the B’ak’tun have been offered by opposing camps. Fundamentalists are hoping for the Second Coming of the Messiah and survivalists are arming up for collapse of the New World Order, […]

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Richard’s Ark

December 11, 2012 – 12:52 pm

Noah was warning by God that all life on Earth was threatened by a Great Flood. Few people believed him, but according to the Bible Noah built a great ark to hold the faithful and two of each kind of animal. The rain of forty days and forty nights cleanse the world of sin and […]

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