Entrée: 2012.

Is this year or to be exact, particular day in our calender, a coerced conspiracy or a real scientific phenomenon we are to inevitably face? Look at what happened with the whole Y2K business. There was talk of power shortages, the loss of data through all the computers that existed and a mass fluxuation with electronics in general. That didn't end up so bad, did it? We got all hyped up and scared over nothing and technology seems to have exponentially increased, almost doubling it's size of growth similar to our population (which will facilitate it's own meal worthy discussion later).
But why do we blindly believe that this will be the end of our time? Scientific findings have proven that our sun will reach it's peak momentum heat around this time. It will start to release solar flares that may come in contact with Earth faster than we think. This causes the Earth to become hotter and therefore changing our versions of season in certain locations. It can be a factor in global warming and the rise and fall of our tides. Does 2012 mean that our world or universe perhaps will change largely in the way that we live in it? Will it mean that we must not rely so much on technology but on ourselves to adapt to these subtle yet forcefully impacting changes? Or does it mean that we once again, like in 1999, are looking for purpose in life? Maybe not so much a purpose but a reason to live life to the fullest, a reason not to take things for granted, a reason to do the complete opposite, a reason to question..
The Mayan calender was the closest to portraying how we precieve time with dates, equinoxes, solstices, and even the stars. They categorized the stars so well that we refer to them still to this day. Yet their calender ends on that day we have made infamous, was it because they thought the world would suddenly undergo drastic climactic changes or that there really would be a "judgement day"? I don't know about you but the only judgement day i know of is when that sweet metal oddly muscular looking robot saved a tech savy boy and his hot ass kicking mom from a future ruled by robots not as compassionate to the human race as he was. Yes, maybe we think of our lives as movies because we've clearly made so many that if i don't already know what to do if dragon's attack, zombies invade, earthquakes give out everywhere, a tower of water the size of the north and south pacific ocean comes tumbling down, and i find myself with a millions snakes... on a plane... then i should have already been dead. Here's to now so that we have a then!