Posted by REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D.
December 11, 2012 -
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REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D. The Maya collapsed - could we?... On December 21, 2012, our calendar will align with the Maya date 13.0.0.0.0, completing a great Maya cycle of time. The ancient Maya of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras were close keepers of time. They charted every day, organizing them into 20- and 400-year periods. Using a base-20 counting system (ours is base 10) and zero, they easily calculated thousands of dates, some noting the existence of millions of ye ars. During the height of their civilization in the 8th century, the Maya recorded dates and deeds at dozens of city-states, from births and battles to the triumphant wrenching of trophies from enemies. Now in the 21st century, perhaps we have also reached a precipice. Global warming is not just fearful thinking -- it's real. Weeks after Superstorm Sandy, scientists are now predicting the near-term and long-term effects of global warming as more dire that previously thought. Some, perhaps like our Maya predecessors, would rather not see the writing on the walls of our flooded cities. The crises pile up in front of us, one after another, and we ignore them at our peril. We need to make some hard decisions and resolve that we will confront our own brewing apocalypse before it's too late.
