BY SARAH DRATNOL, Editor
The world is absolutely NOT ending on Dec. 21. There are numerous people talking about how the world will supposedly end as we know it. This is just because the Mayan calendar stopped on that date. Many speculations of the end of the world exist around the world, and all of them will be proved false within the years yet to come around.
The news that more of the Mayan calendar was found and was released by USA today on May 5. With everyone basing the end of the world on this calendar the finding of more of the calendar brings that theory to a screeching halt. This extension of the calendar has dates that go all the way up to the year 3500.
There have been over two-hundred other end of the world days predicted over the course of life on earth. These predictions started back as long ago as the year 634 in the Roman rule. This prediction was brought about by the fear that the Roman city would be destroyed in the 120th year if its founding. In the years between 1346-51; when the black plague was traveling across Europe, it was interpreted by many to be the sign of the end of times.
Some more recent apocalypse failures consist of the May 27, prediction; when Ronald Weinland had stated that Jesus Christ would return and the word would end. Another in the year of 2011, fears amongst the general public that the Comet Elenin traveling almost directly in between the Earth and the sun would cause such disturbances to the Earth’s crust that massive earthquakes and tidal waves would come about.
In all reality, only a world war or a nuclear bombing could really end the world as we know it. That’s the truth of the matter unless proven wrong when the world’s life truly comes to an end at the end of time.