Hey, today is 12-12-12 and we’re still here.
My children (proudly raised to be skeptics) and I were talking about all of the end of the world dates this month. I suppose we could add a few more. Yesterday it was 12-11-12 because my Internet was down (I give a big bird to my service provider who shall remain nameless and know that there is a special place in hell for the people who program their computers).
Plus my daughter pointed out that it is already 12-13-12 in some parts of the world (we’re in California so we’re almost on the tail end of the time zones)
The world is also supposed to end on 12-21-12. That has been a great excuse for a lot of parties in the planning. I’ll be posting End of Times cocktails later on from Teddy if anyone is interested.
Anyway we’re here about CALENDARS.
My dad told me about a preacher who used to preach it was the end of the world and get people to gather on a mountaintop every so often to meet their maker. Eventually everyone got tired of the shenanigans and the preacher was arrested and thrown in the pokey for a while for causing public disturbances. Don’t be a fool and do what he did.
But back to CALANDARS. A Calendar is a way for us to keep track of days. Why do we keep track? A few reasons…
- So we’ll know when we need to work.
- So we know when to plant crops.
- So we know how old we are.
- So we know when to go to the orthodontist.
- So we know the first and last days of school.
- So we can mark off vacation days.
- So we can mark off holidays.
- So we can keep track of our LIVES.
Nowhere on that list is “So we can know when the world ends.” Get real folks. Don’t be like the people who blindly followed the guy to the top of the hill.
And which calendar are you going off of?
The current one that says today is December 12, 2012 is the Georgian Calendar, which didn’t come into use until 1582. My grandmother (remember we’re Vampires) was born in 1523. So what does that prove? Nothing. But she has always been good at keeping track of things, thanks to the Georgian Calendar.
And aside from the Mayan rock (what is up with that?) there is a whole list of cool calendars:
- Lunar (love this one)
- Hindu
- Eastern Christian (Julian Calendar)
- Hebrew
- Chinese
- Thai Solar
- Bahia
- Buddhist
- Discordian
- Igbo
- Indian National
- ISO
- Lithuanian
- Malayalam
- Maya
- Nepali
- Minguo
- Revised Julian
- Eunice
- Tibetan
- Zoroastrian
- Yoruba
- Attic
- Aztec
- Bulgur
- Byzantine
- Enoch
- Vampire
- And much much more…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars
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So I guess the point of this is DON’T WORRY. We’ll all be here for 2013!
- The best kind of calendar is one with pictures you like (my favorite is Maxfield Parrish).
- And we have all had fun laughing at all of the jokes.
- And don’t follow false prophets (but that’s a given).
Vampire Maman 
I’d love a Maxfield Parrish calendar. I used to have a Parrish poster in my bathroom. My extremely religious nephews told me the picture was inappropriate. (They were 11 at the time.)
Anyway, thanks for the list. I teach students from other countries, and I admit I get a kick out of how some of them can’t answer the “when is your birthday?” or “how old are you question?” because they’re country uses a different calendar. They usually say things like, “I can tell you what my passport says.”
We always had to put our art books out of reach, not the children in our family, but because little friends from other families would go NUTS over our volumes of naked pictures!
But nice point about your students. What a great opportunity for you to teach students from many lands AND for them to have YOU as a teacher. A win win all the way around (no matter what the date).
I love the Gregorian calendar! I can even figure out the day of the week people were born on in my head (crossing the non-leap year of 1900 is tricky, so it wouldn’t work well on vampires). I also love the cute squirrel pictures that adorn the one hanging in my computer room….
Cute squirrels always rock!