The End of the World.......Wait For It!

What with all the 2012 world will end hysteria I think it's a good idea to get back to those crazy folks who started this whole mess: the Mayans.

But wait a minute. Did they really predict the end of the world in 2012? Let's ask people that know something about them.

"We have to be clear about this. There is no prophecy for 2012," said Erik Velasquez, an etchings specialist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "It's a marketing fallacy."

Hmm...selling books and t-shirts, I bet.

The National Institute of Anthropological History in Mexico has weighed in on the pending apocalypse, too. "The West's messianic thinking has distorted the world view of ancient civilizations like the Mayans," the institute said in a statement.

Yeah, they got that right. I've been hearing about the imminent end of the world since I've been a kid.  It's been a big theme in "Magic Jesusland." Oh and let's not forget that every generation has thought that their's would be the last to see the sunshine.

And finally, "The Maya did not think about humanity, global warming or predict the poles would fuse together," said Alfonso Ladena, a professor from the Complutense University of Madrid. "We project our worries on them."

Hmm...sounds a lot like people I know.