{"id":5389,"date":"2012-12-20T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2012-12-20T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:02:52","slug":"thursday-night-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ummmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/12\/20\/thursday-night-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ummmmmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – its the end of the world as we know it.. and I feel …ummmmmm"},"content":{"rendered":"

So tomorrow is the day.. as I understand it, some mayan scholars and some new age spiritualists agree that the mayan great count ends tomorrow.. and with it ends the purpose of the world. It’s an interesting thing to contemplate.. If we all did disappear quickly and painlessly tomorrow, would it be so bad ? would it matter ? I’m all for long happy lives.. and I intend to have one.. At the same time, if there is no day after tomorrow, we won’t know it.. and therefore, logically, we shouldn’t care.\u00a0 \u00a0 All the same,\u00a0 will live as though there will be a day after tomorrow.. .as it’s easier..\u00a0 Maybe it’s safest to do what the famous mathematician,\u00a0 Pascal did when he was asked whether he believed in G-d, heaven and hell. He reasoned that if G-d is real, then believing in him was (in christian tradition at least) a pre-req for getting in to heaven. If He\/she did not exist, then it didn’t matter what he believed.. since the consequences of not believing in G-d if he did exist was relatively expensive (eternity in hell) and the value relatively high (eternal salvation)\u00a0 On the other hand . if there is no G-d then it doesn’t matter what you believe.. which is both low cost and low value .. Pascal therefor reasoned it was safer and easier to believe in G-d …\u00a0\u00a0 As I type that, this is precisely\u00a0 the mental calculus I’m going when I put the ‘-‘ in G-d\u00a0 .. If he\/she does exist, he’ll be impressed that I did not write his\/her name as dictated by my religious upbringing.. If he\/she doesn’t exist .. then it’s just an amusing affect.. Again, i could live with either.. but why take unnecessary risks… ?<\/p>\n

Which relates in a strange way to this whole mayan thread for the solstice thing is quite interesting to me.. Readers of this blog may know that\u00a0 near the end of his life, Sam always wore a necklace with his name written in mayan glyphs. We got it when he, diane and I traveled to Tulum in 2006 .<\/p>\n

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We now have that necklace hanging where we can see it..<\/p>\n

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when sam died, we had that same set of glyphs etched into a stone by friend chris<\/p>\n

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then Sam’s good friend Nate had the glyphs inked on his arm<\/p>\n

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Then a friend then helped us make several more of the necklaces down in tulum.. I ware one all the time as do Diane and Gabe<\/p>\n

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then gabe had it inked on to his arm<\/p>\n

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I wonder if that mayan connection makes us safer or less safe… as tomorrow comes ?<\/p>\n

Who knows.. Maybe it will be the end of the world..<\/p>\n

but that already happened.. and as remarkable as it may seem , I feel fine-ish<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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So tomorrow is the day.. as I understand it, some mayan scholars and some new age spiritualists agree that the mayan great count ends tomorrow.. and with it ends the purpose of the world. It’s an interesting thing to contemplate.. If we all did disappear quickly and painlessly tomorrow, would it be so bad ? … Continue reading Thursday night – its the end of the world as we know it.. and I feel …ummmmmm<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ummmmmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}