he End of the Mayan Calendar is scheduled for December 21, 2012 (give or take a year). The possibilities of what this "end" might mean is an increasingly hot topic on the Internet, in conferences, printed articles, and in discussions all over the globe. This is because it just might be an incredibly important moment in history -- e.g., the end of history!

Calendars, in general, do not end [1]. The whole purpose of developing and/or keeping a calendar is to predict future events based upon the cyclical nature of the world -- to keep such things as agriculture in line with the seasons or inform out-of-line politicians when their terms of office are up for reconsideration. [In this regard, politicians are like babies. Both need to be changed periodically, and often, for the same reason.] But the idea that everything is coming to some sort of completion, i.e. the end of cycles, the end of days, the end... period... This just doesn't compute when it comes to the idea of a......

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