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Doctor doctor…I´ve got a problem…I´m worried about the future…(Who isn´t?)…I´ve heard that the world may end in 2012.
—- Well, you don´t want to worry too much about what you hear or read these days…anyway, people have been predicting the end of the world for 1000s of years…
Yes, but the Mayan calendar just suddenly stops on December the twelfth of that year.
—- So I´ve heard…mmm…perhaps a new era will begin, who knows?..The end of something often marks the start of something else.
But why would a calendar just end?
—- Well, all this was written or carved on stone, wasn´t it? They may have used up so much stone building all those pyramids that they just ran out of the stuff…(You think so?)… Sure, wasn´t there a major drought or something, water crisis of some sort?…maybe they simply ran out of water.
I never thought of that…so you mean…they didn´t complete their calendar because they couldn´t?
—- Perhaps…or they might just have disagreed, argued, got bored…
But I´ve also heard that all the planets and the sun will align with the centre of our galaxy on that exact date…and there could be all sorts of natural disasters…
—- You mean like earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, gale force winds, tectonic plate movements…possible magnetic pole reversal…
Oh my god…it sounds much worse than I thought.
—- Well, you can probably escape from it all…
How? Tell me!
—- Erm…there are remote places where you´ll most likely be relatively safe…
Like where?
—- I´ve got a friend who rents out places in Tibet, miles from anywhere…I believe there´s quite a community already living there.
What, can you put me in touch?
—- I should imagine so…I´ll make a couple of calls…and book you in for… November 2012, say?
Better make that 2011…just in case.
—- Well, the Mayans were pretty accurate, you know…
Yes, I suppose you´re right… Thanks once again, doctor…

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