• Mail Bag: January 10th, 2009

  

  Written by Sage 10 Comments
  Last Updated:: January 10, 2009

  I’m not sure why exactly, but lately a lot of people have been asking us what our opinion is about the imminent end of the world. I’m not sure how many other retro gaming sites are getting emails about the upcoming apocolypse, but I’m willing to bet that the number is pretty low. I’ll have to ask the folks over at Retrojunk when I have a chance. Anyway, this week Sage answers one of the more detailed emails we’ve received on this topic.

  Doug writes: Just wondering what you guys think about that theory that the world will end in 2012. There are many cultures and authors that claim the world will either end or drastically change in 2012. The Maya predict the end of the world in 2012. And in the book “The Bible Code” by Michael Drosnin, he claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. Also in the book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” by Daniel Pinchbeck, he discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere. Riley Martin claims that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their ‘Great Mother Ship’ when the Earth is ‘transformed’ in 2012. And Terence McKenna’s numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.

  Whatever you think of these sources, its a known scientific fact that on the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time. Anyway, just wondering what you guys think about this.

  This, my friend, is one of the most throughly researched emails we have ever gotten. I don’t know who any of these people are but it sounds convincing. Plus if you look at the track record of the world ending theories, they always prove to be correct, right?. The global bank collapse of Y2k, I think there was something back in 1989 too, and now 2012. As for global awakenings, the return of Aztec gods, bible codes, and alignments of solar bodies, we here at OW are all for it. First we would finally be able to understand the confusing, and often times contradictory thoughts of our wives and girlfriends.

  If any gods are to return, the Aztecs would be interesting, we all know math and the Bible go hand in hand, and who doesn’t love aligned solar bodies? Moreover if the Earth does transform, I hope its into a giant robot that eats other planets. Then we can just travel the universe consuming other planets, taking capitalism to a whole new, highly literal level. Just in case the the OWHQ bunker has been stocked with plenty of food, blankets, a hard wired internet connect, generators, and plenty of movies to get us through the long cold apocalypse in comfort. We feel that if anyone should be required to repopulate the planet it should be us.

  However, since we are all betting men, we would put our money on nothing actually happening, mainly because nothing ever does. The apocalypse has been predicted since man was able to predict things, and we don’t have a great track record with it. Its almost as if we wanted to know the end as soon as everything started. Like renting a movie and fast forwarding to the end, or reading a book backwards. In any case we’ll see what happens in a few years, until then our bunker needs some up grades, we’re thinking a big a flat screen, some lazy boys, blue ray, deep fryers,….

10 Comments

1. #1 Dr strangelove says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

   woot first

   in 2012 the sn will dissapear…..and return in a coupe hours will call this disapperence of the sun “night” and this prophisised return “morning”
2. #2 George says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:48 am

   How do I send an e-mail to you guys?
3. #3 George says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:49 am

   I want to know the address.
4. #4 Zeromage says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:01 am

   George:

   oldwizard.com@gmail.com

   we also now have an email newsletter that we’re going to send out once a month that you can sign up for on the right side of the side.
5. #5 roberto says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:10 am

   dont know what u twats over at old-hippie.com are talking about.

   i happen to have very reliable info from a source deep inside that says in 2012, the sky will open up and quetzalcoatl (one of jesus’s many reincarnations) will take myself and the faithful in a magical sleigh up to frolic amongst the clouds and play with the care bears…idiots
6. #6 Nant14 says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

   The 10th Avatar of Vishnu, the Second Buddha, the Second Coming of the Christ, the Messiah as viewed by the Jews,the Maya predictions…And the followers of different religions will recalculate their promises every time they fail.But I believe in the absolute End.
7. #7 Michael .V. says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am

   Well at least today’s rendition is not a copy\paste thing

   However to add I’ll say NO it’s not the end of the world… the reason I say that and confirm this is if I’m wrong no one will be here to state so. If i’m right well archives exist!

   haha
8. #8 Jamie says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

   ^ LOL
9. #9 JeZeP says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

   The Mayas did not predict the end of the world, they just got tired of waisting, labor, gold, and sacrifices to continue making calendars. I doubt the world is going to end in 2012.