There has been much hype around the Mayan calendar "ending". There are those who believe that the end signifies our end. I never bought into our end being predicted by anything man has created.
What I did find fascinating and was very quick to share with my husband (he has been trying to convince me he should be able to make a large purchse since the end is coming) that the calendar is not ending, it is going to be rebirth after 16.4 billion years.
We were to read a couple chapters of Gloria Anzaldua's Boarderlands. The suffering her and her family endured living at the boarder between two countries was extremly distressing. I understand the need to have a dividing line. But at what cost to humas does this line have? The line does not have to be visable to feel like it is insurmountable. Mankind has always divided himself into catagories. For instance the Aztec's were called savages by the Spanairds, but if you really look at the situation who is really the savage. Man was made to be different, and having tolorance and an open mind to those who are different often times can enrich our lives. Its when men in power have a closed mind toward those who are different from themselves that death and destruction comes to call. By now you would think that history would not be repeating itself and we would have learned from our mistakes and accept each other for our differences. The line from Terminator II says it all "its in our nature to destroy ourselves". Maybe in the next 16.4 billion years we will finally get it right.
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