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Astonishingly, the date of Mother Shipton's predicted end of the world appears to have been shifted to 2012.
Still, it all came in useful when some blithering child of sick fundamentalist parents started scaring my daughter by telling her she wasn't going to live to get to high school because God Was Coming.
My own experience and ten minutes on the internet proving how many people had made themselves look really stupid with these predictions soon cheered her up.
And if she had any residual worries, I should think three years of high school has pretty much wiped them out.
There is actually a whole other 2012 contingent that doesn't think it wil be the end of the world, just an ending or change in how we view something. I think they mean other than 2012 prophecies. ;-) Kind of like how the Internet/Web changed communication and commerce, only on more of a psychological/spiritual scale.
The beginning of the last Baktun saw, possibly, the emergence of modern humans. The oldest dated remains found at Crô Magnon are around 35.000 years old. You can't be me, I'm taken
