2012: Playboy, NPR, and Animal Planet

Our advancing age, coupled with this newly discovered awareness of the 2012 doomsday predictions, has had a profound effect upon this household.Any of you ladies who have raised sons and husbands have heard for years the explanation that we bought the latest Playboy magazine “for the articles”.

Of course, you knew better as did we; but at least the minor deception/self-deception allowed us all to make Hugh Hefner a very wealthy man, while allowing us to maintain a “pornography-free” lifestyle.

And now, thanks to the Internet, we could read the entire article, titled APOCALYPSE 2012, online at  http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-forum-apocalypse-2012/index.html

So why buy the magazine in such enlightened days?  Well, there are always the jokes……

The Playboy 2012 approach is on the lighter side (with several sideline stories concerning the extremely pro-active).

Given a bunker and a supply of bullets, these survivalists are determined to ride out the worst that the universe may have to offer.Dismissal of the whole 2012 doomsday predictions and prophecies would be easy enough if it weren’t for the already shaky condition of the planet.

A future, or non-future, as the case may be, that is already punctuated by severe climatic forces, terrorist fanaticism (including an ever present nuclear threat). A possible swine flu pandemic backed up by a potential global financial collapse rounds out the worst case scenario.

Throw in the existing food and oil shortages, and it becomes easy enough to understand the recent flood of attention zeroing in on that fateful December 21st, 2012.Dig a bit deeper and you will find a mysterious “Planet X” and a scheduled return of some not-so-friendly alien beings.

So what’s a body to do?

My plans are to maintain a “Y2K wait and see” mode. Make that…Wait and see…And hope like hell.

I’m enjoying my sixth decade.  Looking back it seems that we were presented with at least one “end of the world” prediction for each separate decade. In my own experience the doomsayers are 0 and 6. For my grand kids’sake I hope that run extends to 0 and 106.

So, I will keep taking my blood pressure medications while keeping my eyes and ears open.

I’ve been a 2012′er for less than a month so far. Just long enough to start this blog and the accompanying website   http://www.2012officialcountingdown.com

In the last month alone the 2012 discussion has been expanded by Playboy, Connecticut Public Radio and Animal Planet.

As my Dad used to say, “That much action at the base of a tree,  from such different dogs,
almost guarantees that something is happening a bit higher up”.

You can bet that my eyes and ears will remain tuned in to channel 2012.

Till next time,

Fred

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