A conversation with my little sister

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So I have a 9 year old sister in the 4th grade. We were sitting at the kitchen table today when the commercial for the new movie "2012" came on.

She asked me, "What is this movie about?"

I told her that since the Mayan calender was supposed to end in 2012, people think the world will end too. She started freaking out, so I quickly told her that the whole doomsday prophecy was BS, that "the Mayans probably didn't have enough room on the rock for their calendar."

My sis: "Like the ones in Iraq?"

I told her their weren't any Mayans in Iraq, that they lived in South America a long time ago. After a minute I realized she thought I said "mines".

"No, Boo, not mines, Mayans. M-A-Y-A-N-S. They're an ancient civilization that lived in South America several centuries ago."

"So the world will end because the Mayans said so?"

"No, that's just people being paranoid. The Mayans lived over 500 years ago, and they weren't nearly as technologically advanced as we are now. I seriously doubt that they know when the world is going to end when we dont. I bet you five dollars that the world will NOT end in 2012"

"So if the world DOES end, you'll give me five dollars?"

"Sure."

"OK!"

Then i said "Besides, if and when the world ends, it's probably going to be because we blow ourselves up. America has enough nukes to destroy the world three times over. Not to mention when the Soviet Union broke up back about when I was born, all THEIR nukes ended up in China and North Korea and Iran."

"You mean Iraq?"

"No, IRAN. Iraq and Iran are two different countries. They're next to each other, but they're still different countries."

"Oh. So Iran is gonna blow up the world?"

"Somebody is, what with all these nukes on hair-triggers. Some idiot is gonna shoot one off, then everyone else shoots off their whole arsenal, and before you know it, BOOM! and a nuclear winter."

"Nuklyear winter? Does it snow in a nuklyear winter?"

"Yes, but not the good kind of snow. It's actually ash and radiation. We call it 'fallout'. You don't want to play in this snow, you'll die."

"Why?"

"Well, if you survive the blast, you'll either die from the radiation or from starvation cause you can't find food. But don't worry, I seriously doub that we're going to have that happen, at least not in the near future. So don't worry about it, you'll understand it more when you're older."

"OK!"


...and that was conversation over dinner tonight. I gotta stop watching CNN...

Hey Roxas_XIII, I really enjoyed reading this, thanks!

ROFL I totally read her age wrong and read that whole thing under the impression that she was 19.

That brightened up my day.

lol!

Poor mines. Deep in their metallic hearts they know their world will probably end in fire and carnage, or in disembowelment. It must be hard for them.

Wow, your sister must be quite easy to appease. I had so not okayed your answer at age 9. (nor any other age)



Incidentally, when I was roughly her age my dad told me about a prophecy he had heard: "A yellow race will attack us, and a big war will break out. Nukes will be used and everyone will die. Afterwards aliens will descend." How that one freaked me out!