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Whats your take on 2012 doomsday predictions?
Will the World end on 2012? If so, who will survive?
Answer by Thades
Well the world is not going to end in 2012. Things might change during 2012 but it won’t end. I bet I’ll survive and Lead the other Surviver to freedom.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Hmm, I don’t think so. I am not superstitious, and wonder why I should put so much spiritual faith in the Mayan calendar.
Absolute hogwash. No scientific reasoning or principles are behind it. People have been predicting the end of the world for all of human history and every single one has been wrong.
The Mayan calendar which this rubbish comes from was never even meant to predict the end of the world. It was merely an idiosyncrasy of their calendar that it did this. Nothing in their history or culture indicates they attached any special relevance to what the Gregorian calendar calls 2012.
Even if it did, it would still be meaningless as a device for predicting catastrophe. The Mayan were excellent astronomers for their time. but their science still pales greatly in comparison to modern science. It is practically impossible they would know some scientific knowledge that we do not possess today.
This 2012 hullabaloo is just a scheme to sell books and movies. Don’t buy into it.
Chuck Norris.
i think everyone has misinterpreted the prediction. I think its more of a metaphorical Apocalypse not a actual ending and if not then ill see you all in hell PARTY AT SATAN’S HOUSE HES GOT A POOL!
Everything you have heard about 2012 is full of half-truths and outright lies, with the following exceptions.
1. There will be an American presidential election in 2012.
2. The Summer Olympics will be in London in 2012.
3. The Planet Venus will transit the Sun in 2012. (The only effect of this will be that a small dot will be visible on the sun in telescopes that are adapted to look at the sun.)
4. There will be natural disasters, war, famine, plague, etc… but no more than in any other year.
That is all. Everything else is bull.
Nostradamus didn’t predict anything for 2012.
Some people think the Mayans did, but they are wrong. The Mayan Calendar is just a very long calendar. It does NOT predict the end of the world. It just so happens that the Mayan version of “December 31, 1999″ falls on what we would call “December 21, 2012.” The Mayan calendar contains events that happen AFTER 2012, even after 4000 AD, so clearly the world will not “end” at this point.
(You’ll remember that a lot of people also thought the world was going to end in 12-31-1999, but it didn’t. Same deal. Many programmers expected a huge mess, but fortunately with a lot of hard work that didn’t happen either, but nobody who actually knew anything expected the ‘collapse of civilization’ some nuts predicted.)
All the other predictions:
“pole shifts” (which take thousands of years to even start)
“galactic plane crossing” (a lie, we’re far above the galactic plane and moving away from it)
“galactic alignment” (We don’t even know exactly where the galaxy’s center is – it’s obscured by gas and dust and other stars – so we sure as hell can’t predict an alignment with it with any accuracy)
“killer planet Nibiru” (physically impossible)
“antichrist” (no such animal. Christ’s Apostles thought THEY were living in the ‘end times,’ too)
and everything else, are completely and totally made-up.
There are NO scientists who believe in this 2012 nonsense. If you see someone claiming “scientists” said so, ask for names and degrees, because they either don’t exist, or got their “degree” from some mail-in fake “university of pulp paper.” Degrees in theology don’t count.
Here is one thing about 2012 that might actually be true… this answer will probably be thumbs-downed by wackjobs who are obsessed with 2012.
The Mayan prophecies speak to us of the changes towards the fifth Ajaw (fifth sun), on December 21, 2012. This date begins the period of 5,200 years. This is a cycle of wisdom, harmony, consciousness and the return of the natural order.
It is not the end of the world as many from outside of the Mayan tradition have misinterpreted it to be. The fifth cycle will be a fusion of both feminine and masculine energies. It will be a transition where there won’t be any more confrontations between the polarities. It will bring balance and there won’t be hierarchy of one over the other.
Also the Hopi Indians, Cherokee, Hindu scriptures (Brahma-Vaivarta Purana), and Terence McKenna’s novelty theory based on the ancient I Ching are telling us that on 2012 the world will be transforming and going through great changes.
Everything you hear about that particular doomsday is designed to make money. It’s a hoax.
The 2012 hoax-off has many claims, even quite a few that are self contradicting, and many others that contradict other parts of it.
It is difficult to calculate where it began. It seems several different armageddon’s sort of (slowly at first, then faster and faster as of recent months) “merged” into one.
First off, you have the Mayan Calender, (a cyclical calender) that turns over to a new Baktun on Dec. 21 (or 23 to some people’s interpretations) 2012. It’s the equivalent of a new year’s day for them. The calender rolls over, like your car odometer would… and you car doesn’t end when it ticks over to a new front digit, does it? The guy to blame for this nonsense is Jose Arguelles. Do a wiki search on him to determine if he has any understanding of archeaology or interpretation of Mayan artifacts, (credentials are lacking, imagination is not). Then decide if you wish to believe him or not.
The Planet X nonsense is the concoction of Nancy Lieder. She tried to sell books to “survive the end of the world” when this planet was suppossed to crashinto earth, or cause a pole shift, or whatever… back in 2003.
Since she didn’t sell enough books, she republished it, changed the date to match with Jose Arguelles’ end of the world, and, VOILA! A new money making machine with zero scientific evidence whatsoever!!! Hooray! A sucker is born every minute… And Ms. Leider wants that suckers wallet. Throw her lil sidekick Mark Hazelwood into the mix, and you have a recipe to confuse people into scaring them into emptying their wallets.
It’s a shame if you ask me.
What else?
Zechariah Sitchin’s Niburu?
Ooooh, don’t get me started. First of all, he misinterpreted an ancient Sumerian artifact. Fudged some dates on some mass extinction periods on earth, and came up with some 2085 date for the Annunaki to come back and get the gold from earthlings that we’ve alledgedly suppossed to have been mining for them for a few millenia.
Problem is, Sitchin’s fake planet was not intended to come in 2012, he claims it will return in 2085 (equally impossible), either way he is upset the 2012ers had no problem hijacking his planet and throwing it into the mix, not that a fake planet will come by no matter what hypothetical year you attribute to it.
Do you want me to continue?
I can certainly go into greater detail, if you would care to delve into it.
http://www.2012hoax.org