Anyone heard of the ancient Mayan Prophecy, along with the Scientific proof of Armageddon in the year 2012?
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This is very strange, and please I don’t think I am physic, or special, so don’t be snide or rude, only serious answers! Ever since I can remember which was about the age of five or so I have been extremely fearful of the end of the world, I think I started to have these fears after I began to dream about Armageddon. I have been having these dreams for almost 20 years now, And I dream about it most every night. Pretty much anyway you can think of the world coming to an end I have dreamed. Usually it involves a meteor, or something big and bright hitting the earth but I always seem to awake before it actually hits, I have also had dreamed about huge tsunamis, as a matter of fact that is the first dream I ever had about it, and at that time I was only about five, so I was not aware of what a tsunami was or even that it existed. I often get told and think that my dreams come from the extreme fear of the end of the world, but my question is I began to have those fears before I even understood the meaning and term of Armageddon of the end of the world, does this sound weird to anyone else. When the year 2000 came, I was a wreck, but I have been studying 2012, the year 200 was a hype, there was no scientific reason, or events happening on that particular day, 2012 is very different. There are so many different events that are going to take place on this date. The alignment of the milyway galaxy and the sun, the solar eclipse, the polar shift that is going to take place and there is a few other scientific events but you get the drift. Even more creepy is their are multiple different ancient religions that are predicting a catastophic event to occur on Dec. 21 2012. Myans, incans, chinese are just a few that have written prophecy of something very bad happening on this day of this year. I don’t have a specific question, I am just wanting to see peoples educated thoughts and concerns about this topic. Hope its not too long and thanks to all of you who have something to say. Have a good day.
i heard 2020
The date is the end of a “long cycle” in the Mayan calendar. Nothing will happen then. Except that a bunch of whack-jobs will make their NEXT doom-and-gloom, end-of-the-world predictions for a date a few years down the road.
The folks who do these predictions are mostly seekers of notoriety. The predictions make them look smart. But if they’re so smart, why aren’t they rich? I think they make these doom-and-gloom statements for self-aggrandizement. I.e. make them look more important than they really are. Which means their miserable lives must be pathetic indeed if they have to scare everyone for any satisfaction.
The Julian/Gregorian calendar ended its “long cycle” in the hear 2000 and what happened? Zip. Nada. Zilch. What’s gonna happen on that magic date in 2012? Zip. Nada. Zilch. How much will you think you are worth for having believed in that drivel? Zip. Nada. Zilch.
You’ve been hitting the Kool-Aid a little too hard. I haven’t read up on any Chinese prophecies, but I know for a fact that the Mayans did NOT predict that the world would end in 2012. Their calendar simply maps astronomical events, much like the ones you already mentioned. The calendar would simply wrap around and run through the events again – just like they have, like clockwork, for millenia.
No, there is no scientific proof that the world will end. Again, it’s just superstition and paranoia, and you’re playing right into it. Again, apparently. And when the world doesn’t end this time, what’s next?
The position of the Sun relative to the Milky Way doesn’t make any difference. There are two solar eclipses every year for the last 4.5 billion years. Pole shifts on the Earth take thousands of years, not one. Pole shifts on the Sun happen every 22 years. Did you notice last time? Nope.
I suggest you take a few science classes. You’ll see how ridiculous this all is.
Yes! O my word i actually watched a movie about it last night
no of the so called evidcne is real. The calander just ends on that date and normaly when calander end they start over.
I’m not a psychologist, nor do I even play one on TV. But your repeated dreams sound like a form of OCD, obsessive-compulsive behavior. The apocalypse is something your subconscious may be obsessed with, even if your waking consciousness isn’t.
As for 2012, hate to tell ya, but pretty much every “scientific” fact you’ve listed is provably false. I don’t blame you for that, I blame whoever you’re getting this misinformation from. The sellers of this 2012 hysteria wouldn’t know a scientific fact if it bit them in the rear, and may actually believe a lot of the stuff they make up. No, the sun is not going to be aligned with the plane of the Milky Way in 2012, nor will it have the slightest effect on us when it does. There is also no “polar shift” going to happen, whatever that means. If they’re referring to the periodic flipping of the magnetic poles, this is something that happens over the course of many centuries or millenia, not a single year, and again, when it happens (as it has many times in Earth’s history) it will have no significant effect on us. Regarding the Mayan calendar, 2012 is simply the end of the current cycle, no different from your car odometer flipping at 100,000 miles or the Western calendar ending one millenium and beginning a new one (aka year 2000).
Any other “prophecies” you’ve read about are 1. most likely made up, and 2. absolutely abysmal in their predictive powers. There are really only 3 ways a prophecy can be “true”:
A. pure chance. And even this is pretty rare.
B. if the prophecy is written so vaguely and so generally that it could be applied to most any situation.
C. if the prophecy is made up AFTER THE FACTS of what it supposedly predicted. This is actually done much more often than most people realize.
Please, please check out the link below. This guy has all the FACTS about 2012. As for your apocalyptic dreams, I don’t know quite what to tell you, except to talk to your school counselor if these dreams are bothering you. Oh and stay away from any fundamentalist or evangelical churches, they may try to use your dreams to suck you in and exploit you. (A lot of them are big into apocalyptic fantasies.)
your dreams sound fascinating have you tried writing them down
write them down and see if they relate to any particular events
I personally would love to remember my dreams most people can’t remember their dreams accurately
galaxies take billions of years to align with anything so even if most of the solar systems have aligned with something there are still
billions of star systems that haven’t and probably never will
by the way I love the way you think are you an author if not you should start since your dreams give you so many ideas
to answer so of your other questions isn’t it amazing that SO many other events happen on this date like my niece’s, an old school friend’s and several million other people’s birthday
Im not trying to knock you since I use dream ideas myself
listen if the world IS going to end, well don’t stress…live to the fullest..b/c there’s nothing you can do to stop it..
but i doubt it’ll end
=)
It’s 100 percent bunk stop wasting your time worrying about something that absolutely no one can or will predict. The world will end long after mankind is extinct. On other thing if people would actually take the time to read the book of revelations it clearly states that Armageddon is a place.
Revelations 16:16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
Amy, there is no scientific proof, there is not even any scientific or commonsense evidence.
The orbit of the Earth around the Sun is tilted in comparison to the line between the centre of the galaxy and the Sun, so the Earth cannot line up with the Sun and the centre of the galaxy. It does get within about 6 degrees of it, and that happens twice every year. We never notice anything when it is closest, and even if it did line up exactly, the gravitational force that the centre of the galaxy exerts on the Earth would only increase by about 3 percent. In other words, it would go from very little to very little plus very, very little.
The low amount of force is mainly because the centre of the galaxy is a very long way away, and the force depends on the masses of the two objects multiplied together and divided by the square of the distance between them. That was worked out by Sir Isaac Newton hundreds of years ago and it is one of the basics of all physics.
You mentioned a polar shift. This was actually supposed to have happened in the middle of 2003, but not by scientists. It was cooked up about 1994 by a woman called Nancy Lieder who claimed aliens abducted her and implanted her with a telepathic device. She claimed that they warned her that a planet which she called “X” would pass close to the Earth in 2003, and the magnetic fields of both would interact creating a shift of the poles on Earth. As you have probably noticed, planet X did not appear, and nobody has ever seen it. The behaviour of Ms. Lieder then and later is pretty consistent with a major psychosis.
There is a real polar shift though. The magnetic poles of the Earth are not at the north and south geographical poles, they are just fairly close to them, if you call several hundred miles away fairly close. They wander slightly all the time and have done ever since the Earth was formed. If geology is any guide, they will reverse but there is no sign of that happening just yet and probably not for hundreds or thousands of years.
There is another fake planet called Nibiru. This was invented maybe 30 years ago by a fraudulent writer called Zecharia Sitchin. He wrote that the inhabitants of this planet crossed themselves with Earth apes to produce humans. The humans were supposed to be their slaves to mine gold and work for them. According to one version of his tales, this Nibiru is not due back here until 2085, and another version says about the year 3000. This supposed planet will not damage the Earth, but the inhabitants will invade. Sitchin disagreed with Lieder. There is a real Nibiru. It is an old Babylonian name for the planet we call Jupiter, as Jupiter was associated with their god called Marduk, who was also sometimes called Nibiru.
The supposed Mayan calendar coming to an end is not true. It is actually just a count of days, starting from about August 3114 BC, which was long before the Mayans had a civilisation. Their counting system was fine for small numbers, but when the numbers got big, the system became awkward and unwieldy, so one of their day counts ends, according to the best guesses of archeologists, on 21 or 23 December 2012. Since they do not know exactly when it started, they don’t know when it finishes, exactly, and it might not be in December 2012 but a few weeks either way.
The Mayans attached no prediction about this, and most likely just intended to have a party on the day, just as we do on any 31 December of any year. Some of their inscriptions mention dates after what we call 2012, so they did not expect the world to end.
The prediction was actually invented a few years ago by a writer called Jose Arguelles who is known to have written several unreliable books.
While the Aztecs took over a lot of what the Mayans knew, there is not much connection, as far as I know with the Incans, who developed their civilisation more or less independently.
People who hope to make money out of fake end of the world books, supposed survival guides and such like have taken Arguelles’ speculations and rolled them together with stuff about Nibiru and planet X to make it look as if all these things are coming together. All these things are independent of each other and were supposed to happen at different times, most of it is just nonsense and the resulting combination is just a heap of lies.
Next time someone tells you that this or that ancient religion or this or that prophecy says disaster in 2012, ask them exactly what religion, exactly what prophecy, exactly what did it say and who told them. I’ll bet they get really vague, and if they are trying to sell something, they will start lying.
There is one clip on Youtube that lasts about 5 minutes about this. I counted five lies in the first minute and 44 seconds. I kid you not, these people are lying.
Look more carefully at the ‘events’ which are supposed to take place on 21st December 2012 and you will find that they are all bogus. The alignment of the Milky Way galaxy and the Sun happens every year, solar eclipses happen every year (there won’t be one on 21st December 2012 anyway), a rotational pole shift isn’t going to happen, magnetic pole shifts happen every so often but the last one was 700,000 years ago and there’s no evidence that another is on its way, certainly not before or during 2012.
As for multiple ancient religions all predicting the same date, that’s bogus as well. Ever since a few years ago when the date of 21st December 2012 was first pointed out to be the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar, fraudsters have been ‘finding’ the same date predicted by other religions. All these ‘findings’ turn out to be false when examined more closely, with the perpetrators simply trying to find anything which ‘might’ be in accordance with that date.
The world has been around for 5 billion years and will last another 5 billion. The chances of it ending during your lifetime are about 100 million to one. Rest easily.
I don’t believe it. Just because some planetary objects are going to line up doesn’t mean it has an affect on us.