Critically examining the "End of the World"
December 21st 2012 the end of world!!?
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Is there anyone else out there scared to death for themselves and the future of their children i wish we could stop this but i am sooo convinced the world will end 2012. I mean the mayans predicted so much like the winter solstices all of eclipses
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about 1 year ago
Well theres no use freakin’ out,we all will find out soon enough.
about 1 year ago
Would be nice if they at least told me how it might end. I’m sure it’d be interesting. It’s also easier to calculate eclipses, and it’s actually possible, but I don’t know how they go along predicting when the world will end…
about 1 year ago
Well im gonna be 18 by that time so I will have some time to go club hopping and smoking so I am ok with that.
about 1 year ago
There’s a lot of interesting thoughts on this idea. I don’t think it will happen, but I bet the media will blow it out of proportion so much in a few years that there will be riots. Not many people know about this at all. Once it’s in the news people will research it more.
If anything, we will be the death of ourselves by freaking out too much.
about 1 year ago
There has been thousands of predictions about the end of the world throughout history, so far we are still here. The real question is if 12/21/2012 is going to be the end of the world, what is there to be scared of? It can’t be changed. Live and love all you can!!!
about 1 year ago
The current recycling of the fictional Planet X/Nibiru is for it to hit Earth in 2012. It is supposed to be a giant planet in the outer Solar System. Please note, in this pre-2003 article (the badastronomy.com source), that Planet X was predicted to encounter Earth in 2003. In reality, Planet X does not exist. After 2012 is past and the hype dies down, I’m sure this tired old horse will be flogged back to life for a new doomsday prediction. After all, they do need to sell their books.
Nothing is going to happen in 2012 any more than any other year. I have watched the 2012 Doomsday program on the Hysteria Channel. If you pay attention and listen carefully, you will hear all the “weasel words” like “may be”, “could”, etc. The entire program was done that way. Their “experts” didn’t actually say that anything was going to happen. They didn’t give any actual Bible verses to support their theory, and all the Nostradamus “quotes” weren’t what he actually wrote. They were what some people have decided that he meant. Even Nostradamus scholars don’t agree on how the various centuries and quatrains should be interpreted. He never mentioned 2012. Watching this program just confirmed what I already knew, that the whole 2012 hype is a silly scare tactic being promulgated to sell books.
There is no actual scientific theory or evidence that anything unusual is going to happen in 2012. It is a collection of myths and disproven theories being promulgated by doomsday predictors, who predict a new one every few years.
It is based on the end of the current cycle of the Mayan long count calendar. Their calendar was done in ages or cycles and their years ended at the winter solstice. The current cycle ends December 21, 2012. They didn’t predict the end of the world, it was only the end of that cycle.
Nibiru (Planet X) doesn’t exist. Zecharia Sitchin (who wrote the book about Nibiru) is not a scientist, but is an author of books promoting the ancient astronaut theory for human origins. He attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Annunaki (or Nephilim) from a hypothetical planet named Nibiru in the solar system. The Doomsayers predicted that it was to hit Earth in 2003. Undaunted when it didn’t show up, they just moved it out to 2012 to coincide with the end of the current cycle of the Mayan calendar.
Galactic Alignment – There is no galactic alignment occurring in 2012. It takes 36 years to precess through galactic equator, and we will be 6 degrees off in 2012. Even if we did have an alignment, it would have no effect on us. The vast distances involved outweigh the effects of gravity.
Asteroid Apophis – the 2001 alert was for 2029, and was canceled after additional observations showed it would not hit us.
Polar Shift – the magnetic poles are moving all the time. Polar reversals have occurred in the past, but we can’t predict when they will occur again.
Passage through a “photon belt” has been added. This is also untrue and wouldn’t hurt us if it were. Photons are merely units of light.
Solar flares happen all the time and we have more of them at some times than others. They haven’t caused any serious problems in the past. The direct effects of solar flares are mainly related to communications and radio transmissions. We had a major series of solar flares in 2005.
about 1 year ago
No, the world won’t end in 2012.
This scam about the world ending in 2012 isn’t true. It’s all just a silly hoax. It maybe true that that mayan calendar ends but, it doesn’t mean the world is going to end. One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world. The Mayan Calendar has to end sometime. Besides, nobody can’t predict when the end of the world is. You shouldn’t always believe what you hear from other people. The scientific evidence about 2012 doesn’t go together. Those who spread rumors about 2012 should be punished. You know what is sad, people may commit suicide over this thinking its the end of the world. Or maybe some people would get unwise with their money and spend it all like crazy and be in thousands of dollars in debt, just because they thought the world would end. Then they have to pay it off later and deal with the stress of those bills. That’s why those who spread rumors about 2012 should be punished. You know what else is false about this 2012 garbage?
• Planet X (Nibiru) isn’t going to hit the Earth it doesn’t exist.
• Poles are switching everyday, this isn’t going to happen all in just 1 day. This process takes thousands of years. Throughout geological history there has been may pole switches and life has still survived.
• Also people are saying these poles will switch in one day due to a black hole. That’s NOT true. The nearest black hole to our galaxy is 1600 light years away.
• Sun will be lined up with a sunspot, but it doesn’t mean it will wipe out all life on Earth. One time ago, Earth was lined up with a sunspot and people were on it and everybody didn’t just die.
• There is not going to be catasphoic earthquakes.
• Just because certain cultures predict it like the Chinese, Japanese and all of them doesn’t mean their predictions are correct. As I said, nobody can predict such a thing.
• No comment will hit Earth.
• If you have been watching the Hysteria Chanel about 2012 or anything like that, all they are just trying to do is scare people so they can make money.
• We are going to have a rare night sky, nothing more. No asteriods, no comments, etc.
Each time the end the world is predicted. They are always wrong. Here are all the predictions of when the world would end and each time they where wrong. Every year there is a prediction like this. I’m sure that if 2012 doesn’t happen, they will think of something else. Through out history the end has been predicted but has never happened.
about 1 year ago
The world will ends for me when I dies. Individual persons may die. But the world will not die or ends. But every thing which starts should have definitely ends. But world’s end is not that much near which you thinks
about 1 year ago
Do you not find it a remarkable coincidence that the mayans ended their calendar on a day that JUST HAPPENS to also give a nice number in OUR calendar (12-12-12), especially since they had no knowledge of our calendar?
And, can you imagine the scientists studying the Mayan calendar, upon discovering this some 50 years ago or more (because the calendar of the mayans was not just figured out in the past couple years) actually NOT NOTICING this remarkable coincidence? Certainly it would have, at the very least, become one of those “Ripley Believe It Or Not” cartoons and of course many people would have known of this for years upon years, and not suddenly come to the realisation of it over the past two or three years.
Do you not think it far more likely that a bunch of stoned college kids were screwing around one day, and said, “hey, this 12-12-12 thing is pretty cool, I bet we can con people into getting all hot and bothered about the end of the world”, followed by another saying, “ya, but, if we tie in some thing like the end of the Mayan calendar into the story, more suckers will fall for the joke” (this guy obviously had a course on the mayans at some point). I am sure they had a blast coming up with the story, and are lauighing like crazy every time someone talks about it.
Why they chose 12-12-12 instead of 11-11-11 is an open question, maybe they just liked the sound of 12-12-12.
So don’t worry about it.
about 1 year ago
Please stop!