Critically examining the "End of the World"
Does anyone believe in this 2012 End of World Stuff?
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If so, why and can you explain in further detail
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about 1 year ago
I do not believe in it persay but the possibility is on my radar.
about 1 year ago
yeah sure, why not?
*waits for explanation as well*…ooh, my download is done…cya
about 1 year ago
no
about 1 year ago
just read this, it will put your mind at rest.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/storms2012/
NOT, ha ha ha
about 1 year ago
before end of World there should be a Signs first .so far there is no signs. so relax and start to plan for after 2012
about 1 year ago
YEs. I believe affects will occur but definitely not the END of the world. Chaos? maybe. Yearnings for Order?. Yes. Confusion? lots of it.
about 1 year ago
No one with an independent mind. The believers in this are no better than the kool-aid drinkers of Rev Jim Jones, except that in 2013 they’ll still be paying out to their collection plate and the parasites that are using them will just say “God has decided that we are unworthy of his heaven and we must give more before he will take us.” The users of the simpletons like this should be stoned to death.
about 1 year ago
Maybe about 3000000000000 years later.
You can read a little more in the links I provided below.
about 1 year ago
For heavens sake, of course it’s not going to happen.
It is stated in Revelations that only God knows when the end of the world will occur. The physical world is not any more likely to end in 2012 than at any other point in time. This is not Christian doctrine in any way.
The theory that the world will end in 2012 originated because of an ancient form of the Mayan calendar. This calendar, like the one we follow now, repeats itself after a set period of time. However, this Mayan calendar repeats only after very long intervals (many, many years). Some people have mistaken this process of repetition to be the end of the calendar altogether. And somehow this ending was correlated to the end of the world.
It really has nothing to do with Christianity. There is no physical or spiritual Christian evidence to back up this theory.
Won’t it be interesting to see how these armageddon folks celebrate the Christmas of 2012?
about 1 year ago
three words:
Mayan Exploding Calendars.
about 1 year ago
No, since there is no scientific evidence to support any of it.
about 1 year ago
The details behind 21 December 2012 make no sense at all. The originator of the so-called prophecy studied at the University of Chicago in Arts more than 40 years ago. He was Jose Arguelles then. He now says time is faster than light (whatever that means) and that the way we measure time is harmful to all life on Earth (how does that work?).
He now calls himself Valum Voltan and says he is the re-incarnation of a Mayan priest and lives in New Zealand, last I heard. All this stuff was based on the fact that a Mayan count of days runs out of numbers on 21 or 23 December by our calendar. That has as much to do with the Mayan counting system as anything else. The Mayans counted by 20, then by 18s then by 20 again and so on.
The Mayans were pretty fair naked eye astronomers for a stone age people and had enough sense not to predict anything at all, except maybe party time. I reckon they were smarter than Arguelles.
But crazy as Arguelles ideas are, he did not say the world would end on 21 December 2012. All he said was that this would be the beginning of a new era. That was about 20 years ago.
Since then, people who are just as batty, but in a different way have grabbed his ideas and run away with them. Terence McKenna was an habitual user of mescalin, LSD or magic mushrooms and wrote down visions. He also produced a special (mis)interpretation of the I Ching, and when it didn’t quite fit 2012 he fudged it.
Another called Nancy Lieder claimed that aliens had abducted her about 1993 and told her that a planet called X would pass close to the Earth and cause a magnetic pole shift and other damage. That would be in 2003. Since it didn’t come, she started making up stories of how it was a trial to test the governments of the world and that the planet would appear later. She usually says 2012 as far as I know.
Apart from Voltan, Mc Kenna and Lieder, others have jumped on the bandwagon and have predicted everything from bees dying to collisions with stray planets. There are supposed to be alignments with the other planets or the centre of the galaxy, a photon belt, crossings of the galactic central plane and on and on none of which will happen. And dear old Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce get quoted too, as if anyone believes that stuff.
The promoters of this, including the History Channel are vicious liars and only in it for the money. They are trying to sell “survival” supplies, shelters, books, videos and what all, but to do that you have to frighten people first.
http://2012hoax.wikidot.com/start
http://www.abhota.info/