Critically examining the "End of the World"
Is Nostradamus a credible source? 2012?
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Is nostradmus an actual source of true information…i read a couple of his predictions and they are kinda true (Hister/hitler)…but i mean he wrote thousands of them so i mean you gotta get one right sooner or later right?
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about 1 year ago
It’s like the Bible. It’s vague enough that it can convince people in any age that it applies to their own lives or their own times. Of course, it doesn’t. It’s just rambling nonsense.
about 1 year ago
1. no
2. there is nothing special about 2012
3. people look at what’s happened in the past, and try to make it fit nostradumbass’ scribblings. nobody can tell the future
about 1 year ago
No, Nostradamus predictions were completely made-up. He wrote mostly like poetry, that most people interpreted to their needs. There was no reference about 2012, Hitler / any such.
about 1 year ago
It is not all that much of a prediction
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In the year 2012 the sun and the earth for the first time in 26,000 years will be in alignment with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
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And that alignment will put the sun and earth at odds in the gravity sector of what will happen
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Not just Nostradamus has this happening many other peoples of the earth now no longer here has the same chain of events going to happen
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And they already have shown their forces at work
The weather disaster
The economic collapse of the world system
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And more have been on specials on the “History channel” just recently
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And they went in to depth for 1 and 2 hour programs of what and why it is going to happen
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So Dec 21, 2012 is not just a number thing 12 21 12
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It is the exact day that the earth and “all the planets” and our sun will be in perfect alignment with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
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And the sun is already showing its getting close effect by
Putting out more energy as shown by the worlds astronomical society
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about 1 year ago
Nostradamus never tells one of precise detail that would allow anyone to curb thier path to prevent anything from happening. There for Nostradamus only seems to be right when you look back after the fact and say well this kinda fits in here and that kinda fits in there so, OMG! HE WARNED US.
Nope, sorry. That doesn’t count. That told us squat about what is about to happen and never told us how to prevent it. Never will anyone prevent a course of action by reading Nostradamus and save the world. It’s just not set up for that.
about 1 year ago
He predicted somebody named Mabus would come as the antichrist…
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/05/22/mabus_to_advise_obama_on_middl.php
about 1 year ago
No. He is not.
Here’s what many people believe–
(from wikipedia)
2012 geophysical and cosmological speculations
John Major Jenkins and others [10] claim that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center.[11] It is claimed that this event will cause numerous changes on Earth. However, the event is only a visual phenomenon from the earth’s perspective, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes or the 26,000 year wobble of the earth, and thus only changes our perspective, not the actual position of the earth in relation to the galaxy. In short, there is no gravitational force or radiation to be expected from this event because other than the tilt of the earth, nothing will be any different from what occurs in any other solstice. [12][13][14]
There are also claims such as those of Michael Tsarion [15] that an actual physical alignment of our entire solar system will occur with the horizontal plane of the Milky Way Galaxy on that day. The solar system is moving around the center of the galaxy every 225 million years or so, and while doing so is moving up and down in a cycle crossing the plane every 33 million years. According to the Journal Nature, however, there is evidence of the solar system crossing the galactic plane 3 million years ago. This would mean that we are moving away from the galactic plane, not toward it, and we will not be due to cross it for another 30 million years.[16]
There are also theories that a currently unknown planet, sometimes referred to as planet x or Nibiru, which supposedly has an odd orbit that only enters the local solar system every 3600 years will return in 2012 causing many problems. [17] The idea is traced back to Zecharia Sitchin’s translations of Sumerian texts, and specifically to his interpretation of the VA 243 cylinder seal, which he says shows that the Sumerians knew of 12 planets (sun, moon, and ten others). This idea has been challenged by his peers, most notably Michael Heiser. [18] [19]
Among other possible scenarios is that a shift of the Earth’s magnetic poles may occur, and that this will leave the earth vulnerable to harmful radiation from the sun.[20] According to NASA magnetic pole reversal does not occur on a particular day or year, but over the course of thousands of years. Furthermore, the magnetic field does not vanish during this natural cycle, but becomes more complex as it makes the transition.[21]
Some proponents of the pole shift scenario claim that this shift would be a physical movement of the poles of the earth, and not simply a magnetic shift. This event is called a true polar wander. Earth has experienced a few degree shift in the past, but nowhere near a reversal, and there is no reason to suggest this is likely or even possible. According to William Sager, a Texas A&M Oceanographer, a slight shift in the physical pole occurs at a rate between 5 and 10 degrees per million years, which means that this event could not happen on a particular day or year but only over a long period of time. [22]
2012 metaphysical speculations
2012 is claimed by some with New age beliefs to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or alternatively an apocalypse). There is disagreement among believers whether 2012 will see an end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level.[23]
Many esoteric sources[who?] interpret the completion of the thirteenth B’ak’tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.
Several authors have published works which claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
* The 1997 book The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. Drosnin also states in his book that the Bible code only predicts possibilities.
* The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
* Riley Martin claims that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their ‘Great Mother Ship’ when the Earth is ‘transformed’ in 2012.
* Terence McKenna’s numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
* Dannion Brinkley, in his 2007 book, Secrets of the Light, a follow-up to his 1995 bestseller Saved by the Light, claims “that by the year 2012 humanity will experience unprecedented mental and spiritual transformations, coinciding precisely with the Earth’s passage through great physical upheaval” (Brinkley 96).[