Year 2012: End of the World

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No one disagrees that the Mayan calendar ends – for what ever reason – in December of the year 2012. Some day its December 21st and some say its December 23rd.

Anyway, did the Mayans actually tell us what would happen when their calendar ends?

I don’t get it. But it is very interesting.

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I have a hard time believing the theory. But it is quite fascinating and some of its points are not hard to accept in principal. For example, the rate of novelty and complexity in the universe does seem to only increase.

Its also connects a bit with the concept of the Technological Singularity.

Here’s an interesting article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_theory

What are your thoughts on this?
In addition to Charles Manson being up for parole in 2012, there are many things that people believe, rightly or wrongly, will come to pass. Here is a quote from Wikipedia’s article titled “2012”

“Metaphysical predictions
2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources 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.
Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
·The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
·The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planet

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I would like to know the personal opinions of you people online.
I honestly think that it will either somehow give people powers,
or that nothing at all will happen, So tell me you’re own opinion.

2012 (December 21, 2012) or MMXII truthisthyself.wordpress.com Never before in history has one date (December 21, 2012), one moment in time (December 21, 2012), been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, so many scientists, so many governments, and to so many people all around the world. In the coming years we will begin to see a dramatic increase in Drought, Floods, Hurricanes, Tsunams, Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, Global Warming, Famine, Human Suffering, Disease, Disregard for Human Life, Wars… and Rumors of War, Increased Terrorist Attacks, Increased Nuclear Threat, The Emergence of the Antichrist… December 21, 2012. The Ancient Mayan Foretold of Earth’s Final Day: 2012. The Hopi Indians See a Great Purification of Earth: 2012. Nostradamus Speaks of a Devastating Asteriod: 2012. The Chinese “I Ching” Predicts the End of History: 2012. The Bible Foretells of the Coming Apocalypse: 2012. The Prophecies of St. Malachy Predicts Only One More Pope: 2012. Edgar Cayce Predicts the Return of Atlantis: 2012. Albert Einstein Warns of Polar Shift: 2012. NASA Confirms Intense Solar Storms are Coming: 2012. Earth Will Complete it’s 26000 Year Wobble: 2012. Our Sun Will Align with the Plane of the Milky Way: 2012. Will We Experience a Renewed Enlightenment… or a New Beginning… or Will We Be Witness to… The End. December 21, 2012. 2012 the movie released in 2009. For information about the 2012 movie, please visit the trailer here: www.youtube.com For …

What Will Happen in the Year 2012? Go to 2012-end-of-the-world-movie.blogspot.com to download 2012 full-length movie to get the answer. 2012 predictions. There are many predictions that beg to answer that question. Primary among them is solar activity with potentialy devastating effects. The movie 2012 focuses on that factor. This article focuses on the predicted solar storm. I am sure that you are aware of all the publicity given to the movie 2012. Have you seen the movie? I saw it. The movie was certainly a cinematography extravaganza. Just watching the special effects was worth the price of entry. It painted a dim and catastrophic picture of what will happen in 2012. But, then that was pure fiction, a movie. The movie, 2012, used the Sun’s activity to imply some sort of neutrino emission that melts the earth’s core. Philip Yam in Scientific American’s Observations column takes a dim view of any such neutrino behavior, “Particles that can heat up the solid iron inner core by thousands of degrees should have cooked Earth’s surface dry before Woody Harrelson gets the chance to steal all the scenes he’s in.” And yet, as early as 2006, Dr. M. Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predicted that, “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one.” Dr. Dikpati forecasts a Solar Max will occur in 2012. Can that cause an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) powerful enough to wipe out our communications? Are you concerned that the Mayan …