Critically examining the "End of the World"
when did people start believing that the world was going to end 2012 and i have another ?
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when did people start to mention 2012 was the end of the world .
and when in like 2000 were people saying that the world was going to end 2012
also in the other years when people said the world was going to end did they ever mention 212 was the exact date .
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about 1 year ago
when they saw the mayan calendar but it isnt true..
about 1 year ago
prolly when they started showing trailers of the movie…
about 1 year ago
there appears to be a series of ancient cultures that seem to point that december 2012 is a key time of change. I believe it started with the fact that the Mayan calender ends then.
about 1 year ago
people started saying the world would end in 2000. nothing happened. people were depressed, and wanted a new date. they switched to a bs mayan calender that doesnt even predict 2012 as armageddon, just didnt continue past then. 2012 will be here, and you know they’ll start preaching about 2025 or something
about 1 year ago
Better live it up now baby. Another 1060 days and it’s allll over
about 1 year ago
They started mentioning the end because the Mayans ran out of room on there rock calendar.
Last question I laughed at
about 1 year ago
mayan calendar. they said the planets would be aligned perfectly even. check out the history channel programs on 2012. it’s interesting.
about 1 year ago
http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm
about 1 year ago
People have always concocted wild theories about psychologically significant numbers and give them much more meaning than they can rationally have. Just think about all the “lists” we have– there’s the 7 Deadly Sins, The 10 Commandments, etc. As George Carlin astutely pointed out in one of his shows–people would have laughed at the “9 Commandments.” Then there’s the unlucky number 13, etc.
The truth is these numbers and neat dates like 2000 and 2012 are arbitrary artifacts of a contrived dating and numbering system. People who don’t think much have always and will always attach significance to these things because it rings some bell in their heads. That’s the entire extent of it.
about 1 year ago
People and groups have predicted the end of the world for many years. No one knows when. Read Matt. 24:36.and Mark 13:35-37 We are given “signs” to “watch” for. Read Matt. 24-26 and Luke 21:25 and Mark 13:7. The world we are in will never end–it will be remade by holy fire. Read 2Peter 3. In 2009, a few months before the trailers for the movie 2012, the information came out about the Mayans. That civilization went out of business around 900 AD.
No one, Mayan or otherwise can predict the end of this world as we know it. Now, what may happen in 2012 could be a change in humanity into a new age marked by significant changes physically and mentally. Since no one knows, I could be wrong also but read those chapters and decide for youself.
about 1 year ago
Well you must understand that the Y2k’s roots go deeper than you know… Allow me to explain, I am no conspiracy theorist, I am merely an individual who has had access to certain documents. Ergo, I feel i should shed some light on the truth. Our government popularized the idea of Y2k, as a test what it was people intended to do when it came to self preservation… There obviously, was no real threat. As it so happens 2012 has always been a main concern of our government, this is not common knowledge. America has been preparing for a very long time, I will not go into detail on this subject but i will tell you the Illuminati plays a big part in a lot of the government’s denial claims. it is also not common knowledge that the actual dates of concern are December 7-21, 2012. The dates of the planetary alignment. the planetary alignment is known fact… but the effects of it are not… during the alignment, there will be fluctuations in the earths magnetosphere, and in the gravitational signature of the planet…relatively small changes, but enough to cause dramatic changes in weather and seismic activity, making anyplace near a fault line or volcano less than ideal, places like Yellowstone and the new Madrid fault, not to mention the San Andreas fault and Hawaii very dangerous… oh yes and to get back to the alignment what do you imagine will happen concerning the sun which is already highly unstable, a solar flare is very likely to occur on the climax of the event 12-12-12, sending an EMP to the earth wiping out nearly all electronic devices on the planet. To answer your original question, No I do not believe 2012 will be the end of the world, I look at it as a new beginning almost like God pressing the restart button on humanity, but i do not believe it is just another Y2k scare…
about 1 year ago
There are nearly 400 failed prophecies of the end of the world or of major disasters listed at the site “A brief history of the apocalypse” or “abhota”. Many of the more recent ones cited Nostradamus, falsely of course. Most of the older ones cite Revelation and / or other books of the Bible. Such prophecies are as common as muck and are worth nothing to the sane and the informed, however sometimes they make money or notoriety for those who make them, usually from the very young, the dim-wits and the paranoid.
According to a reading of the Mayan calendar, it fills it’s current baktun on 21 or 23 December 2012. To the Mayans, a baktun was a round number much like 10,000 is to us. They did not count the same way we do. Back in 1966 one of the early translators sort of joked that maybe the Mayans thought it would be the end of the world, but hastened to explain that there was no evidence that they actually did. And there still is no evidence. The only inscription is damaged and it says that something will descend into something else. Scary, isn’t it?
Forward to the mid 1980s. Jose Arguelles who claims to be a reincarnated Mayan priest or prince or princess (!) took this baktun-filling as meaning a great change in everything, probably for the better. He did not say “end of the world” but maybe “end of the world as we know it”.
Forward again to 1994 or so. Nancy Lieder began to claim that she had been abducted by aliens who told her that the Earth would be damaged by a planet she called X. She used to get on various internet forums where she was laughed off. So she started her own site called Zetatalk. In in she predicted that it would happen in May 2003.
Since a few people were making money out of it with books, survival stuff and “shelters” and of course it didn’t happen they had to start lying about another date to keep sales up. Somebody knew about Jose Arguelles and 2012 so they postponed planet X to fit in with the nonsense he was talking, but they cut off the “as we know it” from the “end of the world”..
Since then a lot more frauds have jumped on the bandwagon with lies about Nostradamus, planetary and galactic line-ups, solar flares and you name it. They claim it’s “scientific” but all of it is completely false.
I first heard of Nancy Lieder in 1999 and she was a joke even then. I first heard of 2012 toward the end of 2006 and the lie was already widespread then. That is about when the History Channel started spreading it. They are only in it for the ratings and the money.
For all the details see http://www.2012hoax.org
about 1 year ago
Some nutjobs predicted the world would end in 2003 – apparently, aliens told them about it through brain implants (riiiight) But they were wrong (‘we must have misinterpreted the aliens”). So there they were, with books and survival kits and foil hats and no way to sell them.
They needed to move the end of the world to some date in the future.
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar clicks over to a new cycle on 12/21/2012 – enough years in the future to sell all their stuff, and since no one will bother to do any research that would be a good date.
But the myth wasn’t catching on, so they added a pile of scientific words (no facts or anything, since nutjobs and their followers very seldom worry over anything as trivial as facts). Galactic alignment, rogue planet, pole shifts – they sound real, they sound possible and no one ever researches anything.
An lo, a hoax is born.
Then Sony pictures decides to make a doomsday movie and they glom onto this hoax as material.
Thus you have a bunch of people that are afraid but have no idea why, some people making money off the gullible, and a few people trying to cure this pandemic with facts.