Apocalypse coming in 2012?

Question

When I first heard this theory a couple of years ago, I treated it like email detritus or forwarded garbage; I stashed it to the back of my mind where it seldom bothered me. Alas, it has surfaced quite frequently in the past months: I've seen more than a few articles dealing with the subject in prominent magazines such as Time. It doesn't keep me up at night, but it does tickle and itch a bit. And, yes, I'm a little worried.

Can someone care to clear it up for me?
Offer a rebuttal to the scientific theories?
Much appreciated!

Answer 1

There are so many different theories - to which are you referring? In my opinion, the sheer number of theories is itself a problem. Or, do you beleive in clairvoyance?

If someone told you that you were going to die in April because of a car accident, and you told some people about this, and some of them came back that their own studies said you would indeed die in April, but it would be of disease, or murder, or a fire, or a flood, or a lightning strike, wouldn't you start to think that they were all a bunch of shiesters? (sp?)

People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, and it hasn't happend yet. What makes 2012 so special?

Answer 2

There has been some concern that the world's largest oil fields may be starting to play out, meaning that they've been exploited past the point at which maximum output is possible, and so the amount of oil that can be produced from those fields will steadily decline hereafter.

The significance of that is our economic system can't tolerate reductions in energy supplies. It's based on a money system that will consume every last bit of value though interest rates, unless energy consumption increases with at least the same exponential rate at which the interest rates deflate the value of money.

The problem is that the money systems in use by the developed countries create money out of nothing, and not out of labor. Money doesn't exist until a banker invents it with a penstroke, or a computer entry, and loans it to a borrower. The borrower spend it, but then must earn enough with his investment to repay both the principal and the bank's interest charges.

There is no money in circulation that does not represent some part of the aggregate principle from these loans, so once this kind of money system is in place, an eventual (and probably catastrophic) collapse is inevitable. The banks don't print any free extra money that someone, somewhere will need to satisfy all the bankers' interest payment demands. So this money system guarantees that the bankers can someday run to the law courts and get families tossed out of their homes, farmers run off their lands, cowboys booted off their ranches, Christians evicted from their churches, entire municipalities coopted as servitors to the bankers... the world itself will become the property of the elite banking class, and anyone in their disfavor will be asked, firmly, to depart from it.

And the most ironic thing about this attempted worldwide coup is this: none of these bankers has ever contributed any useful work to the economies they control. The only thing a banker does is keep the score in a game that lets him cheat without penalty, and without end. Cheat, cheat, cheat. It's like playing monopoly with someone who can "rob the bank" for as much money as he wants with every turn.

Merely holding the energy input at a constant level would result in a global collapse of economic systems, yet we are not merely going to level off: what's coming is actually a decline in the energy available to the world. Money is sort of a token that says "This note entitles the bearer to X units of energy or to Y units of goods made by energy." When money is based on debt, a national economy is put on a treadmill that forever accelerates, faster and faster and faster... until the whole productive power of its people can't keep the pace and they fall. And the bankers have put on the floor below the treadmill sharpened stakes to kill any nation that falls.

Besides the economic hazard, there's a real danger that humanity has far surpassed the point at which agriculture, carried on by hand tools and animal power, can feed the global population. When the decline in fossil fuels reaches the point where agribusiness can no longer be profitable, even with tax subsidies, then it will no longer be done. And the world will begin to starve to death.

You've seen the way a lot of people try to "spoof" warnings of trouble ahead, haven't you? A few of the answerers prior to me have made such spoofs. But, no kidding, there is a danger, and that danger is called Peak Oil.

Answer 3

No, the world is not going to end. That's just when the mayan calendar starts over. It's a cyclical calendar. Besides, no prediction about when the world was going to end has EVER come true - why would anyone think an ancient culture who couldn't even predict their own extinction would know anything about the world today?

Nothing is going to happen. There are no 'scientific theories' saying the world will end - it's all superstition.

Answer 4

A lot of people are aware that the long count of the Mayan Calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012. They have been lead to believe this is a day of doom, but in reality it is a misquote. The Mayans do not say "the world will end", but rather "the world will end as we know it". The Mayans have several calendars they work with; each one is used to keep track of a cycle of time. Their meticulous preoccupation with time keeping gives them almost magical powers of prediction. No, it's not magic, they just know what they are measuring.

Some of the things that the Mayans predicted are already starting to happen: Things like global warming due to massive solar flares and the migration of our magnetic north pole to the South Atlantic. These changes are not only being scientificaly measured, but witnessed in the form of more powerful hurricanes and stronger earthquakes and tsunamis.

I plan on finding a safe location; one away from coastal low elevations and areas prone to earthquakes and falling bombs. The following is a little summary of the Mayans and their predictions for the time.

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The Mayan Indians regard their beliefs as both a science and a religion. Their discoveries are not done in a lab but rather by tapping into the cosmos via the mind. Through the extensive use of meditation, they are able to discover and track planetary movements as well as space anomalies such as black holes. They used this information to construct a calendar so accurate that no present day calendar can rival its accuracy. They also use this information to predict future events.

According to some Mayans, this date marks the end of the long count of their calendar; Set to end on a winter solstice (12-21-12). On this date, our Solar system will be center aligned with the Milky Way's equator. Our sun will be centered in a position called "The Tree of Life", as it does every 25,800 years. We will have exited the forth dimension and entered the fifth dimension. This date also marks the end of the Mayan "Great Cycle" of the long count, which is equivalent to 5125 years. We exit the age of Pisces and enter the age of Aquarius.

In this position, unusually violent sun spot activity may cause a pole shift. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods will run ramped. Significant loss of life will occur. Earths magnetic field will temporarily collapse. Humans will be exposed to a cosmic energy that will facilitate enlightenment. In this state of higher consciousness, we will recognize that all matter, plant, animal, mineral are bound as one. This realization will mark the end of wars for a time. People will be able to connect to the essence of god (vibrating energy) like only the most enlightened can.

The date marks a goal to be reached. Evil forces will make every effort to keep humanity from reaching the date. These evil forces are those entrenched in the third dimension, in the Material world. They have no desire to leave this age and wish to continue exploiting and endangering all life for material gain.

Wars just prior to this date could be most devastating, with a loss of as much as 2/3 of our population anticipated. The resulting man made environmental damage could make life inhospitable for those who survive.

Humans have freewill, Man's future is not set yet, nor predictable:
STRIVE FOR PEACE

Music / Video:

Age of Aquarius by The 5th Dimension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omij_EUL4W8&mode=related&search

Sources:

Tick Tock: Countdown to what ?
http://www.exitmundi.nl/Maya.htm

Steep Uphill Climb to 2012: Messages from the Mayan Milieu
http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-10.html

Mayan Prophecies and Calendar
http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanprophecies.html

The Real Doomsday? Dec. 21, 2012
http://www.mondovista.com/endtime.html

Don Alehandro, Mayan Elder
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1011

Answer 5

people think the world is going to end in 2012 because the mayan calendar, which has been very accurate so far, ends in 2012. thats it, i dont believe it

Answer 6

See http://www.abhota.info/

It documents all the idiot Apocalypse predictions in history, and how the end never happened. Hundreds of them, often with people getting so taken in that they sell all their possessions or kill themselves.

Do you want to join the idiot ranks? Or do you want to join the ranks of the sane and clear thinking?