Will life as we know it end in 2012?

Question

Many prophecies have stated that the world will end in 2012. Coincidence?

*Mayan calendar, considered far more accurate than our own, ends on December 22, 2012. They predict a catastrophic event taking place.

*A Web Bot, created to predict stock market trends, predicts a worldwide calamity taking place in 2012

*The Chinese Book of Changes timeline ends in 2012

*Scientists speculate that a rare astronomical event will take place in 2012, but are not sure what exactly will happen. They believe that a newly discovered black hole in the center of the Milky Way will align with our solar system.

*The Hopi Indians predict the end of times when the "sun gets hotter" and "submersion" (rising oceans?) occur.

Are all of these predictions too similar to ignore?

Answer 1

i would prefer not to think about when it will happen, live every day as if it were your last and when the world ends it ends. But enjoy it while we have it.

Answer 2

Giving a serious answer after all the preceding crapola may be dull, but I think I should try anyways.

Unfortunately there's been alot of hype and nonsense about the Mayan Calendar - mostly by New Agers and "Coast-to-Coast AM" scaremongers, er, guests. However, it does not END in 2012! It's the rollover to another baktun -and it's only a reset in the count, much like '1999 CE to 2000 CE', It's doubtful that this calendar is the dire prophesy calendar the New Age hype-masters would like it to be for their own mercantile ends.

However, December 21 through Dec 23, 2012, the Winter Solstice, marks a time when the original sky of the calender's beginning, 3113 BCE, will repeat over the major Mayan pyramids.

AFAIK, the Tao Te Ching doesn't mention any dates, so it's another rumor. Trends are assumed to be 'inear, but they often aren't forecasts - they're just fancy guess-timents of 'If this continues then the outcome will certainly be that!" - but it usually isn't. Many ppl dread uncertainty, and wish, or choose to believe, that there is such a thing as certainty, especially if it's something adverse or terrible. but it's usually just a terrible illusion!!

If somehow things in the galaxy align is some predicted way means absolutely nothing. Even the psuedo-science, er, art of Astology cn't predict that one! It sounds like another New Age meme that's taken on a life of its own...

It's a belief of the Hopi that the next Age is just around the corner, and if you talk to many Xtians they'll tell you the same thing it doesn't mean that they'll be right.

Dire prophecies can make everyone somewhat nervous, sometimes people like to get scared and anxious about the unknown - the future, regardless of any claims to the contrary is unknown, but it's not unlike one of the parables of of the Mullah Nasrudin (Idries Shah):

~The Mullah Nasrudin was being bothered by some street youths, and he decided to get rid of them by telling them that that the Emir was giving away free food and sweets at the Palace, so the boys ran away to join the expected "feast".The Mullah, after a few minutes of deep thought, declared. "Wow!, It just might be True!" So, he rushed off to join the kids... ~

Mebbe ;-> we should wait for 2012 to decide whether it's going to be a good year or what the year might bring - and most of the predictions will be wrong, as usual...

Answer 3

t could be 28 minutes from now or 280 years from now. When the superpowers square off against each other in two camps, then come back and we'll talk apacolpse.

Until then, just think regional conflicts, wars between rump states, proxy wars and brinksmanship. If you recall the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a coalition of Arab States (Egypt, Syria and Jordan) were soundly defeated by the Israelis. That was a worse situation than the current conflict and it didn't raise a blip on the world war radar (not that it didn't have the potential to spark a global war).

The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.

Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask when is the apacolypse, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.

Our biggest risk is an accidental launch of nukes by one of the nuclear powers.

Answer 4

Doomed in 2012?
Only if we elect another Democrat. ;-)

The Mayans have already had their catastrophe.

Do you really believe a Stock Market Web Bot said "Forget the stock market a world wide calamity is coming"?!?

The Chinese will stop changing in 2012?

Black Holes have alignment based gravity?

So is the problem a hotter sun or carbon emissions. Boy, between Al Gore and the Hopi Indians, it's hard to know who to believe.

I guess the real question is:

"Are the countless unrealized historical end of the world predictions to numerous to ignore?"

Answer 5

No, they should not be ignored. Humans are slow to see the signs and are very scepticle. Throughout our history as being the human race people believed in some of the weirdest things. Even believed in genocide and the Spanish inquisition but we can't wrap our heads around the many prophecies that have been given to us because people don't seem to care until its too late. Its like people thinking the world is flat because they couldn't see beyond the horizon. Well people on Earth have seen beyond the horizon not only through knowledge to know the Earth is round but psychics, ancient scientist, and indian prophets have seen so far that they have seen the future. The remarkable thing about it is that the years of their prophecies are so close. yes, I believe in Edgar Cayce, Sylvia Browne, and the Hopi indian prophecy and I believe in the Mayan Calender as well and human life on this planet will be wiped clean not entirely a few families will survive. Many fish will die but alot will stay alive. Many will move North following the food sources like plankton. Jelly fish and sharks will move to waters that are warmer in places where there were very little sharks. All fish will migrate following food sources. Birds will survive in some areas but many will die. Insects will live. Dogs and cats will die off but some will live in colder regions hunting.
It is a season that is approaching. Like the ice ages which, were ages of winter that lasted for hundreds of years we are in a summer stage where it will be very hot, crops will die, water shortages from droughts will increase, food prices will inflate like gas prices because there will be less food, the poor will suffer the most, government will try feeding them, but not enough food, people will fight for food, begging for food, theft will increase to get money, but at this time theres not much to do about that. A moon base will be built like Slyvia Browne has forseen. Not all of the rich are going to go but many will. They will stay there for what I theorize for three hundred years. By that time the summer season, that hot period will slowly dwindle and be cool enough to survive. I feel that some humans will survive near the polar regions. The ice caps will melt. Not all the way but Antarctica will have ice at its southern most pole but for miles will there be many bays and islands from where glaciers and ice covered. The people living about the north pole will experience flooding but those that survive will fish and farm. Food is limiting. When they return to Earth after a rough estimate of three hundred years they will bring food to Earth and farm and start life on Earth over again from scratch. It will be more peaceful then.

Answer 6

my friend was telling me about the mayan calender the other day actually and i hadn't heard about the other predictions until now
to me, yeah, they are too similar to ignore...

and it's not like that ridiculous y2k scare when people thought the world would might end just because our computers might fail... whenever i think of that i really laugh.

this is beyond interesting for me
2012 is so very close and i cant even begin to think about what to say about all of this without making my answer very very long

i guess we should really enjoy our lives in these next few years, huh? i feel inspired to never get angry at anyone again and spend my life on amazing beaches, how about you??
...♥

Answer 7

Actually they're too few to take seriously. There have been much more convincing false alarms in the past. But rest assured, life as we know it will change in the year 2012. It may not be the end of days, but everything changes all the time.

Answer 8

I know it will end as we know it at that time, but without any outside information to convince me.

Inductive thinking, I call it. For, five minutes ago life ended as I knew it. Then a few minutes later it happened again. It's been happening every second or so now that I am talking about it. Oh wow, it's been happening all along! It'll probably keep on happening. So, I just know it will happen in 2012.

Answer 9

Will life as we know it end in 2012? No.

Coincidence? Coincidences happen all the time everywhere.

Are all of these predictions too similar to ignore? Since each one you quote is based on absolute nonsense, no. Five absolute nonsenses don't make a truth.
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Answer 10

Could be, but according to the Judeo-Christian bible, only God knows the hour and time or way, so live your life well and as a kind individual to secure your place not in this life, but in the next. Most of all, Belief that he will take care of you and he will!

Answer 11

<> i've got considered the Swiss spaghetti harvest on television. that would not recommend there is one. The programme defined that those issues grows on bushes in Switzerland. <> call a single scientist who's predicting the top of existence in 2012.