Apocolypse??

Question

omg, seriously freaked out right now with the whole "THE WORLD'S GONNA END IN 2012!!!"
i've heard of the polar shift and it sound seriously scientifical and stuff or NYC is gonna get hit with a nuclear bomb and every1 within a so-and-so diamater is gonna die.... but is ANY of it true?

Answer 1

No.
If you want to learn some truth, read about the Mayan calendar. It doesn't say anything about nuclear bombs (how could it, it was written 5000 years ago), and it doesn't say anything about New York (again, how could it).
And it doesn't say the world will end, it simply says that the current "world cycle" will end, and another one will begin.
Like the "Age of Aquarius" was supposed to be a time of peace, and absolutely nothing changed.

As for NY getting hit by a bomb, that could happen tomorrow or never. That would have nothing to do with the Mayan calendar.

Answer 2

http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=As9YOxk3w6issrs5GPePQikBxgt.;_ylv=3?p=world+end+in+2012

The first thing you need to do is avoid 2012 websites. 95% of all 2012 websites are loaded with disinformation. There are no qualifiers above a webpage stating that the following is fact, fiction, theory, or opinion. Most websites do not state where the information is obtained from. There are no laws or penalties to prevent ANYONE from printing ANYTHING they want to on the internet no matter if it is intentionally or unintentionally false.

End-of-the-world propaganda has always existed. When the world did not end, these persons made up excuses and looked for the next date they could create fear upon. This date is now 2012. Why? The Mayan calendar starts a new cycle in 2012. Because of this, groups have claimed that this means the end of the world. Anyone who has truly studied the Mayan calendar knows that the Mayan used divisions to mark the passing of time (just the same as we do with the Gregorian calendar in days and weeks and years and decades and centuries and millenia). ONE of their divisions was a baktun. 13 baktuns ended a large cycle. That's all this Mayan thing is about. Any scholar of the Mayan calendar will tell you that neither the Mayans nor the Mayan calendar predicts or mentions ANYTHING about ANY type of cataclysm at the end of 1 baktun or 13 baktuns.

So where is all of this coming from then? Not from scientists or Mayan scholars. From psychics, armegeddonists, religious fanatics, fiction writers, and others who simply just enjoy making things appear fearful so they can laugh when they see the reaction of others who believe what they made up.

How can this be? VERY few people have done research into the Mayan calendar. Of those, very few actually understand it. Therefore, it becomes extremely easy to tell someone anything about what the end of the calendar cycle means and they will believe it. It is so easy in fact that it has become the latest fad.

Here are some things that have been posted: A killer asteroid, a killer comet, the return of Nibiru, the return of Jesus, an alien invasion, Phobos will leave Mars and crash into Earth, nuclear war, and your lovely pole reversal.

It's all lies. I'm not going to waste time defending things that will not happen other than to say that the last pole reversal was 780,000 years ago and as such cannot in any possible way be relevant to a 26,000 year precession.

Choose your websites wisely. If you go to ones that are from some new age cult, you get what you deserve. Get your science from legitamate science sites, not youtube. If you see some information being presented as fact, check out the validity of the author.

In 2013, a new date for the end of the world will be chosen. It is up to you as an individual to be less gullable and live in tranquility. Not in fear.

Answer 3

Many people, groups, and cultures have attempted to predict the end of the world. Many of their predictions are extremely vague and have never been accurate as to the date... obviously, since we are still here.

The idea that the world is going to end because of a polar shift is based on two things:

1. A polar shift:

Every, and I stress: EVERY eleven years the Sun's magnetic poles flip during the peak of the Sun-spot solar maximum. The sun's magnetic field strength during the maximum is about 50 gauss (the strength of a refrigerator magnet), We never notice a thing... The next solar maximum peak is in 2012. In contrast, the Earth's magnetic field is 0.5 gauss. That's barely measurable. It has no real affect on daily life other than migration of birds and a simple indication of the rotation of Earth's core.

Somehow, this story got mixed up with the idea of the Earth's magnetic pole shift, the last of which happened about 740,000 years ago and happen anywhere between 50,000 years and 50 million years apart. Apparently, scientists estimate that Earth is long overdue for a polar shift, but have never stated when that might happen. This is really all just theory anyway, due to some variations in magnetic direction of cooled magma along some ocean trenches. There was never an indication of how this might affect life on Earth, nor is it likely that it will happen due to some outside cause, such as the Sun's reversing poles.



2. The ancient Mayan calender supposedly ends on December 21 of 2012. The idea that this date holds an apocalypse was first forecast by a loony-bin named Jose Arguelles. He knows nothing about the Mayan calender and draws many of his conclusions from influences of other cultures like pop-psychology and "I Ching". His interpretation of the Mayan calender is improperly aligned and does not account for leap years. He's an idiot and has spawned all kinds of frenzy over something so stupid.

2012 is not the end of the Mayan calender, it's the end of a cycle. The cycle starts over and begins anew. The Mayans did, however, believe that since the sun crosses the dark spot of the Milky Way during that time, that some Mythological event occurs during that time, specifically, the Earth renews it's self.




About the whole Nuke in NYC thing, I'm not sure where that came from, but I assure you, it's probably a crack-pot prediction.

How are we to know if any of it's true?

The world as we know it is going to end. That's inevitable. "When" is the big question. No one knows. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 5012 AD. Why worry?

Answer 4

It isn't the end of the world or anything bad, so just calm down. The magnetic pole shift is probably already happening and will take several thousand years to complete. But it has happened many times before, it is nothing new and not the end of the world. And that has nothing whatever to do with the Mayan calendar ending on 2012, which is the only reason people say the world will end in 2012. I say the Mayans had no clue what would happen in 2012 and in reality their calendar doesn't really end then anyway. It just does the equivalent of ticking over from 99999 to 100000 or whatever.

Answer 5

No--its nonsense. The 2012 date refers to an ancient Mayan superstion. There are some crackpots on the Internet that like to rile people up by making idiot "predictions" based on this old myth. That's all there is to it.

FYI--don't take these "predictions" seriously. If you look hard enough on the Internet, you can find similar "predictions" for a hundred different dates--none of them with any basis in anything but superstition, crackpot theories, or similar BS.

Answer 6

lets see, a magnetic pole shift takes thousands of years, and its happened before. it will have no effect on us what so ever, life would be the same, except the compasses would be the opposite. and do you really think that science can prove that new york is going to be hit by a nuclear bomb? think about that, how the hell could someone know that?

and so everyone knows. 2012 is not the end of a mayan calendar. its simply the end of one part of it, another one begins at 2012. its no different then going from 2007 to 2008.

Answer 7

What will end in 2012 is the Mayan calendar, and while not wanting to demean their civilization, there were not exactly space faring.
There is absolutely NO VALIDITY whatsoever in any forecasting of an end of the world occurring in 202based on the calendar of a pre-Colombian civilization that was barely past the bronze age.

And that has nothing about NYC being hit by a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb has to be dropped by *someone* who wants to drop it.

Stop getting your info from supermarket check out rags.

Answer 8

The magnetic poles WILL switch,...eventually they have countless times. However it will be, hopefully, fast. Sure everyone might get a huge sunburn and some cancer might pop up here and there but I doubt it will be the end of the world. And the NY thing, the U.S. and every other country with Nuclear capabilities, has already put into place a check and refire system that sends whatever to collide with the oncoming nuke while simultaneously firing a Nuke in return.

Answer 9

Weeelllll, many, many people thought the world was gonna end in somewhere around the 1900-- the priest and scientists was REALLY sure about it too.
But as they anticipated it, nothing happened.

Lotsa people have tried to predict, and they all sadly failed.

And besides, just believe in the Lord and you'll be fine at the end of the world.

Answer 10

If youre speaking with reference to the Mayan Calender ending on Dec. 21 2012 bear in mind Leapyear. They didnt upload leapyear it became into invented years after the made there calender. bc of all of the leapyears the international shouldve ended approximately 7/8 months in the past.