What do you know about 2012?

Question

A few years ago, my daughters were aking me about a comet hitting the earth in 2012 and they were worried. Then I recently hear about the Mayan calendar ending 12/21/12 and the I Ching ending on the same date. I haven't heard about any technology stuff though. I know they're always coming up with this stuff but...Any serious information to share?

Answer 1

~~~suen ,,,After reading through the ridiculous answers to your Q, I hope you are still serious. If so please refer to Mayan Scholar and Calender Expert, John Major Jenkins, either by Google to his website and/or his two excellent books, "Mayan Prophecy" and "Galactic Alignment". There you will find serious scholarship on this subject. According to my Personal Research and Humble Opinion, I find JMJenkins to be the Foremost Authority and his "theories" jibe with other Esoteric Knowledge in which I have been trained. ~ Namaste`

Answer 2

People say that is when the Mayan calendar ends its 26,000 year cycle and so they look for other things that may occur like Edward Casey's prophecy of the Earth's magnetic polar shift. What I have gathered from that is that on that date all the planets from the solar system are supposed to align. Once this alignment has passed the Mayan calendar starts all over again.

As far as the meteor goes I have heard that is a Nostradamus prophesy but his prophesies are so vague they can be applied to any number of things. For example -

"In the year 1999 and seven months
The Great, KIng of Terror shall
come from the sky. He will bring to
life the King of The Mongols. Before
and after, Mars reigns happily."
C10 Q 72

Some say this means that a meteor will hit the Earth and other say this was the attacks on the twin towers.

Answer 3

I wonder how many of the people who quickly poo-poo the significance of 2012 and Mayan prophecy on the other hand have absolute faith in mythological superstitions they have inherited from a different ancient culture, one that was actually many centuries behind the Mayans when it came to matters like astronomy and calender making.

If you go ogle 2012 prophecy, I think you will find that it is not necessarily a dooms day prophecy as it is one involving a shift to some sort of new age or dimension of reality. For some 2012 scholars, this is conceptialized as involving the literal destruction of the physical universe that now exists, but this is not always, or even primarily, viewed as a negative event, but rather one which will unleash radical new options and potentials for what consciousness is capable of experiencing.

Many people who research these topics also incorporate traditional Christian end-times prophecy, along with supposed sign found in the pyramids, or in Egyptian documents. Then, when you consider the fact that we really are seeing some fairly wide-spread and scary environmental changes happening right now, and that so many world leaders seem determined to launch World War Three, it isn't hard to understand why ambitious writers are able to sell so many books about these topics.

But as far as 2012 really having genuine significance? I don't think it's a good idea to take any ancient ideas extremely seriously. And I'm not even sure how accurately scholars would be able to transcribe the Mayan calender to the contemporary Western calender. On the other hand, if human beings don't manage to make an abrupt change in their attitudes and behaviors very quickly, it seems quite likely that sometime in the next five years or so, we will experience some sort of event, or combination of events, that will pretty much level us as a species, at least knock us all back several centuries in terms of our technological capabilities. And considering the wide-spread environmental damage we've already caused, to suddenly find ourselves without the technological ability to manage wide-spread environmental collapse might very well mean the end of us altogether.

Answer 4

World end prophecies started since 30AD - 2000AD (30CE - 2000CE) by Europe Christianity- Failed.

Nostradamus prophecies up to 2000AD (2000CE) - Failed.

Dr. Michael Rathford the author of "The Nostradamus Code/WW III" who has studies the Quatrains of Nostradamus since 1975, predicts world end between now and 2012. In my opinion Dr. Michael R. is responsible for stirring up the sh*t .

http://www.nostradamusonline.com/.

Objects from out of space hits earth all the time. The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily.

My prediction is all of the prophecies and predictions are full of sh*t, but if I'm wrong there will be no one around to criticize me. Ha ha!lol

Answer 5

there have been literalyl dozens of doomsday dates that have come and gone in my lifetime alone, and I'm not old. Don't hold your breath.

If you really want something legit to fell scared about, think about that 10,000 Americans die each year from air pollution, 4,000 from auto accidents, and many from cancer and other diseases. Those are all far more likely than the doomsday-du-jour.

By 2013, the Chicken Little Squad will come up with a new doomsday; that's the one thing you can count on.

Answer 6

50 years ago it was an ice age that we were worried about, and then it was global warming, now it's a comet. There there is always the nuclear threat.

Mar 13:32 But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

What we have there is still another crying wolf.

Answer 7

It's true that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, but that's the least of your worries. My calendar ends on December 31st this year!

Answer 8

The International Astronomical Consortium has determined that 87% of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy would, simultaneously, go supernova on that date, destroying everything within a 1,500 parsec radius.

8-\

Answer 9

The earth is constantly being hit by foreign space objects.

I doubt 2012 will be any different.

PS: 2012
-London Olympics
-8th graders' High School Graduation

Hmmm, I ran out.

Seems like 2012 is going to be a boring year.

Answer 10

It's the year after 2011

I think the people who were writing the calendars got tired of writing them, or maybe they died because they had been writing them for years. Who knows? The only one who knows when the end is - is God. No one else can say.