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Unless you’ve had your head under a rock, you’ve probably heard the world is supposed to end in 2012 (my apologies to those with rocks atop their heads).
Yep, according to many of the great minds throughout history, Nostradamus, the Mayans, the History Channel, it’s all gonna come tumbling down 12/22/2012. Damn, just three days before I turn 34. Oh, wait, maybe that’s a good thing.
Well, everyone from NASA to National Geographic to this guy is out to debunk this “myth.” All it takes is a much-hyped movie coming out on Friday for everyone and their mom to have their say.
So Discovery News got in on the action with the Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won’t End in 2012. The author, Ray Villard, rationalized some of the most common theories, including:
- The Earth’s magnetic field will reverse: “Don’t hold your breath. The last field reversal happened nearly 800,000 years ago. Fred Flintstone and our other ancestor cavemen survived.”
- The Earth’s rotation axis will tip: “An object the size of Mars would have to hit Earth to transfer enough momentum to knock us out of kilter. But Mars-sized protoplanets were kicked into interstellar space over 4 billion years ago. The solar system doesn’t make ‘planets-gone-wild’ anymore.”
- The Sun will align with the galactic equator on the winter solstice: “So what? These are simply coordinates in the sky. It has no physical reality any more than the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue at Times Square influences the geology of Manhattan Island.”
Ok, points taken, though arrogantly made. But what kills me is the smuggie, smug, smugness of statements like these:
Apparently the Mayans knew something about the heavens we don’t…our multi-billion dollar telescopes, space probes, and 6,000 professional astronomers somehow just can’t keep up with the mystic knowledge of an ancient superstitious culture.
Once again, we know so much more than those who came before us, right? Right.
Breaking it Down
Let me start off by saying that I don’t believe the world will end in 2012 with any sort of a bang. But I think there are some worthy arguments worth putting forward.
First of all, we don’t know for sure that the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012; we might be the only ones assuming because their calendar ends, it means the end of us. But, they did predict certain things with accuracy, such as eclipses.
Second, who said these predictions didn’t include the possibility of human-induced disasters? Yes, global warming is real (ahem), and might go further than any North-South Pole flip-flop. Don’t forget the economic meltdown. Plus, some believe WWIII is on it’s way, with 9/11 as the kick-off and Nostradamus’ accurate prediction of events.
Third, and most important to me, is that many believe 2012 won’t be the end of the world, but the end of the world as we know it. Which essentially means we will undergo a radical shift in consciousness, one which we have been building up to the last few years. What this means exactly is up for debate, but mostly includes the idea that humans will start being nice to humans. Imagine that.
Let’s just hope the consciousness shift comes before the nuclear button is pushed (or another 2012 movie makes it to the screen).
What do you think about the predictions – and their debunkers – around 2012? Share your thoughts below.
Christine Garvin
Christine Garvin is a certified Nutrition Educator and holds a MA in Holistic Health Education. She is the founder/editor of Living Holistically...with a sense of humor and co-founder of Confronting Love. When she is not out traveling the world, she is busy writing, doing yoga, and performing hip-hop and bhangra. She also likes to pretend living in her hippie town of Fairfax, CA is like being on vacation.
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Thank you, exactly reminds me of the Y2K hype.
Nostradamus made predictions into the year 3097. And we are merely speculating. Id be more worried about why the govt isn’t easily updating our vulnerable power grid.believe me..if the power gets knocked out,there’s enough idiots in the world to SPARK the end of the world as we know it. Better stock up on fresh water and canned goods,ammunition and be prepared for idiotic looters. Because the government will be safely underground denver airport and other secret bunkers just letting us kill off each other. Then survivors will give up their rights and freedoms to be”protected next time”.laugh all you want. But the unprepared will be the ones dead
I’m definitely hoping for the third option…
BIBLE CODE UNLOCKED.According to the Bible the world has been created in six days,but according to the Science this process has taken billions of years.If we exclude the difference in time and we pay attention to the SEQUENCE,we will see that there is no contradiction between both,but only the question-why in the Bible things happened so fast?There is an answer and it`s in the Bible itself.Moses described the creation from his own sight as an eyewitness.Where and when he saw It and how could he have seen something happen before his existence?Answer:For forty days he has been at the mount Sinai where he got information about the past,present and future.The Creation had been REcreated to him there,he had seen how the already existing world had been made.The long process of evolution had been shown to him in the first six days and the SEVENTH day had been dedicated to human`s appearing.After that he had seen the difference between Adam`s origin and Eve`s one.Adam comes from the dirt in the process of evolution,but Eve comes from DNA material out his body,which marks another jump for the evolution or in other words-the missing section of the chain which Science is looking for.The Creation continue and The Next Jump Is Coming…2012 ?!
Who and What we don’t know… we call mysterious, like the Mayans. Modern science still has much to learn from Mayan Astronomy. According to their “Long Count” callendar, on December 22 of 2012, a mear portion of a planetary cycle within our galaxy ends. It looks like our planetary system (all of it) moves within the galaxy and it looks like the Mayans measured the mega cycle of that repetitive movement. If mathematical in origin or from observation, the extraordinary cycle is relative to our planetary system’s movement towards and away from the center of the galaxy or the so called “Central Sun”. The Mayans devided the cycle into five 5,000 year plus periods, each of which has characteristic conditions and circumstances, of both physical and mental (or spiritual) nature. As if the 25,000 year plus cycle were ONE DAY, each of the five periods was named for a PART OF A DAY: MORNING, NOON, AFTER NOON, DUSK-NIGHT, NIGHT-DAWN. They recorded and ascribed particular natural events to each period (like glacial melting right now) and separated the five periods with a thirteen year “in between” adjustment period. NIGHT-DAWN ended in 1999, the 13 year adjustment ends in 2012 and the MORNING period begins, after 12-22-2012. Its kind of like a Galactic Spring Equinox. We worry about if and how a simple equinox is marked or celebrated and about sun spot activity afecting our Digital Culture. They, the Mayans, made measurements of galactic proportions, they noted cyclical effects (on the planet) of being closer or farther from the center of our galaxy. We’ll let Astrophysicists speculate about magnetic fluxes, induction and the Aurora Borealis, and maybe geneticists will look into the effects of greater Galactic Wind (Gama ray) activity. Ignorance (not knowing) abounds so speculations follow, with Hollywood kicking right in to capitalize on the seemiungly never-ending collective anxiety, fired by ancient and recent prophesy, about either the end of the planet or a new day dawning. What Mayans mention, on the mental-spiritual plane, is that “If Humanity is able to rise to the new day with LOVE for one another (and it seems we’ve not learned the Chistic Message of over 2,000 years ago… yet), then the NEW DAY will be wonderful”. Might that be the “thousand years of peace” or the “Golden Era” we’ve heard so much about? Whatever! The above is the basics of the Mayan Long Count “Cosmovision”. Think it over. There is so much more to the very mysterious Mayan people, their nowledge and their science than most people realize. What a crime on Humanity it was to have BURNED so much of their incredible records! I sincerely hope this is educational, if not… enlightening.