2012... why does this have so much support?
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The date December 21, 2012 has no actual significance in its numbers, but in a rare astronomical alignment of the sun entering the exact center of the milky way while rising when the ecliptic and galactic equator cross during the winter solstice. This event occurs so rarely (only once every 25,920 years) that the Mayans set their callender by it as the end of an age. But this is not the full story behind 2012.
Nostradamus, a sixteenth century apothocary whom many consider to be a profit, left behind a book of illustrations linked to some of his quatrains indicating that 2012 was near the end time. I say 'near' the end time because the illustrations are only a marker for his traditions. The story goes that he had these pictures created because A. He'd seen that our time communicated better through images than words (T.V., Movies, Video Games) and he thought that we would better understand his predictions if the more important ones were illustrated and B. That after making his predictions of the end time, he realized that he'd have to give a specific moment so that we could prevent it, so, in the pictures, he gave clues to the aforementioned rare astronomical alignment as being the sign to watch out for (An alarm, if you will. I.E. the alignment itself is not the cause of the end of the age, but a warning of it).
Oil production in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to peak in 2012.
2012 is an election year, if a change in power occures, inauguration day in 2013 would be a prime moment for a terrorist attack.
An electromagnetic field cycle (Which is the cycle of strength and weakness in the earth's electromagnetic field) will comlete on December 21 2012 (meaning that the field will be on its weakest on that day before beginning to get stronger again over the next 13,000 years).
Many other things can be traced to that date and year, but I won't lst them because, quite frankly, if nothing happens, nothing happens. If something does happen, there's nothing we can do to stop it. All we can do is be as prepared as we would be for any disaster and keep in mind that its not the end of the world, just of the age, a period of time, a simple date, and nothing more.
Nostradamus, a sixteenth century apothocary whom many consider to be a profit, left behind a book of illustrations linked to some of his quatrains indicating that 2012 was near the end time. I say 'near' the end time because the illustrations are only a marker for his traditions. The story goes that he had these pictures created because A. He'd seen that our time communicated better through images than words (T.V., Movies, Video Games) and he thought that we would better understand his predictions if the more important ones were illustrated and B. That after making his predictions of the end time, he realized that he'd have to give a specific moment so that we could prevent it, so, in the pictures, he gave clues to the aforementioned rare astronomical alignment as being the sign to watch out for (An alarm, if you will. I.E. the alignment itself is not the cause of the end of the age, but a warning of it).
Oil production in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to peak in 2012.
2012 is an election year, if a change in power occures, inauguration day in 2013 would be a prime moment for a terrorist attack.
An electromagnetic field cycle (Which is the cycle of strength and weakness in the earth's electromagnetic field) will comlete on December 21 2012 (meaning that the field will be on its weakest on that day before beginning to get stronger again over the next 13,000 years).
Many other things can be traced to that date and year, but I won't lst them because, quite frankly, if nothing happens, nothing happens. If something does happen, there's nothing we can do to stop it. All we can do is be as prepared as we would be for any disaster and keep in mind that its not the end of the world, just of the age, a period of time, a simple date, and nothing more.
because it was predicted by the mayans, and they know everything what with there thriving civilization and brilliant scientific minds working there.
they probably stopped recording the calender because they realized they hadn't sacrificed a children this morning so the sun wouldn't rise.
they probably stopped recording the calender because they realized they hadn't sacrificed a children this morning so the sun wouldn't rise.
no one did, i was correcting a mistake made by a lot of ppl about the y2k bugasiepshtain post=18.75629.875696 said:
You know, every time someone mentions the Mayan date of the apocalypse to me I reply that they got it a couple of centuries off. Who here has ever met a Mayan?
Some people just want to scare others, or become very very popular. It's nothing new, for some reason people just love the idea of "we're all gonna die!"
Which reminds me, I need to go back to secretly sabotaging the LHC so it does indeed create a micro black hole. Please don't try to stop me, thanks!
Which reminds me, I need to go back to secretly sabotaging the LHC so it does indeed create a micro black hole. Please don't try to stop me, thanks!
Nostrodamus also predicted that there would be a "great treasure" under a tower in the southern french city of Nîmes, after considerable digging a 17th century noble had exhausted his entire fortune and nearly destroyed the tower due to the subsidance caused by his massive hole. Nothing was found and the hole remains to this day, albeit with a large concrete plinth in it designed to hold up the tower.Mray3460 said:
Nostrodamus was one of those people who made alot of predictions in a very vague manner, make enough predictions vaguely enough and of course you're going to come up with something that "comes true" eventually. It's like those people who believe in the "bible codes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_codes). Given the length of the bible its unsuprising that some fairly arbitary computer programming can find predictions to random events. Using the same or similar software similar "codes" were found in the novel "Moby Dick".
I'm not saying nothing will happen in 2012, that would be a stupid thing to say, it's a year, alot can happen in a year, alot happened in the years: 1989 (Fall of the Berlin Wall), 1990 (Fall of the USSR), 1992(Black Wednesday plunges British economy into chaos removing Britain from the Exchange rate Mechanism), 1997 (Tony Blair wins the Brithish General Election), 1999 (Conflict in Kosovo), 2001 (Twin tower attacks), 2003 (Start of the Iraq war) just to arbiarilly pick a few years from my lifetime and name an event from them.
The Mayans predicted the world is going to end on 12/12/2012?
I was taught that it was 12/20/2012, but what is 8 days. My engineering degree would prove useful to me then as the world ends the year I get it.
All 12 things that was predicted by the Mayans has occurred, and just so you know the Mayan predictions are on a rotating cycle. The last time the "Doomsday" prophecy occurred was the end of their civilization. The world won't nessecarily end, but a major change in the world will occur.
Edit: Can't find internet sources to back this up, but I orginally heard this on the Discovery Channel
I was taught that it was 12/20/2012, but what is 8 days. My engineering degree would prove useful to me then as the world ends the year I get it.
All 12 things that was predicted by the Mayans has occurred, and just so you know the Mayan predictions are on a rotating cycle. The last time the "Doomsday" prophecy occurred was the end of their civilization. The world won't nessecarily end, but a major change in the world will occur.
Edit: Can't find internet sources to back this up, but I orginally heard this on the Discovery Channel