i was really worried about that day a lot. i did a lot of research and have decided that i dont think anything will happen on that day. but it seems that its always in the back of my mind. its the first thing that i think about everyday, and its always the last thing on my mind. im always thinking that maybe the scientists are wrong, like the ones on the NASA website which is where i got most of my info on why it wont happen. the thing that i think about the most is like the reasons people have come up with for why its going to end, like the poles switching. the NASA webisite said that that cannot happen. but it makes me wonder how people even come up with those sorts of things. i just dont know how to stop thinking about it. on that day i will only be out of high school one year, and it upsets me because i want to experience living my life and growing up.
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All you really need to do is take a look at some of the people promoting the doomsday 2012 nonsense. If that doesn't convince you it's all baloney, nothing will. We have:
José Argüelles who believes himself to be a reincarnated Mayan priest and tells us that "time is faster than light", whatever that may mean.
Zechariah Sitchin who invented planet Nibiru as an object populated by a race who genetically engineered humans as slave creatures to mine gold.
Nancy Lieder who believes she's is in telepathic communication with aliens from a planet orbiting the star Zeta Reticuli who have warned her about the approach of Planet X in 2012.
Terence McKenna who, whilst on drugs, devised "novelty theory" which shows that "novelty" reaches a zero point in November 2012. When he heard about the Mayan Long Count calendar cycle rollover on 21st December 2012, he fiddled his result to match the date.
"Doctor" Jaysen Rand who tells us he was abducted by extraterrestrials from the planet Epsilon and warned of the impending arrival of Planet X.
Saying that there will be no doomsday in 2012 are (among many others):
Dr. Ed Krupp, Director of Griffith Observatory and specialist in Archaeoastronomy.
Dr. David Morrison, Senior Scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Professor Mark Van Stone, PhD in Latin American Studies, Southwestern College, California.
Professor Mark Morris, Professor of Astronomy & Physics, UCLA.
Dr. Ian O'Neill, Solar Physicist.
So who do you want to believe? Experienced scientists with many years of study in their respective fields or a ragbag collection of oddballs and lunatics.
Difficult choice, isn't it?
Let me make a prediction. I predict that at sometime in the future a bird will fly over a drop a little present on you.
I feel reasonably confident that at sometime in your life this will happen.
Likewise, I predict that at some point in the future the Earth will suffer a terrible catastrophe.
I feel reasonably confident that that will happen, sometime.
Now, If I told you the unfortunate incident with the bird would happen next Thursday, would you spend all day inside hiding? I would hope not.
Take a look at all the idiocy surrounding Dec. 21, 2012. The end of the Mayan calender (well, that ones correct), Planetary alignment with the black hole in the center of the galaxy, killer solar flares, polar shift, massive earthquakes and tsunami, the Earth knocked out of it's orbit by the planet Nibiru, enslavement by the Antichrist, alien invasion, the dead will walk among us and there will be attacks by flying unicorns!
Now, what do you think the odds are of any on that happening ever, much less all on the same day?
Relax.
There have been a lot of people wondering if this will happen. Rest assured, the end of the world is DEFINITELY not happening on December 21, 2012.
The current cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, and many people wrongly attributed this to meaning that the Mayans knew something we don't: that something major would happen on that day, and that the major event could be the end of the world.
However, this is completely false. The Mayans did NOT believe the end of the world would happen on this day, and in fact their calendar does not even end on this day. It simply ends the last day of its 13th cycle. It is also important to note that the Mayans believe the number 13 is sacred, so they held extra importance on this date of December 21, 2012. But this importance was nothing more than for religious reasons. This marked the end of the 13th cycle of the calendar, and the following day would breed a new beginning, a fresh start. Much like our calendar cycle ended on December 31, 1999, we carried on with our lives the following day. The same is true of the Mayan calendar.
Nancy claimed that aliens told her about Planet X coming too close to Earth, causing all kinds of problems, including a global tsunami. This was supposed to happen in May-June 2003.
"Friends" of Nancy made lots of money selling survival kits and books on how to survive. After June 2003, people stopped buying their book; they needed to recycle their hoax.
Meanwhile, a dude claiming to be a reincarnated Mayan priest, invented a lie about the end of the Mayan calendar. The calendar does not end (it only passes a round figure) and the calendar makes no predictions (it is only a day count calendar).
The Planet-X hoaxers used the dude's date to create the Big 2012 Hoax. They collected a whole bunch of other hoaxes and lies -- most of them not written about 2012.
For example, the doomsday predictions for the planetary alignment were for the alignment of... 1999.
Nibiru is a fictitious planet created for a story written in the 1960s. In the original story, Nibiru cannot return before the year 2085.
The "beam of energy" from the Galactic black hole was invented by the same dude who made up the lie about the end of the Mayan calendar.
The Planet-X hoax (the 2003 end-of-the-world) already contained a pole flip. However, other ones had been invented for other years. For example, the magnetic pole flip was invented as a prediction for when the position of the solstice crossed the Galactic equator. Except that this crossing does not occur in 2012. And the solstice crosses the Galactic equator every 12,900 years.
And I could go on for a long time.
The key is that we know who invented each of the lies, we know when they did and we know why they did.
We also know who started the Big 2012 Hoax in the summer of 2003.
Your choice: scientists, or charlatans who only want to make money from gullible people.
Brittany, don't worry about it. You're thinking about Nebr, the comet that's coming on December 21, 2012... and everybody is going to die except like 10%... it's all bullshit, they said it was going to be seen in the year 2003, you can't see ****. They said you can see it year 2008, you still can't see ****. They keep making up excuses. There is a movie about it, and it's from the creators of "The day after tomorrow", they thought that was going to happen. But, it didn't and won't! Don't worry, I thought about it for about 2 days, then I realized, why waste living your life as if you are going to die? That's what is going to screw your life over, and dieing should be the last thing on your mind. And everybody dies, if this DOES happen, you die with another 6billion people. Don't feel left out. Give it 1 week, you will be over it. I mean, it's 3 years from now...
hope i help. And fk NASA, honestly.
By all means grow up!
Maybe you would like some history behind the whole 2012 scheme.
Back in 1966, in a book titled "The Maya", Michael Coe mused that "if the Mayans viewed their long count calendar as beginning at the Creation of the world, did they view its end in 2012 as the Apocalypse?" or words to that effect.
It was just a researcher considering the viewpoint of the culture he was studying. NO ONE has ever suggested that the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar was ACTUALLY the creation of the Earth. That would be about 3110 BC. Do YOU think the Earth was created in 3110 BC? If you are one of the many people claiming pertinence of the ENDING date of the Mayan calendar (as many have suggested in the answers to your question) then they MUST place equal importance to its beginning.
Oddly, no one does. People that WANT to find supporting evidence to their CRAZY claims will "pick and choose" the available data, throwing out the stuff that doesn't agree and using only that which does. This isn't fair and it CERTAINLY isn't science.
After Coe's book came out, a disreputable Art Historian named Jose Arguelles (who now calls himself Voltron Viagra, or something and claims to be a reincarnated Mayan Priest), wrote a book using the speculation of Michael Coe as its principle theme. Of course, very few people paid attention.
As we get closer to the mysterious 2012 date, more people have cited the works of Arguelles (safely ignoring the fact that he is CRAZY) as evidence that "The Mayans KNEW something!". Of course, they didn't. Facts, however, get in the way of hysteria.
Please stop by 2012hoax.org if you have any more questions. There is a section about the LHC which I didn't get into here. You won't find any crazy claims there thrust at you with no evidence, like you get here in Y!A.
Enjoy!
OK, there are two possibilities: One, the scientists are right and it's complete nonsense.
Two, something's going to happen but there is absolutely no scientific data about it. No observations. Nothing measurable. No gravitational effects. Nothing. And furthermore, since some of the predictions violate known laws of physics (the predictions about alignments, planet Nibiru, and pole shifts in particular), then the scientists are also wrong about the laws of physics.
So then what would the prediction be based on if there's absolutely no evidence for it?
A lthough many prophecies has warned us on the time where our civilization will end, I always hold in my intention that it will not.
Future and past are not real, only the present is. In the illusion of time, fate is changeable. However, for destiny to change it would take a enormous change in human consciousness. Our survival way of living, exploiting the natural resources without any understanding of the Universal Principles and Laws and therefore running out of everything could probably end up in a very violent recession period. Will you be part of the solution by raising your own state of consciousness now and choose to live in alignment with the abundant Nature that will never be affected by these man made crisis? Or will you choose the low consciousness of survival (join the armee as I read, get a gun...) or any other choices based on dependency to someone else or somebody else's decision and conditionning?
If so, you have completely lost the true essence of who you are: your mind has the power to create any reality you choose to live in. You must first become free from the dependency of any systems (going to a store to get food, TV, media) or institutiones (politics, military, religions).
2012 marks the end of our unconscious society and the beginning of the awakening of Humanity. Will it take cahos for that shift to take place? Only if we don't choose to live consciouslly now and this includes learing to be sustainable independant from the system as it is today and the institutions while being totally connected to our supreme nature as spirit. With that connection, we are guided and life flows no matter what can happen. This is Grace.
I have been blessed with this intuitive guidance and I let it lead my life, no one else does! I was guided to prepare for a possible (again no one knows the future as it's changeable) Pole Shift. Pole Shift is a science not a prediction. Once you reseach it, you know how to prepare. Certainelly not in storring 2 years of food! what will you do if an earthquake beared all you precious supplies as it very much would if Pole Shift takes place. Having a little food supplies doesn't hurt but don't dwell on it as your safe strategy.
The Universal Consciousness is in charge (call it God, if you wish), not us. It's time to drop the ego arrogance and plug to something way bigger than ourself or any social structure and let that guide us. Animal have that innate connection, that's why they know what to do and when. Only pets lost that intuition for having hanged out with us a little too much! Ignorance is the source of all suffering. Know yourself as Divine and with that foundation then you can prepare:
I studied the safe location in case of Pole shift: Mexico (not safe thought on the political level), Canada and a couple Countries in the north of Europe. These are where the oldest earth plates are, thererfore more stable, so when the plates shift, these will barelly move. There will be safe places everywhere in the world, I am just sharing those that are uptimal. Arizona has old plates for intance and won't move much but will there be enough water? and as it may be popullated because of may people relocating there away from earhtquakes, what about the level of violence after the Shift in case of famines (which are also predicted)? these are questions to ask yourself.
It comes from the ancient Mayan prophecy. December 21, 2012 was considered as the last day of a big cycle, but the Mayans didn't say it's gonna be the end of the world! I don't see the need to worry about it. Focus on the present and enjoy your life! : )
So I think you are saying that you have blind faith in the crackpots and charlatans. Yet you are expressing doubt about whether scientists from Nasa and other professionals are telling you the truth. What is this backlash against knowledge and education? Do you want to live in fear and superstition like the people in the dark ages?