2012 – Will the world actually end?
Will the world end in 2012? From my observations, this happens to be one of the hottest discussion topics in the world right now, and for good reason. It is only human to fear the unknown, but this unknown is speeding its way toward us by the day.
Everybody I know has mentioned something about 2012 lately, TV is loaded with documentaries, cinema was packed with the scientifically impossible 2012 Hollywood movie, but even when I traveled to China, people everywhere were talking about it in general conversation.
To find out just how popular this prophecy is, let’s look at Google searching this topic (as at 8:46am 13/05/2010)
Google “2012″ and you will see this: “About 262,000,000 results (0.27 seconds)”
Google “2012 the end of the world” and you see this: “About 11,400,000 results (0.29 seconds)”
Now, Go into Google advanced options and select Date options “Last week” and you get: “About 38,700,000 results (0.19 seconds)”. That is a lot of people talking about it.
As human beings, I would say that there are many things that we fear. Public speaking would top that list, but death and the end of the world would be very much “up there”.
Nobody is able to say with 100% surety that 2012 will not be the end of the world. But that argument is equally comparable to saying that nobody will be able to say with the same surety that tomorrow will not be the end of the world.
Having said all of that, I don’t believe that there truly is anyone that can say hand on their heart, that they never worry about it. Even if it’s for a moment to ponder “what if?”.
What we can always do with complete surety is to look into the past. This is far from the first time that prophets, religions, etc have predicted the end of the world… and having said all of that, we are still here.
Curious to see just how many prophecies there have been? It’s a surprisingly long list, check out one of the lists here: http://www.armageddononline.org/failed.html
“2012 will be the end of the world as we know it” - I hear this all the time on the news, internet articles, etc.
To say “It will be the end of the world as we know it” is ridiculous. Every day is the end of the world as we know it, because the world is continually changing.
The internet, the media, people wanting to cash in on fear, will ride this prophecy as far as they can. But in reality, I don’t see any conclusive evidence that will say that the world will “end” any time soon, unless we’re all foolish enough to launch nuclear weapons on each other (or worse weapons in the event that an anti-matter bomb is manufactured for military use) and blow ourselves off the planet’s surface.
The Mayan Calendar
The mayan calendar ends in December 2012… So what? If you look at this ancient design, you can obviously see that the Mayans did not design this calendar to go on forever. So a calendar ends, we can make another one. In the creation of man, the universe, whatever you want to believe in, I seriously doubt that there was some almighty calendar that told us what time our world would end. Man created counting, time, and calendars… not the universe or god.
This theory is trusting a civilisation who was not intelligent/advanced enough to still be around today.
Planetary Alignment
There will be 8 planets in line with each other on this fated day. What does that mean exactly? We will suddenly collide with planets billions of measurements away from us? Why is this so scary? I’m sure that this is not the first time in human history that planets have aligned, or we’ve had solar eclipses amongst other universe activity. We are still here. All we have are theories of things people are afraid of happening instead of actual conclusive evidence.
In all seriousness, can anyone point me to any factual, conclusive, non-fear mongering evidence that our world will actually end in 2012?
Does anyone remember this little bag of goodness? Y2K
It seems like only yesterday that doomsday prophecy fans all over the world went nuts before the year 2000, telling all of us that the world is ending.
People worried then, but we are still here now. Aside from computer bugs from poor design, there was no doomsday.
Update 05/01/2011
I wrote this article quite some time ago, but NASA themselves have officially responded to the “doomsday 2012″ prophecies as they have received overwhelming amounts of questions, and you can find their Frequently Asked Questions list here
Feel free to comment, i’ll be interested to see what people post on this topic.
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Wouldn't it be funny? To end just like in the movie? The directors would just say: We told you. LOL
Funny