According to a very small sect of Christianity. You were generalizing all Christians under that. The majority believe it could happen at any moment.
True. I guess most Christian branches have pulled away from a lot of the old Pagan symbolism over the years to separate themselves from a religion/spirituality they deem false. There is still a lot of Pagan influence in Christianity however, to make the transfer easy for the millions of Roman's who converted. For instance the cross is a symbol of the Zodiac, the fish symbolism for the Age of Pisces, even Dec. 25 isn't Jesus' birthday. We celebrate this as his birthday because this is an ancient Pagan holiday celebrating the return of the sun; on Dec. 25 the sun begins to rise higher into the sky from its lowest point during the winter Equinox. There are a lot more similarities and 'borrowed' mythology from Pagan religions, especially Egyptian, to Christianity, but I won't go into it unless someone asks.
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According to a very small sect of Christianity. You were generalizing all Christians under that. The majority believe it could happen at any moment.
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Here are the top seven reasons why the world will end in 2012:
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
4. The Bible says...
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers, and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove that we're all going to die very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
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Here are the top seven reasons why the world will end in 2012:
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
4. The Bible says...
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers, and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove that we're all going to die very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
This is bad, and scary. Everything seems to coincidental to be false. Alot of ways to die, but I guess it doesn't matter everyone dies eventually. December 20, 2012 will be the scariest day ever, because we will all wonder if tomorrow it will happen.
I dont believe in predictions, destiny, or even god(s). Simply because of the fact I don't like the thought of not being in control of my future.
I'm gonna live my life. While everyone else lives there life in fear, and or worshiping something that clearly doesnt give a damn about you.
Doomsayers always predict the end of the world but are always, always, ALWAYS wrong. I'm willing to bet it wont happen but still try to live each day to it's fullest...(I realize the irony of sitting infront of my computer typing this )
edit: read Num3n's 7 reasons...
1) Mayan's simply just stopped counting because hell, why would we make a calandar for the year 6020 AD? Let alone the Europeans who came....
2) The sun is always having storms and flares, although I wouldn't mind seeing a source for that one because you mentioned satellites being destroyed.
3) The atom smasher is being fired up this year
4) You have to remember, the bible had its passages picked around the Constantine era (correct me if I'm wrong). It's not exactly 'the word of god'.
5) The one on the list that seems most plausible. The only thing is if shoots that much ash into the atmosphere and it last for so long, then all of life would surely die on the world (with no sunlight photosynthesis can't occur, domino effect after that) but there's really no such evidence in our archeological history that would suggest multiple mass extinctions.
6) That would be like me saying I haven't seen a purple elephant in a while. Pure speculation.
7) It's alot shorter then 750,000 years (it says in one of my old earth science textbooks, when i get the number I'll edit this), the seafloor is a map for this. Most electrical equipment would seize to operate but it wont be the end of the world.
Remember that life must have required something powerful to put the dinosaurs out of power as fast as whatever that force did. Unless something as catastrophic as what happened to the dinosaurs arrives exactly on the Mayan Calender date, then we're not doomed yet. Even if that happens though, we probably have a reasonable chance of surviving, since when the dinosaurs went extinct, technology wasn't exactly available.
and what technology is going to prevent any of those? a giant air cleaner? a big magnetic force field, or a giant condom to prevent that place from exploding and or when it does, hold it all in
and what technology is going to prevent any of those? a giant air cleaner? a big magnetic force field, or a giant condom to prevent that place from exploding and or when it does, hold it all in
Lets just saran wrap the earth
In all seriousness, I can't believe no one mentioned the extinction of bees. Their population is going down and if they're gone, BAM!
if it dosent i can here alot of WTF's happaning, i can just predict alot of people, shop lifting, spending all there money, ect. it's going to be the worst day in humanity, and it didnt even happen lol.
I dont believe in predictions, destiny, or even god(s). Simply because of the fact I don't like the thought of not being in control of my future.
I'm gonna live my life. While everyone else lives there life in fear, and or worshiping something that clearly doesnt give a damn about you.
If I throw a baseball at your face at 90mph, are you going to just stay there and let it hit you?
No, you will probably move. That is because you predicted it would hit you. So you may not think you believe in predictions, but you use them everyday.
But yeah, at least we don't have to worry about asteroid 1997 XF11 hitting us until 2028. But by then, we will have the technology to deflect it. But that's another story.
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Here are the top seven reasons why the world will end in 2012:
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
4. The Bible says...
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers, and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove that we're all going to die very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
And how does anyone know that we could have another star in an oliptical orbit around our own sun.
And whois to say that if there is such a star, shouldn't it be coming back, very very soon.
any one wana bet their d3 accounts on that?
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
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Doomsayers always predict the end of the world but are always, always, ALWAYS wrong. I'm willing to bet it wont happen but still try to live each day to it's fullest...(I realize the irony of sitting infront of my computer typing this )
edit: read Num3n's 7 reasons...
1) Mayan's simply just stopped counting because hell, why would we make a calandar for the year 6020 AD? Let alone the Europeans who came....
2) The sun is always having storms and flares, although I wouldn't mind seeing a source for that one because you mentioned satellites being destroyed.
3) The atom smasher is being fired up this year
4) You have to remember, the bible had its passages picked around the Constantine era (correct me if I'm wrong). It's not exactly 'the word of god'.
5) The one on the list that seems most plausible. The only thing is if shoots that much ash into the atmosphere and it last for so long, then all of life would surely die on the world (with no sunlight photosynthesis can't occur, domino effect after that) but there's really no such evidence in our archeological history that would suggest multiple mass extinctions.
6) That would be like me saying I haven't seen a purple elephant in a while. Pure speculation.
7) It's alot shorter then 750,000 years (it says in one of my old earth science textbooks, when i get the number I'll edit this), the seafloor is a map for this. Most electrical equipment would seize to operate but it wont be the end of the world.
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I do not mean an unnatural calmness.
lol ?
and what technology is going to prevent any of those? a giant air cleaner? a big magnetic force field, or a giant condom to prevent that place from exploding and or when it does, hold it all in
Lets just saran wrap the earth
In all seriousness, I can't believe no one mentioned the extinction of bees. Their population is going down and if they're gone, BAM!
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Ya I'm with you on that, just all the people who think it'll end going nuts.
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If I throw a baseball at your face at 90mph, are you going to just stay there and let it hit you?
No, you will probably move. That is because you predicted it would hit you. So you may not think you believe in predictions, but you use them everyday.
But yeah, at least we don't have to worry about asteroid 1997 XF11 hitting us until 2028. But by then, we will have the technology to deflect it. But that's another story.