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What's your take on this whole "December 21, 2012" prophecy doomsday thing? Is there ANYTHING to it at all?

What do you think of the whole 2012 thing that everyone is talking about these days?

Public Comments

1. Just like they said the world was ending in 2000
It shows how gullible people really are
It's pathetic really.

2. i put as much stock in it as i did the great fallout of the new millenium prophecy.

3. That's just the last year in the mayan calender, that's it nothing more nothing less :)

4. I'd buy as many Power Ball tickets as you can afford that day !

5. I think its dumb. Its a superstitious thing I guess, and I dont believe in that junk.

6. Nastrodamus is rolling his eyes at those of us that are falling for that stuff!

7. nothing to it. better worry about what our govt id trying to do. check this out www.auff.us type it in your search bar and search it.

8. It will be my sisters 58th birthday...

9. Our calendars end in December, I don't see why it should be any different with the Mayans.

10. The newspapers need something else to spread doom & gloom about.

Somewhere there is a daffodil that bloomed.

Did that get a Media Alert?

11. I think that it's only mythology based media hype:
Do you remember the Y2K frenzy? There is however one interesting astronomical phenomenon that will happen on 12/21/2012 when the sun rises on that day, as seen from Central America, it will be in the direction of Sagittarius in the exact center of the galaxy. While the Mayans deserve credit for figuring this out, as well as all the rest of their marvelous astronomy, none of this means their mythology is reality based. In fact they couldn't even predict their own future of what tomorrow might bring!

12. OK is strongly believe this it is stupid
Listen,

in 1900's people stood in utah on a mountain they thought it was the end of the world..
did it happen?
NO

2000 - y2k?
did it happen?
NO

in 1998, people though that time was going to repeat itself through the dawn of time..
did it happen?
NO

june 6, 2006 theory
NO

1954 (Armageddon man), a man predicted the end of the world to be on 1976, nothing ever happened on that day..
didn't happen
NO

2007 on july 4, apocalyptic nuclear bomb from iraq??
NO

1986 zombie attack blowing out the human race that wont be contained
NO

there are at least (population counted by scientists) 967,000,000,267,572,831,573 doomsday theories in 1 year - now there have been approx. 950,002,462,628,163,636,115 doomsday theories that have become widely popular, even more popular then all of this 2012 crap..

listen im 12 and when people mention "2012" i don't want to think about it

but what im trying to say is: IT PROBABLY WON'T HAPPEN

It makes no sense

Plus it is from a Mayan calender from hundreds of years ago it makes nonsense Don't Know why people believe it just because it's gonna "reset" doesn't mean the end of the world

13. I will try to explain. This is one of the craziest lies that is being promulgated by the 2012 conspiracy theorists -- worse in many ways than the Nibiru hoax. It is totally absurd, and completely untrue, but still the story spreads and is frightening people. First, on the matter of a sudden reversal in the rotation of Earth: this is impossible. It has never happened and never will. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, these scam artists sometimes pull a bait-and-shift to try to fool you. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly with a magnetic reversal roughly every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn't cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway. But they frighten you by falsely claiming that a magnetic reversal is coming soon (like in 2012) and that this is the same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational poles. The bottom line is: (1) Rotation direction and magnetic polarity are not related. (2) There is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects on life when it does eventually happen. (3) A sudden shift in rotational pole with disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, none of this has anything to do with the galactic equator or any of the other nonsense about 2012 that appears on these Internet conspiracy theory sites.

David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
January 15, 2009

14. I would call it silly if so many people were not getting scared about it.

One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world.

These predictions are scare tactics, conspiracy theories, and chances to make money from books and movies.

Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.

"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come." (Mark 13:32-33)

Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.

The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.

The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus' advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.

Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.

For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0993.asp

Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFAQ18.htm#q306

With love in Christ.