Mayan calendar predicts end of world disaster in year 2012
Lisa Kane
There have been many different threats to the end of the world, the most recent being Y2K and more presently, the disaster waiting in 2012 (or so says the hype).
There are many different theories as to what 2012 will entail, most coming from the predictions made by the Bible or the Mayan calendar. Both supposedly predict catastrophe and natural disasters with some shift in human consciousness.
Keep in mind that these are only theories, but if put to use by a good imagination, they can easily be morphed into actuality.
Over the past 10 years, the world has seen many natural disasters: the tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina here in the U.S., the earthquake that shook China and most recently, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
These are only a few examples, but they certainly seem catastrophic.
The Mayan calendar predicts a shift in human consciousness, as the 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on Dec. 21, 2012. This is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar.”
The Mayans were around a long time ago… the calendar may have ended at 2012 for the simple reason of there was no need to continue it for a while,” said MCC student Danny Nakhle. “Logically we put up calendars of the current year we are living in. Not calendars that extend hundreds of years into the future, people are too paranoid.”
Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulas related to this date have been proposed, but none have been accepted or approved by mainstream scholars.
In forums across the internet, thoughts on the phenomenon have been posted.
“Is the 2012 conspiracy real? Apparently on Dec. 21, 2012 at 11:11 a.m. the world will end, is this true? I believe this is true,” said one user on the Yahoo forums.
There is also a movie that recently came out in theaters entitled “2012.” The film is loosely based on this theory of damnation.
Special effects aside, speculations that the world may end also stirred up questions in 1988 with the second-coming of Jesus and in 2000 with the Y2K phenomenon, yet we are all still living and breathing.
2012 is widely known as a simple theory, and conspiracy itself struggles with common sense in an age of internet over-education and quick communication.
