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FIRST POSTED DECEMBER 11, 2008

Cometh the hour, cometh the scare. The new one predicts that, on 2012's shortest day - 21 December - the world as we know it will end. Why? Because the Mayan 'Long Calendar' stops then. And why should that matter? Because the Mayans were fantastically sophisticated and inventive astronomers, and 21/12/12 is the last day in a 5,000-year countdown from their 'creation'.

If further proof were needed, Nostradamus forecast that a comet would hit Earth in 2012; Saint Malachy predicted that the last Pope would be installed then; and it's the year of the alien invasion in The X Files.

Cue every shaman, spirit guide and Ufologist on America's west coast to prophecy famine, floods, second comings - you name it. While some foretell a spiritual awakening, the majority seems to think that, in Private Fraser's words, we're all doomed - their favourite theory being that we're 30,000 years overdue for a 'polar shift', a genuine scientific phenomenon that may have done for the dinosaurs.

Mayan hieroglyphs aren’t crystal clear about what the calendar even means

You can get a taste of the pros from survive2012.com, and the cons from skepdic.com/maya. The former has handy hints on building bunkers, digging fire pits and how to make steel, along with pages on the shelf lives of seeds and which gun to use in a catastrophe. On the other hand, the latter points out that "Mayan glyphs and hieroglyphs aren't crystal clear about what the calendar even means". Either way, you'll see it's a topic that's generating heat - and money.

In San Francisco, for example, a company called Sacred Mysteries is running one convention a month. Meanwhile in Hollywood, a recent seminar drew a thousand people and the director Michael (Transformers) Bay is developing 2012: the Movie. Based on a novel by the self-proclaimed alien abductee Whitley Strieber, the film should tell the story of an academic who discovers that multiple versions of Earth co-exist in different dimensions, and all are threatened by the Mayan apocalypse. By opening a portal into a parallel universe, he makes contact with his double to stop the prophecy from being fulfilled.

"The idea of a man teaming up with himself to solve a cosmic mystery was way too good for us to pass up," says producer

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The world won't end in 2012 and none of the Mayan prophecies from the Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh or the Dresden codices states that 2012 will be cataclysmic. On that date, the earth, sun and the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (MWG) come into alignment. This only happens once every 26,000 years as our planet drops below the center of the MWG. On this date, the earth goes through a precession of the equinoxes, also an event that occurs once every 26,000 years. In 2012, we can also expect a solar maximum, which occurs once every 11 years. It's interesting to note that the planets in our solar system are going through drastic climate changes, which rules out Al Gore's global warming BS. Also, it was recently noted in the news that the earth is being bombarded by high energy electrons, called cosmic rays. In both cases, scientists are baffled as to why this is happening. Here's the answer: 2012 This date is about a shift in consciousness. People who are buying bunkers are people who live in fear. If 2012 is about ascension, then those who live in fear will not be part of this transition because fear cannot exist on a higher density level. Perhaps nothing will happen? What are these people going to do with their bunkers? The only real answer to 2012 is to live your life without hatred or fear and to live for the NOW. Right now. If the doomers are right, then what would be the quality of life during a cataclysmic period? Horrible! If I'm right, I've lost nothing, including sleep. If nothing happens by December 21st, 2012, then we'll all have a good laugh on December 23rd! Enjoy the ride!

Posted by maya12-21-2012.com Gregg at 1:32pm on December 16, 2008

WELL, WELL...HERE WE GO-AGAIN...I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE CELESTIAL ALIGNMENT OF 1988-A PAL OF MINE WENT TO QUITO, ECUADOR, STOOD ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN, TO EXPERIENCE THE CHANNELING OF COSMIC ENERGY AT 2AM...TOO BAD...IT WAS CLOUDY...OH WELL, MAYBE NEXT LIFE...REMEMBER Y2K?...I WONDER HOW MANY MADE BUCKS ON THAT ONE?...ANY CALCULATIONS OUT THERE?...NOW WE HAVE THE END OF TIME, 2012, ON DATE/TIME CERTAIN...HOW CAN THIS BE?...KNOWING THAT OUR ASTRONOMICAL "CALENDAR" IS A FIGMENT OF OPINION?...REMEMBER POOR GALALLEO GALALLAHI?...THE POPE EX-COMMUNICATED THE POOR GUY BECAUSE HE PRESENTED PHYSICAL, DOCUMENTARY, AND TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE OF WHAT IS...I DO REMEMBER, BACK IN THE EARLY 1960'S, DISCUSSING 'POLAR SHIFTS' WITH INDIVIDUALS WHOM I CONSIDERED VERY EDUCATED, IN NEWARK, DELAWARE...YUP...THAT'S RIGHT...THE TOWN WHICH HOUSED JOE BIDEN...BACK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND, THE THEORY, POLAR SHIFT, BEIT THE TUMBLING OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC POLES, OR PHYSICAL TUMBLING OF ROTATIONAL STABILITY THROUGH SOME UN-KNOWN PRECESSIONAL FORCE(S), RESULTING IN ESTABLISHING A NEW SPIN AXIS, ALSO A 'POLAR SHIFT', WAS IN RABID DISPUTE, AS BEING ATTRIBUTED TO A RUSSIAN GEOLOGIST, TO REMIND YOU, RUSSIANS WERE NOT HELD IN ANY ESTEEM, BY A LARGE SEGMENT OF OUR POPULATION AT THE TIME...NOW, IT, EARTH AXIAL SHIFT, IS GAINING RESPECTABILITY AS A POSSIBLE EXPLAINATION OF FINDINGS OF FLORA ET FAUNA IN POLAR REGION ICE, CARBON 14 DATED AT 25,000 +/- YEARS BACK...AN AXIAL SHIFT EVERY 30,000 YEARS, MORE OR LESS?...THIS WOULD EXPLAIN MUCH MORE THAN "CONTINENTAL DRIFT"...TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED, AND THINK...AND DO KEEP SEARCHING...CAPT. MIKE

Posted by CAPT MIKE at 6:17pm on December 17, 2008