I'm Scared... But Just A Little
A month or so ago, I was having dinner at my cousin's house when he brought up 2012. According to the Mayan calendar, something DRASTIC is supposed to happen - either the end of the world, a spiritual awakening or both. Their calendar just STOPS. There are a ton of sites that break down what it is all suppose to mean and yes, I've been to them all.
The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to
resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT.
So now we know the exact moment when something is set to go down. December 21st, 2012 at exactly 11:11am. Will you go to work that day? LOL!!
Like anything, a few days passed and I let it all go. What else can you do really? I mean, how can you compete with earthquakes, tsunamis and asteroids? Well, now John Cusak is starring in a movie about it and here I am again freaking out all over.
Take a look at the trailer and read some of the online sites dedicated to the story. What do you think about the whole thing? Please tell me I am crazy so I can let this all go again.
- Official Movie Site - just the trailer really
- All About 2012
- Surviving 2102
- Universe Today
- December 21st, 2012
- Apocalypse 2012
- USA Today recap
- Mayan End Times Prophecy - will count down clock for your enjoyment
- 2012 News
- Pole Reversal
And just in case that isn't enough - Nostradamus even predicted a "devastating" asteroid... great.
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take it with a grain of salt. if it does, then you have 4 more years to deal with the catastrophes that happen every day. maybe if we can get people to believe this story is true, then maybe they will want to clean up their acts.
i've been trying to live the new year with a sense of hope. hope for us all.
if we were to die today, what would we be remembered for?
Yeah just like the Millennium - everything was supposed to stop, then.......nada. lol
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I have been watching that for several years now. It's getting closer. The History channel had a big story on it last year. What makes it really scary is the fact that the Mayan calendar has been fairly accurate in what has happened in the past. So I am sorry I can't tell you to let it go because I can't let it go either. I have become obsessed with it.
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The Millennium is different. That was because computers were going to go haywire - something that was man made and fixable. This is something that has been predicted by the Mayans - a very intelligent civilization. I know people keep bringing up 2000, but that is not the same thing.
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From what I understand, it has more to do with the sun. The Mayan calendar knew of every full moon, season change, solar eclipses etc - it's marked down to the date. I mean 1500 years later - it's still correct!
They tracked forward something terrible happening with the sun. Something about turning in the other direction which causes issues with it's gravitational pull. I need to read it all again when it's quiet - but it has more to do with something greater than the Earth - we just happen to get affected by the issue.
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Others say it's the start of a new ice age.
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Here is a video about the calendar:
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Ooh, Vera, this is really affecting you. I've got to go out but I'll look at it and look for the debunking sites later.
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It may not be the total end of earth, just earth as we know it. So the human race would be destroyed if this does come true. I think the chinese calendar has a similar prediction if I remember correctly. Anyway, for those comparing it to 2000, this is in no way, shape or form like Y2K. That was because of computers making the change from 1900's to 2000's. Certainly not civilization ending. This is a prediction made by the Mayans who were great astronomers. Also Yellowstone volcano's have been rumbling a lot lately because of a series of small earthquakes. It could be leading up to something bigger. Anyway, I am totally fascinated by this type of thing.
How do they know it's a "cycle" when it's never happened before? Remember when they fed us the bull crap about the year 2000? It's absolutely ridiculous. I can't wait until it's all proved wrong!
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Can you say Y2K? Big load of dookie!!
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Really people!! If it happens, it happens. Who controls the universe?? A calendar? No. GOD does.
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And with the lack of winters we've had lately in Texas, I'm ready for an ice age!!!! It'll help with the hot flashes. :O)
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exactly. i'm not saying this stuff doesn't freak me out, but in the end, a calendar does not decide when we all die. God does. we just have to trust in Him.
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Amen!!!
f*uck god
http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.ht
This above website says it's not the end just a new spiritual awakening. I 'm going to go with this one!
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My husband is the first one to tell me about these predictions... that are due to happen on Dec 21 of 2012... which just so happens to be our daughters 12th birthday...... I told him is was a bunch of bs, I sure hope I am right......
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Crap. this stuff freaks me out, my dh talks about it all the time. Mayan, chinese, Nostradamus, etc. Kind of glad that I live the way I do, I have nothing to fear, on one hand. I am scared poopy-less on the other, and won't let him talk about it or watch those in front on me. now it is on my fashion fix *thud* falls over in a panic attack. lol If it is going to happen, there is nothing we can do. I am going to live to the fullest in the meantime, a beer truck could hit me tomorrow.
A few years ago, my Dad asked me if I remember saying something very strange when I was a very young child.......he said I very calmly announced to him, "The world will end before I die." I do not remember saying this! He said the way I said it sent chills up his spine. (I'm 39, so this was a long time ago). He was reading about all of this last week and again asked me if I remember saying that, he said it was so wild to hear it come from such a young child. Anyway, I find this all fascinating, too.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
I've studied 2012 for many years and what will happen then will be good.
There will be a galactic alignment in 2012 and this is when we will ascend from the 4th dimension to the 5th.
The main reason there are so many 'end of the world' stories out there is to KEEP humans attached to their fears & material world, so that they won't ascend to the 5th, because you can INFACT ascend already if you just manage to let go of fear.
Fear and religion are the two tools those behind the scenes have used on US for centuries to control us. Whether you believe this, or choose to stay in the dark, it is up to you.
If anybody is interested in more information/want to know more,
or just for the pure; "LOL", I advice you to watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Gig65zhqI&feature=PlayList&p=52F1435F7472A491&index=11
Knowledge is free to those who want it.
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The 5th Dimension?? "When the moon is in the 7th house & Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planet & love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, age of Aquarius...."
It'll be interesting to read, I'll have to check the links. I'd heard of it, but not read much. There have been numerous end-of-the-world predictions before and we're still here. Don't we have to get the anti-Christ first, too?
I will say that Nostradamus doesn't impress me. They seem to be able to twist his quatrains into any prediction you like. Definitely not a believer. Whatever, we're all going to die eventually, so maybe concentrate on your spirituality, on your meaning of being here? Spread a little kindness today.
Okay, here's the real deal: what the Mayan Calendar really pertained to was the Mayan civilization-- now long extinct. The calendar's final date was not 2012, but a date centuries ago that corresponds perfectly with the sudden and abrupt end of the Mayan civilization. It was simply a prophesy about the Mayan people. There are new age pundits who have capitalized (literally) on the concepts in the calendar, changing and sensationalizing them for their own reasons, probably largely to do with making money and fomenting irrational fears.
The same thing has happened with the Book of Revelation in the Bible. People take these early writings, which evolved out of Babylonian astrological prophecies and lore-- and which pertained to the end of the early Christian civilization and the Roman Empire shortly after the time of Christ-- and misconstrue them to represent the 21st century. (Actually, writers have been doing this for decades, even centuries. it's getting old!) For a good synopsis, go to PBS online and find the Frontline 'Apocalypse' documentary-- it's stunning!
The sad thing about these types of fake prophesies and conspiracy theories -- 2012, Planet X, axis pole shift (not magnetic, but actual), etc.-- is that they distract people from dealing with WHAT IS: from meeting the real problems we face head-on, like global warming, corporate fascism, Codex Alimentarius (draconian WTO food and supplement laws soon to control the U.S.), the economic meltodown, and so on. Also, one's own spiritual development and evolution are put off indefinitely when we are diverted into psychic fear-rand-conspiracy-ealms. Fear of the unknown always makes us unable to go within and introspect. But when we become One with the Universe we find there's not much to fear, afterall.
I was mortally afraid of nuclear obliteration, earth changes, and Apocalypse at one time or another in my life; I know what people are dealing with and how painful it can be. My fears almost paralyzed me. Luckily, I began to see through the mists of delusion and was able to prevail over the mass mind. Reality is freaky enough, without adding any unnecessary drama! ;-p
Best wishes to all who are struggling with concerns about 2012, etc.
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"The same thing has happened with the Book of Revelation in the Bible. People take these early writings, which evolved out of Babylonian astrological prophecies and lore-- and which pertained to the end of the early Christian civilization and the Roman Empire shortly after the time of Christ-- and misconstrue them to represent the 21st century."
Sharrhan I believe I will have to disagree with you on this one. I don't recall anything in history that was recorded quite like Revelation. Nothing that happens in Revelation has to do with the end of the Roman Empire. The Book of Daniel and his prophecy's are a good way to read on the end. Daniel predicted it. There hasn't been a second coming yet and no fire, flames, etc. Just a bunch of evil men.
This 2012 stuff doesn't personally bother me. I put my trust in God, not a Mayan Calendar. He will decide and personally I am looking forward to my time in Heaven.
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Thank you very much. I never try to be defensive!
There is nothing to be afraid of, I really believe that whatever happens is for the better. Look around you, look at the way we live and what we do to each other. Parents killing their kids, kids killing their parents. Adults having sex with children. Husbands and wives cheating and killing each other. Murderers, AIDS, adultery..etc. We have made this earth the way it is, we made life the way it is now. If this event does happen, is a cleansing of the earth from all the filth that we humans have produced. This world can't go on the way it is forever. I believe is a great and wonderful thing, if you lived your life to the best of your ability and you know you are a good person, why be afraid?
how can we have a new ice age when there is supposedly global warming?
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I read that somewhere this morning, that when the planets all shift on 12/21/12, that the world won't end, but we'll have an ice age. Just another prediction based on a calendar that nobody can verify 100%.
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Actually, there is a great deal of study being conducted on the effects global warming will have on an ice age. Keep in mind that ice age is just a term. All planets go through natural warming and cooling periods, but the warming on Earth has been abnormally high and the build-up of gases intense, so when the planet does move into its next ice age, there is very little way to predict the effects. It is fascinating ,really, though in a frightening way if you really get into it.
Global Warming is a hoax. Al Gore and his controllers are pushing the global warming scam not because they "care so much about the Earth" but because they want to impose a strangulating CARBON TAX globally. The winter this year is going to be the coldest and snowiest in many years. Global Warming is all b.s. Notice how Bushie is all on board with Global Warming now? Well, it's because both the Dems AND the Repubs are all globalists and ALL in on this scam. Watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle" for free in its entirety on google video.
I'm not sure if I believe in this but the saying "nobody can tell us when to die but God" is crap....how do you know God really exist? For all we know he is nothing but a fictional character.
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How do you know GOD doesn't exist??
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He is not a fictional character. You obviously don't believe in him but don't disrespect the people who do by saying stuff like that. Keep that stuff to yourself. Would you want someone to disrespect the religion you believe?
Why should one care about not hurting religious in their pride ? If we don't believe in god, we have every right to say he doesn't exist, the same way you affirm that god exists because you believe so.
It's always the same shit going on. Why couldn't I say "Twilight is crap" and say "I think Twilight is crap" whereas fans say "haaan Twilight is the best thing ever"...
You say god exists as if there was no other truth, no other possibility, why couldn't an atheistic do the same ?
One of the first links says boldly that the Mayan calendar does not just end.
you're crazy. don't worry, there'll be plenty of other crazies out there too.
Yeah, a quick perusal indicates that figures are being stretched for sensationalism. It's easily googled, just put in "Mayan calendar debunked", or something of that nature.
wiki makes a nice point:
Some people claim that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center. This event is said to cause numerous earth changes, however that is not possible considering that THE EVENT IS ONLY A VISUAL PHENOMENON FROM THE EARTH'S PERSPECTIVE, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes or the 26,000 year wobble of the earth, which only changes our perspective, not the actual position of the earth in relation to the galaxy. In short, there is no gravitational force or radiation to be expected from this event because OTHER THAN THE TILT OF THE EARTH, NOTHING WILL BE ANY DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER SOLSTICE.
stupid spiritual fantasies
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Hi Vera,
My husband has been telling me about this for months now, since he saw the documentary on Discovery Channel (or the Science channel...one of those). He's read everything he could find on the internet about it. He says that it's not necessarily the end of the earth, but the end of life as we know it (whatever THAT means!). He had me freaked out for a bit, and brings it back up every once in a while. If it is true, I'm not going to spend my remaining almost-4 years worried about the inevitable. It definitely scares me a bit too, but if there's nothing I can do about it, I'm going about living my life as normal, and enjoying whatever time it is I have left. It's my philosophy even if it weren't for this 2012 phenomenon, since I could just as likely die tomorrow from some other circumstance.
Happy New Year, many blessings to you and your family!
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We just need to relax & wait for Tom Cruise to tell us what's going to happen. As a scientologist, he's the only one who can do anything about it. (His words, not mine.) Ha! Ha! :D
itsmeitsme: Remembered by whom may I ask? There will be no one left.. lol
Try not to worry and enjoy life as much as you can, whatever that means to YOU.
Groetjes from Holland!!
I watched a video about this a year or so ago but it says that the prediction was meant for many many many years from now. So in other words, it says the world will not come to an end in 2012. Therefor, you all have nothing to worry about. But, it is an interesting subject to study.
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Anyway, I hope it's not true, but I will be sleeping with one eye open when the time rolls around. I have to remember that GMT is 5 hrs ahead of eastern and 7 hrs ahead of my mountain time. It falls on a Friday. If you call off of work, you could have a nice 3 day weekend if all goes well and if it doesn't, then.........................I want to see the movie. There will probably be a few of them from now until then.
Crap, that is the day after my birthday! :|
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Who cares? people are so afraid of EVERYTHING. Let it go! Death is inevitable. It will happen. Accept it and move on. If anything were to happen we're all doomed and will not be able to save ourselves...
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This actually really freaks me out!! I've never heard much about it before, but now I will be doing some extensive research on the topic for myself.
The end of the world won't happen in 2012, I still have student loans to pay off. Studylink won't let me off that easily ;)
I am a woman of science, reason and the national geographic channel, and believe the human race has a good billion years, maybe more, left.
OMG. I am freaking out here. I really hope this is a big joke. All I can do is sit her and think about my son. OMG. really - thanks for brining this to my attention. Now I am going to be freaked out about this.
Honestly there are a lot of 'theories' out there but the truth is yes, the end of the world will come cos' Jesus says so. This world is so corrupt and we cannot save ourselves, we need a saviour. No one knows exactly when but I highly doubt it'll be this soon. If you've given your heart to God then rest easy Vera and if not, it's never too late!
A One World Order will happen first before the end of the world according to the Bible. The One World Order will be under the Anti-Christ. There will be 7 years of "peace" before the anti-Christ turns to reveal his true intentions of pure evil.
We are a little close to the one world order - so many of the world religions are saying - we're all the same (unimaginable just 20 years ago). The economic stage is also headed in that direction - we're all hoping for some savior out of this world economic mess.
Yes, Vera, be very afraid. Perhaps you should move into an underground bunker just to be certain.
I read your blog primarily for the laughter your general ignorance brings me, but really.... this is just too ridiculous.
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If you wish to read this blog, that's fine. To be outright rude to Vera is uncalled for. You might should consider another forum to visit.
Cheer up maybe Christ is coming back to reclaim His children.
Mayan Calendar goes by thirteen cycles. 2012 will be the end of the 13th cycle, and then it starts again at the first cycle Mk II. Not the end of the world, just the start of a new calendar system! Geez!
I completely disagree with your inclusion of this on your GOSSIP website, and just look at how many people's days you've ruined by working them all up into a frightened frenzy.
It's just a fictional film Vera, one which you're paid to plug.
Fictional, just like Day After Tomorrow, but with a tiny grain of accuracy in its research.
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The problem w/ all this 2012 stuff is that is being sensationalized and capitalized on. There are a ton of websites discussing it, and claiming to know what will happen, however most of those are "pseudo science." There are very few real scientists saying that the world will end in 2012. Most of the real Mayan specialists that I have been able to read up on have stated that they have no information whatsoever that the Mayan's thought the world would end in 2012.
Just that their calendar ends in 2012.
This cycle of 26,000 (?) years or so that the websites keep talking about regarding this "galactic alignment" has happened in the past, and the fact that humans are still around now proves that it did not end the world. What would be different about this time around?
Could the Mayan's forsee something new? Possibly, but we don't know. I don't think anything will happen in 2012 that the Mayan were able to forsee, but I'm still a little nervous b/c you never know. Then again, you never know what will happen tomorrow.
My point was that most (I'm sure not all) the people researching and writing most of these websites are not real scientists or Mayan experts. Their info is "pseudo science". Even many Mayan's alive today are saying that 2012 is not the end of the world...just a time of change (from what I've read, but I'm not sure of the accuracy).
To poster at 6:51am: I admit I am relieved to hear your input. I love life. I can't just accept the inevitable, as some people put it. I have a 10-month-old baby girl. Another one on the way. I want to see her grow up. I want her to be able to watch her own babies grow up. I don't want to lose everything and everyone that I love. Especially my babies. Just the thought makes me sick. So there you go people. I LOVE LIFE, I AM AFRAID, and I DO NOT ACCEPT THE "INEVITABLE"...never did. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, people.
I freaked out too when I heard it. It's like getting a death sentence. Then you stop being a retard and realized that some old ancient civilization predicted this crap while they were still running around in loin cloths, banging each other and fighting. The world has changed so drastically, that nobody knows whats going to happen or what could happen. Everybody from the same time, predicted the same thing and were losing our minds. Besides, were are the Mayan's anyway? What happened to them? Come on people, its bogus to think that after all these years, anybody has a say so in what happened to this world.
Oh my God, people, seriously. How about a little research and critical thinking instead of freaking out over some New Age fearmongering (that has NO BASIS IN SCIENCE AND NO DATA TO BACK IT UP)! The 2012 theory has been debunked. Peole (VERA!) need to take some time to look it up instead of jumping on the bandwagon and blindly believing whatever people say. Seriously. Get a grip.
I'm pretty sure nothing would come of it but it would make for an exciting time (in my opinion) if world-changing events did occur. Maybe we should think about our lives and where we are in the world. The Mayans weren't the only ones with prophecies about 2012. The Chinese, the Bible (i think?) and many other ancient knowledge/texts also mark 2012 as a year of deep meaning.
We'll all just have to wait and see. Because things, as they are now, cannot be this way forever. Or they just might stay this way if people don't wake up to a level much higher than the social and political. We need to awake for humanity.
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The world is never going to "end" but it most likely will be more different than ever before...
I mean, they've been saying the world is going to end since I was a kid, it's totally annoying.
1. They Mayans never predicted cataclysmic events as far as anyone knows. There is no "Doomsday" prediction. The only thing people are going on is the fact their calendar ends. The rest is, shall we say, words being put into the Mayan's mouth.
a. the Mayans didn't believe in "endings" They believed in a shifting from one cycle to another.
b. the Mayans for all their perfect predictions, didn't seem to predict the downfall of their ancient civilization as far as I've been able to see.
2. Nostradamus did NOT predict 2012 as being the end of the world. There are several documents that Nostradamus told his son in letters that he did not see anything past the year 3700 (I think the date was) which leads him to believe THAT is when the world ends. he has not said anything about 2012 using that specific date as far as I could see, other than faked prophecies credited to him that were made up by some random person. (Like his prediction that the world would end on Y2K, and the fact he supposedly predicted 9/11.) Both predictions were exaggerated or all out fabricated.
those who are people of faith (Christian), if you read your bible you will see the end prophesy referred to several times... once by Christ himself when he said
"The end will come like a theif in the night. No one knows the hour nor day it will come. Not the angels in heaven nor the son. Only the father knows. Thus you must be ever vigilant and prepare as if that day were to happen tomorrow."
So no one can predict the exact day down the the exact time, since not even Christ knows when God will send him back for his people.
So how will WE write it? How shall it read when we look back on December 21, 2012? We certainly have the elements in place to destroy ourselves. The planet has experienced cataclysmic events in its history - polar shifts, ice ages, etc. No one really knows. What the Mayan's meant with their End-Count calendar will always be up for speculation. It fires the imagination, for sure. SOooo let's write it like we want it. That is what Chris Fenwick did in the #1 Visionary Novel: "the 100th human." You choose... check it out www.the100thhuman.com
The 2012 Mayan event is really about change, not necessarily about the destruction of the planet. There are plenty of theories about this though, from comets to planetary pole reversal, and the second coming of Christ.
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