Posted on 11/17/2009 12:57:21 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
NASA scientists are sick of being asked if the world is going to end in 2012 – so much in fact, they've published an article on their website explaining just why it's a load of rubbish.
The release of Roland Emmerich's blockbuster film 2012, in which John Cusack's character Jackson Curtis has to deal with the end of the world, has only made matters worse.
There are several theories as to how the world is supposed to end, most of which focus on a particular date - December 21. The best-known is that relating to the Mayan 'long-count' calendar, which some say ends on December 20 and begins anew the following day – much like our modern calendar ends on December 31, and begins anew the next day.
Unfortunately for its modern-day adherents, it was already out of use by the time of Spanish colonisation in the 1500s, and there is little consensus on the exact start date of the current long-count cycle or what its renewal actually meant to the ancient Mayan civilisation.
NASA points out that doomsday was originally set for May 2003, but combined with a different Mayan calendar and shifted to 2012 when nothing happened.
Another theory says a planetary alignment will impact the Earth negatively, but according to NASA no such alignments are going to happen in the next few decades.
Nor will crossing the galactic plane (when the solar system crosses the centre line of the Milky Way galaxy) cause any problems, as that happens every year with no consequence.
(Excerpt) Read more at 3news.co.nz ...
It is also the date the biblical calendar sets as the end of the 6th millennial day and the year that Tibetan monk prophecies focus on.
The prophecies of St. Malachi predicts 2012 to be the year of the end of age.
Ptolemy believed 2012 to be the dawn of the age of Aquarius.
Jewish Sages say that 2012 to be the year of redemption.
The list goes on.
2012 should be and interesting year.
Guess if you lose, we ALL do.
I’ll take that bet but, will need your account records and pin numbers to verify.
“NASA scientists are sick of being asked if the world is going to end in 2012”
Why would anyone ask these fools? They have no credibility whatsoever.
Do you work for Nasa?
“2012 is also the end of the Sumerian calendar, Cherokee calendar, Aztec calendar and the Jubilee calendar.”
So, all these groups and more are/were prophetic liberals whose conceptual world ends when 0bama leaves office? What a tragedy for them.
Is this the equivalent of CNN fact checking SNL?
I have a calendar on my desk that ends on December 31, 2009.
So what does that mean?
I, for one, would hate to see the kind of behavior that would come from the people who believe the world will end in 2012 in the months leading up to it. You think it’s bad now? If Godless people think they have nothing to lose, they’ll literally act like there’s no tomorrow - much like Obama is spending now.
Could you provide a source for that please? I Googled "tibetan buddhism prophecies end of world 2012" and all I found was a humorous, but serious, debunking of the idea that any Buddhist prophecy indicates an end to the world in 2012. It is somewhat long and detailed but the following two paragraphs sum up the author's conclusion.
The good news is, a few pages down, the Kalachakra tantra is supposed to last at least another 150 years on earth, or longer. This is good. It also says that Rudracakrin, the future 25th Rigden king of Shambhala, is living in the south -- perhaps in Goa? Mysore? Boca Raton?I don't mean to make light of this prophecy. It definitely means something, many possible things, with regard to the world of facts (snang) and possibilities (srid). But as the first Kongtrul was known to say, prophecies are difficult to trust...they don't come true unless many conditions are fulfilled. So we don't need to let the world go to hell in a handbasket just yet.
(bolding is mine)
But nowhere did I say that "Buddhist prophecy indicates an end to the world in 2012."
In fact nowhere in my post did I mention that end of the world.
Look at my post again.
OK, fair enough about the end of the world thing. Still, I didn’t find any notable Tibetan Buddhist prophecies for 2012. Just wondering what your source for that is.
Arrrgh!I don’t wanna die when I’m only 36!!!
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