Hey this is fire boy 11 again. We are one quarter of the way through the year 2012 and with December 21st 2012, the predicted doomsday drawing closer the following post will be regarding the "2012 phenomenon".
There are two main reasons as two why people speculate that December 21st 2012 is going to in fact be the end of the world. The first reason is that the Mayan Long count calendar ends on this date. This to me doesnt make any sense at all. I will tell you why after a moment.The mayan civilization was a very developed civilization. The people were highly interested in numbers and astronomy. Further they made many calendars. People beleive that since their calender ends on that date the world to will end. So i have a calendar on my desk last year. The last date in the calendar was December 31st 2011. By the logic of said cynics the world should end on that date. Predicting the end of the world based on the Mayan calender is as sensless in my opinion to predicting the end of the world based on my calender.
The mext doomsday theory is that on the thirt frst og December 2012, the sun, the Earth and the centre of the milky way will be linearly alligned for the first time in 26,000 years. As a result of this the world will somehow come to an end. Thats how vague these predictions are.Man has not been observing this for so much time and hence we speculate. However i beleive that this doesnt mean that its going to result in the end of the world.
Another thing i would like to point out is that there have been thousands of dooomsday predictions in the past. CE 1000, 1666, 1910, 1924, 1954, 1990, 2000 have all been predicted to be the end of the world. However we are all still here. 2003 was another year which was predicted to be the end of the wworld. In May 2003 the planet Nibiru was predicted to crash into the Earth's surface. However when this didnt happen the apocalypse was quitely moved to a later date. There is no difference in my opinion between these past predictions and the 2012 doomsday predictions, except for the fact that the latter has had a movie based on it.
I was watching a video on youtube (link to that in the comment section) on some other topic regarding why people tend to easily be pessimistic.This is because of a part of our brain which will beleive in the worst case scenario without much evidence but will not be opttimistic inspite of ample evidence. The video goes on to talk about how this might have been useful when man was living in forests but is of no use today. The video ends by telling us that the future will be in better than we think. This applies very well here. People will belive that 2012 will be the end of the world inspite of the fact that there is ample evidence against it or to put it in a better way there is no legitimate reason to be afraid.
To sum it up i think that that 2012 being the eng of the worl is nonsense. Even NASA has gone out and declared that there is no reason to fear.
Right so thanks for reading. If you liked it follow my blog and do all that good stuff. leave a comment regarding your opinions or even better write a blog post and leave the link in the comments section. Ive put up a poll on this topic please leave your vote....
There are two main reasons as two why people speculate that December 21st 2012 is going to in fact be the end of the world. The first reason is that the Mayan Long count calendar ends on this date. This to me doesnt make any sense at all. I will tell you why after a moment.The mayan civilization was a very developed civilization. The people were highly interested in numbers and astronomy. Further they made many calendars. People beleive that since their calender ends on that date the world to will end. So i have a calendar on my desk last year. The last date in the calendar was December 31st 2011. By the logic of said cynics the world should end on that date. Predicting the end of the world based on the Mayan calender is as sensless in my opinion to predicting the end of the world based on my calender.
The mext doomsday theory is that on the thirt frst og December 2012, the sun, the Earth and the centre of the milky way will be linearly alligned for the first time in 26,000 years. As a result of this the world will somehow come to an end. Thats how vague these predictions are.Man has not been observing this for so much time and hence we speculate. However i beleive that this doesnt mean that its going to result in the end of the world.
Another thing i would like to point out is that there have been thousands of dooomsday predictions in the past. CE 1000, 1666, 1910, 1924, 1954, 1990, 2000 have all been predicted to be the end of the world. However we are all still here. 2003 was another year which was predicted to be the end of the wworld. In May 2003 the planet Nibiru was predicted to crash into the Earth's surface. However when this didnt happen the apocalypse was quitely moved to a later date. There is no difference in my opinion between these past predictions and the 2012 doomsday predictions, except for the fact that the latter has had a movie based on it.
I was watching a video on youtube (link to that in the comment section) on some other topic regarding why people tend to easily be pessimistic.This is because of a part of our brain which will beleive in the worst case scenario without much evidence but will not be opttimistic inspite of ample evidence. The video goes on to talk about how this might have been useful when man was living in forests but is of no use today. The video ends by telling us that the future will be in better than we think. This applies very well here. People will belive that 2012 will be the end of the world inspite of the fact that there is ample evidence against it or to put it in a better way there is no legitimate reason to be afraid.
To sum it up i think that that 2012 being the eng of the worl is nonsense. Even NASA has gone out and declared that there is no reason to fear.
Right so thanks for reading. If you liked it follow my blog and do all that good stuff. leave a comment regarding your opinions or even better write a blog post and leave the link in the comments section. Ive put up a poll on this topic please leave your vote....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6RxfpzF-Hs&list=UUkSj-DR2aS3_wPmAE7d7Qlg&index=6&feature=plcp
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