Today's Agenda: 2012--End Of The World?

                       As I'm sure you and everybody else in the world are aware, December 21st of this year marks what many people believe the ancient Mayan calender dates as the end of the world,  a scenario which was played out remarkably well in the 2009 film "2012."<------Sarcasm.  Being as it's only January, the supposed event isn't getting much media attention yet.  However, I have a feeling that as the months and days start to pull us closer and closer to this date, there will be widespread panic and mayhem from both religious activists, who believe that this is going to be the biblical Armagedon or Judgment Day , and then the people who just follow along with the conspiracy theories brought about by the poor interpretation of the Mayan calender.  With so many different theories and beliefs surrounding this day, how do we know which one to believe?
                   First, let me put some of your minds at ease concerning the whole Mayan calender end date.  No where on this ancient stone tablet is there any such symbol or marking that translates into an end of the world type prophecy.  It simply marks the end of their civilizations calender, the same thing as how our current calender ends every year on December 31st.  Their calenders were obviously measured way differently than our current calender, as there was no such thing as January or December 5000 years ago.  Also, this calender was just one of many different calenders the Mayans kept, all of which have ended already.  This particular one is known as "The Long Count" calender, measured in roughly a 5100 year cycle, which just so happens to possibly end on 12-21-2012.  I say possibly, because now a theory is circulating that the previous calculations of the end date of the Mayan calender could be off anywhere between 50 to 200 years, maybe more.
                 To conclude this particular theory, hears a little piece of an article I found online


               "While some doomsday theorists predict the apocalypse next year, most Mexican archaeological authorities say that the 2012 reference on a 1,300-year-old stone tablet only marks the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar, not the end of the world.

'The world will not end. It is an era,' said Yeanet Zaldo, a tourism spokeswoman for the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancun. 

'For us, it is a message of hope.' "

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2077034/Maya-end-world-countdown-Mexico-predicts-tourism-boom-2012.html#ixzz1kLozIBPb

Maybe it's just me, but I would think that Mexican archaeological authorities, who live in the general region once inhabited by the Mayans, probably have a better understand of the calender than a bunch of doomsday theorists who jump to quickly to conclusions to back up their end of the world beliefs.

                  Now, that we have that out of the way, what else is there to really discuss.  There's the always entertaining supposed prophecies by Nostradomaus, which apparently also foretold the end on this date, with his quatrain time measurements.  First, his writings are so incredibly cryptic and vague, that anybody could point to an event that has already passed, and say, "See!!  That's what he meant!"  Any person with a pen and paper could right down some short little paragraph about some very poorly described biblical speech event, and probably have an event happen several, if not hundreds of years in the future that somewhat might be able to very loosely be translated to match up.  Second, his so called prophecies go on for another thousand years past his "Apocalypse" prediction.

                     Then, there's the numerous religions that now state that the Mayan calender coincides with each of their takes on the end, including the Christians with the Book of Revaltion.  The only question I have about that, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it written in the Bible somewhere that NO MAN would know the time of Judgment Day.  I am not religious whatsoever, but researched that around the time of the whole Harold Camping, May 21 end of the world prediction.

                     I'm not going to delve any further into this subject for now, but I would like to know what your thoughts are on this whole thing.  What do you believe will happen in December?  I left out the whole galactic alignment that supposedly happens in December as well.  If you know more about that, let me know.  Being as this is such an important subject concerning our existance, I would love to get some of your own personal theories.  My belief:  THE WHOLE THING IS BULLSHIT!



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