Damnati
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- Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:16:52 +0000
Revelations isn't one to be taken too incredibly seriously. Name any one of the signs of the coming apocalypse, and you can come up with a dozen different events that could be described that way. For instance, I remember one passage about two pillars of fire that will rock the world, or something like that. And everyone automatically thinks the World Trade Center. It could also be two nukes going off. Or two different rockets with advanced technology going into orbit. Or hell, even two funeral pyres. Every prediction in Revelation is like this. Every one is just vague enough to mean so many different things, it's impossible to say with any degree of certainty that any of them are being fulfilled.
As for Planet X, yeah, it might happen. Apophis might happen as well (asteroid about the size of a football stadium, predicted around 2029 I think, and comes back around 2036, both of which will be close encounters, but as of now, a relatively small chance of being hit. Though it could get as close as brushing against our atmosphere. Or a gamma ray burst could fry the planet. Or a super massive sun flare could take out all of our power grids (2012 is the next period that the Sun will be highly active in solar flares, I believe). There's so many dangers from space, focusing on just one of them doesn't do that much good. Besides, if an entire planet is coming at us, there's not really much we can do about that. I can't even begin to guess how many nuclear explosions it would take to steer it off course, even if we start hitting it before it's halfway through the solar system.
The Mayan Calendar, on the other hand, one doesn't need to worry all that much. The world doesn't end. There is no reason we should think that Mayan Calendar is proclaiming the end of the world. In fact, it seems to be evident that this calendar is merely marking the end of a 5,126 year era. A pretty big deal in and of itself, but not one that says death for humanity. The very idea of eras is that when one ends, another begins. Can't very well do that if the world ends. Hell, maybe seeing a planet in our solar system we haven't observed yet will bring to light new data, marking the end of this era.
There is no reason to think the world will end on a specific date. Because, with the hostility of space, it could end before I get to finish typing this. We just don't know. So fretting over a single day is pointless, unless there is some actual reason we should.
As for Planet X, yeah, it might happen. Apophis might happen as well (asteroid about the size of a football stadium, predicted around 2029 I think, and comes back around 2036, both of which will be close encounters, but as of now, a relatively small chance of being hit. Though it could get as close as brushing against our atmosphere. Or a gamma ray burst could fry the planet. Or a super massive sun flare could take out all of our power grids (2012 is the next period that the Sun will be highly active in solar flares, I believe). There's so many dangers from space, focusing on just one of them doesn't do that much good. Besides, if an entire planet is coming at us, there's not really much we can do about that. I can't even begin to guess how many nuclear explosions it would take to steer it off course, even if we start hitting it before it's halfway through the solar system.
The Mayan Calendar, on the other hand, one doesn't need to worry all that much. The world doesn't end. There is no reason we should think that Mayan Calendar is proclaiming the end of the world. In fact, it seems to be evident that this calendar is merely marking the end of a 5,126 year era. A pretty big deal in and of itself, but not one that says death for humanity. The very idea of eras is that when one ends, another begins. Can't very well do that if the world ends. Hell, maybe seeing a planet in our solar system we haven't observed yet will bring to light new data, marking the end of this era.
There is no reason to think the world will end on a specific date. Because, with the hostility of space, it could end before I get to finish typing this. We just don't know. So fretting over a single day is pointless, unless there is some actual reason we should.
