Allena D
mmm... all the reasons you guys point at for the polar shift in 2012 are very interesting, however I don't belive in any of it, simply because the end of the word is supposed to happen ever few years!
Every single time we change centuries, or there is a sun eclipse or celestial event... or simply bacause someone somewhere wrote a profetic book pointing at a specific date or the calendar of some ancient cultures mentioned something ambiguous that some read as the end of the world, or simply because some waky religous leader thought the second coming of Christ was near.
The biggest and most recent example was W2K... the year 2000 came and went an nothing happened, and W2k was not the only armagedon theory predicted for the turn of the milenium.
Every single time we change centuries, or there is a sun eclipse or celestial event... or simply bacause someone somewhere wrote a profetic book pointing at a specific date or the calendar of some ancient cultures mentioned something ambiguous that some read as the end of the world, or simply because some waky religous leader thought the second coming of Christ was near.
The biggest and most recent example was W2K... the year 2000 came and went an nothing happened, and W2k was not the only armagedon theory predicted for the turn of the milenium.
Y2K didn't really have any prophetic backing though; it was a bunch of hype about something insignificant. Computers aren't self-aware; they can't know that they didn't exist in 1900 or 1000 or whatever the date was supposed to be. Anyone that knew about computers knew this, but the general population and media blew it out of proportion. Then the Jesus freaks caught on and did their end of the world stuff.
There are a lot of prophets from a lot of geographically isolated cultures that have predicted a great change or calamity near the date of 2012. It could be coincidence, but I don't believe in coincidence. I, however, also don't believe in the end of the world. Like the "go green, save the planet" hype; the planet doesn't need saving: we do. If the world ends, it will be our world, that being the world of human beings. Everything else will persist. Personally, I don't think our species has incarnated enough to reach the level of understanding required to shed physicality.
