Wikipedia: 2012 phenomenon
Yep, one year from today, the world will end. This is the time I've been anticipating my whole life, ever since I heard about this stuff from my mom when I was a kid. She let me read her copy of "Chariots of the Gods", and knew all sorts of stuff about the Mayans, and inspired me to read more about it. (Dang, wish I knew where that book was now; I don't have it)
Now, what do I REALLY think will happen next year? Nothing out of the ordinary. The sun will rise, the sun with set, and the earth will keep flying through space just as it has for billions of years. Although, hopefully, there's some small chance that Ron Paul would be President-Elect at the time.
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I hope you're more correct about the end of time than you are about the age of the earth.
That said, I don't think the world is going to end a year from today. Of course it "might", but I don't think the Mayans had any special insight on the matter. Since I'm not a premanllinialisit I don't buy into the hoop jumping that some of these "predictors" do. In fact the best patternist theory I've come across is based on mixing a traditional Jewish hermeneutic method with the date of Jesus death. Which is interesting but "no man knows the hour" all are guessing.
Heh. Well, I don't have any problem with the universe being 13.7 billion years old, and the eart 4.5 billion. For most of that time, the universe was a sea of hydrogen and the lower elements on the periodic table. I figure God needed 9 billion years to create all the heavier elements in the inside of stars so that He could form the Earth. I also figure that He needed a couple billion years to prepare Earth for life. Sure, he could have done it "instantly" but then again, why? He is outside of time, so what is a few billion years to Him?
I just don't think that science is so far off base that when we figure most things out, we can't trust our own eyes and results. Where scientists fail, though, is in not being skeptical enough. Yet many of them "know" for sure that there is no God, even though everything they are trying to figure out was created by Him.
As for next year, it may mean nothing with respect to the Mayan calendar, but there are a LOT of interesting things happening right now, and 2012 may be very eventful nonetheless.
I truly fear we are headed to WW3 and I don't see how it can be stopped. We have a bunch of fools running things who believe that war will revive the economy!!! Idiots!
Res: "Which is interesting but "no man knows the hour" all are guessing."
Key word there being "man".
As will soon be shown, though, the Mayans were not men -- they are the descendants of ancient aliens.
2012: The Return of ET
We'll have to agree to disagree on the age and dating thing. I've studied this a little bit and the whole "scientific" method of arriving at the dates in question is based on invoking enough fudge factor in an effort to rule out a creator. Darwin started out with 100,000 years and now they've got 13 billion. When they try to date epochs they can't even agree on order or what which events occurred when both in terms of biology and geology. I'm not anti-science, but I've yet to read anything on dating methods or progression of development etc that isn't subject to some major flaws either in methodology or logic.
Either way, I'm afraid that 2012 is going to be interesting. We've gone along way down a path that only leads to destruction. Turning around and going a different direction doesn't seem like something the nation is going to do. I hope I'm wrong.
"As will soon be shown, though, the Mayans were not men --"
Hey, next time I come down can you get me into Star-Gate Command? I want to go off world this time if I could.
Astro,
I forgot to add in my post, I'm not entirely sold on 6,000 years. I'm just not a billions and billions of years guy either.
You know, they used to give public tours through part of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, but that stopped soon after 9/11.
But they don't even use the CMOC for primary ops, any more -- they're in a building at Peterson, now.
Can I go off world too? Not one with Goua'uld, Jaffa, or Ori to fight, just a nice one where we can start over.
Y'all should check out the Vault-Co blog I have linked on the right. The guy there has a lot of crazy yet interesting theories.
WB,
Thats just the cover story.
Astro,
I checked out your link. I didn't read all of it, but what I did read wasn't real wacked out, or very far from the mark as far as I could tell.
I think sometimes people are branded as conspiracy nuts etc as a way to marginialize them. This guy seems to be making intelligent conections but he is presenting it in a way that comes off as angry and unbalanced. Most people would read him and think "he's a Kook", not because of the facts he's writting about but because he comes off with a harsh tone.
Unless you have a link to a good nutty story he's written, he's probably making intelligent connections but he will always be on the margin because of his presentation.
If you want mind blowing stuff from a top rate intelligent presenter with very solid education and professional credentials, check out Chuck Missler's stuff. I think you have to pay for most of it, but its on the money and enough to make you wonder.
Res Ipsa
Yeah, I read Chuck Missler a while back, I need to add some more Eccentric links. :)
Yeah, I read Chuck Missler a while back, I need to add some more Eccentric links. :)
I decided that the age of the earth wasn't really worth investing in after looking at carbon dating and realizing it relied on the assumption that certain things had been constant for at least the last 10,000 years, -with no way to prove that they were indeed constant-. Add on top of that the fact that all of these predictions and scientific facts are arrived at by fallible man and I just shrug my shoulders and go 'well I'll probably find out someday straight from the source.'
I don't have a problem with believing the earth and the universe are older than 6,000 years, because the description in Genesis might simply be a description of the formation of our solar system, or galaxy, not the universe as a whole - and also because I too believe that God exists outside of time - and I also believe that often, when we think we know for sure how something functions, we have in fact only a minimal understanding of it. For all I know, the basic human understanding of time itself is completely flawed... that said, I have no problem believing the earth is only 6,000 years old, too. My salvation doesn't rest on feeling certain about the origins of the earth, life on earth, or the age of the universe. :)
That should have said "age of the earth" not "origins of the earth" because I am quite certain as to the origin. :P
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