Soushi said:
There, that's better. I agree with you on almost all points. now, scientifically, there shouldn't be much warning if the poles do suddenly decide to shift, and even if they do, it has happened before, a few times, and life is still here. Even if it does, the magnetic field should hold for a while, protecting us from the cosmic radiation. As to it changing our DNA, from my understanding it is far more likely to kill us, but hey, who knows.
But even then, why during a galactic alignment? If there was some huge magnetic or other energetic force building up, i am pretty sure that even our admittedly poor technology would be able to detect it. And even then, i haven't heard anyone mention whether or not the galaxy would be aligned in 2012. And even so, what the fuck does a galactic alignment have to do with anything, and what is a galactic alignment when we we live in a round, disc shaped galaxy, particularly on the outer edge of it. And, even if the mayans were astronomers, how would they know? UNless Galileo rowed his ass over to latin america and stole a mayan telescope, i don't think the Mayan had the ability to judge anything more than a relatively short distance away. It is nearly impossible even with our technology to see all of our galaxy's stars, so how would the mayans know about anything, let alone have the know how to calculate down to the day when shit would go down. Our solar system lines up every once in a while, but that doesn't mean that we are boned, it just leads to more interesting horoscopes.
forgive my ranting but jeez, i find this all such bullshit that it makes my head wanna explode. Do keep in mind, i am not trying to offend you, jsut asking some questions that i don't have the answers to, and that i can't find answers to.
and, i will say this. Anyone who does want the earth to just disappear in a cloud of smoke is a lazy coward, a lazy coward who feel too sory for themselves to help other, help themselves or do anyhting other than take up oxygen and maintain a body temprature of roughly 30 degrees.
Again I feel I have to point out that the Mayans have little more to do with predicting the end of the world than by simply having a calendar. They were phenomenal astromoners however and were literaly thousands of years ahead of other civilizations at the time. It is said that their long count calender which is the one which completes it's cycle in 2012, is actually more accurate than our current Gregorian one. That aside, the Mayans believed that there were 13 or so cycles of the Earth. They lived in the 6th, we are in the 7th and are about to enter the 8th. This also corresponds with our transition into the age of Aqaurius according to today's astrologers. The Mayans believed the world would be cleansed in differing ways, mainly by floods and fires... Now we know that the Mayan civilization disappeared fairly quickly and that many of their ruins were barely even ruined over time. They did actually disapear around the time they predicted the change into the 7th age. There is approximately 5800 years between each cycle.
Now that's where it ends for the Mayans, nothing was actually predicted by them concerning 2012. It is simply the passing of a new cycle. Now I don't get why so many people get worked up over that alone.
However the scientific predictions for this time do speak for themselves. We will be seeing a lot of geological changes to the planet, this may affect us catastrophically, it may not. It may even explain global warming. After all I don't think greenhouse gases and the depletion of the ozone layer could affect Mars could it? That's right, Mars's ice caps have been reduced by 70 odd percent since the 1980's... Hmm...
As for the DNA changes, it seems a plausible theory as other species DNA has been changed over the years. According to New Age beliefs the more we prepare for it, the more likely we'll survive. As it stands, not being prepared for such changes will make the population most likely to die. Now add in the opportunity to sell you something to help with this, and you have found the end of the usefulness for that source material. Interestingly tho, the theories remain that the atlanteans may have reached this state of acension. This would also explain the sudden disappearence of the Mayans. Now whether or not we'll turn into a population of Dr Manhatten's remains to be seen but it would certainly be cool.
It is hard to describe how the galactic alignment works but suffice to say it is real and we can expect some interesting events in the years to come. It's the seeming grand orchestration of it all that makes the 2012 theories the most appealing yet. There is an awful lot riding on it, and lots of evidence to show something will happen. Regardless of whether or not the world will end, it seems to be a good point in history to take a step back and realise how far we've come and what's really the best way to progress.
Now forgetting all the theories for a minute, I think most of the adverse reaction towards believing the world will end is that people simply cannot comprehend the thought of it happening, or are scared to death of it being likely to happen any time soon. There are literally millions of ways the galaxy could deal us the short straw and have us be wiped off the face of the planet in seconds. From the ultra powerful magnetic fields produced from Jupiter, to the random waves of radiation that the milky way is constantly being bombarded with. If it wasn't for the solar winds, this would reach us. In fact the solar winds did stop for a few days in the late 80's... Which is almost precisely when we started noticing the ozone layer was being shredded.
I think the lying down and wanting for it to happen comes from many people disliking the world as they see it. Myself included. I long for the days of living of the land again, moving with the animals and having no cares other than eachother and the food on our plates. Capitolism would be but a distant nightmare and kids wouldn't go hungry becuase there wouldn't be too many mouths to feed in the first place. Ignorance is most definately bliss...
