Is the apocolypse in 2012?

tell me all you know about the apocolypse happening in 2012, because I've heard over and over again, the world's ending in 2012...not that its a bad thing...

Me, I believe the Bible's account of the last days in the book of Revelation - so, as I look at what's going on the evening news - doom and gloom, wars and rumors of wars, no one knows but it appears the Rapture may be soon - then after that the anti-christ coming to power for 7 years - so, even if today, that would put it at least 2014 - just my belief/opinion...Hope this helps !!

Hmm... there's an impending apocalypse? I never heard anything about that...

*Checks diary*

Odd, it's not in there. Captainassassin, what say you?

Simple rule: Always rubbish anyone talking about an apocalypse. If you're right, they look stupid. If they're right (hah!), well, they're not exactly going to be around to call you on it, are they?

omg people just because therer is an eclipse, doesnt mean were all going to die really its called ELECTRICITY all an eclipse is when the moon moves over the sun and it goes black we all LIVE in darkness untill you turn your LIGHT on!!! really people

never mind about that answer I thought you were talking about and eclispe im realllyyy sssooorrryruyyy I hope there is not and epocolype!!!1

from what I have head it isent the end of man-kind but we will have a differnt point of view of the world in otuherwods a dramatic change for us

About the eclipse... You may be able to run your lights on but you know you need sun tobe warm and everything is going to freeze!!! Unless you have plans with the electric blanket! BUt what about food... and water unless your drink ice cubes... how you going to have sex? In dark maybe but hope your boyfriend wasnt outside because he will be really hard down there lol!!! HOPE THAT HELPED!

The world isn't ending in 2012...
Why would anyone think that?

Man does not know the time or date of the returning of the Messiah.
I'm not going to guess when its going to come cause chances are, our guesses are wrong. In fact, he'll probably come when everyone least expects it.

Thanks for scaring me. Lol, Im kidding, but I haven't heard anything about it.

No one knows when the end is...

Nobody knows...

And for the Christians, the bible SAYS that you won't know until it happens. So overall, its pointless to look at current events, as if they're supposed to correlate with some deluded biblical prophecy.

*continues working on PFB Cannon*

well it says on the mayan calander that they predict that the world will on end in 1221012 for us that is dec. 12,12 and since they'er calander is much more accurate then ours is a lot of people over the years have taken this seriously

The Mayan calendar ends in December of 2012, and many take that to be the end of the world. However, there is an Egyptian tomb which has a calendar with vague references to events & occurrences that goes right through to the year 3000-something before it ends. And there have been cultures which we have found calendars of that end many years ago.

Just because a culture's calendar ends at a certain year or date, doesn't mean that that culture thought it was the end of the world. Remember, people thought the end of the world was coming many times before... the year 2000 is a classic example.

So, mostly... its just scaremongering. Once 2012 comes, and goes, people will latch onto the next "doomsday" date.

*sigh*

Yep... the cycle of stupidity will continue...

Until lexi gets fed up and presses that shiny red button.

actually my mom was watching on the history channel about notradomus if I spelled it right... But he predicted all whole bunch of things that happened at the right time... like the 9/11 plane crash he predicted happened... And he predicted at the year 2012 the planets were going to line up and make the sybol of a cross and the world will go by fire... I HOPE NOT ... Not planning on dieing at age of 20...

Nostradamus did not predict the Sept 11 2001 attacks: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nostradamus.asp

Even if any of those were real predictions by nostradamus, his predictions are sufficiently vague, and the translations sufficiently flexible that predictions are only ever matched up with events afterwards - they have absolutely no predictive power, just the desire of people to try and make them match.

The 2012 Doomsday prophesy is from the Mayans. They were way more advanced in mathmetics and cesestial prediction than we are today. One of their calendars was deciphered and interpreted to say the last katun would end on 12/21/12. Supposedly astrophysicists have predicted an alignment of some major celestial bodies during this time and the concern is that it is unknown what the effect will be. The gravitational pull of celestial bodies in space have a major affect on other bodies near them, and it is not evident if there will be an accumulative effect from the alignment. One train of thought is that the magnetic poles of the earth will shift, either partially, I. e. 90 degrees or a 180 degree shift, where the north and south poles reverse. Either way the minimum effect will be major problems for computers and similar electronics. Another thought is that it will turn on the black hole in the center of our galaxy; it is now dorment.. The concern is that the end of one Katun always signifies a major negative effect. Does this mean an Apocalyptic doomsday? Or does it signify the beginning of a new era. Only time will tell if anything will actually happen.

When the sun's twin binary star (dubbed 'Nemesis') orbits back around and it's gravitational pull flings the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter throughout the galaxy, there's a chance one or more could slam into Earth. As we know, this would not be good. But it's only a matter of time.

The above post is a good example of scaremongering. The Mayans were quite clever with celestial mechanics and mathematics, but could not possibly be more advanced at either of those two things than we are today. And the supposed 2012 "apocalypse" is a misconception - according to the Maya there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of the 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.

As for the black hole thing - how can an event isolated in a solar system millions of light years away from the centre of the galaxy turn on a black hole?

Elone: No they weren't. They were sophisticated for their time, but nowhere as sophisticated as we are now. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Mathematics for detailed info and references.

The gravitational pull of planets on each other is totally insignificant when it comes to any concern on earth: They don't even affect tides noticeably, and there is absolutely no reason they'd affect Earth's magnetic pole. Here's an excellent page debunking planetary alignment myths: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planets.html

Finally, there's no such thing as a "dormant black hole", and you can't turn one on and off, let alone with an insignificant alignment in a backwater solar system.

kamex: There's absolutely no evidence of any twin star to the sun. If it was anything bright, we'd see it, anyway, and even if it was burned out or a black-hole, we'd notice its effects on the rest of the solar system.