The 2012 Doomsday prediction is an end of the world forecast that transcends many cultures. The Mayan calendar, one of the oldest Chinese texts, Nostradamus, different prophets, and a modern day computer program all come to around the same time for some sort of major event. Many books have been written, documentaries have aired, and news stories have covered the different theories (see 2012News). 2012 the movie further brings the 2012 prediction to the forefront.
Here are explanations the famous doomsday predictions made by different cultures throughout history:
Mayan Calendar December 21, 2012 Prediction
To the Mayans, the Maya calendar was a center of their cultural life. The Mayans were great astronomers and were able to keep precise time of the solar and lunar years, eclipses and the cycles of visible planets. The system of calendars they use is slightly more accurate than that of the Gregorian calendar (today's internationally accepted calendar), which is exemplified by the periodic Leap Year which corrects this inaccuracy. T
his accuracy, and their knowledge of astronomy, accurately predicts events in the very distant future. The last day in the Mayan's system of calendars is the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, in which the earth will be aligned with the sun and the center of the Milky Way for the first time in more than 26,000 years.
Nostradamus 2012 Prediction
Though the Nostradamus's predictions end in the year 3797, a book of symbols by Nostradamus found in 1994 has been interpreted to have meaning indicative of an end of the world scenario.
I Ching 2012 Predictive Pattern
The I Ching, known as The Book of Change to many, is an ancient text (most likely created near 2900 B.C.E) that was used mainly to predict the future.
"The book is a collection of 64 short essays assigned to 64 figures formed each of 6 continuous and/or broken lines (____ or __ __).These figures are called hexagrams.
Each hexagram corresponds to a specific life situation, therefore when consulting I-ching as oracle it leads one to his/her specific life situation and its development in time."
The relation to the December 2012 hype has to do with a linear graph that Terrance Mckenna created. This graph, which looks similar to a stock market graph and begins around the time of the books creation, uses the patterns from the I-Ching and shows peaks of the graph corresponding to world changing events; but then the graph mysteriously ends at the year 2012.
The Web Bot Project Prediction
Originally designed to predict futures in the stock market, it was discovered during the process of running the program that the program was able to make general world wide predictions. The Web Bot project is a program that sends out spiders or robots, much like a search engine does, to scan for words and phrases, including the surrounding words and phrases, in documents on the web. The ideas is that this can predict trends in behaviors, moods, and upcoming events.
One of the more famous Web Bot predictions was in June 2001, when it predicted the terrorist attacks of September 11, as it said a life altering event would occur in 60-90 days. Other predictions include the Indonesian Tsunami and the 2009 economic collapse. In reality, however, about half of the predictions prove inaccurate. For 2012, It has predicted a worldwide calamity.
Scientific Possibility
There is no debate amongst scientist that the Earth will be passing the galactic plain in 2012 and that a solar flare cycle will peak around the years 2011 and 2012, but there is debate whether there will be any effect. No one really knows if the solar flares will affect satellites and more, or what affect the galactic alignment will have.
For scientific arguments against a 2012 doomsday, visit Universe Today.
Many end of world predictions have come to pass, previously. Some had to do with religious interpretations and some had to do with the collapse of technology or an invasion of aliens. The 2012 prediction is another that may come to pass or it may not. All that can be done is to live life as enthusiastically as possible with hope for the future.
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