The Mayan Prophecy...December 21st 2012?

[Ayko]

Here is a short essay written by my brother DUXe (not Marcel the phony) taken from my internet forum..

The Mayan Prophecy

According to many New Age believers, the Mayan Prophecy states that the world as we know it will change on December 21, 2012. This is not a new phenomena; as landmark dates draw near, end of the world theories creep out of the woodwork with astonishing popularity.

This particular theory, though, has been around for more than 5000 years. It began when the ancient Mayans plotted our position in the Milky Way and launched the Mayan calendar. However, the astrological prediction has since been exaggerated and redefined by the media.

The Mayans believed and prophecized that around the year 1999 AD, mankind would have 13 years to recognize our own patterns of self destruction. Then, starting at the winter solstice 2012, marking a major alignment (or alliance) in our solar system, our entire lives would be tested and only those most in touch with their spiritual faith would survive. They claim a natural or man-made disaster will occur (although no-one can agree on the exact nature or date of the event) tearing apart the civilized world and taking us back to hunter-gatherer days or worse.

The prophecy is not unlike the Judgement Days discussed in Bible Revelations Scripture as well as the predictions from Nostradamus for the first part of the 21st century. They also describe a space journey led by two soldierss of Heaven to rescue the innocent and faithful that bring them to a "new Earth" or planet where peace and harmony shall reign for over a thousand years. A new planet and star system would explain the need for a new calender.

In any case, December 12th 2012 is a turning point, and if 1999 marks a point for the turning then perhaps so does 13 years after or 2025. We doubt anything picturesque or explosive will happen on December 21st, 2012, but we do know for a fact that big changes are going to offer themselves to mankind as our society crumbles around us. Just take a look around. Many are dying and suffering while others are working more and more while a few are richer than ever before. Many will die quick. Many will suffer slowly. Many will be rewarded. Perhaps this turning point symbolizes a change of "tide" where the first shall be the last and the last shall be the first, generally speaking. You get the idea...

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[fushingfeef]

Tell you what. If the world ends, I'll buy you a Coke.

Seriously, doomsday prophecies are nothing new, neither is the idea that "things keep getting worse". People have been saying this for thousands of years. It's always easy to look at the latest headlines and conclude that things are getting worse, society is falling apart, the world is ending.

I'm not saying things are getting better, or worse. Society and the world are in constant change. We as humans can only try to hold onto what we know, and that quickly becomes yesterday's news.

[Todash]

Tell you what. If the world ends, I'll buy you a Coke.

This does not seem like a legit offer.

[Todash]

I heard something really interesting on our local NPR station a few days ago. They were talking to an anthropologist, and he said that really, the "end of days" thing is a more recent, Western interpretation, and that the prophecy itself simply refers to some kind of change, possibly a change of consciousness.

Either way, I put no credence in it. Mayans were just people, and astrology is not a science. I'm not saying there's no such thing as predictive prophecy; I'm just saying this ain't it, I don't think. Still ... I wouldn't mind a change of consciousness overall. More general thinkery would be A-okay with me.

[Shasta]

I heard something really interesting on our local NPR station a few days ago. They were talking to an anthropologist, and he said that really, the "end of days" thing is a more recent, Western interpretation, and that the prophecy itself simply refers to some kind of change, possibly a change of consciousness.

Either way, I put no credence in it. Mayans were just people, and astrology is not a science. I'm not saying there's no such thing as predictive prophecy; I'm just saying this ain't it, I don't think. Still ... I wouldn't mind a change of consciousness overall. More general thinkery would be A-okay with me.

I actually think there is a change of conciousness going on. Or maybe I just want to think that. I feel like people ARE trying to change the way we treat our environment but that it's a long, slow struggle. I think people are waking up and realizing we can end ourselves if we keep going on our path of destruction.

At least, I hope we are waking up. I really do wish on Friday everyone would wake up and say, okay, we've got to change.

[Autumn Gust]

My mother told me that some group had proclaimed a certain day for the world to end when I was a baby. She said she didn't really believe it, but on that day, just in case, she made sure we were all bathed and wearing fresh, clean clothes. I guess she just wanted to make sure we were presentable in the face of total destruction!

[kingricefan]

I actually think there is a change of conciousness going on. Or maybe I just want to think that. I feel like people ARE trying to change the way we treat our environment but that it's a long, slow struggle. I think people are waking up and realizing we can end ourselves if we keep going on our path of destruction.

At least, I hope we are waking up. I really do wish on Friday everyone would wake up and say, okay, we've got to change.

I'm probably gonna change my underwear, does that count? I already posted this on another thread, I just think the guy that was making the calendar got tired and took a break, then decided that someone else in the next (to him anyway) 1,000 or so years would have enough fortitude to take up the next part!

[champ1966]

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[if-so-Grrl]

Ah, but things ARE getting worse; haven't you been paying attention? We're in the midst of a mass extinction, the climate is changing at an alarming rate ( and as a result we are seeing more devastating storms), seas are warming and on the rise, which could have some serious impacts on the base of the food web...and we have no one to blame but ourselves. And we aren't doing a damned thing about it. I don't believe we can destroy the planet - she'll recover in time. But we certainly do have the capacity to destroy ourselves.

[Todash]

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.