Well, there seems to be a lot of focus in this thread on the mayan calendar, but there\'s much more than that. (Understand I\'m very skeptical and certainly not trying to convince anyone here, just pointing out the other sources)
- the mayan calendar seems to end on December 21, 2012
- The Hopi Indians predicted a cataclysmic even on that date
- The I-Ching, the oldest chinese text and prophetic book, predicts a cataclysm on that date
- Albert Einstein made predictions about a sudden shift of polls and the effect on the earth
- A computer software application called \"spiders\" that roves the net looking for tidbits of information to try to predict market trends has predicted a cataclysm on that date. This same program predicted 9/11 and other such recent events. But since it measures buzz, it would make sense that 2012 would come up
- And finally, modern geophysicists (and this is the one that got me interested) are talking about a rare and rather sudden (perhaps within a matter of hours) reversal of the polls on that date resulting from an alignment of the Earth with the sun on one side and a massive black hole within the Milky Way system on the other. This apparently happens only once every 27,800 years or so so there is little record or the last time it happened save for some geological evidence which appears to have been fairly dramatic.
I find it all interesting anyway.
@ steelcult - actually the way I understand it, this time they can point to a specific date because of a specific and regular event that will trigger it. As I mentioned the alignment issue above. I may be incorrect, but my understanding is that this pole reversal will be rather a good bit more sudden than the typical reversal and at it\'s best could be undetectable unless you are holding a compass. At it\'s worst it could possible result in a total shift of the earth\'s crust 180 degrees. That would suck. Scientists don\'t fully understand it.
@ dragonsreach - in all fairness, Jehovah\'s witnesses can\'t even foresee the reaction they\'ll get when they knock on people\'s doors at the worst possible times so I\'d largely disregard their other such predictions.
@ Naukhel - Being a theologian by educational background (my degree fields are all in systematic theology) I\'d have to differ with your interpretation of events. The imminent return of Christ was prophesied both before and after his death, burial and resurrection along with a number of other events of fairly major import. Your transliterate spelling of the Hebrew word for Messiah is fair enough and while it\'s true that they didn\'t recognize him when he came (as they confused the prophecies of this first and second coming and were looking for the conquering Messhiach that he will be at the second coming), they remain the chosen people of God (which means only that God has chosen to reveal himself to a watching world through that nation...and if you look at it, it\'s not that tough to see even now that the majority of them are rather agnostic - how in the world has that nation survived the persecution they\'ve endured?) and many will indeed be found at the right hand of God based on the completed work of Christ. Not to get all \"Jesus Freak\" but I just thought I\'d chime in on your ideas. Reading Isaiah, Thessalonians, Daniel and Revelation actually makes the distinctions pretty clear between the first and second comings of Messhiach and how they will differ.
Sorry for any spelling errors...this is a friggin book...I\'m not going to proofread it.
So back to the thread point: What do you think of all the other non-mayan claims? ???
