Before all of you just blindly dismiss this, I encourage you to watch the following... It was done by the History Channel about this specific topic. Even the great Einstein thought the shifting of the poles was possible and Princeton has shown that Alaska used to be on the Equator.
So you don't have to watch the whole thing if you are not interested, just watch this 3 min long clip and then you can decide for yourself if you want to watch the whole program:
In any event, no one knows what will happen. But if there is an end to the world, this is far more probable than what most religions say will happen. There is much more to be said about it than just this, but hey, you get the gist.
One thing is for certain.... there will be a massive panic of fear where people of other religions will run to their churches/temples/mosques/other places of worship (despite that particular day having absolutely nothing to do with their specific religion). There might not be panic now, but wait until the time gets closer and EVERYONE sees something similar to the links above on the news day in and day out.
More than likely, the day will just come and go which is exactly what happened with Y2K (also shown over and over again on the news). Then December will be full of people doing 1 of 2 things: Either sitting at home and not Christmas shopping because they gave everything away to the poor in a last minute attempt to brown nose Jesus thinking that the world was going to end or the alternative option is that others will be packing the mall spending like crazy as they saved up all their money just in case a huge tragedy did hit and they needed the currency. Then on Christmas day, if the world is indeed ending, people will be packed in churches where the message will be "I told you so" and otherwise people will be packed in church on Christmas day where the message will be "See... Jesus saves, not the Mayans." :)
But if I had to guess a massive event other than the poles shifting and the planet in total chaos, I'll go with the Noosphere being revealed to humankind.
Bong Sow, I watched those youtube links you posted, and have to say that most of the things on that show were based on vague prophecies and speculation. I will say though that a lot of the evidence is pretty frightening- the Mayan calendar, which is even more accurate than our own, ends 12/21/12. Astronomers have confirmed that at that date the earth will cross the "equator" of the universe and may cause the poles to shift.
But besides the Mayan calendar and scientific evidence, the only other "prophecy" that caught my attention was the one internet program. Supposidly one of the people who ran it used information off of it to predict 9/11 (to be exact, they predicted during the summer of '01 that a huge event in the upcoming months would permanently change the lives of Americans). I don't remember if the program predicted the world ending in 2012, but it did predict a series of catastrophes starting in the 2008-2009 range.
Everything else on that show was pretty much BS IMO. There isn't even proof that some of those prophets even existed (one in particular was made up by an author). Also, whenever a prophet predicted a ruler by name, don't people realize that royal families could look back on that prophecy and think "Hey, someone by this name is going to be ruler in 25 years. Let's give our kid that name just in case it's him."
Back to the subject of the thread, I do think something big will happen around 12/21/12. I don't think it'll be the end of the world. At worst, millions of upon millions of deaths result from worldwide massive earthquakes and tsunamis caused by the shifting of the poles. At best, nothing happens but mass chaos erupts simply because people are expecting the end of the world.
Bong Sow, I watched those youtube links you posted, and have to say that most of the things on that show were based on vague prophecies and speculation.
Agreed. :)
I will say though that a lot of the evidence is pretty frightening- the Mayan calendar, which is even more accurate than our own, ends 12/21/12. Astronomers have confirmed that at that date the earth will cross the "equator" of the universe and may cause the poles to shift.
:)
But besides the Mayan calendar and scientific evidence, the only other "prophecy" that caught my attention was the one internet program
That has its potential flaws as well, but very interesting nonetheless. :)
Everything else on that show was pretty much BS IMO. There isn't even proof that some of those prophets even existed (one in particular was made up by an author). Also, whenever a prophet predicted a ruler by name, don't people realize that royal families could look back on that prophecy and think "Hey, someone by this name is going to be ruler in 25 years. Let's give our kid that name just in case it's him."
The made up person may or may not have been made up. The naming thing usually occured well in advance and the likelihood that they would look back is virtually zero.
The thing I found interesting was the the prophets used mind-altering substances. Though they don't mention Jesus as such, there is evidence pointing to him using these mind altering substances elsewhere by credible sources. Thus, if they were able to predict things based on this, perhaps they were tapping into a collective unconscious that surrounds us. It ties in with much of what I wrote here if you are interested:
