Everyone can feel it coming. It’s thick in the air. We brush it off. We say things like: “They’ve been saying that for a hundred years.” But those lines are starting to lose meaning. What if the end is coming? It seems like we all feel it. At least we’ve heard about it from someone, or read on it.
According to Wiccan Practioner Nick Radtke, a local, “I (Nick) believe people mess up this Earth way too much, and now it’s time for the Earth to be cleansed once again.”
Nick continued: “Based on prophecies by Nostradamus, in the next few years, there will be an event. He has never been wrong.” Though Nick added, “He (Nostradamus) has been misinterpreted in the past.”
The number on some people’s minds is 2012. What is the big question of 2012? What does it mean? Some say the exact date and time will be December 21st 2012 at 11:11 AM GMT. The Mayan Calendar does not actually end on this date in 2012, but on this date there will be a close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (The Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic path of our Sun, which ancient Mayans recognized as a Sacred Tree of Life, according to Great Dreams dot com.
This is a lot of technical information. What does it really mean? It means that there will be some sort of alignment of the planets in 2012, still others argue there will be no alignment and none will come for another 1,000 years. It’s a big mess, full of half-truths and egotistical pessimism. Who came up with this crap anyway? A moron? 2012?
Maybe it’s fun to think about? I think we enjoy the thrill of the possibility of a lifestyle outside the cramped one we are in now. A post-apocalyptic world seems appealing, where anything is possible, and perhaps a small group of us could start again.
Is that really what the hope has come down to? The system is so desperately corrupted in all ways that now the youth of today pray for apocalypse, just for a chance to try and get it right? Because we feel so ineffectual in this society? We feed like sheeple. So empty, and alone. So small. Dumb and grazing.
It is really sad when a world of people or at least some of them are actually looking forward to the end of times just to rid themselves of their miserable lives on this planet. An end to the suffering. The final victory over evil? Who knows! But it’s on everyone’s minds here in town at the coffee shops, diners and smoke shacks.
“Are we there yet?”
“No.”
Perhaps we should be living our lives with the idea in mind, that humanity will continue on. That we will prevail in the end. Perhaps most do believe this. If so, we live our lives, if not, we ready for the end. Your call, your choice, your voice. Let it be heard.
Good read.
I do wonder if the 2012 prediction will turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, I do think it’s important to understand 2012 in the context of any other internet “meme”. It can be compared to the Hamster Dance which was popular in the late 90s. People need something to occupy their time.
All I say to people who bring up 2012, is y2k.
So much for an objective article. You dont even bother to look at what most people would say are ominous. There are also lots of people who think that the world will not end but a new era will begin. 12/21/12.
Take a look at the astrological charts and you will find very ominous signs of our fate.
I think that humanity will prevail. I think we need that we need to keep in mind that there are many positive things that we take for granted.People helping those that are less fortunate, and others that give up there lives so that we may be free.
The only thing that is going to happen in 2012 is a bunch of human stuff that does not matter to anything beyond the human conception of reality, and then it will pass like any other year in human history.
The “alignment of the planets” of which you speak is actually an alignment of the plane of the ecliptic and a band of dust clouds in the Milky Way… the Mayans held a lot of interest in astronomy (along with virtually EVERY OTHER HISTORICAL CULTURE) and based their calendar off of occurrences like this, and this date is when some believe their Long Count calendar would reset and begin again. The problem is that the Mayans probably had no conception of precession and a more precise alignment has already happened… in 1998.
“and a more precise alignment has already happened… in 1998.”
Epic win for modern science.