http://socyberty.com/folklore/why-the-2012-apocalypse-will-not-happen/ Thu, 31 May 2012 10:34:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://socyberty.com/folklore/why-the-2012-apocalypse-will-not-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-216795 Jason Gibson Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:48:11 +0000 http://socyberty.com/folklore/why-the-2012-apocalypse-will-not-happen/#comment-216795 Interesting and sort of lightly informed thoughts you have there. I am not saying that the 2012 "End of Days" will happen, but I also am not saying that it won't. I just want to point out a few issues here: 1) Nostradamus was born in 1503, and died in 1566. His quatrains were written in 1550-1556. That is a long time before the tragic events of 9/11/01. Based on that info alone, most followers of his way who are not highly knowledgeable of his writings give him a margin of error. Those who actually study more in depth on his life know that he did not use the same calendar that we use today. In the mid 1550s, there was changes made from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (approximately 14 days faster than the Julian). So, once you crunch the numbers, you will see he was only a few weeks off in his prediction, not too bad considering it was a few hundred years earlier. 2) The Mayan Calendar runs 5120 years, and has recycled once. According to Mayan legend, the calendar would not fully recycle the second time. Being that this calendar is several thousand years old, and it goes hand in hand with NASA predictions of solar activity, I would say they were doing pretty good in guessing. 3) You left out many other ancient civilizations who would not have spoken with other nations and yet still predict the same thing. The I Ching comes to mind, amongst others. Will the world end in 2012, I don't know. I hope you are right, but I am saving seeds for farming just in case. And I am teaching my kids survival basics (fire, hunting, self defense). Lets hope I am waisting my time with it. Interesting and sort of lightly informed thoughts you have there. I am not saying that the 2012 “End of Days” will happen, but I also am not saying that it won’t. I just want to point out a few issues here:
1) Nostradamus was born in 1503, and died in 1566. His quatrains were written in 1550-1556. That is a long time before the tragic events of 9/11/01. Based on that info alone, most followers of his way who are not highly knowledgeable of his writings give him a margin of error. Those who actually study more in depth on his life know that he did not use the same calendar that we use today. In the mid 1550s, there was changes made from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (approximately 14 days faster than the Julian). So, once you crunch the numbers, you will see he was only a few weeks off in his prediction, not too bad considering it was a few hundred years earlier.
2) The Mayan Calendar runs 5120 years, and has recycled once. According to Mayan legend, the calendar would not fully recycle the second time. Being that this calendar is several thousand years old, and it goes hand in hand with NASA predictions of solar activity, I would say they were doing pretty good in guessing.
3) You left out many other ancient civilizations who would not have spoken with other nations and yet still predict the same thing. The I Ching comes to mind, amongst others.
Will the world end in 2012, I don’t know. I hope you are right, but I am saving seeds for farming just in case. And I am teaching my kids survival basics (fire, hunting, self defense). Lets hope I am waisting my time with it.

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