Unfortunately, for many people unfamiliar with the current front-runner in Doomsday theories, the 2012 Doomsday prediction has grown into an entity of its own. From it's humble beginnings as misinterpretations from a hack of an archaeologist, to its illogical silver screen appearances, the 2012 Doomsday prediction is now embedded in the publics consciousness (with all of its various forms).
The origins of the 2012 prediction can more or less be tracked back to Zecharia Sitchin, a self-proclaimed archaeologist, who took it upon himself to break down ancient Sumerian text, through his own eisegesis (interpreting a text into ones own ideas - I love that word). Sitchin graduated with an economics degree, and then worked as a journal editor. Upon coming to
Essentially, Sitchin believes the following: the Sumerian culture is derived from the “Annunaki” alien race; they live on a large planet called “Nibiru”, which has a long elliptical orbit in our solar system (and is out 12th planet); Nibiru makes a return to our planet every few thousand years. All of this has been debunked, yet people still buy into a large planet hurdling its way towards Earth. If this planet did exist, it would have been detectable by a telescope years ago. There’s a good chance you could have even seen it with the naked eye years ago. I’m an amateur astronomer, and I can see Saturn and Jupiter from my backyard without a telescope. That being said, many people have claimed that the government knows of Nibiru’s existence, but has yet to share it with the public…and has silenced everyone who stepped outside and looked up at the night sky….*eye roll*
From this outlandish theory, stems many others: a pole shift, a solar flare, a shift in consciousness etc. Numerous people have hopped on the 2012 bandwagon and added their own far fetched ideas to the growing theory. Needless to say, all of these have also been debunked by a discipline that most 2012 theorists are unaware of: science. I may come across as being harsh, but I'm only being truthful. Let's look at some of the proposed scenarios: The first is the idea of a pole shift. This can mean a magnetic pole shift, or a physical pole shift. Magnetic pole shifts happen, and do so during the course of thousands of years (that's a fact). At the moment, we may be in one, but nothing will flip/reverse instantaneously on Dec. 21st, causing disaster. We've tracked the movement of the magnetic poles before, and will continue to do so in the future.
The physical pole shift idea comes from a large outside force altering the Earth's axis and rotation (such as planet Nibiru). Long story short, it won't happen. The amount of energy required to stop the Earth, and then start spinning it in the opposite direction is more immense than theorists can comprehend. This is excluding the fact that a collision of that magnitude would destroy Earth; even a "near miss" collision from a large object would not alter the Earth's axis or rotation.
Now we move to solar flares. In laymen’s terms, a solar flare is basically a large mass of energy released from the sun. These flares eject "clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona of the sun into space". They usually contact Earth a few days later. No one (anywhere) can make an accurate prediction that a killer solar flare will fire at the Earth in 2012 (let alone on Dec. 21st), while the sun is at its solar maximum (an 11 year cycle). It's incredibly difficult to predict when a solar flare will launch from the sun and come into contact with Earth. One of the biggest solar flares actually hit Earth in 2003, during the suns solar minimum. That being said, we are expected to see more activity in 2012/2013, but the Earth's ionosphere is more than capable of giving us a hand in shielding us from a harmful flare. So if anyone says that they can predict a solar flare (down to the day), they're lying. It's the same as saying the exact year, month, and day you're going to pass away.
As for a shift in consciousness....well....I don't know how to address that, aside from saying "Maybe?" That's one of the more new age/spiritual takes on 2012. It's quite unlikely though, when you consider the current state of the world.
I hope this sheds some light on the subject, and takes peoples minds off the negative doomsday theories they've been hearing.
The physical pole shift idea comes from a large outside force altering the Earth's axis and rotation (such as planet Nibiru). Long story short, it won't happen. The amount of energy required to stop the Earth, and then start spinning it in the opposite direction is more immense than theorists can comprehend. This is excluding the fact that a collision of that magnitude would destroy Earth; even a "near miss" collision from a large object would not alter the Earth's axis or rotation.
Now we move to solar flares. In laymen’s terms, a solar flare is basically a large mass of energy released from the sun. These flares eject "clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona of the sun into space". They usually contact Earth a few days later. No one (anywhere) can make an accurate prediction that a killer solar flare will fire at the Earth in 2012 (let alone on Dec. 21st), while the sun is at its solar maximum (an 11 year cycle). It's incredibly difficult to predict when a solar flare will launch from the sun and come into contact with Earth. One of the biggest solar flares actually hit Earth in 2003, during the suns solar minimum. That being said, we are expected to see more activity in 2012/2013, but the Earth's ionosphere is more than capable of giving us a hand in shielding us from a harmful flare. So if anyone says that they can predict a solar flare (down to the day), they're lying. It's the same as saying the exact year, month, and day you're going to pass away.
As for a shift in consciousness....well....I don't know how to address that, aside from saying "Maybe?" That's one of the more new age/spiritual takes on 2012. It's quite unlikely though, when you consider the current state of the world.
I hope this sheds some light on the subject, and takes peoples minds off the negative doomsday theories they've been hearing.
Please check out http://www.2012hoax.org/ for more information, as they go into far more detail than I did, and touch on more topics.
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