| The 2012 Apocalypse According to the History Channel |
[Jul. 12th, 2008|06:13 pm] |
Decoding the Past did a piece on the 2012 predictions. I've noted these before.
The episode is a good gathering of research, but the narration language in the video is a bit off, it is more geared toward keeping viewers interested than accurately portraying the "facts", so take that with a grain of salt. For example, it will say "the Mayans thought the world would end in 2012" then right afterward the interviewee will say "the calendar predicted a galactic alignment that indicated the coming of their paradise to earth". Not exactly the same thing.
As a reminder, the 2012 predictions say that something very significant will happen to humanity on the Winter Solstice 2012 (21 December 2012). These predictions come from many independent predictions made across the world starting from antiquity: the Mayan Calendar, Timeline in Khufu's Pyramid, analysis of I Ching, Oracles from Greece, Rome, England, etc., and a bunch of other sources, both ancient and modern.
Obviously a lot of the modern predictions are swayed by people looking for something to match the dates so you can mostly ignore them, but it's hard to ignore the ones predicted a few hundred or thousand years ago. Many of them are open to interpretation, but the Mayan Long Count Calendar is very accurate, so it tends to get all of the credit.
The Decoding the Past episode poses the hypothesis that the event will be the pending pole shift. Others predict it is an asteroid, aliens, the overdue ice age, war, technological disasters, return of the gods, the apocalypse, and anything else you can imagine.
Here is the YouTube version of the episode, complete with commercials.
Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012 Part 1/5
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| End of Days Cross-Religion References; |
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*This is just some stuff thrown together in a few hours due to observations that I was noting. Think of it as preliminary research into an area I've been informally dabbling into my whole life. Ignore if you want, especially if you're prone to paranoia. I know there are tons of other views, interpretation, theories, relationships, fakes, etc out there concerning these. There's also a ton of other evidence supporting these dates around the world. Just here for reference.
( end of world cross-references ) |
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