Nostradamus & 2012

[2CheekyMonkeys]

i have never heard of the 2012 thing. i thought it was 2000.

[Glamourcide]

Was it Nostradamus who said 2012?? I wouldn't trust him anyway lol, his quatrains are sooooo vague you can apply them to ANYTHING, especially with the benefit of hindsight (eg, applying something like 'birds and fire' to 9/11, after it's happened, kwim?).
The Mayan Calendar ends sometime in December 2012, apparently they did their calendars in cycles according to the planets/stars - and that date is when another 'cycle' ends, and all the planets in our solar system are apparently lined up. I don't know what that means as far as the 'end of the world', but I personally am inclined to think it means little - were the Mayans expected to write their calendar up until, say, the year 8439, and then people living in that time would be freaking out thinking the world was going to end, kwim?

My husband has recently become morbidly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy, so I'm hearing bucketloads (and being subjected to endless docos on the History and Nat Geo channels lol) about it from him. Personally, I don't like to think about it too much - it's confusing and I'd rather not think about the possibility of the world ending

[Bathsheba]

Second Coming, Climate Change, Science-based Change.... well... it's beyond my control so I'm going to try to not to worry about it. I strongly believe that there is life beyond our dimension... I believe in the Heaven Dimension... I believe that dying is like being born. If a fetus knew what was in store it would be scared witless as well by the prospect of birth... not to mention most of what it entails being beyond the realm of comprehension for it. Ok... so life beyond Earth is beyond my comprehension... might as well just accept it. Personally I don't mind the idea of an asteroid or something slamming into Earth while I am sleeping as a way of being born into the next dimension... and maybe that's what the Mayans foresaw?

Maybe it makes me more determined to modify the things I can control: being a better person... other than that the 2012 thing is something I am fairly certain God does not want me to obsess over.

[~mamaspice~]

My MIL is into this whole end of the world/or end of life as we know it thing. I'm not sure where she gets this from but she believes that in 2012 a tsunami will wipe out the whole east coast of Australia. Okay for her to say this - she lives in Perth Has anyone else heard anything else about this?

[Visitor3]

I think it's just another theory about the end of time and like so many others it will not mean Armageddon but life will simply go on. I think the theories about December 12, 2012 is just another adaptation to events occurring in this time which when applied in a certain way does make sense but will eventuate to essentially nothing. Other examples include the year 2000 when some people though they should stock up on canned goods and the like, because the world as we know it would cease to exist... The theory behind that made some sense and did in fact add up, but nothing major happened. Like Gothmum said it's only really after the event that theorists come out and say "See Nostradamus, the pyramids or the weatherman said it was going to happen".

[Bathsheba]

I worry about the East Coast... but I don't think it would totally wipe it out... my mum lives right on the coast at Port Macquarie and to be honest i do have a bad feeling about it. Don't want to worry anyone.

[~mamaspice~]

I worry about the East Coast... but I don't think it would totally wipe it out... my mum lives right on the coast at Port Macquarie and to be honest i do have a bad feeling about it. Don't want to worry anyone.

Eeek, really Bath? MIL does numerology and is into all that stuff. I'll have to try and have a more indepth conversation with her about it all and where she gets the tsunami theory from. I don't get the opportunity if DH is around when I'm talking to her becasue he hates all that stuff.

[Salsa]

i have no idea what your all talking about

[Lulu]

I've read that Nostradamus made plenty of predictions for waaay past 2012.