I’ve got a lot of Capricorn in my chart and consequently I was exposed to more than my share of “old men” when I was a “kid”. And these old men told me all kinds of things, all of which turned out to be correct as far as I can recall.
And what’s funny is a lot of them were drunk! Yeah. I worked in an old man’s bar when I was 19 so many of the old men I talked to were drunker than snot but they still turned out to be completely correct. They’d been around the block, see? That was all there was to it and by this time, I’ve been around the block myself. So I am in effect an old man and I am telling you the world is not going to end in 2012 and I’ll tell you how I know this.
I know this because the world was going to end when I was a kid. Not once but several times. Four or five times the world was going to end but this one time it was really, really, for sure going to end and in case you had any doubt, you could read the warnings from the billboards on the highways in the town where I grew up because they were there. THE END OF THE WORLD, OKAY? IT’S COMING!
And being eight years old you might imagine I’d have been scared but I was not. Because by the time I was eight, I’d already seen way too much of life and I was more than willing to leave. I was willing to die, I would gladly die, so I looked on this as an opportunity to escape.
So the day came and as I recall, some people were going to be lifted up before the thing happened. Before the earth turned into a fireball or whatever. Not many… maybe three or four people… But I wanted to be one of them, if possible. For the adventure, see?
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— go to most recent comments1 - RJ
Were you diagnosed with any mental illnesses as a youth?
2 - elsa
Ha ha ha! Good point but er... no. :-)
3 - duane
Heh. Yep, I fell for that too, when I was about 20. Something about the Soviet Union and Magog and Supper's Ready by Genesis and getting credit card numbers laser-imprinted on our foreheads.
And I don't recall being diagnosed with any mental illnesses. I think I was diagnosed with chronic gullibility compounded by recurring silliness. I'm getting better.
4 - elsa
duane - thanks for posting that. Sounds familiar and I'd forgotten the details. The credit card numbers, LOL.
5 - JC Mosquito
See that movie "The Rapture" that came out about 20 years ago. Your story reminded me of that - being out in the desert - waiting for the end of the world. But the movie's real sad, so don't watch it if you depress easily.
6 - John Robert Einem
Well I don't believe in that End of the world Prophesy stuff myself either, but if wer'e not careful and we do something about Global Warming and
Other such Threats, instead of Focusing on Warring all the Time... Global warming should Be #1 as the Top issue on everyones list, as much as I would like it a little warmer here I live far up north, I hate the cold Brrr! but I hate dieing so much more don't you?? and if it was the end of the world because of our own doing dont expect some rapture to be " Lifting anybody up" into heaven? outer space perhaps? Aint gonna happen... but there is one thing I know is: The Anasasii , an alien race that visited long ago , centuries ago,
left a record in stone Via the mayans, that they WILL be comming back 2011 - 2012 there abouts , perhaps no later than 2013... time calculations between Mayan dates and our calendar may not be entirely accurate, and date and time of return can be altered, by matter of choice, but I am fairly certain the Anasasii are Quite determined to come within that time period, If you believe such things... The Anasasii were Quite freindly to the Mayans at the time, and were A Very advanced race at that time, and more than likely even more advanced today... and What do you think they would think of everything thats going on here today?? all this war, broken boundry lines , everything in chaos, some , or many GOOD things too, but far less then optimal, can't we all just get along, and work together towards the REAL and MAJOR big goals and PEACE rather than all the negative stuff, war and killing etc... like al gore said in his movie, keep going the way things are... "poof" planet earth litterally burns and dries up, do we really want that, when it is within our power to prevent such a disaster, even reverse it as we have with the ozone hole problem?? and It shouldn't have to cost several Terra Bucks or such, like the Mega Corps seem to think... tis simple, REDUCE Co2 Emmisions, PLant more trees, plants etc, offsetting the global warming effect, which is mostly caused by too MUCH co2 in the air,
and STOP PUTTING CO2 INTO the AIR just so you can grow your plants, there is plenty enough in the air allready!!! we need to get rid of co2 in the air, not put more in!!! (I would geuss that it's mostly pot growers who do this, in addition to using GROW LIGHTS which require the Burning of co2 to produce the VAST amounts of energy to "Light up" these are not very conciencous activities, in
Light of the current global warming situation...
Yes YOU and WE working together can SAVE PLANET EARTH... so do you want to be a hero??? do this...
cut back co2 emisions and or plant more trees doing both would be just SUPER!! thanks for reading this and taking it to heart... remember, this is your world as well as mine... One world, for everyone and everything on it... let's keep it's cool wet healthy and alive!! thanks.
7 - Nancy
Ah - John, the Anasazi were a tribe of archaic Amerinds; not outer space aliens, at least as far as their physical remains attest.
8 - Chris
So how will WE write it? How shall it read when we look back on December 21, 2012? We certainly have the elements in place to destroy ourselves. The planet has experienced cataclysmic events in its history - polar shifts, ice ages, etc. No one really knows. What the Mayan’s meant with their End-Count calendar will always be up for speculation. It fires the imagination, for sure. SOooo let's write it like we want it. That is what Chris Fenwick did in the #1 Visionary Novel: "the 100th human." You choose...
9 - kurt
I had the idea of selling T-shirts on Dec. 22, 2012 that say "I survived the end of the world, Dec. 21, 2012"
10 - duane
I think the Mayans forgot to include the leap years in their calculations. The end of the world might come a lot sooner than Dec. 21. What a surprise that will be! Everyone will be really pissed at the Mayans the next day.
11 - Brian
hahaha someone said sonething about Al Gores dumb ass movie, now pwoplw dont listen to Al Gore all this Global Warming and that dumb stuff. look into it people, when Mt St Helens erupted in the 80's it poluted the Air world wide more than our combustion engines have in 100 years or could in 100 more. those energy saving light bulbs he was raving about, look into those look into what it takes to make just one, and then look into how long itt akes for one to break down in land fill as compared to regular light bulbs. people are obsessed with "going green" and i feel you we need to do something but lets look at what were doing and not just listen to some other brain washed american
12 - lovelife123
u no wut? if the world does end ma be scared i mean alot!! and i dont think its gping to end n 2012 its to soon
13 - Cornelis Droog
We learn now from the Bible that the Rapture will be May 21th 2011 AD.
Five month's* after, the Ultimate Terror: Judgment Day Oktober 21th 2011 AD
* And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. (Revelation 9:5)
The Bible is a Book that is absolutely true and trustworthy. It is the centerpiece, the keystone of this study.
Website Time Has An End: A Biblical History of the World 11.013 BC - AD 2011 http://www.timehasanend.org/
14 - shawna
Lately, I've been reading about 2012, and the world ending, and I've come to realize that there have been so many predictions, so many comits that were supposably going to crash into the world and end it, so many things that were going to 'end the world' happend, and here we are still here. Examples, [Y2K, & 06*06*06] and yet nothing has happend. I'm not a scientist, or a fortune teller, but I'm also not going to sit here and worry about it, actually I did freak out a lot when I first started reading about it, but honestly there is nothing we could do to stop it, when its time for the world to end, it will end like it or not. But what were all not really getting is, were not promised tomorrow, so why be in a frenzy over 2012? Hope you make it that long.
Heath, Wealth, and Happiness.
:)
Shawna
15 - Nancy
Dammit! And that's when I'm supposed to retire, too! I'm always too late for the bennies.
16 - Ullie Starr
Well, let's live it until it happens. It doesn't we'll keep living our lives, no questions asked, but if we die, we die. We cannot stop whatever is going to happen unless the world stops first. I mean, the past Maya must have for seen it or something or predicted it through their stupidity, you know?
17 - karlos
yes the world as you no it will end that date iv been researching the findings of the mayan calender and the writing of terrance makenna for years and i have concluded that on that date after a 3rd world war between western and middle eastern armys will destroy a large amount of the armed forces in the world and the people that are left will have no choice but a world wide shift in conciousness the remaing minds working as one to build a utopia out of the ashes of the soon to be dead novel capitalist society. we will be alive in our dreams to explore the universe and live as one in our waking state free from all the previous social standards
18 - val yum
i think the sky will rip open, the sun and moon will bleed into eachother and day and night will splash together to become one amazing thing to look at.
but after that is pretty bleak. global disasters on a massive scale are a warning of the horrors that lie ahead.
Incestuous, cannibalistic self mutilating mutants wearing straight jackets will run around killing people and force feeding some us bits of flesh.
Every man for himself. You will know true hunger, pain misery and suffering. But you must fight for survival.
19 - Robert
NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle.
20 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Duane,
Let's leave the Maya out of this for a sec. That is not a prophecy, but a method of organizing data. Biblical prophecy (I'll leave the LSD infected writers of Revelation out of all this) is also just an organizing principle for data. If the data don't match the prophecy, the prophecy is not yet taking place.
Bottom line...
NASA is talking about a pole reversal in or around 2012.
You're a better scientist than I. What does that mean in practical terms?
21 - Dr Dreadful
Bottom line...
NASA is talking about a pole reversal in or around 2012.
Yes, Ruvy... in the Sun, which reverses its polarity pretty regularly every 11 years and last did so in 2001.
The Earth's magnetic poles also reverse themselves over a vastly longer and more erratic timescale. They last reversed about three-quarters of a million years ago and there are indications that they may be preparing to pull another Romney*. However, even the most confident scientific predictions won't commit to placing the event any more accurately than 'Some time in the next few hundred years. Maybe.'
When it does happen, it probably won't have any major effect on human activities except that our compasses will now all point Stan's way. Quelle tragedy.
* Flip-flop.
22 - Dr Dreadful
BTW, Ruvy, I dunno if LSD was available back then, but St John the Divine certainly was chewing on some pretty good stuff.
23 - Irene Wagner
St. John and Zechariah may have been under the same Influence. Who's to say except by faith or prejudice against it?
Zechariah 12:10 ....I will pour upon the house of David and the city of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son...
Zech 14:2-4 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle...then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west...
Zech. 14:11,12 and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
***
I'll probably not have a front row seat to these exciting events, either because I'm in a country whose inhabitants are doomed to get their eyes consumed in their sockets, or because I got run over by a truck 5000 years before the Apocalypse comes to pass.
Today is all I know I have for sure, and I've wasted enough of it already.
24 - val yum
WHY IS NO ONE DESCUSSING LIFE AFTER 2012
Some people will be driven mad. You will look out your window and see Rape, inscest, murder, necrophilia. Pain and hunger will drive people to resort to cannibalism. The person you once knew as your friendly next door neighbour may very well try and eat you!
25 - tim
ihope the world doesnt end on 12/21/12 because i was born on 12/22/91 whichs means that i would be turning 21and that would suck if i died before i was legal to drink.