Recently my not so wandering attention was caught by the 2012 theory of doomsday.
Surprisingly it intrigued me since it was for once based on facts.
It started with some guy writing a program called the Web Bot which functions on smaller programs called spiders that comb the internet & predict stuff in the stock markets. This program predicted a massive earthquake in 2004 which would take a toll on many lives, & the tsunami struck. The web bot also predicted the anthrax attacks on USA, & the hurricane Katrina & the same web bot now predicts something like a nuclear war in 2010-2012, which would obviously mean Boogey man is here for all.
The Ancient Mayan Calendar is extremely accurate & can predict lunar activities for 1000s of years in advance etc. The Mayas, the history channel claims were exceedingly obsessed with time. The calendar has accurately predicted a lot of events like the discovery of the New World & it surprisingly comes to an end on a specific date in the year 2012.
Among other sources are prophecy or prediction was made by The Oracle. Oracle in ancient times were highly able psychics who lived in seclusion. This psychic was quite a famed & celebrated one in Rome. Her name was Sybill. Yes, like Sybill Trelawney the Seer & Divination teacher in Harry Potter. Sybill made predictions & wrote them on oak leaves which were later copied on to scrolls & stored in temples of Jupiter & were considered one of the most religious texts of Rome. She predicted that the world would last fr 9 periods of 800 years each. Sybill previously predicted the invasion of Italy in 600BC, the rise of the celebrated roman emperor Constantine, By name, & she predicted the birth of Jesus, 20 years before he was actually born. Her last prophecy was about an apocalypse in the 10th period of 800 years cycle, in which there would be wars, earthquakes & fire from the skies which would destroy entire cities. In literate words, a nuclear war.
Another oracle, a priestess of God Apollo in Delphii also made similar predictions. She also predicted the fame of the celebrated philosopher Socrates, the invasion of Greece & Alexander's conquests.
The Chinese Oracle, the i Ching also comes to an end on the same date as the Mayan calendar.
On 21st December 2012 the Earth will be in exact alignment with the sun & in the centre of the milky way. This formation takes place once every 25800 years. The astronomers assume that the magnetic fields may change places which is more commonly known as the pole change which would result in world wide apocalypse caused due to position of the poles. recent studies confirm that the pole shifting has taken place before, about 800 million years ago.
Then there is the friendly Wizard Merlin. All nice & old. He as it turns out was an oracle of doom, a half demon half man, an evil celtic shaman etc as they called him on the history channel. he predicted terrorist attacks & the fall of Napolean at Waterloo & upcoming of Hitler, the invention of cell phones in the 20th century, but the prophecy we're concerned with is the one in which he predicts a disaster in Britain's Nuclear Power Station area. To add to that he predicts, global warming and to end it Merlin predicts a Polar shift. Too.
Now comes another Oracle. These girls seem dime a dozen to me now.
So her name was Mother Shipton, she lived in a cave (no wonder she was so bored!) like the other two oracles & was born of multiple spirits like Merlin.
She predicted Queen Victoria by name & the world wars. (Daym I would love to be an oracle. Though I would really appreciate it if they din't call me by that name :p) She also predicted the changing fashion sense of the coming centuries i.e. from ballroom dresses to Jeans & Rapunzel would cut of her long tresses to sport a more funky short cropped hairstyle :D Mother Shipton too predicts doom in the 21st century :).
The last source might me highly surprising to some. It is the Holy Bible. It's earlier predictions were the conquest of Jerusalem which came true. Jesus predicted the Roman conquest of Jerusalem and it happened too. The prophecy of our doom is in the Book of Revelation. The book prophecies the invention of war choppers & tanks, AIDS etc.
So our doomsday is based on a set of strikingly similar prophecies & predictions made by different sources over the centuries.
The ancient cultures believed that the planet has to come to an end like everything else & my debate here is maybe they tend to make the doom possible through the spiritual method. A lot of men today preach the power of the mind. The Law of Attraction even states that everything that happens, happens because we think of it's happening. Maybe they have been projecting this thought of destruction in our minds over the centuries through these prophecies. Just by believing in it we can make it happen. Our thoughts are projected into the universe in the form of waves & it is possible that all the predictions came true only 'cos we believed them to come true. So we shouldn't really believe in any doomsday, just to avoid it, we should encourage positive vibes and thought. Or is there any other way of escaping this prediction?
I got into a lot of discussions about the doomsday theory & was informed that the Swiss government has started storing DNA samples of all the species of plants & animals found on the planet in a war proof secured bunk. This can be seen as a positive step in case we're hit by the apocalypse. Or it can generate the negative thoughts needed to trigger of the apocalypse. Hard topic to debate upon or what!!
