Comments on: How Is The December 21, 2012 Prediction Different To The December 31, 1999 Prediction?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:37:02 +0000

There is no proof. its not the end. The whole thing is based on the Maya calendar which ends/cycles on Dec 21 2012. It is a lot of hype based on a very interesting culture. The facts of the matter are that the Mayans prophesied essentially that when the calender cycles a great change, rebirth if you will occurs. The interesting thing is if you apply their calender back through history interesting events did occur at the times the calender cycled. I am interested to see how that works out with this cycle. The Mayans were a very mysterious, interesting culture. Maybe they had answers to things we don’t. who knows.
Oh yeah, and the difference is at least 2012 is based on something…DEC 31 1999 was complete ignorance

By: Googlywo

Googlywo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:55:41 +0000

Firstly, the Mayans, whose calender ends on that date, is the one point in history where this comes from. They never predicted the end of the world, simply the end of their ‘long count’. Although they did believe that life went through cycles of change, with them(therefore us too) being in the penultimate age, with the ‘new age’ beginning at the end of each ‘long count’(I may be wrong, but I think each ‘count’ lasts 78,000 years). It’s simply been taken out of all proportion, like everything else, as it’s a great scare tactic to use on the gullible.
I ‘believe’ it, the same as I believe that Dec. 30th is the end of any year of the Gregorian calender and the 1st of Jan is the beginning of the new one – which is incidentally what will happen on the 21st Dec. 2012, when the ‘long count’ resets to zero.
The fact that their calender is to date(I believe the only one to have also taken into account the ‘precession of the equinoxes’ – how they could’ve possibly known of that in the third millenium BC is still a mystery to scholars!), the most accurate ever to have been found, perhaps helped fuel thoughts of prophetic wisdom.
Secondly, it differs from the 1999 prediction by way of antiquity. This prediction was down to computer technology needing updating to stop glitches, that was all, but again, people took things to the extreme and created a whole bloomin’ prophesied doomsday around the facts.
If by some chance(and the way this world seems to be heading, it could end pretty much any day, if the american government doesn’t wind in its neck sometime soon and stop trying to bully the world…) the world WERE to end on this date, I’d be spending it like any other day, as there’s be no point worrying about it!

By: Ask Pikachu

Ask Pikachu — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:30:55 +0000

During the last years of the 20th century, people everwhere were freaking out about something called the y2k bug. It says that all satelite equipment like airplane navigations and atms and record centers would cease to operate on the midnight of 12-31-1999. before the year 2000 many computer programs were coded so that dates use only two digits worth of space (like 1986 is abreviated as 86). This has begun in the 1960’s when disk space and memory of computers were severly limited. People worry that when the calendar flipped over to 2000, computers would interpret the new year as 1900 instead of 2000. A fatal error that would cause massive shut down. The government however spent 300 billion dollars to fix this problem before this prediction would occur.
12-21-2012 doomsday is predicted by the mayans who believe the world should could end would end. They developed a calendar that would predict solar events thousands of years into the future like solar eclipse. They were amazingly advanced astronomers. They made a calendar that lasted for 5126 years. The end of the calendar is translated to 12-21-2012 which is the end of the world as they know it.
The 1999 predictions was because of the technology errors and the end would not be natural where as the 2012 prediction has been predicted for over 5000 years and is caused naturally.

By: lovingwo

lovingwo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:38:34 +0000

December 31, 1999 was a Catholic prediction based upon the book of Revelations. This is a fear that crops up at the end of every Century as people believe the end of the world will be at the some point during the end of the century.
The problem is that the end of the Century actually is December 31, 2000.
Everyone has explained the 2012 prediction, but there are other reasons this number is considered important. Edgar Casey pointed to this date as being a point of great disaster for the world as well as the Mayan Calendar.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:00:58 +0000

The 12/21/2012 end of the world scenario is still in the future, the Y2K end of the world scenario is in the past.
One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world.
These predictions are scare tactics, conspiracy theories, and chances to make money from books and movies.
Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.
Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFA…
If you want a bit more information on the 2012 hoax, try: http://2012hoax.org
“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.” (Mark 13:32-33)
Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.
The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.
The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus’ advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.
Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.
For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newslett…
With love in Christ.