2012 prophecy
Is there a connection between the 2012 prophecy and those religions regarding "The End"?
this question is for an english essay. i have to have 3 examples, using 3 religions and 1 prophecy.
my professor said to talk about the mayan claendar and geometric reversal.
People throughout time have thought they were special enough to have knowledge that others did not, regarding important or even cataclysmic events. Invariably, every "end of the world" prediction has been wrong. It is because religion gives people reason to believe that supernatural (and therefore unpredictable) forces exist to destroy the world or to at least be able to predict its natural end. In every case so far, such predictions have been trash.
In the 2012 case, the Mayan long-cycle calendar ends on 12/21/2012. Now, that date is very special if you understand astronomical calendars. It is at about that time that the winter solstice occurs. By tradition among star-cycle or moon-cycle cultures, that is also the end of one year and the beginning of another. So basically, seeing the end of the Mayan calendar on 12/21 of ANY year is like seeing the end of a Western calendar that ends on 12/31. It's just the end of a calendar period.
But, you ask, why does the Mayan long-cycle calendar end there? Because the Conquistadores, led and bolstered by Roman Catholic church forces, destroyed the Mayan culture before they got around to computing the next cycle of their calendar. Do you want to trust the end of a calendar cycle as a predictor for the end of the world? Particularly from a people who could not predict their own end a few hundred years before that date.
The connection is a form of paranioa that causes too many people to fear unseen forces and to imagine that these unseen forces are necessarily malevolent. The truth is of course that there ARE no supernatural forces, either malevolent or beneficent, to conspire to do anything. Stuff just happens - but the "evil forces" looney-tunes can't accept that.
Can't help you with geometric reversal.
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Do you think the 2012 prophecy has a good chance of happening considering all the warning signs?
is it true?
No.
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.
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.
"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/Newsletters/CU/ac0993.asp
With love in Christ.
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