The end of the world in 2012?

Everything that has its beginning is most likely to also have an end. That's the rule. Life begins, lasts a while and then ends leaving memories behind. The world started billion years ago and it eventually will have to come to an end, like everything else. Is this a statemant we should believe in?

Scientific experts from around the world are predicting that 2.5 years from now, all life on Earth will end. There are a lot of websites with a variety of December 21 2012 predictions about the end of the world and information about how it will happen.
Some are saying it will be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it will be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.

There are experts that say that on an ancient Mayan calendar 2012 points to the end of the world: they pick December 21 2012 as the exact day as that is when the calender ends. Others speak of a Nostradamus 2012 doomsday prediction.

The most realistic one I have read is about the Solar Storm. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012. -read from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms/ Scary.

Some 2012 end of the world predictions are connected to each other, some are not. It has got to the point where the thought of a 2012 end of the world doomsday is freaking some people out. Should you be freaked? NOT in my opinion. For starters, given past doomsday predictions and prophecies about the end of the world, earth should have ended by now! It was the 2000 prediction when the time was supposed to reset and the world explode. Since the earth is still here, it would be fair to say then that, to date, all doomsday prophecies and predictions about the end of the world (before 2012) have failed!

In my opinion, NO ONE knows the date, the day, the hour or minute when everything will disappear. We shouldn't predict or think about it. If it is to happen-it will happen. Why should we put this into the list of our worries? It's easier to seize the day and live life to the extreme.

CARPE DIEM!

A little internationally- Poland in a fight against flood.

Summer holidays are usually treated as the main period for people to go away for a well-deserved break. They save up money all year to enjoy their sweet rest somewhere exotic. Poland is well known for nice, sunny and hot summers. The hottest months- July and August when the temperature gets up to 40 degrees satisfy many tourists that come from all over the world. Unfortunately, the summer in Poland has been cancelled this year.

Water everywhere. 15 dead. Impassable streets, in fact there are no street. Just rapid streams. It looks like the flood from 1997 came back with stronger forces. Heavy rain has caused damage estimated at more than 266 mln zł, forcing the evacuation of thousands and thousands of people from their homes along the Vistula River, which flows from the southern Tatra Mountains into the Baltic. Emergency services do their best to help Poland not to get covered by flood completely. They have been blowing up the river embankment below the hole to help the water return to the river bed. Even strong and huge flood barriers don’t help anymore in many parts of Poland as they are in a very poor condition now after so many days of flood.

What’s happening to Poland? It seems like someone put a curse on it. It’s incredibly sad watching my own country being in such tragedies. Water gets higher day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. No one knows when it will stop raining, or when everything will go back to normal- it will take a long time.

Element doesn’t always strike with the force. Sometimes it sneaks into our villages and cities slowly destroying property and human life. This year it just fell from the sky. You can’t predict when big waters will come, you can’t stop them either. Seeing the images of devastation and the enormity of human despair, we can ask ourselves: Can such disasters not be avoided or at least can their imapact not be minimized?









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