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!
Your last paragraph said it all Justi,
ReplyDeleteMy Mum had an old saying...Never worry worry till worry worries you.. So why worry about something that is not in our hands, I certainly won't. Have a lovely birthday next week
Sybil
So good to see the blogs are still coming Justi, despite term having ended. I had heard nothing about the floods in Poland save from Adi and see that it is time we had a Polish journalist and reporter to keep the BBC on their toes!
ReplyDeleteAs for the end of the world, well, exactly, it is not one of my worries, there seem to be enough of those with family and friends! Also, perhaps not absolutely everything actually ends as so much concerning us in our daily existence does, but on the larger scale if mankind gets its act together people may survive, as surely the world will go on without them if they do not, albeit in some other form. We can do our bit in ecological and conservation matters and maybe try to be less greedy. It all makes for good debate, but for me now too late to get out there and make any difference as you young people can. Indeed carpe diem for time is flying!