End of the world prophecies

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Predictions that a major world transition
will happen on or about 2012-DEC-21

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This timer is based on the assumption that TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as we Know it) will occur at 00:00 hrs ET on 2012-DEC-21. Some suggest that it will occur at the exact time of the solstice on that day. That would be in the morning at 11:11 hrs UTC, 06:11 ET, or 03:11 PT.

People are undecided about what will happen on this day:

Overview:

People of different religions (and none) have invested major efforts in predicting when and how the end of the world will happen. Within Christianity, many of these were based largely on various interpretations of passages from two books in the Christian scriptures (New Testament): Daniel and Revelation.

This website lists many dozens of prophecies that predicted the end of the world would occur at various dates in our past. They all have one factor in common: all of them have completely failed. Many people believe that predictions of the end happening in our future will not materialize either. However, others firmly believe that the end will come, and will come soon.

In recent years, the date of 2012-DEC-21, a winter solstice, has received a great deal of attention as the prime candidate for "TEOTWAWKI" (The End Of The World As We Know It). Many books have been written in support of this idea. They are easy to spot in the bookstore or online because their title usually contains the number "2012." You can go to a kiosk in a Borders bookstore in the U.S. or Chapters in Canada and do a search for 2012. If you shop at Barnes & Noble you might have to wait in line for an employee to look it up for you; for some reason B&N doesn't have self-help kiosks.

We seem to be observing the buildup to a mild cultural panic similar to that experienced as the "Y2K" end of the millennium approached ot 2001-JAN-1. If we may be permitted a prophecy of our own, we expect that 2012 will end much like many other years, with the usual number of natural and human-created disasters, deaths, births, acts of generosity, etc.

I don't have a firm idea when the next predicted date for TEOTWAWKI will be. Quite a few authors will undoubtedly have prophecy books ready to hit the market by New Years Day on 2013. Some folks just have to keep the population's fear level high. A culture in fear is much easier to control. The new target date will probably be somewhere about 2020 in order to maximize profit. It has to be close enough so that people will fear its imminent arrival, and far enough away so that book sales will have risen, peaked, and dropped to a low value by the time that the date passes.

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The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.

1. Patrick Geryl, "Pole shift & pole reversal in 2012," at: http://survive2012.com/geryl1.php
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13. "The living prophecy," 13-moon Natural Time Calendar, at: http://www.13moon.com/
14. From the opening song of the 1960s stage play "Hair"
15. "Astrological Age," Wikipedia, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/

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Latest update: 2009-NOV-13
Author: B.A. Robinson

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