Why so much tensions about 2012?

Answer 1

People don't know everything yet, so whenever they are confronted with mysteries that they don't understand, they often become fearful. If predictions like those of Nostrodamus circulate around long enough, events take place that seem to "fulfill" his "prophecies". The Mayan calendar was an amazingly accurate timepiece. I have no direct knowledge of this, of course, but those who have studied it in great detail make this claim. The Mayan calendar supposedly ends in the year 2012. For lack of any clear explanation as to why, some have decided that it doesn't mean "The end of the age", but rather, "The end of the Earth". This causes people to become insecure, as they are likely to be present in the year 2012, and if the Earth is cosmically destroyed in some fashion, then they are likely to suffer a painful death. They are not looking forward to this possibility, quite naturally. I think that it is just as likely to mean that there will be a new era of understanding and development. So, take your pick! Grisly death, or a chance for humanity to experience another rebirth, or renaissance! In any event, if you live to 2013 or later, you are probably past the point that the Mayan calendar was pointing to. One possibility as to what "the end of the age" might mean, is the fact that the Earth takes about 24,000 years to spin like a top (slightly wobbly) on its axis of revolution. That just means that the north pole points to different stars at various times, until it points back to the same star that it did 24,000 years ago. Currently, the north pole points to Polaris, or reasonably close to it. The end of the age could simply signify that a full cycle around, or one "wobble", has taken place since the origin of the Mayan calendar. Hard to see how they could have done this though. Were they even AROUND 24,000 years ago? People really know so very little about anything... Astrologically, the path that the sun appears to follow through the sky represents 12 constellations. An age has also been described as the time it takes for the earth's axis to wobble through ONE constellation, or, 2,000 years. There isn't anything particularly magical about our calendar numbering. Jesus wasn't born exactly in 0AD you know! Due to some miscalculations on the part of previous experts, his birth is now considered to have taken place around 4BC or thereabouts. If anything magical was going to take place exactly 2000 years after his birth, it would have happened around 1996 or so. Perhaps we need to wait until 2000 years after his death! Perhaps God has a different number of fingers on his hands, and uses a different base for HIS numbering system! That is all our decimal system is, really, a product of how our bodies were designed. If we had 8 digits on our hands instead of 10, we would have had the octal and hexadecimal system (computers use a variant of this, the binary system) THOUSANDS of years ago, and might have made MUCH more rapid scientific and technological progress than we did! So, to put too much faith in coincidences of numbers is probably more usefully understood to be superstitious behavior, than anything rational or scientific. Once it was considered quite fashionable to worry about what was going to happen in the year 2000. The Y2k bug in software was predicted to be everything from slightly annoying, to directly being the cause of the end of civilization as we know it. You can see for yourself the huge impact that it had. I mean, the huge impact it had AFTER January 1, 2000! So, if history has any relevance, then it is likely that people simply like to worry about things that they have no control over. I am sure people gave tons of money to the church in the year leading up to 1000AD, and then, when 1001AD rolled around, and the Earth was again evidently not yet to be destroyed, took it all back! We may be hypocrites, but we know the value of a buck.