Originally posted by OnTheFelt
What you should realize is that it has already started, 2012 is not one day, one moment, one time. It is a convergence of many many things ie..planetary changes, a shift in human consciousness just to name a few.

The next shift is February 2011 and according to the Mayan Calendar will culminate to the final shift on October 28, 2011.

If you have not noticed that these changes are occuring as we speak, then you truly have the proverbial blinders on.

Yes, I felt a shift back in 98-99, actually this was when I through off my blinders at the tender age of 16 for good. That's when I realized I was another cogwheel in a grand machine of time. Revelation gave me a grand vision, when I finally had my eyes open to understand its meaning. Although a grand vision yes, it left me with many unanswered questions as to what my purpose was and how reality got so F'd up in the first place.

I knew I had to dig deeper, and one night about 4 years ago I picked up a book my friend gave me for my birthday called "Mystic Places". This book had all kinds of stories in it about Atlantis, hollow Earth theory, stonehenge, ley lines. But the one that caught my attention the most was the great pyramid of Giza, or Khufu's pyramid. Encoded in it's masonry is a high order of knowledge that seems to defy everything we know about our history. Whoever built this thing, knew the dimensions of the Earth, Pi, Phi, etc and fitted these huge blocks together with hairline precision.

I was shocked, as a man of faith this new knowledge challenged my belief structure as a whole. I said to myself, who gave our ancestors this amazing knowledge? It was obvious to me that the person or persons/entities knew the Earth and the stars like the back of their hand. Maybe it was the infamous "watchers" from of old, or the old "gods"? Luckily I was able to fit the pieces together into my beliefs, I almost lost all hope and faith for that matter. I realized that there indeed had to of been a one world religion at some point in the distant past(fabled first time when demi-gods ruled over us in physical form?). And, that even what I believe in goes back to that age.

Then I realized that in Genesis it states that the sons of God came to Earth and dwelt with Man and taught us 'hidden things'. They also stole our Womens LOL, and created supermen that damn near snuffed us out of existence. Becoming aware of this made me both shocked and angry, however it actually strengthened my faith rather than weaken it ironically.
I know that both God and Man were wronged in those days, fallen scumbag angels/aliens tried to overwhelm us and have been even to this day. Don't be intrigued by them people, they are in no way "superior" to us, you and I are made in the image of the most high God, act accordingly.

Peace.

I am going to get drunk as hell! By doing that that means that the world has stayed the same. Kegger at my place all invited!

I think I will be disappointed if the world is the same as it is today by 12/21/2012. I am really hoping we do become some how more enlightened over the next few years and perhaps the cosmos will actually affect us positively.

I don't believe the Mayans said the world would end, only that it would change. Many doom and gloomers have taken it to another level with the world ending thing.

One thing I find interesting about this date, is the fact that many different and unrelated sources have selected this period as the time when things will change..... good or bad. In the past it is generally one group who select a date, or like the y2k thing the year 1000 was also selected just because of the number itself.

Originally posted by PowerSlave
I don't believe the Mayans said the world would end, only that it would change. Many doom and gloomers have taken it to another level with the world ending thing.

So you believe that in 3 and a half years the world will suddenly be enlightened? Sorry that seems rather far fetched.

Originally posted by PowerSlave
One thing I find interesting about this date, is the fact that many different and unrelated sources have selected this period as the time when things will change..... good or bad. In the past it is generally one group who select a date, or like the y2k thing the year 1000 was also selected just because of the number itself.

The Y2K thing was a small selection of computers who had their clocks messed up. It didn't cause trobule because it was sorted by most computer engineers before it could do any damage. It really was a problem at the time but the media massively blew it out of proportion.

It is notable that countries who took a proactive stance didn't have many problems whereas countries that didn't take as much action did have some problems.

[edit on 28-5-2009 by ImaginaryReality1984]

I think it will be like what has already been discussed a bit. It wont be an end to our planet, just the world as we know it. Think about back to like, the 1100s, the world as THEY knew it was nothing like it is now.

Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984

So my simple question for those on ATS who are thinking that 2012 will be something monumental is:

What are you going to do when nothing happens?

First of all, you should have ask what will we do 'IF' nothing happens. You present your opinion as fact in the past tense.

Secondly, 'IF' nothing happens, we'll probably all be the better. I mean, considering that of the myriad possibilities being forwarded from a million opinionated authors, desk'perts and seers, most of them end in 'Oh my Gawd, we're all gonna die!'... so it seems like a quiet day would indeed be preferable.

To answer your malformed question? Nothing.

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Well , i don't know exactly what i will be doing , it all depends on what leads up to that day. If there is a growing threat of nuclear war or what ever, i will probably be in my basement or something to be on the safe side. But , it all depends on what happens leading up to then..
right now , N.K is shooting nukes over japan and #, maybe nuclear fallout is closer than we expect, we don't all know forsure. ( Apparently N.K has no balls.. Haven't read to much myself)
The mayan calender thing , well maybe they just ran out of time making it , like our cell phones.. They only go up to 3000 . maybe in 950 years they will find one of our cell phones, and base doomsday on an old phone ?
Who knows, Lots of things change in a couple of years..

[edit on 11-6-2009 by C0NSP1R1ST]

i will be drinking smirnoff somewhere anyway so i will be set if it happens or not

I will log onto ATS and say, "And so another day, another year, another lifetime rolls by".

Because thats what will happen

Likely the exact same thing I did the day before, live my life as usual. LOL I am however going to be staying home that new years, can you imagine the wackadoos that will be out that night! No thank you, I want no part of that.

Personnally i am planning on nothing happening, as i dont have a choice otherwise as i have aging parents to look after and my country does not allow us to stockpile automatic weapons :-).

I think we willsee somthing happen, but as to what we will have to just wait and see.

Live your life and make plans for it, this happened about y2k and we are all still here.

Question:

For all of those that believe the upcoming years will go off without a hitch, how do you explain the very-detailed depictions/glyphs of the coming alignment and end-times as found in the areas where the Maya, Sumerians, Hopi, etc. lived?

I am on-the-fence about the whole 2012 doomsday scenario -- I view it more as a progressive train-wreck rather than an instant demise on 12-21-2012.

But, I do find it difficult to understand how and why all of these various cultures from vast regions around the world would depict similar scenarios. I mean, it's not like they could call each other and discuss the "prophecies" for the day or anything.

Since I have trouble justifying it as mere coincidence, I am curious as to how others explain it away.

Thanks.