Okay. 2012. Once we found out we were unable to stop death from occurring (although I'm sure we've never stopped trying to find a way) we have been obsessed with the how. How/when am I going to die? While I hope I die an old, old woman peacefully in her sleep I am resigned to the fact that that's not going to happen. But that's another thing.
As movies show us, we've pretty much thought of everything: aliens, zombies, vampires, werewolves, meteors/asteroids, chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, etc. We've also done the whole y2k/technology-is-going-to-take-over thing. Think Terminator. So it doesn't come as a surprise that the Mayan/2012 thing has come up. We've used Nostradamus, astrology, astronomy, the Mayan calendar, and numerous other things to justify the accuracy and potential of Armageddon in 2012. While this post is not necessarily to confirm/deny this happening, I do have ideals about it.
Nature has us in her sights. It's undeniable and you would be stupid to ignore it. It has been proven that once a species gets too damaging/overpopulated nature rectifies the situation by either creating(or evolving) a species to take care of it or by simply wiping the slate clean and starting over. Think Ice Age. I must say though that mankind is possibly one of the heartiest problems she's had.
The human species is seriously over-populated. There are no longer any places(with the exception of our oceans) that have not been explored. China has an edict that each family is allowed only one child. While they are the only country that has this edict(as far as I know) there are still over 6.9 billion people in the world and this number is growing quickly. How long can we expect to survive?
Even if we somehow get around that problem, we've over-fished our oceans, demolished nearly two-thirds of our planet's resources and habitats and proceeded to annihilate our atmosphere. At what point will we go "this isn't good for us and we need to solve the problem now." In my opinion, it'll happen when the shit has hit the fan and we're looking death in the face. We have long since passed the point of no return.
Which brings me back to the point: will 2012 actually happen? I believe that yes, it will. Maybe not in 2012, and it definitely won't be what we are expecting, but it'll happen soon. I give us 15 years. 20 tops. All this civil unrest, the earthquakes that are rocking Japan's world, in Yellowstone the caldera is rising in a super volcano, Hawaii's volcano erupted out of the side...I can go on and on. I think nature will be the catalyst, the beginning if you will, of Armageddon. Civil unrest won't help things at all, in fact, they'll just make it worse because when we get to the point of civil war (and we will if our government continues its course; look at Wisconsin) nature will seize that opportunity to strike down. We'll be separated in mind and emotion as well as physically(supposing we survived nature's wrath).
Then we have to look at the sun, who is having a major solar flare-out. Now, I'm sure it won't "go out" anytime soon, most definitely not in my lifetime, but it has an effect. In 2012 it will align with the center of our universe. This is the thing everyone's so worried about. What will happen? Who knows. Certainly not me. Maybe aliens will come down and save us. :)
Correction: the sun will align with the center of our galaxy, not the universe lol
ReplyDelete"We have long since passed the point of no return."
ReplyDeleteso you think there is no hope for the human race to atone for our mistakes?
and...what exactly does the sun being aligned with the center of our galaxy have to do with anything? AND, who says which part of our galaxy is the center? so many questions haha :)
1. Yes, I believe we are past the point in which we can atone for our mistakes made so far. When the "Apocalypse" happens (nature's payback, 2012, global warming, whatever you call it) should there be survivors, they will have to start anew. Never again will life be as it is now. We will have to forge new governments, new boundaries, new sources of food(i seriously doubt there will be factories and manufacturing companies), new ways to obtain clothing and supplies. I imagine money will be of little or no use so there will be trading to figure out as well. S. M. Stirling wrote a book I read recently called "Dies the fire." It's a trilogy about an event called "the change" where electricity, guns, explosives, internal combustion engines, and steam power no longer work. After describing how people survive the loss of 600 years of technological progress, the primary focus of this series turns to a conflict between a Portland-based neo-feudal dictatorship created by a sociopathic history professor, and the free communities of the Willamette Valley, most notably the Wiccan Clan Mackenzie and a group led by a former Marine, the Bearkillers. It's a great book and I cannot wait to read the rest of the series. But it also describes what happens after an apocalyptic event. Such little was effected and yet millions upon millions died because they were set back a mere six hundred years. And that was pretty much a best case scenario. What would happen in a worse-case?
ReplyDelete2. I think this page will explain things better than I can. There are links at the bottom of the page that will go into further detail.
3. I do not know who decides which part is the center but I sure would like to meet them because I looked at some pics of our galaxy and I sure as hell couldn't tell haha
Whoops, forgot the link... *sheepish look* haha
ReplyDeletehttp://www.2012officialcountdown.com/2012/december212012.html
what if the apocalypse is simply an idea? like an idea that profoundly changes everything we know? i cant think of one at the moment that would have such an effect, but just brainstormin'
ReplyDeleteI just started watching the Doctor Who series(I had seen a few episodes but they were crazily out of order) and a quote from there really stayed with me.
ReplyDelete"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive."
I consider that a very good observation.
But when I say Apocalypse or Armageddon I don't necessarily mean we all get killed off. Should something like S. M. Stirling's book happen that would be enough. Or We run out of oil. Australia falls into the sea or Japan's nuclear plant blows up entirely. We run out of fish completely. The thing is, we are so dependent on so many things that if just one of them disappeared it would change the way we live completely. We don't have to have a major disaster, just one that changes enough of something.
from that quote, if we stay alive, we need to figure out a way to either control the population, or find another planet. or create underwater cities
ReplyDeletebut i agree, we have a complex web of things we rely on to survive, and if one of those goes out of whack...
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