Nibiru / Planet X – The Truth
May 10, 2012
This is a humourous video, but it basically points out many of the faults with the whole idea of Nibiru returning in 2012:
More info is available at 2012 Hoax, or my free eBook, 2012 Myths and Facts.
End of the World in 2012: 1-in-10 Say Yes
May 4, 2012
This is the first time I have seen a major, authentic poll on the subject of “end of the world” beliefs, and the results are surprising. Across the world, 10% of people agree with that the Mayan Calendar marks the End of the World in 2012. How the question was received across numerous languages is hard to tell, but the Chinese appear to be the biggest believers:
China: 20%
Turkey: 13%
Russia: 13%
Mexico: 13%
South Korea: 13%
Japan: 13%
USA: 12%
Argentina: 12%
Hungary: 12%
Poland: 12%
Sweden: 11%
France: 10%
Spain: 10%:
Belgium: 9%
Canada: 9%
Australia: 9%
Italy: 7%
South Africa: 7%
Britain: 7%
Indonesia: 4%
Germany: 4%
The survey was conducted by Ipsos Reid. The poll was conducted among 16,262 adults in 21 countries.
A clearer and perhaps more telling question was ‘will the world come to an end during my lifetime,’ with 14% of people agreeing globally. It would have been nice if the reason was ascertained, especially if the reason was relgious in nature – for that is something that some folk actively desire.
Perhaps the most important and most telling question put to respondents was ‘have you been experiencing anxiety or fear because the world is going to end in 2012.’
(8%) of global citizens agrees – 2% strongly, 6% somewhat. Most (92%) disagree with the statement (80% strongly, 12% somewhat). Those in Russia (14%) appear to have the highest level of anxiety, followed by Poland (13%), China (12%), Turkey (11%) and Japan (11%). Those in Great Britain (4%) are least likely to agree, followed by 5% in Germany, Australia and Canada.
2% of 2 billion people is 40 million. That’s a lot of people that have been strongly affected by the ancient Mayan prophecy, while those somewhat affected literally number in the hundreds of millions. Does this just mean an increase in Valium prescriptions in December, or will the anxieties have deeper effects?
Myth: SETI and the 2012 Spaceships
March 21, 2012
Over at Cosmic Log is a nice summary of the most a 2012 fabrication that was doing the rounds. The poor chap at the center of it all joined our forum purely to help tell his side of the story, to remove his name from the deception. The origin is similar to many such stories (Nibiru, Hollow Earth) – it started with an image. Keen amateur researchers can spend months or years looking through archived material, seeking any anomalies. Then when they do, perhaps due to excitement, or just inexperience, they fail to ask an expert what could cause that anomaly. Sometimes the images are on Google Earth, and the anomaly is simply an artifact of a photographic or computer process. In this case, the blue-green shapes were clearly flaws in the photographic plates that were digitized for the sky survey. In each of the three cases, emulsion problems showed up in one of the color-coded plates but not the others — which explained the bluish color.
So, be wary of any “evidence” that is dependent on an image, and experts have not been sought to provide an alternative explanation for what appears in the photo.
Carl Calleman on The End of the Calendar
November 27, 2011
Catastrophic predictions for 2012, and/or the end of the Mayan Calendar, will be easy to judge when the day comes. Either something terrible (and obvious) occurs, or there will be nothing. Some might claim that from that day forth there will be an increase in natural disasters, but they were already probably proclaiming that for the period of now anyway.
New age predictions are much different, for the changes might be hard to detect, especially for non-believers.
Carl Calleman believes that the Mayan Calendar ended on October 28, 2011. Here’s some of how he describes that end, and a new beginning:
Many now typically report that they experience a flattening of time, an end to time acceleration and as a result a great calmness. The end to the acceleration of time is even experienced as a deceleration and some have reached so deep into their own presence that the term “future’’ is starting to loose its previous meaning. The future is no longer a place to get to. With the completion of the Ninth wave we potentially already have direct access to all the guidance we need. This shifted experience of time all seems understandable given that was has happened is that the directed nine evolutionary processes from seed to mature have now been completed. For those that have a conscious relationship to the tree of life the new experience of time will continue to deepen also after this shift. As we know from all previous experience of the shifting energies of the Mayan calendar it always takes time until their external manifestations become visible.
…It was in fact clear to me already then that a large segment of humanity that had been born into the materialist Seventh wave was so shut off from spiritual experiences that they were not responsive to waves which carried a spiritual light. It was then also possible that they would resist the changes to come as those could be understood from the Mayan calendar leading up to 2011. People that have been born into the eighth wave starting in 1999 are in fact today not yet teenagers and those born into the ninth wave have not yet learned to talk. Even if you generously include people that were born into the pre-wave (starting in 1986) of the Galactic Underworld they would still be less than 25 years old and outside of all major decision making that has shaped the course of our civilization since.
So, it could be a generation before the people born in the appropriate waves will be making their mark on society…
Lynx 2012 Ad: Cleared
November 4, 2011
It seems that some people get upset about anything daring or risque. It’s not unusual for Biblical memes to be used light-heartedly in advertising. I can recall ads that portrayed Adam and Eve, the Ten Commandments, Judgement Day, the painting of the Sistine Chapel – and that’s without trying, so I guess the Advertising Standards Bureau in Australia is used to such complaints:
One complaint suggested the ad causes offence by “mocking, trivialising and sexualising a sacred text” and portrays women in a demeaning way by “substituting them for the pairs of animals that were drawn to the ark by God in the Genesis story.”
The complaint was dismissed. You can watch the ad at the original story about Lynx’s 2012 Deodorant (the brand is Axe in some other countries)
Reform Clothing Join the Bandwagon
September 17, 2011
The clothes don’t look even remotely survivalist. Seems all they have done is added the number 2012 to an existing design. The video seems to show a fella being chased by the boogie man (or is a ninja?). The name of the campaign: Survive 2012. I should’ve copyrighted it ten years ago 
Here’s the video:
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Preparing for Doomsday – Some Products
January 21, 2011
The Toronto Sun has listed the many things you could purchase for 2012 survival, ranging from bulk lots of toothpicks to multi-level bunkers. Of note are the various survival seed banks, costing $139 or so. This one lists all the seeds in the pack. If these are all plants that will thrive in your location, then all good. But otherwise, perhaps hand-pick your survival seeds. And start growing them now, rather than waiting until after the SHTF.
And it is nice to see Ark II mentioned – the granddaddy of survival bunkers, up in Canada.
Could the Mayan Long Count Calendar Be Wrong?
October 21, 2010
One of the key events described by Aldana is a battle date as set by the ruler of Dos Pilas (a Maya site in the current geographical location of Guatemala). Ruler Balaj Chan K’awiil chose this date by the appearance of Chak Ek’. According to Johan Normark, researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University, Chak Ek’ “used to be believed to be Venus but in another study Aldana believes it is a meteorite.”
If this is the case, there’s a correlation mismatch. If an event is assumed to be correlated with the rising of Venus (a predictable, cyclical occurrence), but it’s actually correlated with a random event such as a meteorite, then we have a problem.
Add this to a mismatch of solar calendar dates between Mayan sites and the end date of Dec. 21, 2012 could be at least 60 days out.
As I have always maintained, Dec 21 could just be a symbolic date (it is the darkest day of the year), and 6 months either side of this date could be when the Mayans expected the worst. Changing that date by 60 days shouldn’t make any difference to those who are making serious preparations.
This is not the first time the “GMT correlation” has been questioned, but it remains very widely accepted by academics. It is however a good excuse for Discovery.com to continue their mission opposing the concept of a 2012 doomsday, which has no scientific basis. What they are missing is the implication that, seeing as the Mayans believed the previous Long Counts ended in catastrophe, they probably thought this one would end in a similar manner.
Author Ian O’Neill doesn’t make a lot of sense when under a sub-heading of It’s Just a Numerical Coincidence he says: Now, purely as a consequence of the Long Count’s numerical value, many Mayan scholars agree that the calendar will “run out” after 5,126 years. The calendar ends on a certain date, yet O’Neill is trying to tell us that it is a coincidence due to the nature of numbers?
Media Blackout for 2012
September 15, 2010
Over at the December212012.info blog, the unnamed author speculates that media outlets are no longer publishing 2012 pieces due to some kind of blackout. The facts presented are:
- he/she is no longer receiving interview requests, except for those from high school students
- an episode, “Cathrea/Stewart”, of Wife Swap USA was dropped because it featured 2012ers
Many attributed this lack of media attention to the coming events of 2012 as a sign of disinterest and/or disbelief, which has been perpetrated by the federal government. Through a well-orchestrated diversionary plan, and in an attempt to dispel fear and prevent panic, the powers that by have offered up their own NASA sponsors scientists to debunk the theories, prophecies and predictions surrounding 2012. Despite their best efforts, their plans have not proven as successful as they had hoped and the media warnings about 2012 were continuing. In a last ditch effort to divert the publics attention away from the coming events, it appears that the government has now encouraged and perhaps instituted a media blackout on the entire subject.
Another NASA Expert Debunks 2012
June 1, 2010
It isn’t hard to debunk 2012 – there is no scientific evidence that anything bad will happen. However, if you visit a psychic and he/she tells you a double-decker bus will knock you down next week, would you avoid such buses, even though the evidence that it will really happen is lacking?
And given all the disinformation and plain made-up stories about 2012 out there, it is easy to pick on those easier to discredit – such as Nibiru and the “galactic alignment”. A recently released video has Dr. David Morrison from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (Ph.D. in astronomy) debunking the entire 2012 meme. Given that he is an expert on defending our planet from asteroids and comets, it is interesting that this 2012 possibility is not covered…
The video is entertaining, and promotions for the 2012 movie receive appropriate chuckles from the academic (?) audience.
Enjoy:
