I'm new here but I just starting quote people straight away because I think events made by humans have nothing o do with the natural cycles of natural things and I don't want too see this kind of quotation at the end of this.. pretty interresting conversation.
Wikipedia tells us that the 13th bhakta(or whatever) is going to end in winter solastice 2012, but that is not the end of that calendar, just for that cycle. But do those cycles tell us something which we don't know? We don't know! For example Schumann's resonance has been increasing for what, 140 years now? The "natural" resonance frequency has been 7,82 Hz for ages but now it's something like 12 Hz; for everyone who knows something about this resonance, this will tell that the distance between the ionosphere and the ground has decreased, ergo the intensity of the geomagnetic field is weakening. Because solar flares produce geomagnetic field-distuptions (/storms), the Earth's geomagnetic behavior almost certainly has some correlation with the Sun's ~11 year cycle. I think it's too inconvinient that both East America and Northern Africa has the "magnetic meridian"(the zero lines in the field) at the other sides of the magnetic field axis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IGRF_2000_magnetic_declination.gif . My suggestion is that SchR indicates the force of the geomagnetic field, and the geomagnetic field follws the Sun's ~11 year sunspot( /global but unstabile magnetic) cycle in some way what COULD have been detected from those 2 places mentioned earlierly. Why? well, i'm not an astrophysicist but doesn't the inner Van Allen field tend to connect with Earth's surface at the height of 800 km or something, therefore making those two zero lines of the magnetic field more affected with radiation than the other places not near the magnetic poles? Near the poles one can see auroras, and they seem to be at they peak of propability when the equinoxes appear. 2012 is the year when we have another peak at our Sun's ~11 years cycle, winter equinox could bring us quite a bit of solar radiation.
So, I think it's quite possible that we don't even nowadays know for sure what is really going to happen, but all this synchronism and historical notes of astrophysical studies brought by two old societies is pointing to the nor-so-scientifically-predictable event of magnetic field collapse. If that would happen, there's a 1:1 chance for the geomagnetic field to stabilize again the same way it's now, or reverse. This is small potatoes, I think more bigger problem is to think how the disappearance of the geomagnetic field will influence the life on Earth, and -of course- the electrical equipment. Sure the earthquakes and tuff could be possible but what about the things from above? Sure the ozone layer would still filter some of the UV away, but electromagnetic influences could be quite dramatic. Does anyone know why the Van Allen fields are fixed to their places and what would happen if our geomagnetic field would be removed? That would be nothing like the radiation during moonwalks, they were exposed to Sun's crual radiation, but had their equipments safe from the effects of Van Allen fields.. The amount of radiation hitting the Earth when the VA fields would collapse to it could be quite catastrophic, or what do you think/know?
Maybe Mayans and Egyptians observed the night skies so long perioids of time that they saw a pattern between the intensity of nearly equivatorial auroras (?!) and the movement of the Earth? If someone would notice the equinoxes to be a significant celestial events, connected them to the year changes on Earth and some strange gloom in the sky during this celestial event, I think the most mysterious (here the gloom/auroras) would be in a major role in their calendars of most-predictable cycles.
One more thing http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/solanki2004/ the activity of the Sun should be near natural minimum (the minimum is @ 2006), though it seems as active as it is during the maximum activity of this ~11 year long cycle.
Something is really happening, but the End of the World, astral planes, bullshit like "the rapture" and other religious and dogmatic "prophecies" only scramble our logical intellect by putting false assumtions (taken from insufficient knownledge) to our heads.
You think there's a God and the bible or some other human written book tells us the truth about everything like we would be the centor of the universe? Come on, you can't be so naive There's a nice way to know is there a god like the one in the bible: read the ****ing book and think for yourself. For example, would all-seeing, all-knowing, all-loving eternal god GET ANGRY at people when they do wrong? free choice my ass, if someone has created everything and knows what's gonna happen, there would be a conflict between the desire to punish every things created and the creation of perfect surroundings for life. If you were god, would you make something and then start punishing it when it's doing exactly how you know it's going to act? Would you create something evil like satan to torture creatures some more? better yet, would you BET against your archenemy to see how one human (Job) is going to stand some extra tortures of varies kinds? If I would have been satan, I wouldn't place anything on the line when the oppositing better if all-knowing..
sounds pretty stupid to me, even without taking any notices to those couple hundred other un-knowing mistakes of the writers who wrote that piece of crap.
