how to get over the fear of 2012?

Question

i cant stop thinking of the end of the world in 2012 can someone tell me how to get over the fear or facts that the end of the world wont come then

Answer 1

The details behind 21 December 2012 make no sense at all. The originator of the so-called prophecy studied at the University of Chicago in Arts more than 40 years ago. He was Jose Arguelles then. He now says time is faster than light (whatever that means) and that the way we measure time is harmful to all life on Earth (how does that work?).



He now calls himself Valum Voltan and says he is the re-incarnation of a Mayan priest and lives in New Zealand, last I heard. All this stuff was based on the fact that a Mayan count of days runs out of numbers on 21 or 23 December by our calendar. That has as much to do with the Mayan counting system as anything else. The Mayans counted by 20, then by 18s then by 20 again and so on.



The Mayans were pretty fair naked eye astronomers for a stone age people and had enough sense not to predict anything at all, except maybe party time. I reckon they were smarter than Arguelles.



But crazy as Arguelles ideas are, he did not say the world would end on 21 December 2012. All he said was that this would be the beginning of a new era. That was about 20 years ago.



Since then, people who are just as batty, but in a different way have grabbed his ideas and run away with them. Terence McKenna was an habitual user of mescalin, LSD or magic mushrooms and wrote down visions. He also produced a special (mis)interpretation of the I Ching, and when it didn’t quite fit 2012 he fudged it.



Another called Nancy Lieder claimed that aliens had abducted her about 1993 and told her that a planet called X would pass close to the Earth and cause a magnetic pole shift and other damage. That would be in 2003. Since it didn't come, she started making up stories of how it was a trial to test the governments of the world and that the planet would appear later. She usually says 2012 as far as I know.



Apart from Voltan, Mc Kenna and Lieder, others have jumped on the bandwagon and have predicted everything from bees dying to collisions with stray planets. There are supposed to be alignments with the other planets or the centre of the galaxy, a photon belt, crossings of the galactic central plane and on and on none of which will happen. And dear old Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce get quoted too, as if anyone believes that stuff.



The promoters of this, including the History Channel are vicious liars and only in it for the money. They are trying to sell "survival" supplies, shelters, books, videos and what all, but to do that you have to frighten people first.



http://2012hoax.wikidot.com/start



http://www.abhota.info/



http://eclectech.co.uk/mindcontrol.php

Answer 2

2012 is the biggest hoax of our time.



First of all, the Mayan's did NOT predict the end of the world. Their calendar ended, but our calendar ends every year. So you might as well say that the world is going to end every January, and it obviously doesn't.



The Polar shift will not happen in one day. It takes thousands of years to complete, and even if it did take one day their is no way of knowing when it would happen or if it would even wreak any havoc.



Solar flares are not predictable even with nowadays science. Their is no way the Mayans could have predicted one, especially one so far away in the future. And even if one did happen, the worst that would happen would be loss of satellite function for a brief period of time, leaving you without your cell phone reception. Hardly the end of the world.



There is no Planet X, Nibiru, meteor, comet or anything else from space going to come and destroy the Earth. We have satellites everywhere looking into deep space. And there is no such thing as the Galactic alignment.



Please do not waste your time worrying. The end of the world has been predicted many many times before, the most recent one was in September 2000, and the world is indeed still around. You and everybody else will be fine and feel like fools on December 21, 2012.

Answer 3

I was also freaking out about it. But then I had a nice person on here slap me back into reality, hopefully that person will answer your question too. Here is what I do know, there is no planet X, there is no galactic alignment, the Mayan calender does not end, it rolls over like ours does. The solar storms happen every 11 or so years, the last one was in 2003, and the one predicted for 2012 is not suppose to be any worst than that one, and if it is, it will knock out our communications and satellites and maybe some power, so we'll lose our cell services.



Another thing I was thinking about, here we are freaking out about everyone dying in 2012 or whenever the end is suppose to be, when there are people dying today, tomorrow, next week, next month, that would give anything to live to 2012. And who knows, you and I both could die before then.

Answer 4

we can try to convince you til we are blue in the face that 2012 is just a bunch of crazy predictions made by people you would NEVER leave alone with your kids, but that isn't the problem.



the problem is that your fear is irrational.



Remember 9/11? Of course, you do. Many people experienced severe depression, some for the first time in their lives after those shocking events... and psychiatrists recommended people susceptible to this to :



1) refrain from watching Youtube videos, or The History Channel documentories.



2) reading about 2012 theories



3) talking to your friends about 2012.



Get your mind off it. Its very unhealthy to dwell on something as negative as that, especially as it is completely false.



It's like you are in mourning for someone that is still alive. They stand next to you and say "But I am right here!" and you just sit and brood over how much you miss them and remember all the good times you had.



2012 is NOT real. The Doomsday predictions are just SILLY.

Answer 5

Read about some of the many doomsday predictions that have been made throughout history. None of them have been right. People have been predicting the end of the world for hundreds of years and they have always been wrong. That should tell you something. 2012 is not the first doomsday theory and it probably won't be the last.

Answer 6

A little quality research would be a great way to absolve your fear.



http://bit.ly/2012hoax



Of course, I was afraid of dogs for a long part of my childhood, no matter how irrational it was, or how puny the dog was. When I got a best friend in high school that had several dogs in his home all the time, I got over my fear.



Fears are not always rational, sometimes you have to face them to get over them.

Answer 7

For many months I have had a 'standard answer' for questions which involved subjects such as 'Planet X', 'Nibiru', 'Mayan Calendar', '2012', 'End of the Earth', etc. etc. but I have desided to re-compose it since it seems to be pushing all of the wrong buttons on a lot of 'people' .



It really is too bad that most people have such knee-jerk reactions when reality challanges any of their personal beliefs. Especially if those beliefs are based upon some sort of 'pseudo-science' which gets a lot of air time or, even worse, if it seems to encroach upon some of their cherished beliefs in the supernatural or any sort of organized beliefs holding that the Universe is the result of some omniscient beings whim(s). It just seems to be another measure of how unbelievably stupid and gullible so many people are.



In the last few months (since I started replying to a sudden upsurge of questions about '2012') the 'standard answer' I have given (and to which I refer above) has been posted literally hundreds of times. And yet, suddenly, I find myself in receipt of violation notices to an answer which has, heretofore, not been considered offensive by anyone. My suspicion is that I have simply 'tweaked' someones cherished (and stupidly misplaced) belief(s) in the nature of reality (or the 6:00 O'Clock News).



While my 'standard answer' is certainly not any bastion of subtlety or wonderful example of writing style (within the context of contemporary usage of the English language) it certainly seems far less insulting or provocative than the ubiquitouss 'F--k You' that shows up on the pages of Y! Answers from time to time.



However.......



It does seem that there have been a huge number of individuals who have been misguided (rather badly, in most cases) in their beliefs. Whether this disinformation to which they have been subjected is accidental or disingenuous in origin is of no real interest. But the promulgation of such untruth(s) (and in particular, such untruths as terrify the younger and more susceptible members of society) without checking their veracity is certainly cause for wondering just how hopelessly stupid some individuals can be. The only 'people' of substantially lower moral (and intellectual) caliber are the ones attempting to profit from Chicken Littles irrational belief that 'The sky is falling!'.



There have been any number of well thought out, well documented, and well presented replies to de-bunk the myth(s) that ancient Mayan calendars, numerology, crystal gazing, spiritual advisors, or other such superstitious nonsense is capable of predicting the end of the Earth. I have lost count of the number of Astronemers (professional and amateur alike) who have refuted claims made for the existence of some 'rogue planet' which is supposed to strike the Earth on 21 December, 2012. There are any number of very credible sources on the Web (whose URL's have been repeatedly mentioned on Y! Answers) providing proof that such things are not going to happen and one would think that, after enough time, some faint glimmer of intelligence reaction to these doomsday myths just might begin to be noticed.



But such is not the case. It appears that, no matter how many times one provides real, factual, repeatable, demonstrable proof of a thing, the 'popular' response will shout down reality and those exposed to reality will either change sides, or fail to respond for fear of being ridiculed by those who must be correct since 'everyone knows it'. Someone once observed that: "Truth passes through three distinct phases. First it is ridiculed, secondly it is violently opposed, and finally it is accepted as self-obvious truth." It really is a good observation of the average persons 'mentality' . Apparently the speed of intelligence is rather slow while the speed of stupidity may approach that of light itself.





Doug

Answer 8

Read this



http://2012hoax.org



It has everything you need to know - it goes over what the 2012 proponents and saying point by point and uses referenced scientific work to show why it is all nonsense.



NOTHING unusual will happen in 2012.

Answer 9

You can get over your fear by researching what real scientists have to say about it, instead of what the people who are selling books and DVDs say that unnamed scientists hidden away in the Ural mountains of Russia have to say about it.



2012 is a hoax. There's no truth to it at all. It's a sales-generating tool used by people trying to sell their pseudo-scientific garbage books and DVDs. These people make money off of fear. Aren't they just lovely people?