The 2012 hoax-off has many claims, even quite a few that are self contradicting, and many others that contradict other parts of it.
It is difficult to calculate where it began. It seems several different armageddon’s sort of (slowly at first, then faster and faster as of recent months) "merged" into one.
First off, you have the Mayan Calender, (a cyclical calender) that turns over to a new Baktun on Dec. 21 (or 23 to some people’s interpretations) 2012. It’s the equivalent of a new year’s day for them. The calender rolls over, like your car odometer would… and you car doesn’t end when it ticks over to a new front digit, does it? The guy to blame for this nonsense is Jose Arguelles. Do a wiki search on him to determine if he has any understanding of archeaology or interpretation of Mayan artifacts, (credentials are lacking, imagination is not). Then decide if you wish to believe him or not.
The Planet X nonsense is the concoction of Nancy Lieder. She tried to sell books to "survive the end of the world" when this planet was suppossed to crashinto earth, or cause a pole shift, or whatever… back in 2003.
Since she didn’t sell enough books, she republished it, changed the date to match with Jose Arguelles’ end of the world, and, VOILA! A new money making machine with zero scientific evidence whatsoever!!! Hooray! A sucker is born every minute… And Ms. Leider wants that suckers wallet. Throw her lil sidekick Mark Hazelwood into the mix, and you have a recipe to confuse people into scaring them into emptying their wallets.
It’s a shame if you ask me.
What else?
Zechariah Sitchin’s Niburu?
Ooooh, don;t get me started. First of all, he misinterpreted an ancient Sumerian artifact. Fudged some dates on some mass extinction periods on earth, and came up with some 2085 date for the Annunaki to come back and get the gold from earthlings that we’ve alledgedly suppossed to have been mining for them for a few millenia.
Problem is, Sitchin’s fake planet was not intended to come in 2012, he originally claimed 2085, but wikipedia says he claims it will return in 2024, either way he is upset the 2012ers had no problem hijacking his planet and throwing it into the mix, not that a fake planet will come by no matter what hypothetical year you attribute to it.
Do you want me to continue?
I can certainly go into greater detail, if you would care te delve into it
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Either the 2012 doomsday is a reality and we’re all going to die!, or it’s a utter and complete hoax (which is my personal opinion, by the way), or it’s somewhere in between.
It its a reality, then no ‘Vault’ or shelter anywhere is going to protect you. The consequences of some of the predicted events would be reducing the surface of the earth to a completely molten state for quite a while.
It its somewhere in between those two, then how are you going to decide which set of 2012 proponents you are going to believe? Some of them have Planet X / Nibiru simply sailing through the inner solar system wreaking havoc and destruction, and some of them have "Knowing" type solar flares wiping out all life on earth.
Personally, I’d go with the people who have evidence. Right now that does *not* include any set of the current crop of 2012 proponents. None of them have a shred of evidence for their predicted scenarios.
Right now, the only people who have the evidence on their side are the skeptics of the 2012 movement.
References :
http://astrogeek.wordpress.com/hoax/