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St Landrew

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Magnetic pole reversals do not cause catastrophes, and there is no evidence of extinctions of any kind being caused by a shift. It has happened thousands of times in Earth's history, and is not accompanied by ELE's. Besides, it'll be a few more years than 3 before the magnetic pole reverses again. Don't hold your breath, and keep paying the mortgage.

 

EDIT: I grant you, it is interesting though.

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There were at least 4 earthquakes alone over the last 2-3 weeks, also not just them and tsunamis but also the increase in floods and fires.

 

MB is right, not read the 2012 doomsday site, but in the far east alone there are been 4 (i think) earthquakes minimum of 6 on the richter (sp?) scale in the last 2 weeks if memory serves.

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There were at least 4 earthquakes alone over the last 2-3 weeks, also not just them and tsunamis but also the increase in floods and fires.

 

MB is right, not read the 2012 doomsday site, but in the far east alone there are been 4 (i think) earthquakes minimum of 6 on the richter (sp?) scale in the last 2 weeks if memory serves.

 

Oh right end of the world it is then.

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If you do look at some of the links above it clearly states there will be a marked increase in Earthquakes and Tsunami,and tbh prior to the large one over the xmas period a few years back that took many lives,we very rerely heard of them,they now appear to becoming far more common.

 

Oh well,i'm convinced...bugger.

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New Zealand ranks among the most active seismic places on earth: earthquakes occur here frequently and continuously. Along with volcanism, seismic activity is the product of plate tectonics: New Zealand lies on the active boundary of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates.

 

About 14,000 earthquakes are recorded in and around New Zealand each year. Most of them are small, but 100 to 150 are strong enough to be felt.

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Sheaf Saint

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I can't honestly take this thread seriously. I'm thinking of moving it to TMS.

 

Please don't do that. There are plenty of people who take this subject very seriously. I have done a fair bit of reading about the mayan calendar and the end of the long count, and I don't think anyonce can dismiss it.

 

What the ancient Maya actually predicted is that the end of their long count will bring forth a time of great spiritual understanding, and that civilisation as we know it will come to an end, which doesn't actually mean the end of the world. The indicators are there, anybody who knows about the Mayan long count will know that it is divided into 9 underworlds which are themselves divided into 13 heavens, represented by 7 days and six nights. It is interesting that during each of the odd numbered heavens (days) during the current underworld (the planteary underworld) there has been a major breakthrough in technology and communications, each of which has drastically changed our way of life. This was all predicted by the ancient Maya, and they also predicted that in the final few years before the end of the long count, the world would begin to heat up causing more and more natural disasters and that global economies would collapse, both of which have come to pass.

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Please don't do that. There are plenty of people who take this subject very seriously. I have done a fair bit of reading about the mayan calendar and the end of the long count, and I don't think anyonce can dismiss it.

 

What the ancient Maya actually predicted is that the end of their long count will bring forth a time of great spiritual understanding, and that civilisation as we know it will come to an end, which doesn't actually mean the end of the world. The indicators are there, anybody who knows about the Mayan long count will know that it is divided into 9 underworlds which are themselves divided into 13 heavens, represented by 7 days and six nights. It is interesting that during each of the odd numbered heavens (days) during the current underworld (the planteary underworld) there has been a major breakthrough in technology and communications, each of which has drastically changed our way of life. This was all predicted by the ancient Maya, and they also predicted that in the final few years before the end of the long count, the world would begin to heat up causing more and more natural disasters and that global economies would collapse, both of which have come to pass.

 

Sounds like a new Dan Brown novel.....

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they also predicted that in the final few years before the end of the long count, the world would begin to heat up causing more and more natural disasters and that global economies would collapse, both of which have come to pass.

 

Global economies haven't collapsed. We've had a mild recession.

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Believing the Mayans had some sort of spiritual predictive insight is right up there with believing in ghosts, fairies, God and other fictional bunkum.

 

Arrogantly believing that we know more about the world and the heavens than the ancient Maya did is far worse IMO.

 

It is known that the ancient Maya had an extremely advanced understanding of astronomy that western scientists have only been able to catch up with since the invention of the telescope, and even then it has taken centuries.

 

What if the ancient Mayan astronomers were able to predict a cataclismic celestial event that would happen in 2012, in exactly the same way that modern computer systems are able to predict the paths of comets and asteroids thousands of years in advance? If they knew that something was going to hit the earth at that time and would cause widespread devastation, would that not awaken the survivors of such an event to the need for far more effective resource management than our current throw-away society? Would those left over not need to develop a far better understanding of the symbiotic nature of our relationship with Gaia? It could be that this is exactly what the ancient Maya meant when they predicted a time of great spiritual awakening.

 

You can dismiss it as pure bunkum if you wish Ponty, but more fool you if you do. The Mayan civilisation was centuries in advance of what we in the modern western world would arrogantly expect of people living in those times. It's all very well for us to label them backward savages (as the Spanish did when they invaded - always better to attack that which we do not understand and then claim the moral high-ground afterwards eh?) but the anthropological and archaeological evidence paints a completely different picture, and I think we can learn a lot from them.

 

So before you drop this subject in the bin marked "supernatural bullsh1t" I suggest you do some serious reading on it and form your own conclusions thereafter. You might be pleasantly surprised at what you learn.

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St Landrew

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OK. All I was suggesting was that I was thinking of moving this thread to TMS because a fair proportion of the posters were starting to be flippant about it. It makes no difference what I think of the subject matter. This is a Lounge thread, and should be treated as such.

 

If this thread moves to TMS, it won't be because of me. Unless of course those that don't take it seriously start coming back.

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It's not narrow minded to not believe in ghosts. I accept the concept of ghosts but I've yet to see any proof.

 

 

Bexy, I guess the last laugh will be on me when we disappear up our own celestial arsehole and you can take great pleasure in telling me that, "I told you so." Meanwhile, I am not about to start worrying about something that either, a) won't happen (My personal belief), or, b) won't be preventable if it does.

 

That said; I'm sure it's possible for anyone to attribute any random event to some prediction or other if they skew it enough to fit the prediction.

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The concept. The concept.

 

I don't believe they exist but I believe that people believe in them.

 

That's meaningless, there are people who will believe in anything. The Easter Bunny, Smurfs, The Tooth Fairy, Estonians and Judaism. We all know that none of those things exist really.

 

Do you believe that there is an unexplained entity out there, which is labeled as "ghosts" but which mankind is no where near fully understanding.

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TBF a large solar storm could destroy the world as we know it. The energy produced by solar weather etc could destroy satellites and could also cripple our electricity network, basically by overloading a good majority of transformers and probably causing widespread cable damage.

 

In short, electrical and communication blackouts, that is of course as long as we don't run out of energy first !!

 

Also, pole reversals are nothing to worry about really, these happen pretty naturally every so often

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