Lightkeeper's post on Orion got me thinking about 2012 - anyone have any thoughts/feeling about any of the predictions?

Setting prophetic dates seems to be an on going kind of occupation...

Once the date is past the books about it appear at drastically marked down prices and are not talked much about after the year they predict..

Usually predictions hit on a few things though that are on target and that's what's touted and remembered. People by nature forget the predictions that failed or were inaccurate.

How about the books that predicted the collapse of computers in the new millenium? Remember them?

About twenty years ago I read some interesting texts about the Mayan calendar that had different calculations than the ones used to prophecy 2012 as a prophetic year so I'm pretty much a skeptic I guess on this one.

- Art

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At the end of the day we still have to wait until 2012 to see if our predictions about that year are correct. What should we do in the interim?

An occupation in which the living professors who prophecy hope to be "out of the business" by the time the date rolls around.

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gotta admit, I haven't heard about it... what's supposed to happen?

I am with Ceetee, I don't know what is supposed to happen.

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Some prophesize that is the date for endtimes. Others see it as we will experience a change in consciousness. I see it as they ran out of material to write the calendar on.

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That's a possibility. But I am worried that we seem willing to give up the human spirit of get up and do and instead we are just waiting to see what the future holds.

There must be something wrong with you. So many people are trying to predict what's going to happen in the future, and you keep insisting on trying to create a future that's acceptable.

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What bothers me even more is that many of those who are trying to predict the future also accept the Creation story but forget that a central message of the Creation story is that the God gave man dominion over the earth, meaning that man had full responsibility for the future state of humanity.