2012: Are We Headed For Armageddon?

December 12, 2012. It’s the day many religions and ancient cultures of the world predict will be our last. Armageddon, they say, will come from a ball of fire from the sky, through earthquakes shaken from the underworld, and from the agony that poverty and hunger will strike in the souls of man. While many brush off the thought of the end of the world as just another conspiracy theory, it’s hard not to wonder if it’s true.
Searching for “2012: End” on Google will bring you over 69 million results. Most of these Armageddon articles speak of the Mayan Calendar which marks the end of a 5,126-year era on December 12, 2012. On this day, the winter solstice, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in almost 26,000 years. “Whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," said Lawrence Joseph, author of Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End. China’s I-Ching, known as “The Book of Changes,” maps the “Time Wave Zero” which also ends on this fateful date.
Nostradamus, famous for his predictions, refers to the 2009-2012 period as the “The Time of Troubles,” in which the world will know great despair, evil and war—most specifically between Israel and Iran. We only need look to recent headlines of the Gaza Strip to see that Hamas may very well be fighting Iran’s proxy war. Even if you don’t side with the faithful, it’s hard to ignore scientific forecasts.
Early on, Albert Einstein determined that if honey bees became extinct, mankind would have only four years to live. Last year, reports flooded the news with talk that the end of honey bees is in sight. Other threats against agriculture systems include global warming, which is just another sign of the dangers our planet is facing. The front-runner of these is pole reversal, which has long been predicted by NASA. It marks the 11,500 year deadly cycle that Earth is on that will shift the North Pole and South Pole, bringing with it tsunamis, massive earthquakes, volcanic activities and hurricanes. The last pole reversal caused the Ice Age. Some say Katrina is nothing in comparison to what’s in store for us.
Should we be looking for crystal skulls to save us? Could the Web Bot Project’s “collective unconscious” forecast be right like they were about 9/11? Or is this all another hoax, like those Y2K theories? “Really, it's a conversion of people’s anxieties about our times, and finding some remote mythological precedent or prediction of it,” said Stephe Housten, an anthropology professor at Brown University. "People like to believe that ancient wisdom is somehow predicting this time of upheaval." Since the dawn of man, humans have always questioned life, origin and death. Predicting the End of Days is nothing new, we’ve had many faile Armageddon predictions. But what if this time’s different? What if our time does run out on December 12, 2012?