Hello, Kelsey.
I'm terribly sorry about your situation and the fear that these rumors have thrown your way.
The 2012 claims are on television simply for one thing; publicity.
Everyone wants to be on the headlines of a news article about predicting some kind of disastrous event.
The time "11:11" comes from a separate phenomena that simply revolves around people randomly looking at a clock only to see times such as 12:12, 11:11, 2:22, 3:33 and so on— In a nutshell, they're using other phenomena to support their claims, the fact that December 21st, 2012 in itself is a unique date not only due to the Maya but also because of the numbers doesn't help any at all.
The fact is that people are fascinated by things that are strange or unique such as the number phenomena.
No one had predicted the attack on 9/11, if anyone had actually predicted the attack when we would have been hearing about the predictions before the attack, not after.
The Maya and Nostradamus both had in fact made prophecies how ever these prophecies can be related to anything.
Floods and fires and explosions can be related to anything and everything in our history from both of the world wars to residential disasters and nuclear cataclysms such as the Chernobyl disaster and other horrific times such as the plagues.
The most popular of the two for prophecies is the one and only Nostradamus.
How ever the key element that they fail to mention is that Nostradamus has never really made any direct prophecy, his prophecies extend well beyond the year 2012 and his prophecies usually came in pairs.
In the format that his prophecies were told, it literally tells us that the outcome of our civilization is in our hands, meaning that our decisions will effect our existence here on Earth.
People are doing what they do every time that a doomsday prophecy arises, they panic.
In 1999 there was a mass increase in sales for survival kits, water, canned food, shelters, clothes and other things in preparation for the year 2000 which everyone had said would be the end of the world.
We're still here and all of that money was wasted on products that nobody used.
Unless of course they're using their shelters to play Rock Band or Guitar Hero which is very likely.
I can't help but feel that eventually you will ask about the Mayan calendar so I'll include that as well.
The Maya long-count calendar does not predict the end of the world nor the end of our civilization but rather the beginning of a new cycle much like our modern-day calendars.
The Maya long-count calendar simply just resets, if you will to begin the B'ak'tun cycle over and complete yet another cycle, again, much like our modern-day calendars that we have for weeks, days and years alike.
If you have any further questions, feel free to come back.
Kelsey (guest) 16 Nov 2009 14:31
