Before this month I never really read about 2012 or paid it any mind. Then I start hearing about the bird/fish etc. die offs and so I do what was supposed to be some innocent surfing on the internet. The information I came across on various websites/forums made me literally break down. I had stopped taking my anxiety/depression meds and was doing fine, but now I am having to take them again. I tried to reason about the birds etc. and then there comes the topic of the magnetic pole reversal and it seems like everything I've been reading is coming true. So surreal but it has been terrifying me, I am literally losing sleep over it, and not eating. I just feel terrible. It wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't for what seems to be scientific backing of some of it. It is literally drivin me crazy.
Hello, Anxious. What exactly do you feel has scientific backing? Geomagnetic reversals don't happen over a period of days, weeks, months or years. They can take thousands of years, which means they're so slow you wouldn't notice even if you were in the middle of one. A very tiny minority of researchers recently claimed to have uncovered evidence that a coupe of reversals might have happened "rapidly," by which they mean over a period of several years — still not overnight. There's no evidence whatsoever that geomagnetic reversals are any danger to life.
Beyond that, our magnetic poles move constantly, and such movement by no means indicates a pending reversal.
The recent wildlife die-offs have nothing to do with geomagnetism. While bothersome to anyone with empathy toward animal life, these things happen literally all the time. It's just part of our world, and aside from die-offs triggered by pollution, these events are not a sign of anything unusually horrible or anything you should even be worried about.
Anxious, you really need to filter the information you see, and think "why this is the truth?" and search for scientific claims. Search for academicians websites and scientist, and I can say 100% sure that they will deny everything you see in those websites.
They are playing with your fears.
Peace!
Ty for the reply. As far as the scientific backing, I can't say for sure it is actual science backing it, I just was reading through websites of people like Patrick Geryl. On those websites they offer up what seems like educated explanations of why they think it will happen. According to some forum, Geryl has been right in some predictions and of course that leads people to say, he has to know the truth. Which in turn bothers me. On one hand I almost reassure my self, then reading through websites, I come across things that make me worry again. My underlying anxiety/depression don't help that at all I am sure.
You can rest assured that Patrick Geryl is a crank — about as anti-science as they come — who doesn't even understand what he's talking about. He's scared a lot of people, but I think this site deals with him pretty well.
http://www.2012hoax.org/patrick-geryl
http://www.2012hoax.org/forum/t-260090/patrick-geryl
Geryl claimed to have predicted a solar flare last year because he got within a day or two of it, but he never likes to talk about all the "predictions" he's missed or the solar flares that have occurred without him predicting anything. Even if he did manage to predict a solar event, the so-called calculations you see on his website aren't rooted in reality, because he completely ignores the basic physics of energy and momentum. No "rotational pole shift" proponent to date has been able to provide a plausible mechanism by which such a thing could happen. The things Geryl claims will come about in 2012 are products of his imagination and are completely impossible.
According to some forum, Geryl has been right in some predictions
You mean he had a lucky guess?
But what about the other 99% failures in his predictions?
On those websites they offer up what seems like educated explanations
If you look at Start trek they also have seemingly educated explanations, but they call it technobable.
Any claims of Geryl is pure fiction based and impossible in the real world.
Anxious:
Nobody from ornitologist(specialist of birds) says that "birds die because electromagnetic change etc".
Geryl writings really look like educational materials because this is pseudoscience. Pseudoscience always try to look as science.
Media generaly "maximise" events like a birds die. And deaht birds have a mechanical harms, not "magnetic". Magnetic waves dont make a mechanical damages.
Just curious to see what people on here think about this. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1314740/pg1 Came across it earlier.
Also what do ya'll think about the webbots? Some people are saying they predicted the bird etc dieoffs, but they have also "predicted" a lot of stuff that hasn't come true.
Just curious to see what people on here think about this. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1314740/pg1 Came across it earlier.
It's amazing the percentage of people who come here who get their "news" from Godlike Productions and Above Top Secret message boards. I can't stress enough that these sites are not reliable sources of scientific information, but are known for rampant speculation, pseudoscience and outright hoaxes. Occasionally, someone on those forums will post a sane rebuttal to the nonsense, but if you are bothered by pseudoscience or have trouble seeing through it, it's best to just stay away.
The New Madrid area (only a couple of hours from my house) covers parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky and maybe southern Illinois. The fault itself isn't anywhere near Michigan, so the claims in the post you linked to are suspect right from the start. The formation, insofar as I can tell, appears to have been the result of a very small earthquake. This happened three months ago.
Also what do ya'll think about the webbots? Some people are saying they predicted the bird etc dieoffs, but they have also "predicted" a lot of stuff that hasn't come true.
The "Web.bot" doesn't predict anything. It just scours the Internet for popular topics, like any other bot. The creators claim there is some magical force that causes people to talk about things before they happen, thereby letting the web.bot act as a sort of digital psychic. Of course, there is absolutely zero evidence for the existence of this magic.
See this article on what the Web.bot can do and cannot do:
http://www.dailycommonsense.com/web-bot-what-is-it-can-it-predict-stuff/
In short, it might be able to pull pieces of information off the Web that humans would logically be discussing beforehand (like a terrorist attack) and "predict" the event on that basis (making it just an advanced intelligence tool). It cannot, however, predict natural disasters, doomsday, alien invasions or anything like that. Anyone telling you otherwise is delusional. Like so much of the crap spewed by self-styled "prophets" over the course of history, many of the Web.bot predictions are so vague as to make them meaningless, such as the "maritime disaster" supposedly predicted in 2003. The creators themselves, at this point, just want you to buy their reports for the low, low price of $10.00(US).
Also what do ya'll think about the webbots? Some people are saying they predicted the bird etc dieoffs
They didn't predict the birds dieoffs, nor the fish dieoffs. I saw the Wikipedia page about Web Bot, before those events, and there wasn't this prediction.
but they have also "predicted" a lot of stuff that hasn't come true.
You're right.
I think we should take snapshots of it, and later compare it with their so called predictions.
Just curious to see what people on here think about this. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1314740/pg1 Came across it earlier.
Even though the New Madrid zone is a long way from the crack described in your link (as TheGreatJuju notes), I think that this old (1815) account of the New Madrid quakes is interesting. The description of the tremendous storm, the comet, and the great quakes that occurred in other parts of the world at about the same time as the New Madrid quakes shows that there's nothing new in having several natural disasters and signs in the sky within a few years.
"I was glad to be able to answer him promptly and with confidence. Without hesitation, I told him I didn't know." Mark Twain
Anxious: is method called "machinegun shotting": "prophet" make many predictions, and if 10% will be hits and 90% miss(this is statisticaly possible - without any pregognition force) he make 10% famous and silented 90%.
In Poland (my country) was active a "prophed". (i'm mercifull don't tell his name). He claimed (in 2008) that predicted financial crisis and preicted on next year (2009) III World War. This was wrong. But I'm ignored his claim: i'm googled and finded old (from 2007) local newspeper archive with interview with "prophed" about 2008: nothing was about financial crisis but was many about large terrorist attack with chemical weapon.
Most peoples claimed "predictions" is wrong or lie.