2012: END OF THE WORLD?

     Cynics might have been protruding their wildest imagination as the clamor for 2012 tinges. It is a widespread rumor that next year will be the doomsday for the entire humanity. Such foretold premonition is based on the series of events that are rogue and scandalous to the society and on the estimation of astrobiologists of their frustration to be like other notable figures in the astronomical history in discovering a new planet. Much had been told; much had been predicted, yet there's no proof to support on the reliability of such claim. For the religious, they call their gods in prayer believing that all are just divine interventions reminding us that there is someone superior than us.

     

     But what triggered some believers to end up thinking on these? Historically, the Mayan, Incan, Aztec and Egyptian ancestors who have prophesized for the end of the world. Amongst, the Mayan has the specification accorded to their long calendar.

END OF THE WORLD COUNTDOWN

     The prophecy is about an unknown planet that will collide late 2012. Ancient Mesopotamians discovered this threatening 3600-year orbit planet calling it Nibiru. Some call it Agamemnon. For astronomers named it Planet X. On January 26, 1983, when NASA launched the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), Planet X has been photographed for real. That time, it was estimated to be 50 million miles away from us. It is moving closer that by 2004 it has been determined to be 7 million miles away. Its confirmation was taken in Japan on February 28, 2008 and that it will be here by the end of the year.

     With so many predictions and or estimations 5 thousand, 50 thousand or 5,000 years ago, what's the denominator is that they point the same date: December 21, 2012.

END OF THE WORLD RAGING CLAMOR

     September 11, 2001. It was when the Twin Tower has been attacked by the Al-Qaida group. Surmounting socio-political instability has taken place but other religious entities call for a prayer believing that gradually the world meet its end. Preceded by years of apathy brought about by poverty and hunger and unforeseen natural calamities, 2011 is challenged with a fury blast of crisis in the different parts of the world. Egypt, Libya and Iran suffered man-made predicaments; New Zealand, on the other hand, was shaken off by a strong magnitude of quake. Just recently, Japan was deluded with catastrophes from a quake with unbelievable magnitude of 8.9 ( the experts had just changed it to 9 ) transcended to wipe the coastal areas of Sendai through tsunami which also transcended for the explosion of nuclear plants brought about by radiation leaks and, lately, by volcanic eruptions.

     Moreover, there are severe monumental problems like global warming and loss of habitat. The ozone layer is thinning and no one is to be blamed but the benevolent igniters of pollution and other combustion. This resulted to the melting of the glaciers in the North Pole and other cold areas increasing the sea level which also decreases the land area for habitation.

     END OF THE WORLD:  PREMONITION  or  DESTINY?

     Fear. That best describes the feeling of the believers of end of the world now. Long, it has been predicted. Long, we did nothing but snob it.

     Others say that what we need are facts to face the truth, if, such is a real truth. Premonition or destiny, no one could tell until the exact date comes. But for now, what is true is that we are contributing for its end - the end of the Earth, our world.

                                                    Acknowledgement to: CHARLES UY PESODAS