﻿<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Kiwivoice - Have your say today - Political discussion nz, Political Forum nz, Blog, Cultural discussion nz, Business nz, Sports nz, New Zealand, NZ Forums / New Zealand Forum Topics / Culture &amp; Sports   / The End of the World / Latest Posts</title><generator>InstantForum.NET v4.1.3</generator><description>Kiwivoice - Have your say today - Political discussion nz, Political Forum nz, Blog, Cultural discussion nz, Business nz, Sports nz, New Zealand, NZ Forums</description><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/</link><webMaster>Admin@kiwivoice.co.nz</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:59:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description> god choose a speicial person who understood his wisdom of words to travel through this passage up though the milky way of.of the path that was created. in our life today by astral flying. to see if the way will beclear for it to happen,2012.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; 12 21 12 =. blind leading the blind was blocking gods view down to humans. and it is. they created their own determinations of christianity. .with out improving  in the direction to open heavens gates.all the mistakes above their heads. blocked gods view,.its the path  i got through on in 1997 whe the big comet went past earth.                   12 21 12. =45=9) (45)= my heart is over flowing with a beautiful thought ill put it in writing,(9) kings and daughter are among  your concubines standing beside you is the  queen,wearing jewellery of finest gold..                                             == that gold is not humans gold of wealth, the gold is the golden queen of the energy force of the universe. the wisest men for centries have been pushing gods, wisdom of words out into the direction of and through the milky way.until enough humans could unravel the big jig saw puzzle.of wisdom of life.it had to be done by year 2000 to be in time for this date.. if they try to close down this way through god given some  in this life to open any door thats shut. the ability of wisdom ..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;ive put this in your part. as i don,t take credit for the wisdom and noledge of other abilitys.thank youfor this post to read.. it has come very clear to me as to why god took me astral flying.1997. into the past then present then ahead to the futures.  so the wise one will be prepared for this time.o help. others.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:57:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>bornfree2arms</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>yes you are on the right track with this post. the milky way..&lt;br&gt; and family trees, 2012.. why the stars and universe is important to humans is because,.. our fore fathers wisdom of words are scattered up there, &lt;br&gt;as one in a family learn so much from their parents,&lt;br&gt; then thier gram parents,  come to a stop in life, but what they don,t understand is the stars are their fore fathers or mother. and they get to a certain level then thier subconcous  minds enter the universe.to the level of wisdom  words thats being pushed up thier from centries of .wars anger, and blaming of others, &lt;br&gt; the light of the stars are the white part of words from past family trees,.a falling star means that this part is up to, then it comes down to that family member who at that level to except it,&lt;br&gt;there words of wisdom that no one on earth would listen to rises up out into the universe.. which lights the ways of wisdom for future generations who are interesting in improving their understand of human existance, and why and how we can all improve and learn further knoledge &lt;br&gt;.in this day and age if people who undstand this, and others don,t want to know, our subconcous minds sends it further ahead,. for the next generations to come, and this is why older one dies, is because no on else is interested in learning and improving further ahead,, we are spinning around the sun on an axel  by tension of anger wars and blame of others,, if one goes up through the black hole, there is n,t any spinning around up there, its just emptness&lt;br&gt;if a little at a time of this black come down it shades us from the direct heat of the sun,,  if us humas push each other to far in any one direction we will iether bring to much sun in on land, or to much bad weather in,.if we bring ever human up to the same level we will like whats happening now create confusion anger and blaming as ones minds can,t advance any further, this is why its to be done on level in own family trees, and culture to get it to perfection with outany unnesary deaths,.the family tree was created because certain ones in a family learnt and understood gods wisdom of words befor others did,.&lt;br&gt; your post is  a very important message, and is true, it was written in days of less understanding then today,</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:05:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>bornfree2arms</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Interesting movies&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&amp;amp;q=nasa+2012&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=video_result_group&amp;amp;resnum=4&amp;amp;ct=title"&gt;http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&amp;amp;q=nasa+2012&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=video_result_group&amp;amp;resnum=4&amp;amp;ct=title&lt;/A&gt;#</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:23:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Interesting link about changes to the sun and the date of the next solar cycle.&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_8375.shtml"&gt;http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_8375.shtml&lt;/A&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:55:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Interesting that in all the information posted on this subject ...all point to the 'center of the milky way.' What have they just found in this exact spot.....a black hole denser and bigger than anything ever discovered.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is this just a coincidence? Or the beginning of the predictions?</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:25:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Not even!!&lt;img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Skins/KiwiVoice/Images/EmotIcons/w00t.gif" border="0" title="w00t"&gt;&lt;br&gt;aint nuttn goina happen&lt;br&gt;i bet $60</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:32:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>ManukauFulla</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>&lt;STRONG&gt;Got this from &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012&lt;/A&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;2012&lt;/B&gt; (&lt;B&gt;&lt;A title="Roman numerals" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals"&gt;MMXII&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/B&gt;) will be a &lt;A title="Leap year starting on Sunday" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year_starting_on_Sunday"&gt;leap year starting on Sunday&lt;/A&gt; of the &lt;A title="Gregorian calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar"&gt;Gregorian calendar&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SCRIPT type=text/javascript&gt;//&lt;![CDATA[ if (&amp;#119;indow.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Predicted_and_scheduled_events name=Predicted_and_scheduled_events&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Predicted and scheduled events&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=January name=January&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;January&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="January 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1"&gt;January 1&lt;/A&gt; — The works of &lt;A title="James Joyce" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce"&gt;James Joyce&lt;/A&gt; will enter the &lt;A title="Public domain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain"&gt;public domain&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="January 15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15"&gt;January 15&lt;/A&gt; — Presidential &lt;A title="Elections in Finland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Finland"&gt;elections in Finland&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="January 23" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23"&gt;January 23&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title="Chinese New Year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year"&gt;Chinese New Year&lt;/A&gt; and scheduled new moon.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-0&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-0"&gt;[1]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese &lt;A title=Astrology href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology"&gt;astrology&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-1&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-1"&gt;[2]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="January 31" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31"&gt;January 31&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title="433 Eros" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros"&gt;433 Eros&lt;/A&gt;, the second-largest &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Near Earth Object" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Object"&gt;Near Earth Object&lt;/A&gt; on record (size 13x13x33 km) is expected to pass Earth at 0.1790 &lt;A title="Astronomical unit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit"&gt;astronomical units&lt;/A&gt; (~26.8 million kilometers; ~16.6 million miles). &lt;A title=NASA href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA"&gt;NASA&lt;/A&gt; studied Eros with the &lt;A title="NEAR Shoemaker" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker"&gt;NEAR Shoemaker&lt;/A&gt; probe launched on &lt;A title=1996 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996"&gt;1996&lt;/A&gt;-&lt;A title="February 17" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_17"&gt;02-17&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-2&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-2"&gt;[3]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=February name=February&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;February&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="February 5" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5"&gt;February 5&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Super Bowl XLVI" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVI"&gt;Super Bowl XLVI&lt;/A&gt; will be played. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="February 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6"&gt;February 6&lt;/A&gt; — If she is still on the throne, &lt;A title="Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom"&gt;Elizabeth II&lt;/A&gt; will celebrate her &lt;A title="Diamond Jubilee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee"&gt;Diamond Jubilee&lt;/A&gt;. A series of festivities across the &lt;A title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="Commonwealth of Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations"&gt;Commonwealth of Nations&lt;/A&gt; will likely run throughout the year. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=April name=April&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;April&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="April 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1"&gt;April 1&lt;/A&gt; — The &lt;A title="United States Census, 1940" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census%2C_1940"&gt;United States Census of 1940&lt;/A&gt; is released to the public. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="April 17" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_17"&gt;April 17&lt;/A&gt; — The United States will cede control of the &lt;A title="Military of South Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_South_Korea"&gt;military&lt;/A&gt; of the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Republic of Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Korea"&gt;Republic of Korea&lt;/A&gt; after 50 years of control. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=May name=May&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;May&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="May 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20"&gt;May 20&lt;/A&gt; — Annular &lt;A title="Solar eclipse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse"&gt;solar eclipse&lt;/A&gt;, a Sunday. &lt;LI&gt;May - &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="French President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_President"&gt;French Presidential&lt;/A&gt; election (if the incumbent's term had normally finished in May). &lt;LI&gt;May - &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Irish general election" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election"&gt;Irish general election&lt;/A&gt; is due to be held if the current government remains in office for a full term. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=June name=June&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;June&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="June 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_6"&gt;June 6&lt;/A&gt; — Second and last &lt;A title=Sun href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun"&gt;solar&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A title="Transit of Venus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus"&gt;transit&lt;/A&gt; of the planet &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Venus (planet)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28planet%29"&gt;Venus&lt;/A&gt; of this century; the next pair is predicted to occur in &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=2117 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2117"&gt;2117&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=2125 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2125"&gt;2125&lt;/A&gt; (see &lt;A title="Transit of Venus, 2012" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus%2C_2012"&gt;Transit of Venus, 2012&lt;/A&gt;). &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="June 9" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_9"&gt;June 9&lt;/A&gt;–&lt;A title="July 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1"&gt;July 1&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="2012 European Football Championship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_European_Football_Championship"&gt;2012 European Football Championship&lt;/A&gt; will be played in &lt;A title=Poland href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland"&gt;Poland&lt;/A&gt;/&lt;A title=Ukraine href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine"&gt;Ukraine&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=July name=July&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;July&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="July 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1"&gt;July 1&lt;/A&gt; — Presidential Elections in &lt;A title=Mexico href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico"&gt;Mexico&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="July 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27"&gt;July 27&lt;/A&gt; — Opening ceremony of the &lt;A title="2012 Summer Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics"&gt;2012 Summer Olympics&lt;/A&gt; begins in &lt;A title=London href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/A&gt; at 7:30 pm &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=UTC href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC"&gt;UTC&lt;/A&gt;, 8:30pm BST.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-3&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-3"&gt;[4]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=August name=August&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;August&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="August 12" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12"&gt;August 12&lt;/A&gt; — Closing ceremony of the &lt;A title="2012 Summer Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics"&gt;2012 Summer Olympics&lt;/A&gt; in &lt;A title=London href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/A&gt;, a Sunday. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="August 29" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_29"&gt;August 29&lt;/A&gt; — Start of the &lt;A title="2012 Summer Paralympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Paralympics"&gt;2012 Summer Paralympics&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=September name=September&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;September&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="September 9" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_9"&gt;September 9&lt;/A&gt; — End of the &lt;A title="2012 Summer Paralympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Paralympics"&gt;2012 Summer Paralympics&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=October name=October&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;October&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="October 19" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_19"&gt;October 19&lt;/A&gt; — at 01:36 &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=UTC href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC"&gt;UTC&lt;/A&gt;, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people, according to the &lt;A title="United States Census Bureau" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-4&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-4"&gt;[5]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt;&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-5&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-5"&gt;[6]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=November name=November&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;November&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6"&gt;November 6&lt;/A&gt; — The United States &lt;A title="United States presidential election" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election"&gt;Presidential&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="United States Senate elections, 2012" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections%2C_2012"&gt;Senate&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A title="United States House of Representatives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives"&gt;House of Representatives&lt;/A&gt; elections. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6"&gt;November 6&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title="Elections in Puerto Rico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Puerto_Rico"&gt;Puerto Rico general election&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 13" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_13"&gt;November 13&lt;/A&gt; — Total &lt;A title="Solar eclipse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse"&gt;solar eclipse&lt;/A&gt; (visible in northern &lt;A title=Australia href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia"&gt;Australia&lt;/A&gt; and the South Pacific). &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 28" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_28"&gt;November 28&lt;/A&gt; — Penumbral &lt;A title="Lunar eclipse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse"&gt;lunar eclipse&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=December name=December&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;December&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 3" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_3"&gt;December 3&lt;/A&gt; — Jupiter oppositions. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21"&gt;December 21&lt;/A&gt; — The &lt;A title="Mesoamerican Long Count calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar"&gt;Mesoamerican Long Count calendar&lt;/A&gt;, notably used by the &lt;A title="Maya civilization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization"&gt;Maya civilization&lt;/A&gt; among others of &lt;A title=Pre-Columbian href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian"&gt;pre-Columbian&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A title=Mesoamerica href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica"&gt;Mesoamerica&lt;/A&gt;, completes its thirteenth &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title=Baktun href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun"&gt;b'ak'tun&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="3114 BC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3114_BC"&gt;3114 BC&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A title="August 11" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_11"&gt;August 11&lt;/A&gt; in the &lt;A title="Proleptic Gregorian calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar"&gt;proleptic Gregorian calendar&lt;/A&gt;, according to the "GMT-correlation" &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Julian Day Numbers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Day_Numbers"&gt;JDN&lt;/A&gt;= 584283).&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-6&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-6"&gt;[7]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; The Long Count &lt;I&gt;b'ak'tun&lt;/I&gt; date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Solar year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_year"&gt;solar years&lt;/A&gt;. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete &lt;A title="Maya script" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script"&gt;inscription&lt;/A&gt; (&lt;A title="Tortuguero (Maya site)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortuguero_%28Maya_site%29"&gt;Tortuguero&lt;/A&gt; Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in &lt;A title=Palenque href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque"&gt;Palenque&lt;/A&gt;, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-7&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-7"&gt;[8]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the &lt;A title="Maya mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology"&gt;Maya belief system&lt;/A&gt; a transition from the current Creation world into the next. &lt;LI&gt;The 2012 &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Winter Solstice" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Solstice"&gt;Winter Solstice&lt;/A&gt; will also occur on this day at 11:11 &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=UTC href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC"&gt;UTC&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-USNO_8-0&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-USNO-8"&gt;[9]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 23" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_23"&gt;December 23&lt;/A&gt; — The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth &lt;I&gt;b'ak'tun&lt;/I&gt; cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "astronomical" or "&lt;A title="Floyd Lounsbury" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury"&gt;Lounsbury&lt;/A&gt; correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-9&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-9"&gt;[10]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 31" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31"&gt;December 31&lt;/A&gt; — Expiration of the &lt;A title="Kyoto Protocol" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol"&gt;Kyoto Protocol&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Unknown_dates name=Unknown_dates&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Unknown dates&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Trinidad and Tobago" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago"&gt;Trinidad and Tobago&lt;/A&gt; will hold their &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="General elections" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_elections"&gt;general elections&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=Jamaica href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica"&gt;Jamaica&lt;/A&gt; will hold its &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="General elections" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_elections"&gt;general elections&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;The Replacement Eastern Span of the &lt;A title="San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge"&gt;San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge&lt;/A&gt; will open to traffic, replacing the old Eastern cantilever span that was damaged in the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Loma Prieta Earthquake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_Earthquake"&gt;Loma Prieta Earthquake&lt;/A&gt; in 1989, almost a quarter century (23 years) after the span was damaged&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-10&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-10"&gt;[11]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=India href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India"&gt;India&lt;/A&gt;'s 11th &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Five-Year Plans of India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_India"&gt;Five-Year Plan&lt;/A&gt; (&lt;A title=2007 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007"&gt;2007&lt;/A&gt;–2012) ends and the 12th one (2012–&lt;A title=2017 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017"&gt;2017&lt;/A&gt;) starts. &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/A&gt; plans to complete 5-year process to cease &lt;A title="Analog television" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television"&gt;analogue television&lt;/A&gt; broadcasts region-by-region, with &lt;A title="Meridian Broadcasting" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_Broadcasting"&gt;Meridian Broadcasting&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="ITV London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_London"&gt;ITV London&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="Tyne Tees Television" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Tees_Television"&gt;Tyne Tees Television&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title=UTV href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTV"&gt;UTV&lt;/A&gt; being the last areas to switch off analogue.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-11&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-11"&gt;[12]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=Australia href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia"&gt;Australia&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title=Ireland href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland"&gt;Ireland&lt;/A&gt; plan to cease analogue television broadcasts. &lt;LI&gt;California's ban on the production of &lt;A title="Foie gras" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras"&gt;foie gras&lt;/A&gt; is scheduled to take effect. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=NASA href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA"&gt;NASA&lt;/A&gt;'s new &lt;A title="Orion (spacecraft)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29"&gt;Orion spacecraft&lt;/A&gt; is scheduled to become fully operational for &lt;A title="International Space Station" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station"&gt;International Space Station&lt;/A&gt; support flights. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=China href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China"&gt;China&lt;/A&gt; plans to launch the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Kuafu href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuafu"&gt;Kuafu&lt;/A&gt; spacecraft &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Freedom Tower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower"&gt;Freedom Tower&lt;/A&gt; in New York City: Construction is scheduled to be finished by 2012 at the latest. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Sight &amp;amp; Sound" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound"&gt;Sight &amp;amp; Sound&lt;/A&gt; magazine will conduct its Top Ten Films of All-Time poll for the seventh decade since 1952. &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallandsas_Ridge_Tunnel"&gt;Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel&lt;/A&gt; is set to be completed, 17 years behind the original plan. &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Canberra class" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_class"&gt;Canberra class&lt;/A&gt; light aircraft carriers/large amphibious ships, the largest ships ever to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy, are planned to be in service. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title=NASA href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA"&gt;NASA&lt;/A&gt; predicts that the Sun will reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year &lt;A title="Sunspot cycle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot_cycle"&gt;sunspot cycle&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-12&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-12"&gt;[13]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Canadian Navy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Navy"&gt;Canadian Navy&lt;/A&gt; receives the delivery of the first &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Joint Support Ship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Support_Ship"&gt;Joint Support Ship&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Charles Manson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson"&gt;Charles Manson&lt;/A&gt; will be eligible for his twelfth parole hearing. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Major_religious_holidays name=Major_religious_holidays&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Major religious holidays&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="January 7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7"&gt;January 7&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Christmas Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Day"&gt;Christmas Day&lt;/A&gt; by &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Julian Calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Calendar"&gt;Julian Calendar&lt;/A&gt; (Celebrated by &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Eastern Orthodox" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox"&gt;Eastern Orthodox&lt;/A&gt; Christians) &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="February 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1"&gt;February 1&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Imbolc href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc"&gt;Imbolc&lt;/A&gt;, a &lt;A title="Cross-quarter day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-quarter_day"&gt;Cross-quarter day&lt;/A&gt; (Celebrated on &lt;A title="February 2" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2"&gt;February 2&lt;/A&gt; in some places) &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="February 5" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5"&gt;February 5&lt;/A&gt; — Mawlid an Nabi - &lt;A title=Islam href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="March 8" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8"&gt;March 8&lt;/A&gt; — Purim - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="March 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20"&gt;March 20&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Spring Equinox" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Equinox"&gt;Spring Equinox&lt;/A&gt;, also known as &lt;A title=Ostara href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostara"&gt;Ostara&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="April 7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_7"&gt;April 7&lt;/A&gt; — Passover - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="April 8" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8"&gt;April 8&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Easter href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter"&gt;Easter&lt;/A&gt; - &lt;A title=Christianity href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"&gt;Christianity&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="May 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1"&gt;May 1&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Beltane href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane"&gt;Beltane&lt;/A&gt;, a &lt;A title="Cross-quarter day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-quarter_day"&gt;Cross-quarter day&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="May 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_27"&gt;May 27&lt;/A&gt; — Shavuot - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="June 17" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_17"&gt;June 17&lt;/A&gt; — Lailat al Miraj - &lt;A title=Islam href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="June 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20"&gt;June 20&lt;/A&gt; — Summer &lt;A title=Solstice href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice"&gt;solstice&lt;/A&gt;, also known as &lt;A title=Midsummer href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer"&gt;Midsummer&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A title=Midsummer href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer"&gt;Litha&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="July 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20"&gt;July 20&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Ramadan href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan"&gt;Ramadan&lt;/A&gt; Begins - &lt;A title=Islam href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="August 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1"&gt;August 1&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Lammas href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas"&gt;Lammas&lt;/A&gt;, a &lt;A title="Cross-quarter day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-quarter_day"&gt;Cross-quarter day&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="August 19" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_19"&gt;August 19&lt;/A&gt; — Id al Fitr - &lt;A title=Islam href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="September 17" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17"&gt;September 17&lt;/A&gt; — Rosh Hashanah - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="September 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21"&gt;September 21&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Equinox href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox"&gt;Fall Equinox&lt;/A&gt;, also known as &lt;A title=Mabon href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabon"&gt;Mabon&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="October 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1"&gt;October 1&lt;/A&gt; — Sukkot - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1"&gt;November 1&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Samhain href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain"&gt;Samhain&lt;/A&gt;, a &lt;A title="Cross-quarter day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-quarter_day"&gt;Cross-quarter day&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title=Neopaganism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopaganism"&gt;Neopagan&lt;/A&gt; new year and &lt;A title=Christianity href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"&gt;Christian&lt;/A&gt; All Saints' Day &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="November 15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15"&gt;November 15&lt;/A&gt; — New Year - &lt;A title=Islam href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;Islam&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 9" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_9"&gt;December 9&lt;/A&gt; — Hanukkah - &lt;A title=Judaism href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21"&gt;December 21&lt;/A&gt; — Winter &lt;A title=Solstice href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice"&gt;solstice&lt;/A&gt;, also known as &lt;A title=Yule href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule"&gt;Yule&lt;/A&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="December 25" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_25"&gt;December 25&lt;/A&gt; — &lt;A title=Christmas href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas"&gt;Christmas&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Metaphysical_predictions name=Metaphysical_predictions&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Metaphysical predictions&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;P&gt;2012 is sometimes claimed to be a &lt;A title="Great year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_year"&gt;great year&lt;/A&gt; of spiritual transformation (or &lt;A title=Apocalypse href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse"&gt;apocalypse&lt;/A&gt;). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth &lt;A title=Baktun href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun"&gt;B'ak'tun&lt;/A&gt; cycle in the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Maya Long Count Calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Long_Count_Calendar"&gt;Long Count&lt;/A&gt; of the &lt;A title="Maya calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar"&gt;Maya calendar&lt;/A&gt; (which occurs on &lt;A title="December 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21"&gt;December 21&lt;/A&gt; by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;The 1997 book &lt;I&gt;&lt;A class=mw-redirect title="The Bible Code" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Code"&gt;The Bible Code&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; claims that, according to certain algorithms of the &lt;A title="Bible code" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code"&gt;Bible code&lt;/A&gt;, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. &lt;LI&gt;The 2006 book &lt;I&gt;2012: The Return of &lt;A title=Quetzalcoatl href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl"&gt;Quetzalcoatl&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; by &lt;A title="Daniel Pinchbeck" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pinchbeck"&gt;Daniel Pinchbeck&lt;/A&gt; discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a &lt;A title=Noosphere href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere"&gt;noosphere&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Terence McKenna" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna"&gt;Terence McKenna&lt;/A&gt;'s &lt;A title=Numerology href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology"&gt;numerological&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A title="Novelty theory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_theory"&gt;novelty theory&lt;/A&gt; suggests a point of &lt;A title="Technological singularity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity"&gt;singularity&lt;/A&gt; in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness. &lt;LI&gt;Some proponents of a &lt;A title="Peak oil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil"&gt;peak oil&lt;/A&gt; catastrophe place major events in 2012. &lt;A title="Richard C. Duncan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Duncan"&gt;Richard C. Duncan&lt;/A&gt;'s book &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Olduvai theory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_theory"&gt;The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; claims that the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Olduvai cliff" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_cliff"&gt;Olduvai cliff&lt;/A&gt; will begin and permanent &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Power blackout" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_blackout"&gt;blackouts&lt;/A&gt; will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012.&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-13&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-13"&gt;[14]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt;&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-14&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-14"&gt;[15]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt;&lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-15&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#cite_note-15"&gt;[16]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=References_to_2012_in_the_arts name=References_to_2012_in_the_arts&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;References to 2012 in the arts&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Literature name=Literature&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Literature&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Methuselah's Children" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children"&gt;Methuselah's Children&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; (1941/1958) and &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Time Enough for Love" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love"&gt;Time Enough for Love&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; (1973) by &lt;A title="Robert A. Heinlein" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein"&gt;Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/A&gt;: A crucial meeting of the &lt;A title="Howard Families" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Families"&gt;Howard Families&lt;/A&gt; takes place, following the election of &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Nehemiah Scudder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Scudder"&gt;Nehemiah Scudder&lt;/A&gt; for &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="President of the USA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_USA"&gt;president of the USA&lt;/A&gt;. In both novels, viewpoint character &lt;A title="Lazarus Long" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long"&gt;Lazarus Long&lt;/A&gt; is asked what happened at this meeting as he is the last living eyewitness; in both novels he declines to answer. Nehemiah Scudder establishes a religious dictatorship in the USA. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="The Notion Club Papers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notion_Club_Papers"&gt;The Notion Club Papers&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; by &lt;A title="J. R. R. Tolkien" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien"&gt;J. R. R. Tolkien&lt;/A&gt; (1945): About one-quarter of the papers are found among sacks of waste paper at Oxford by a Mr. Green. &lt;LI&gt;"Domain" and "Resurrection" by author &lt;A title="Steve Alten" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Alten"&gt;Steve Alten&lt;/A&gt;: A fictional series that tells the events of the Gabriel twins after discovering the mystery behind 2012. &lt;LI&gt;"&lt;A class=new title="2012: The War for Souls (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012:_The_War_for_Souls&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1"&gt;2012: The War for Souls&lt;/A&gt;" by author &lt;A title="Whitley Strieber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber"&gt;Whitley Strieber&lt;/A&gt; is a fictional novel about three &lt;A title="Parallel universe (fiction)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29"&gt;parallel earths&lt;/A&gt; and the occurrences leading up to December 21, 2012 in each as the walls between them begin to thin and allow passage through gateways to the others. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Comics name=Comics&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Comics&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="The Invisibles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles#The_Invisible_Kingdom"&gt;The Invisibles&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; ("&lt;A title="The Invisibles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles#The_Invisible_Kingdom"&gt;The Invisible Kingdom&lt;/A&gt;," 1999–2000): The Invisibles' "fictional" universe expands into the meta-context of the "higher universe," possibly our own. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Music name=Music&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Music&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;"A Certain Shade of Green," a song from the &lt;A title="Incubus (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_%28band%29"&gt;Incubus&lt;/A&gt; album &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title=S.C.I.E.N.C.E. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.C.I.E.N.C.E."&gt;S.C.I.E.N.C.E.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;, references 2012 in the following lines: &lt;I&gt;Are you gonna stand around till 2012 A.D.? / What are you waiting for, a certain shade of green?&lt;/I&gt;. December 21, 2012 also appears to be the date when the video for the song "Warning" is supposed to take place. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Genesis (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_%28band%29"&gt;Genesis&lt;/A&gt;'s song &lt;I&gt;Get'em Out By Friday&lt;/I&gt; from their 1972 album &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Foxtrot (album)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtrot_%28album%29"&gt;Foxtrot&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;, sets "18/9/2012" (on the printed operistic-dialog lyrics) as the date when "Genetic Control" would set a height restriction on human beings so that twice as many people could fit on real estate properties. &lt;LI&gt;"Pesky Solar Flares", by Angie Strange has lyrics relating to coronal mass ejections occurring during the Winter Solstice of 2012. The song was available as a free download on the website of the popular American conspiracy talk radio show Coast To Coast Am. &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="(həd) p.e." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28h%C9%99d%29_p.e."&gt;(həd) p.e.&lt;/A&gt; song "I.F.O." (to be found on their second, self-titled album), which is about UFO sightings and governmental conspiracies to cover them up, references the year 2012: "Prepare to meet your maker in the skies over the pyramids / Check Stonehenge / Go ask the Mayans / 2012 soon come / I will be waitin' sayin' I told you so / When the skies are ripped open / And the mothership lands on your cynical ass". &lt;LI&gt;(hed) p.e. also references 2012 in "Killing Time" from their second album "Broke". &lt;I&gt;come Twenty Twelve, come twelve tribes, come twelve strands, come twelve lives Twelve steps, twelve months, twelve drug dealers&lt;/I&gt; &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Stones Throw Records" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stones_Throw_Records"&gt;Stones Throw Records&lt;/A&gt; artist &lt;A title="Dudley Perkins" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Perkins"&gt;Dudley Perkins&lt;/A&gt; released his LP, entitled '&lt;A class=new title="Expressions (2012 A.U.) (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Expressions_%282012_A.U.%29&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1"&gt;Expressions (2012 A.U.)&lt;/A&gt;', in 2006 &lt;LI&gt;The instrumental song "December 21, 2012" by &lt;A title=Frodus href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frodus"&gt;Frodus&lt;/A&gt;, which appears as a B-side to their best-selling 7" vinyl single of their &lt;A title=Devo href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo"&gt;Devo&lt;/A&gt; cover "Explosions" (Released 1997). &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A title="Anaal Nathrakh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaal_Nathrakh"&gt;Anaal Nathrakh&lt;/A&gt; song "&lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Timewave Zero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timewave_Zero"&gt;Timewave Zero&lt;/A&gt;" is about the apparent end of the world on December 21, 2012. The lyrics are translated as "The 21st Of December, 2012, The time will come" &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="A Day To Remember" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_To_Remember"&gt;A Day To Remember&lt;/A&gt; song "&lt;A class=new title="Fast Forward to 2012 (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fast_Forward_to_2012&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1"&gt;Fast Forward to 2012&lt;/A&gt;" refers to the world ending in 2012 as a warning for friends to do something to prepare. &lt;LI&gt;British nu-rave outfit &lt;A title=Klaxons href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaxons"&gt;Klaxons&lt;/A&gt; sing about apocalyptic horsemen in their song "Four Horsemen Of 2012" from the 2007 album &lt;A title="Myths of the Near Future (album)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myths_of_the_Near_Future_%28album%29"&gt;Myths of the Near Future&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;The song "2012 — Demise of the 5th Sun" by the melodic death metal band &lt;A title="Scar Symmetry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scar_Symmetry"&gt;Scar Symmetry&lt;/A&gt; is a reference to the year 2012. "&lt;I&gt;For the lines on the fractal wave / Fit the course of history / They're created to work as one till the end / When the winter solstice comes / Actualizing the prophecy / The demise in 2012 realized&lt;/I&gt;" &lt;LI&gt;The &lt;A title="Testament (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_%28band%29"&gt;Testament&lt;/A&gt; song "3 Days in Darkness", off of The Gathering album is a song about 2012, and speaks of the earth being swallowed in molten fire. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="VNV Nation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNV_Nation"&gt;VNV Nation&lt;/A&gt;'s album Praise The Fallen" has the subtitle "PTF 2012", which is also the name of a track in the album, which seems to be predominantly about an upcoming war. The song, "Honour" starts with the line, "Passive fields, January 2012..." &lt;LI&gt;Heavy metal band &lt;A title="Burnt by the Sun (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_by_the_Sun_%28band%29"&gt;Burnt By The Sun&lt;/A&gt;'s two albums both deal with prophecies concerning the year 2012. &lt;LI&gt;"2012" is the name of the 2005 album by the experimental rock band &lt;A title="Old Time Relijun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Time_Relijun"&gt;Old Time Relijun&lt;/A&gt;, and several songs make references to ancient Mayan culture, such as "Burial Mound" and "The King of Lost Light." &lt;LI&gt;On the band &lt;A title="Hella (band)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella_%28band%29"&gt;Hella&lt;/A&gt;'s album &lt;A title="There's No 666 in Outer Space" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_666_in_Outer_Space"&gt;There's No 666 in Outer Space&lt;/A&gt; there is a track called "2012 and Countless" in which the only words are "There's no 666 in Outer Space" repeated. &lt;LI&gt;Metal band &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Ewigkeit href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewigkeit"&gt;Ewigkeit&lt;/A&gt;'s album &lt;A title="Radio Ixtlan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Ixtlan"&gt;Radio Ixtlan&lt;/A&gt; has a track entitled "Live at Palenque 2012" referencing both the Mayan calendar date and the site at which the Temple of Inscriptions where it is carved. &lt;LI&gt;Canibus mentions the year 2012 and December 21, 2012 on his Poet Laureate Infinity vocals and on his 2007 album &lt;A title="For Whom the Beat Tolls" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Beat_Tolls"&gt;For Whom the Beat Tolls&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Film name=Film&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Film&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="I Am Legend (film)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_%28film%29"&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;: The events of the &lt;A title=2007 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007"&gt;2007&lt;/A&gt; film take place in this year. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Television name=Television&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Television&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Doctor Who" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who"&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; &lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;"&lt;A title="Dalek (Doctor Who episode)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_%28Doctor_Who_episode%29"&gt;Dalek&lt;/A&gt;," 2005: A &lt;A title=Dalek href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek"&gt;Dalek&lt;/A&gt; breaks loose under the &lt;A title=Utah href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah"&gt;Utah&lt;/A&gt; salt plains, and plans to kill every living thing on &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Earth (planet)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_%28planet%29"&gt;Earth&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;LI&gt;"&lt;A title="Fear Her" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Her"&gt;Fear Her&lt;/A&gt;," 2006: The episode is set during the lead-up to the &lt;A title="2012 Summer Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics"&gt;2012 Summer Olympics&lt;/A&gt; in &lt;A title=London href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London"&gt;London&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Futurama (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28TV_series%29"&gt;Futurama&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; &lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Xmas Story" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas_Story"&gt;Xmas Story&lt;/A&gt;," 1999: The War of 2012 occurs, during which talk-show host &lt;A title="Conan O'Brien" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien"&gt;Conan O'Brien&lt;/A&gt; lost his "freakishly long legs." &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="Jurassic Bark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Bark"&gt;Jurassic Bark&lt;/A&gt;," 2002; &lt;A title="Philip J. Fry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Fry"&gt;Philip J. Fry's&lt;/A&gt; dog &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Seymour (Futurama)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_%28Futurama%29"&gt;Seymour&lt;/A&gt; dies in this year. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="The X-Files" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files"&gt;The X-Files&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; ("&lt;A title="The Truth (The X-Files)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_%28The_X-Files%29"&gt;The Truth&lt;/A&gt;," 2002): On &lt;A title="December 22" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_22"&gt;December 22&lt;/A&gt;, Aliens invade Earth. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A id=Games name=Games&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Games&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title=Shadowrun href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun"&gt;Shadowrun&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;: With the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Mayan Calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_Calendar#2012"&gt;sixth Mayan world beginning&lt;/A&gt;, magic returns to the world in an event called "The Awakening." &lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;Escape 2012&lt;/I&gt;: The player's mission is to escape from alien captivity. &lt;LI&gt;In &lt;A title=Dark•Matter href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%E2%80%A2Matter"&gt;Dark•Matter&lt;/A&gt;, a campaign setting for the &lt;A title=Alternity href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternity"&gt;Alternity&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="D20 Modern" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_Modern"&gt;D20 Modern&lt;/A&gt; roleplaying games, the institute that the protagonists belong to believe that 2012 will be the end of the world. &lt;LI&gt;&lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Stalker - Shadow of Chernobyl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_-_Shadow_of_Chernobyl"&gt;&lt;I&gt;S.T.A.L.K.E.R — Shadow of Chernobyl&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/A&gt; is set in this year &lt;LI&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Psychic Force 2012" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_Force_2012"&gt;Psychic Force 2012&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; is set during this year. &lt;LI&gt;In &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Universe at War: Earth Assault" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_at_War:_Earth_Assault"&gt;Universe at War: Earth Assault&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;, the Hierarchy invasion on Earth begins. &lt;LI&gt;An in-game document from &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="The Secret World" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World"&gt;The Secret World&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; contains the date 2012 circled and underlined but the significance of this is yet unknown. &lt;LI&gt;In &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Shattered Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Union"&gt;Shattered Union&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;, U.S. president David Jefferson Adams accepts his second term in office after the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=SCOTUS href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOTUS"&gt;Supreme Court&lt;/A&gt; disqualifies all other presidential candidates. &lt;LI&gt;One of the dual storylines in &lt;A title="Assassin's Creed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed"&gt;Assassin's Creed&lt;/A&gt; is set in 2012 &lt;LI&gt;Events of &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Mega Man III" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_III"&gt;Mega Man III&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Mega Man's Soccer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man%27s_Soccer"&gt;Mega Man's Soccer&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Wily and Right's RockBoard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wily_and_Right%27s_RockBoard"&gt;Wily and Right's RockBoard&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="Mega Man V" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_V"&gt;Mega Man V&lt;/A&gt; are set in this year. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:16:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>&lt;A href="http://www.nostradamusonline.com/index.php?a=76&amp;amp;gclid=CKKE4ti7pZICFRkGagodpSPFQQ"&gt;http://www.nostradamusonline.com/index.php?a=76&amp;amp;gclid=CKKE4ti7pZICFRkGagodpSPFQQ&lt;/A&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:07:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Thats very cool!</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:27:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Crossword</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Puts things into perspective&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Uploads/Images/7ece637c-e702-47ce-bb39-ded7.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Uploads/Images/31e9fe9c-6402-40e6-b329-9a86.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Uploads/Images/93282f69-fdc9-4a6c-b980-0f37.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Uploads/Images/73d23e1e-2658-4d24-8587-275c.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Uploads/Images/8b824309-dea5-47eb-bf59-40d5.jpg"&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:49:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>in short  of how this affects indiviguals life plans,is. the path through the milky way has being made by wisest humans from centries ago. and in our human lives of improving on wisdom of words from our own parents and fore fathers,12-21-12 is going to be an very important date it could be bad or good depending on how humans, get their act together. in improving on their mistakes against other, see god created us. to help him with his plan to conquer the universe.the saying goes two heads are better then one,., the  mistake we make on earth. goes up to wisest people then to gods, and our subcounsous minds works out the right way, when it come back down again, it goes on humans, some minds determinite it wrongly but others understand the right  wisdom of it. its these worked out though patterns that keep us spinning around the axel. this is why some are wiser then others, 3-3-3, in numerolegy. three wise men sat beside god. the stars in the sky are our fore father and mothers,bits of white wisdom there of how far they learnt back in their day. in a family tree. if one see a skeletons head, it means they are up to understanding. of their fore parents,wisdom of words, its called the holy ghost the go between us and god, when people take a wrong turn in life like goes towards the black hole or. to far into the white, this wisdom shoots ahead of them. until some one in that family tree reaches that level of understanding it. then it come down to them, its called the shooting star,its good wisdom and health for that person, these people arnt wrong in their train of thoughts.but there are other who have improved further. of understanding. the true meaning of our exsistance.the stars light the way in the dark. from our fore parents.and we have to keep the wisdom of words further ahead of us all the time or we will have complete darkness, but the wisdom that goes ahead is wisdom that our minds can,t handle yet as humans, ita called the wishing well,</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:45:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>bornfree2arms</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>Cheers enjoyed that reading,  kinda of liked the concept guess all things are possible.&lt;img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Skins/KiwiVoice/Images/EmotIcons/Smile.gif" border="0" title="Smile"&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:43:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>louise</dc:creator></item><item><title>The End of the World</title><link>http://www.kiwivoice.co.nz/Topic892-5-1.aspx</link><description>&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class="style111 style5"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="history.back()"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="style111 style5"&gt;&lt;SPAN class="style26 style113"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;December 21, 2012 - Mayan Year of Destiny&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style100&gt;by John Van Auken, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class="style100 style100"&gt;Editor of the &lt;EM&gt;Ancient Mysteries Newsletter&lt;/EM&gt;, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;At present, the year 2012 is only of interest to those of us who believe in the wisdom of ancient cultures. But soon, very soon, everyone is going to be looking for more information about this Mayan prophesied year of destiny 2012, which many believe to be the end of the Mayan calendar and thus the end of time as we have known it. Let’s look at this calendar and date more closely.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style5 align=left&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Long Count Calendar&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style69&gt;Actually, it all began with a discovery that has been known for decades about the culture that invented what is known as the Long Count Calendar. On the Pacific coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico, a few miles from the Guatemala border, the astrological observatory of the Izapa civilization was located. Some believe that the Izapa were the transitional culture between the older Olmec civilization and the emerging Maya; others believe the Izapa were Olmecs. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class=style69 align=left&gt;&lt;P&gt;For almost a thousand years the Long Count Calendar was recorded by the Izapa on monuments and ceramic vessels. Most of the dates refer to local, mundane events, like the crowning of a specific king. However, some of the Long Count monuments refer to mythological events that occurred at the beginning of the current “World Age” that we are living in and which is soon coming to an end. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P class=style5 align=left&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Time Cycles&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;Scholars have figured out how the Long Count Calendar correlates with our own Gregorian calendar (using a lot of arithmetic), so we know that the legendary time of the beginning of our present World Age – when all the values were set to zero – occurred on August 11, 3114 BC. And using a complex system of Mayan Baktuns (measurements of time), we can calculate when their calendar reaches a new zero point – basically, every 13 Baktuns (5,125 years), the Long Count resets to zero – the calculated time when our present World Age ends and a new cycle of time commences.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style5 align=left&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG height=252 alt="Mayan Calendar" src="http://www.edgarcayce.org/images/calendar2012.jpg" width=109 align=right&gt;Creation, Fall, and Resurrection&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;Several Creation monuments describe events that occurred in 3114 BC. The texts associated with these Creation monuments state that “creation happens at &lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;the Black Hole&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;,” at “the Crossroads,” and “the image” will appear in the sky. The Maya adopted the Izapa calendar, creation myths, and time cycles counting method.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;The renowned researcher and author Linda Schele (in Freidel, Schele, and Parker’s &lt;EM&gt;Maya Cosmos&lt;/EM&gt;) wrote: “I realized that every major image from Maya cosmic symbolism was probably a map of the sky. . . . [The] patterns in the Milky Way and the constellations were directly related to the Maya vision of Creation.” Her realization has opened the door to understanding the Mayan cosmology and prophecy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;In order to grasp the Mayan message, we need to understand a little about how they saw the sky and how events in the sky indicated times of death, rebirth, and the passage of time for souls living in this galaxy and in this solar system.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;The Milky Way is their major image in the sky. As we know, we live on the outskirts of our galaxy and the Milky Way is the dense cluster of stars when looking toward the center of our galaxy. It appears as a long strip of stars in the sky above us. For the Maya, the rising, passing, and descending of the Milky Way in the sky marked major points in the cycle of time. Also, parts of the Milky Way and other stars prominent in our sky have specific meaning to our lives and the history of humanity and the heavenly realms, the realms of the gods.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;To the Maya, the Milky Way’s major features and the changes in its position and shape during the night reveal our origin, passage, and destiny. They are the Tree of Life; the Celestial Crocodile that gnaws at the Tree of Life; the Cosmic Canoe of the “Paddler gods” that follows after the Crocodile; the “lying down sky,” or Black Dream Place; and seven stars in the Big Dipper, representing the egocentric Seven Macaw, who attempted to take the place of the Sun.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;Simplistically, the heaven passage tells the story of the rise of the Tree of Life at sunset, followed by the rise of egoism and self-seeking (as seen in Seven Macaw), which brings the rise of dangerous lower urges that crawl on their belly (as the cursed serpent in the Garden of Eden) and attack the rising of life. But these are driven off by the Paddler gods, and eventually the Tree of Life is reborn and rises again near dawn – the complete story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of life.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style5 align=left&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Rebirth on December 21, 2012&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style5&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG height=155 alt=Rebirth src="http://www.edgarcayce.org/images/freebird.jpg" width=142 align=left&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;On August 11, 3114 BC, a new Solar Age began and the Sun Lord was reborn. Creation Lord deities are often portrayed attending the rebirth of the world, including one called Bolon Yokte K’u, who is closely associated with war, conflict, and the Underworld. Despite these associations, Bolon Yokte is a god that is often present during Creation events. He is portrayed on a ceramic called &lt;EM&gt;Vessel of the Seven Lords,&lt;/EM&gt; which contains the date 3114 BC, the beginning of our present 13-Baktun cycle. Of course, the date that interests us is the beginning of the next 13- Baktun cycle, which occurs on December 21, 2012, the &lt;EM&gt;end&lt;/EM&gt; of the Mayan Calendar. A recent translation of a text from Tortuguero, a Classic Maya site north of Palenque, explicitly points to the date December 21, 2012. Translated by Mayan epigrapher David Stuart, the legible part of the text reads: “At the end of 13 Baktuns, on 4 Ahau 3 Kankin, 13.0.0.0.0; &lt;EM&gt;something&lt;/EM&gt; occurs when Bolon Yokte descends.” The verb glyph describing what happens is effaced, so it is replaced with the word &lt;EM&gt;something&lt;/EM&gt;, but the creation lord Bolon Yokte is depicted, meaning that 2012 was thought of by the Maya as a creation or recreation of the world, possibly during a time of war, conflict, and dominance of the Underworld and the Lords of the Underworld.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;As we can see, the end of the Mayan Calendar is simply the end of the present World Age. And, important to us, it simply marks the beginning of the next cycle of rebirth, renewal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;There are no specific markings or statements about the year 2012 on the archaeological artifacts at Izapa, but there are numerous images at Izapa that portray a rare celestial alignment that appears in the skies in the years around 2012. This galactic alignment marks the rebirth of the December solstice and the rebirth of the Sun Lord over Seven Macaw’s attempts to replace him. The Sun Lord rises through the Dark Rift in the Milky Way, located between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Scorpio is depicted near the base of the Tree of Life in Mayan illustrations. Souls on Earth experience a change of galactic seasons, a celestial time-cycle shift, with our Sun moving into rebirth at the “Black Hole” at the celestial base of the Tree of Life (a location in the great Milky Way). December 21, 2012, signals the end of this 5,125-year age that we’ve been living in and the commencement of a new Earth Age.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;When asked what the New Age means to humanity, Edgar Cayce replied: “by the full consciousness of the ability to communicate with the Creative Forces and be aware of the relationships to the Creative Forces and the uses of same in material environs. This awareness during the era or age in the Age of Atlantis and Lemuria or Mu brought what? Destruction to man, and his beginning of the needs of the journey up through that of selfishness.” (1602-3)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;Cayce is informing us that in a previous time cycle, humanity had a level of consciousness and relationship with the Creative Forces that allowed us to live at higher levels of material, mental, and spiritual activity in the Earth and beyond. Unfortunately, we misused this consciousness and the power that came with the close relationship to the Forces. This misuse brought on the destruction of our great cultures and a long, karmic soul journey through the pain and confusion that resulted from our selfishness and self-centered focus on our will without regard for the will of the Creator and others. Now, as the cycles come around again, we are nearing a time when the level of consciousness and relationship with the Creative Forces will allow us once again to regain these powers. How will we use them this time?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width=50 align=right border=0&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;A href="http://arebookstore.com/product.asp?pn=596"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;SPAN class="style26 style114"&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style100&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style93&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=style69&gt;Before we despair that humankind is going to misuse these again, let’s remember that many, many souls and even the Logos, the Word, have come and continue to come into materiality to help prepare the way for this rebirth. We overestimate the power of the world and its leaders. The unseen, heavenly forces have greater power and will overcome the world’s darkness and selfishness, breaking through with a light that will transform this realm for a thousand years, when all evil and temptation will be bound and a golden age will reign. The biblical book of the Revelation conveys this prophecy: “I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:2) &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=left&gt;Is December 21, 2012 the beginning of the fulfillment of these wonderful prophecies by Edgar Cayce and the Revelation, or just another step on the long journey toward such fulfillment?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class=style69 align=center&gt;&lt;IMG height=49 alt=122112 src="http://www.edgarcayce.org/images/122112.gif" width=297&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR align=center noShade SIZE=1&gt;I got this off &lt;A href="http://www.edgarcayce.org"&gt;www.edgarcayce.org&lt;/A&gt; Bloody interesting.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:44:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shooter</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>