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Originally Posted by bmlyeryk  perosnally i dont believe it b/c these conspiracy theories of the end of the world happened in the 60s & others times in the past, which turned out to be worng
what do you think...is it real or fake? |
Well, let's consider a few more possibilities, besides just "hoax"...
1. Beliefs that seem accurate (eventually, evidence mounts up for these)
2. Beliefs that are often termed "misbeliefs" or "questionable beliefs" (over the long haul, very little if any real evidence accumulates to support them)
3. Beliefs held
sincerely by
some people, and around which other people build profitable opportunistic $$-making schemes.
There have been sincere beliefs about the end of the world that go back much further than the 1960s. Someone once gave me a copy of a book titled
A Short History of the End of the World. It discussed ideas of "the end" that went back several thousand years, even before the Bible was written. Of course, the author
also discussed beliefs about the end that were widespread in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Those are
recent ones.
From what I know, the 2012 "end" or "shift" or "change" idea came originally from a book published about 20 years ago. The book was a translation of the "Popul Vuh" ("Mayan Calendar), which calendar apparently seemed to describe nothing past the date of 2012 in our own calendar system. But, then, what does this tell us? Anyhow, the basic idea entered into the general "new age" shared culture & mindset, and a lot of people developed books, web sites, and workshops around it. So what
does all this information tell us? Nothing? Something? Anything significant?
You tell me...