Sorry for the title but I'm at a bit of a loss how to phrase what I am on about here, so please bear with me.
I am posting here as I don't know where would be most appropriate.
With regard to all the doom and gloom about the forthcoming 2012 (no not the olympics!) end of it all scenario my youngest has got himself all miserable about it ,saying that ALL prophecies converge on this date, so there MUST be something in it.
Now I don't have a clue about end of world predictions and am fairly convinced that Old Mother Shipton, Nostradamus and their ilk are mostly faked (some of you will probably know much more than me here). The main cause of his worry is the Mayan prophecy about the ending of one of their astronomical cycles on 21/12/12.
Now I am a dutiful mum and don't like to see my kids worried like he is, so I am wondering if anyone here could tell me, if this is a cycle that is coming to an end, what occured when it began? If the Mayans state that something cataclasmic occurs when one of these cycles ends, then when this one started must have been the end of the previous one, so when was this and what happened? :?
His dad is a geologist and has pointed out that there have been many extinctions in geological time, some of them massive in scale. You can imagine that this proved less than reassuring
So, can any of you help me with some facts regarding this?
Thanks in advance
I am posting here as I don't know where would be most appropriate.
With regard to all the doom and gloom about the forthcoming 2012 (no not the olympics!) end of it all scenario my youngest has got himself all miserable about it ,saying that ALL prophecies converge on this date, so there MUST be something in it.
Now I don't have a clue about end of world predictions and am fairly convinced that Old Mother Shipton, Nostradamus and their ilk are mostly faked (some of you will probably know much more than me here). The main cause of his worry is the Mayan prophecy about the ending of one of their astronomical cycles on 21/12/12.
Now I am a dutiful mum and don't like to see my kids worried like he is, so I am wondering if anyone here could tell me, if this is a cycle that is coming to an end, what occured when it began? If the Mayans state that something cataclasmic occurs when one of these cycles ends, then when this one started must have been the end of the previous one, so when was this and what happened? :?
His dad is a geologist and has pointed out that there have been many extinctions in geological time, some of them massive in scale. You can imagine that this proved less than reassuring
So, can any of you help me with some facts regarding this?
Thanks in advance