2012: Science or Superstition
December 21, 2012: the end date of the sophisticated Long Count Calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps: those forecasting apocalypse–the end of time–and those who see a coming renewal, a rebirth of consciousness.
Adding fuel to the debate, some scientists see the increasing number of natural disasters in recent years as evidence of a catastrophic climax of events in 2012. How much of what we’re hearing is science and how much is superstition? In this film the leading researchers, writers and scientists in the field tell us exactly what this date means to them, why it’s important, and what we should expect.
Featured in the film are Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alberto Villoldo, Anthony Aveni, Robert Bauval, Jim Marrs, Walter Cruttenden, Lawrence E. Joseph, Alonso Mendez, Douglas Rushkoff, John Anthony West and Benito Vegas Duran. (Excerpt from 2012dvd.com)
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April 4th, 2009 at 23:10
What a bunch of crap, so what if the power cuts out for a few seconds, most vital life saving machines, eg. hospital equipment, is all battery powered backup.
Also, so if the sun get between the earth and the center of the milky way, so what, the earth’s magnetic field bounces of most of the space particles away from the earth, less at the poles. If I was a scientist and was more patient, I could go on.
The only thing here that may be worthwhile is the messages of taking care of our planet as it’s being destroyed by 5 billion mostly mindless termites called humans not deserving of this rock.
April 8th, 2009 at 09:34
BluePhotonic I think its only a point of view that we may need to take it from. Its important to look at many different views about the universe and how it works in the future the truth shall be revealed.
May 17th, 2009 at 21:51
Why isn´t anyone mentioning the annunaki,
planet nibiru or the nephilim.
May 19th, 2009 at 04:59
Imagine how crazy everyone will be…Especially after the Hollywood movie 2012 due out in November this year. Y2K will be a joke in comparison. I can’t wait!
May 24th, 2009 at 14:03
if the end could just delete only the pedaphiles murderers and rapists in the world, then that would be a better chance of beginning a better environment. oh, and dont forget to put several packets of seeds in a ziplock bag and mark it. the best ziplocks should float.
May 27th, 2009 at 16:35
I’ve been keeping up on a lot of this 2012 stuff. Viewed and researched many documentaries and in my view I feel something might happen. I say this mainly upon one reason…and that’s the fact that every religion mentioned similar believes and prophecies to happen in OUR generation near the 2012 date. Also, every ancient civilization even their beliefs and prophecies seemed to all fall near this date as well. And the shocker is this…none of these civilizations knew about each other or even communicated. This possible event has no similarities withe the Y2K nonsense…this is space were speaking on. Out there things we don’t know are endless. Just have to open up your mind and think outside the box on what could happen.
June 3rd, 2009 at 00:38
nothing will happen in 2012 as nothing happened in 2000 and nothing at all in 1000 and so on. GET A LIFE!
June 5th, 2009 at 20:08
Dont listen to the white people they dont know what they are talking about
Listen to the Indian guy he knows what hes talking about
June 12th, 2009 at 23:14
xxbigkisses that is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. In what sense do pedophiles, rapists, or murderers have an impact on the environment? If anything they keep an even balance in society that is part of global synchronization.
A global catastrophe is the only thing that could help our environment, this being done by wiping out the fools and throwing us into an uproar of survival of the fittest. If you’re a tool that works 40 hours a week to feed a family you are in no way helping the world…smarten up
June 13th, 2009 at 02:21
yeah aj, you are not very bright are you? that’s alright man you’re not the only one, but hey , 1000 idiots don’t make a genious. remember that
June 23rd, 2009 at 02:31
I think a few people missed the whole point of this documentary. It seemed most of the people interviewed didn’t neccessarly think we were destined for an apocalypse, rather that perhaps ancient cultures have some lost knowledge that is worth investigating.
We are at a critical point in our developement as a species and now that we have the power to destroy the planet as we know it in a matter of minutes should nuclear war ever break out, we better seriously consider our steps forward. We must learn to put our superficial differences aside if we wish to advance as a species.
Also Bluephotonic your capacity for intellectual reasoning should be called into question as Dr. Aveni is pretty much a skeptic the whole way through. Therefore if the whole thing is a load of crap then his viewpoint is a load of crap. In which case you disagree with both sides simultaneously?!?!?!
This was a very objective and thought provoking Doc. in my opinion. Really an excellent job of documentary filmmaking!
July 4th, 2009 at 01:42
I would have loved to discuss the film, which I’ve tried to watch three times, but, alas, I cannot. The first time, I was told the film was unavailable. The second try, the play button redirected me to a free porn site. The third try redirected me to take an IQ test. What gives?
July 4th, 2009 at 12:14
Here is what you have to do g33kch1ck:
Press play on the red button and than press play again when the green button appears and let the video play a little. Press pause, and let the entire video to load (usually takes around 10-15 minutes for a full length movie). Then disconnect from the Internet, or work offline in Internet Explorer, or use your firewall to somehow stop your browser from communicating with the megavideo server. If you do not know how to do any of the above steps, then just unplug your Ethernet cord from the back of your computer. When you are done watching the video you can reconnect it.
This explanation can be found in FAQ No.10.
July 12th, 2009 at 00:03
I think it’s important to point out that the earth, sun and center of the galaxy align EVERY year on December 21st. I don’t understand how these authors could write books about this and not learn that, that’s Astro101 stuff. :S
Also the idea that the sun is half of a binary pair system is completely untrue and impossible. The partner would be the most significant celestial body in human history not theoretical.
I think that because the majority of people they interviewed were historians and not physicist or astronomers it’s safe to assume the answer is in fact: superstition!
July 12th, 2009 at 13:10
I am muslim, and whats is scary is that, in the muslim prophecy, the day that the end of time will happend will be friday, and 21.12.12 will come on a friday.
July 13th, 2009 at 07:09
Sharaf, does the holy books say WHAT TIME on that special Friday that the End Of Time is supposed to happen? I wanna be shure to start that Friday workday off early enough so that I can clock in a full 8 hours and still make it home in time to watch it all happen worldwide and live on CNN. I wouldn’t want my final paycheck to be short of a full 40-hour paycheck on my final week. And my company IT department blocks non-work related internet websites from being watched on our computers.
IT people.
July 15th, 2009 at 23:35
Really? People are talking about the end of the world? I’m amazed we can correlate the end of the world to the last date on a calendar created by an extinct civilization so many generations ago. That really makes us look stupid. What if they just stopped because it was far enough ahead they could let someone else finish it? Same thing with the bible. No one knows for sure who wrote it and why. Maybe it was a class assignment. Maybe it was anything else but the basis for a religion hundreds of years later. Man, people are gullible.
August 8th, 2009 at 19:28
Vlat is this doc no longer available
August 8th, 2009 at 20:13
Maybe it’s temporary issue with megavideo. Check back latter. If the problem persists probably the video has been removed from megavideo. We’ll try to find it somewhere else.
August 17th, 2009 at 18:35
The 1st few words spoken by someone in this film tell exactly what it is ,if you dont belive in god then you have to belive in something else. It common human behaviour , so its normal for this to reach a audience of non believers .
I personally think its a load of crap, theres no way that something so drastic will happen in 24hours , if something like this would ever hppen will take thousands of years to be in full swing of things .
August 25th, 2009 at 09:25
Excellent documentary
But i believe the point may have been lost.
We are confusing the spacial process(crossing of charted ages, galatic alignment etc) with the short term event which has been generated by an algorithim.
The process is taking place, all observable evidence is clear on that. But we are far to small a species to do anything about this other then observe and reflect, as the maya.( happening over centuries/millenia)
The event is something we can exert control over, and hopefully make the process a worthwile one.
There is a paradigm shift happening which is also a process but the significance is much shorter term.
This is a change from a world of abundant resources, to one of scarcity.
Not just of fossil fuels, but of metals, of food supply, of habitable conditions.
I believe 2012 will be the rude awakening of this fact for the 9 of 10 that seem to have blinders attached firmly.
The age of unsustainable must give way to an age where we are one with our planet. And we develop our technology to embrace, not exploit the resources around us.
The future is already written for us if we don’t make this change. Just checkout population statistics going forward.
By 2050 there is a massive cliff dive. And resources, total.. not the bell curve, drop off a good 20 years earlier, at current rate..which is accelerating.
The barons of this world are walking us blind into a storm of biblical proportion with only one generation left to “get it right”
While they wont change the status quo until their accounting software tells them so.
The last 100 years is proof of that.
We have the technology in place, we have the man power, we just need these clowns out of the way. And for this we need everyone’s support.
I’m not advocating voilence, we’ll have enough of that later if we don’t change now.
But we need to demand action.
Don’t leave it to a meaningless vote, which everyone should know is rigged (if not mechanically then most definitely by the bias media)
Demand what you need and don’t sell yourself until you get it.
It’s all about accounting software…if it makes sense then it’ll make dollars, and they’ll switch.
We need to start making sense.
Forget planet x, global warming, global cooling, ..all this sideshow non-sense.
We’re human, we adapt, aslong as we’re moving forwards.
And the next time your going faster then you can run take a look at the world your passing by.
This is what passes for progress these days?
August 25th, 2009 at 09:49
*Y2K reply*
The reason “nothing happened” on Y2K is because we only had to make a few small programming changes and had more then adequate time.
The media only began hyping the issue after it was solved.
We have a collective of nerds to thank for us not ever knowing it.
Let’s hope we can scale up that effort, fore what’s coming is not going to be so small.
Infact much of the work is well underway by similar nerd hives. Let’s just hope they have the time.
August 26th, 2009 at 08:47
It’s interesting to think about, but this stuff is pretty pseudoscientific. This is a fairly weak attempt at an objective presentation of the issue, but it was at least an attempt. I liked the optimistic ending.
August 26th, 2009 at 08:48
It’s interesting to think about, but this stuff is pretty pseudoscientific. This was a fairly weak attempt at an objective presentation of the issue, but at least it was an attempt. I did like the optimistic ending.
August 28th, 2009 at 06:08
Numbers are infinite, life as far as I know is limited .WHO ON EARTH WOULD WRITE AN INFINITE CALENDAR. They just got tired of writting.
October 4th, 2009 at 19:03
Video would not play
It would stream, but when I pressed play the time line bar would not move and nothing would happen.
October 4th, 2009 at 19:41
I’ll try to fix that.
October 4th, 2009 at 19:52
gern… good stuff, made me laugh, that’s what i think people in this world need to see. a bit of comedy and a large dose of reality, maybe then people can see the real picture.
October 5th, 2009 at 22:46
i if you allow it to stream for a minute, drag the bar in 1 minute and drag it back it stats,
any way this docu changes its tune towards the end, its all doom and gloom at the start and then its “well it might not happen, its prob more of an enlightning of mankid rather than a culling”
now hang on a minute its like saying the suns not gonna rise tomorrow…….. but it probably will and something will happen lol
i like how it also hinted that the mayans were high when they wrote the prophacies lol
October 11th, 2009 at 03:30
good documentary thanks vlatko u have done a good job.
I have seen in nostradamus doc the world in going to end in 2012.
but i don’t believe the world is going to end in 2012,but something may happen since every major religions are saying the end of world in 2012.
is there any christian references about the end of world in 2012?
October 27th, 2009 at 07:43
It’s my own belief that people naturally want to be apart of the end of days or Armageddon. As perverse as this sounds think about it… Despite all the horrible and scary images that come to mind, people WANT to believe they live and will experience the end times. Whether they want to assert their personal faith or just feel special to be apart of it, they just simply and truly desire it.
Don’t worry. Be Happy. And if interested profit from the inedible hysteria to take place…
November 6th, 2009 at 23:13
the only thing that is going to happen its that i will rise and take control of the world
November 20th, 2009 at 12:36
Just when I thought we’d gotten past the end of the world, it’s happening again. I’m pretty sure nothing catastrophic is going to happen on Dec 21, 2012, but I could be wrong. I just think that if the world doesn’t end this time, everyone should stop predicting the end of the world based on ancient prophecies. In fact, we should stop using them to predict anything. On the other hand, if something earth-shattering does happen, then we should totally use it to predict everything.
BTW, why are predictions always so dire? Can’t someone predict anything good for humanity?
December 7th, 2009 at 14:34
its all a kind of a joke cuz first of all the end of the time will not be going to come in 2012 and secondly when this destruction will come everthing will destryoyed nthng and no one will be safe…n in ths movie they had shown tht some peoples are save and they have shifted on another planet i must sayy hollywood should need to goo a mental hospital…….
December 7th, 2009 at 16:01
It is always about Money folks:
I remember year 2000. I was deluged by mail, how all computers would crash, and civilization would come to a standstill.
I was offered all types of solutions, for fees or course, and some of the fees where substantial. I did not fall for it.
Just like I will not fall for the end of the World B.S. on 2012.
Some people do not know that gravity also comes into effect at the speed of light. It is not instant.
If say, the Sun disappeared instantly, it would still take approx. 8 minutes for the Earth to start to careen off into space.
The Milky Way Galaxy is some 100,000 to 200,000 light years across. If?? our Solar System is going to be aligned with the core of the Milky Way Galaxy, it would still take observable effects if any, 100,000 or so, years to reach us.
I for one, am not loosing any sleep over 2012.
December 21st, 2009 at 09:21
I have to agree with Razor, no sleep lost here, either.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:53
if predictions are correct
haha anticrist- apparently god is going to send you to the bottomless pit for all eternity.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:56
im just kidding folks whos knows what will happen..
January 22nd, 2010 at 13:28
There is one thing that I see is most important about this documentary. The fact that change will take place that is need . The year is 2010. Everyone all over the world should realize this the only change that will take place is urban living. We depend on Earth’s oil too much. The fact is oil will become scarce and when it does what will mankind do. Will we fight one another in a war to control the” last drops” of oil or will we come together and live as our ancestor’s have. This is the simple fact about the future of today’s way of life. We who live on Earth must become one with her. Our “Mother” is sick we must take good care of her. If we care for her she will care for us.
January 23rd, 2010 at 07:19
ppl!!! just look at all the people in the doc!!!!! NO scientists, no astronomers – nothing!!! just a bunch of authors who ARE sellin their books!!! how can you byu this???? besides there’s no alignment in 2012-and the Sun does go through the center of the galaxy in Dec21 2012 AS IT DOEST EVERY YEAR!!!!! wake up – stop being paranoid – read some prominent point literature.
google ASK AN ASTROBiOloGIST – it’ll give u some iteresting info to read!!!!!!
January 28th, 2010 at 22:23
Hey folks. There have been very interesting comments made here and I’ve actually enjoyed reading the different perspectives. However, the following offers some light from a NASA scientist
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
Take a look at the video and spew your thoughts.
January 28th, 2010 at 23:31
@ LifeQuest:
Watched your link, Instead of saying, I hate being right all the time.
I’ll say, glad that I’m right!
February 5th, 2010 at 00:21
its only two years away lets wait