2012, The Next Y2K?

The First One
October 22nd 2010

OK, well here we go. Will the scare of 2012 make you do things that you might not normally do? If you knew the world would not end on December 21st, 2012 would you look at the doomsday talk differently?
As the clock counts down are you aware of any events that might affect your future? Do you listen and pay attention to news reports, talk shows, or just listen to conversations of others? If something was going to happen, are you ready? Oh, wait a moment. Maybe it will come and go like the last big scare. You know that one, don't you? Y2K?

Back at the turn of the century, the big fear was the worldwide computer system. Changing the date from 1999 to 2000 would shut down all the computers worldwide. The experts said that the computers could not change the date from 1999 to 2000. The worldwide computer systems would crash because of it. That would create a crisis of biblical proportions. Because of the millions of computers crashing, there would be a world wide shut down of everything. No electricity, water, gas, heat, access to our money. Within hours there would be a run on all the food stores and they would soon be empty. All the computer systems would cease to work. No anything. Take it from me, it didn't happen.

So, with that being said, what about the end of the Mayan calendar? Just because it stops, does it really mean the end? Many experts want you to think so. They each have a theory of how the world will end. Many of them really believe their way is correct. They believe they are the only ones who will know what will really truly happen and many millions will die. Then there are those from the other school of thought. These experts say that in December 2012, there will be a new awaking of mankind. They believe a peaceful new society of people will begin; one which will have great tolerance and forgiveness for others. A new kinder world will emerge.

Only time will tell. Most likely, one day will become another and all of us go about our business the same as always.

Now What? Biblical tales coming true? Naw!
January 9th 2011

Just last week things are starting to happen around this great country. In Arkansas for example, hundreds of black birds fell from the sky dead. A few hundred miles away, millions of fish were found dead along a few miles of a river. What happened to all these animals? It was a natural occurrence as some experts stated. Then just days after people forgot about what happened in Arkansas, millions of fish wash up on beaches in Chesapeake Bay area.

Could it be some secret government experiment? Maybe the visitors from other planets are testing their abilities? Terrorists using chemical or biologic weapons? Headlines tell us that the magnetic north pole is shifting 40 miles a year. Does that have something to do with these deaths?

For an explanation of these mysterious events, some newscasters and experts have turned to scripture, the Book of Revelations, and the Mayan calendar, which suggests the world, will end in 2012. But some wildlife experts say these massive wildlife kills were not the result of a man-made disaster or a spooky sign of the apocalypse. They are natural and normal ways to adjust the populations of an overabundance of certain animals. The birds that have fallen from the sky have happened before. The only difference was they fell in corn fields and were all eaten by foxes. One theory about the birds from the Washington Post is that the birds were all sleeping and there was a loud boom from fireworks, or a sonic boom, and it scared them so bad they all flew out of their roosts and died of natural causes just after leaving their perches.

As for all the dead fish, simple, the Maryland Department of the Environment spokeswoman, Dawn Stoltzfus told Sky News Online that at the moment it does not look like pollution is to blame.

She said: “The dead fish are mainly juvenile spot fish, and they can’t survive very cold water temperatures. Typically they should have left the bay by now." "Our working theory, that looks pretty strong, is that it’s been caused by cold water stress.’”

So there you go. Take that Global Warming! Cold temperatures too soon in the season killed all the fish. But if you really think about it, what do you think will have to happen for the whole world to go into a complete collapse? It would have to take much more than a few dead birds and a bunch of fish washing up on the beaches. I remember the advice I have given people in the past, 'sometimes, things just happen'. Stories like these are just catching our attention now.

Everyone has heard of the end of the world in 2012 and it is easy to take any story and develop a twist to turn it into an end of the world story. After all it is big news to claim the world will end. But if you remember back in the 50's and 60's people were wearing sandwich boards (you remember the boards worn on front and back tied together with rope over the shoulders) claiming the world will end soon and to repent. Just after the atomic bomb discovery. They were wrong back then too. If fact people have been claiming the world will be ending soon for generations. When it is all said and done, the earth is a really, really big place and it has been around for billions of years and I doubt it will end two years from now.