Thougths on Apocalypse by Milota Sidorova

Some time ago, I said that humans were obsessed with their doom. Apocalypses and catastrophes of all kind made a fortune in movie, gaming, journalist business. Of course we know that we can be hit by an asteroid and that will probably mean the nuclear winter and the end of human kind, but it seems so distant to us. Why do we love Matrix that much? Why are we obsessed with Nostradamus and his doom prophecies, why is the Apocalypse of St. John one of the most adored books of our kind? Is it because we see where does the system leads us into? Is that because we see how social, political and economical injustice lead wars over billions of innocent people? We know we stand on th! e edge of the knife and we fear it will be over. But most of us think, it will come after me. So why do even care? I am amazed how people from my environment really talk about 2012. The most interesting is the tune of the statement – it is partly funny and irony, but there is also a bit of awe. The background for this statement is the end of Mayan Calendar. As a civilization they were extremely precise with mathematic projections, including atronomy and time measures. But their calendar stops in 2012 and some translations and interpretations say that it is going to be the end of the world. This is generally well known fact among masses, but there have been scientific explanations why it may not be the right meaning. Mayan projections were based on the movement of the Earth and the stars. But let me explain – the Earth moves on three directions. One of them is rotation around its axes that makes the day and night. The second is the rotation of the axes and that! makes the summer and winter time and the third movement has a! long pe riod and it is about the small oscilation around the axis again. This makes a slight, but significant movement of the North Pole. What we can see today as the North on the night sky, what we can see as a Northern Star, that wasn't a North direction approximately 4,700 yrs ago. The cycle of this movement lasts about 2400 yrs and Mayan were on the beggining of „our time“ and now, we seem to be at the end of the same period. The Northern star is moving on the sky. Some scientists suggest that projections based on moving stars simply ended because the stars were about to move in 2012. (However, they have been moving gradually, but this date seemed to be crucial and breaking point for the projections and for a significant gap they couldn't go forward). So one of the interpretaions is that Mayan couldn't count beyond 2012, becauso of moving stars. This, however doesn't mean the end of our kind is not coming – it is if we don't critically focus on our behavior. Th! e end is not coming in the moment. There is one saying, gradually than suddenly – and that is what human kind has been working on through its history.

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