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2012 Expert Reveals How Myths Can Cause Bankruptcies And Death
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – As a physics professor, Dr. Christopher Keating knows the world is not going to end any time soon. But that doesn’t mean the myth of the apocalypse can’t cause harm.
“I hear the argument that predictions made by doomsday prophets like Harold Camping are harmless because the majority of people will ignore them. But, many people ruined themselves financially because of Camping’s prediction that the rapture would occur on May 21. In the past, predictions like this have even led people to commit suicide. It’s difficult to stand by and watch while people are harmed because of someone like Camping.” said Keating, author of Dialogues on 2012: Why the World Will Not End (www.Dialogueson2012.com). “Science and religion have both been misused by fearmongers to promote the idea that the world will come to an end in October, in 2012 or what ever comes next. There is always the next crackpot who thinks he has all of the great answers. I wish there was a way to convince the public that these people are merely putting forth these ideas for their own self-promotion and profit. Just look at Camping. He originally predicted the rapture would occur in 1994 and people believed him. Now, even though he was wrong last time, people mindlessly followed him again!”
The next big prophecy revolves around the ancient Mayan prediction that December 21, 2012 will be the day the world ends. Keating said that date is as erroneous as Camping’s flexible timetable.
“Claims about December 21, 2012 are fiction with no scientific evidence or validity,” Keating said. “The world will still be here on December 22, 2012. The basis of the 2012 prediction comes from the ‘Mayan’ calendar, but that calendar is not even Mayan. It was developed more than a thousand years before the rise of the Mayan civilization and was already well-established before the Maya ever appeared on the scene.”
Moreover, Keating pointed out that the Mayans weren’t necessarily the most qualified people to make any kind of enlightened predictions. While the mystery of the Maya civilization’s demise is intriguing, the Maya were not the advanced civilization that some are claiming.
“The Maya did not have any special powers or knowledge that would allow them to make any such prediction,” Keating said. “They were not an enlightened civilization. They engaged in terrible violence, including horrific animal and human sacrifices, frequently preceded by torture. The bodies of the victims were thrown into the source of their drinking water. The common people would bury their dead under the floors of their homes. They didn’t even have the wheel. How is it that this culture is supposed to have been so intelligent they were able to predict the end of the world?”
The difference between the latest Camping debacle and the 2012 predictions is that Keating believes the 2012 doomsayers are twisting science to support their wild claims.
“Camping used these bizarre numerology arguments to get his end date. 2012 people are using false arguments and bad science. As an example, recent news coverage concerning Comet Elenin has all the 2012 theorists in a tizzy,” he added. “Comet Elenin is a small comet that is currently over twice as far from Earth as the Sun, but some believers in the prophecy are claiming it will be responsible for earthquakes and a shift of the Earth’s axis. Basically, people just need to use a little common sense when they hear these stories about the end of the world. If people would do just a little research on their own we could quickly put the fearmongers out of business and prevent a lot of harm. It would be great if science received as much attention from the public as these false predictions.”
About Dr. Christopher Keating
Dr. Christopher Keating is a professor of physics with 20 years experience conducting research in space physics with several published scientific papers. His experience as a teacher includes nearly all topics in undergraduate physics, space science and astronomy. He has also served for over 30 years in the United States Navy and Navy Reserve working principally as an analyst in naval healthnewsdigest.
Depends on what you mean by “End of the World”. If you lost your home, your job and your family, your world might have already ended.
First, let us define harm! Does what passes for the nightly news do any harm? Can anyone identify any greater harbinger of terror than the Cwhoreporate News media? Every night a veritable smorgasboard of MAN caused pain, misery and corruption. Let us see what the Bible reveals about the “end of the world”….
God’s Word reveals that a great military power, will take dominion over the air, even going into space in our day. The world will wonder after this beast, saying: “Who can wage war with it?” He says that the Beast will even have power to control the weather to an extent. The bible reveals many identifiying characteristics. The bible reveals as well what it’s ‘Mark’ is.
Google: six pointed star mark
Google: 666 talents of gold
Google: six pointed star marine sabers
Google: D.C. Jerusalem masonic shrine
Youtube: shriner lucifer
Youtube: Kirk Martin
Then look at the back of your dollar bill to see the mark of the beast situated over the symbol of our country, which is, in effect, saying….”We rule over america”. Even Walmart changed it’s logo to a six pointed ‘star’. Digimarc, the corporation which designs the driver’s licenses and state ID’s for over 30 states, has for it’s corporate logo, three six pointed stars superimposed over one another.
But have no fear, no, instead take up hope!
Google: Huge Media Blackout
Google: Luke 21:25-28
Google: Isaiah 24:20
Google: Revelation 16:8 which explains why about 1,500 locations in the U.S. have tied or shattered heat records so far this year, and summer just got started.
So, never mind the EPIC SCALE volcanoes, fires, floods, earthquakes, tsunami, the sun, moon, stars being out of place….
It was all foretold to the letter! And after what is soon to unfold, it will get much, MUCH, better!
Luke 21:25-28
A message of hope in a shattered world….for when you see the beginning of these things, Stand Up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption is drawing close!
Of course, to many, such a message is a cause for great fear and trembling. But it’s not like the media whores and their corporate/political masters aren’t already dishing out more than enough for the world to drown in already!
The difference is clear to those with clear heads.
Blessings in Yeshua, Jesus Christ
I think it’s hilarious the number of prize twats that ruin thier lives over a totally unsubstantiated dark ages story about a giant invisible fariy story character. Free will and the Darwin awards, and all that jazz.
Yahweh rebuke you pix. I ask this in the name of Christ. It is a fearful thing to fall into the Hand of the Living God.
That “fariy story character” designed you from the subatomic particles on out to your crusty exterior.
But of course the cowardly ones will choose to see outrageous strings of contiguous coincidence where ever His Hand is seen.
For those with eyes:
Youtube: Flagellar Motor
Youtube: Inner life of a cell
Where darwin saw a single cell as a tiny glop of protoplasm, we can see that instead, FANTASTIC ORDER reigns. The haughty intellectual cowards can’t fathom the slightest clue as to why molecules would act continually with awe inspiring precision and highly complex purpose despite lacking intelligence of their own…..and on the Great Day of Yahweh fast approaching….it will be far too late for them to admit the utter stupidity of their actions and denials. Which is in part why He said:
“They will be cast into outer darkness, where their weeping and gnashing of teeth will be.”
Of course, there is yet a small space of time in which one may humble one’s self before one’s Maker.
Blessings in Christ