Summary
This section focus a lot on the history of how 2012 came to be. Not about how Mayan calendar ended on Dec 21, 2012 but about how it became a universal accepted date for "the end of the world". There was a software called Timewave Zero that was introduced by Terence McKenna that shows the 4yr interval (from Oct 2008) leading up to Dec 21, 2012. The book showed a screenshot of the software which had bars that represent period of tumultuous. The very last bar occurred at the "last event", the expected 2012 doomsday. However, the end of the world in relation to the Mayan calendar, according to the book, was first introduced to the broad public by Jose Arguelles during a New Age event in 1987 called the "Harmonic Convergence".
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"Scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe's end may come not with a bang but a standstill--that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether... Everything will be frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, forever" (Bruce 155).
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Basically, they are saying that the world would just freeze and come to a sudden stop, which in my opinion, is ridiculous. Scientist come up with a lot of theories, a lot of predictions and other stuff that sometimes make me never want to believe anything they say. Ever since I was little, I had this thing against scientists and doctors. Not only because they were too smart for me, but because most of what they tell us are predictions and not facts, which I figured, made them more wrong then right. To this day, I still have a thing against them. Yeah, sure that they could be right and have all the information and evidence to back up their argument but that still does not satisfy me. They make themselves seem like they know everything, but, in my opinion, some things are better if they are left unanswered or in this case, unpredicted.
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