Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Debunked by NASA

Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA | End of the World & 2012 Theories | Nibiru, Doomsday Theories Debunked | Space.com:

On Dec. 21, 2012, many doomsday believers fear the apocalypse — anything from a rogue planet smashing into us to our world spinning end over end. However, the world should expect nothing more next year than the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, NASA says.

Many people point to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on Dec. 21, 2012 as evidence of the coming apocalypse, but astronomers have been quick to stress that there is nothing to be concerned about.

According to the ancient Mayan calendar, next year's winter solstice marks the end of a 144,000-day cycle. This cycle, which begins at the mythical Maya creation date, has already been repeated 12 times. The 13th will end in 2012, capping a full 5,200-year Mayan cycle of creation.

This date has long been shrouded in mystery, with many claiming that it will bring destruction to our planet.

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"2012" END...?

“2012”

December 21, 2012, is Friday; the day the Prophet said the world will come to an end while Muslims are in the mosque :-(

http://youtu.be/zMcSyLd17Ig

The horrid end of the world seems to be confined to the believers of the Bible, where the Armageddon/Apocalypse is found among the final chapters. The Bible is revered by a quarter of the human race. What I see (read) is what I get, and for that reason…I will limit myself to the bare minimum of interpretation, meaning I have no flight of ideas. I rely on my body of evidence.

I watched movies and video clips of scholarly broadcasts and read divergent views on the subject. The consensus is that the End is nigh. There will be a battle of Armageddon between the forces of good and evil, followed closely by a natural calamity that will destroy the planet Earth and end life as we know it.

Jesus (…and many others), amid the chaos, will appear and join the battle to save (I am not laughing) the Jews that Christians insist have accepted Jesus (Jews are not laughing either) and, therefore, by inference, must have converted to Christianity. Some fundamentalist Christians even believe that they will be lifted up to heaven in rapture without ever having tasted the pain of death, and by meeting Jesus in the sky, they will receive eternal life.

The only group I read in the Bible that Jesus will rescue is the 144,000 (Muslim) children of Palestine that he will bring to a place called ARMAGEDDON in Hebrew and take them to heaven (in a spaceship and or Time Machine. I say…why not? I am not laughing.

Before the End Times, however…some horrendous events will happen, and signs will appear to signal the coming of the End. Christian scholars, Jesus’ watchers of the Second Coming and guardians of the End Times, have not been less meticulous in their search for signs and labeling events that may herald the hour of the end. The discovery of the Mayan Calendar, which ends on December 21, 2012, is pushing the mercury beyond the feverish limit.

Amazingly…Christians continue to discuss decoding the Bible to uncover the truth. They say the signs are here, but nobody is sure…it is all conjecture while 2012 is here and now.

Although all the prophesied signs of the hour (Bible/Qur’an/Nostradamus) are here…the Christian world not only misread the signs; they got it all wrong, the reason being that…they are biased against Islam. I have yet to see a serious investigator of the end times who has thoroughly examined the prophecies in the Qur’an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). For as long as they continue to ignore the knowledge that Islam offers…THEY WILL NEVER GET IT RIGHT.

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http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7525757554180813163#editor/target=post;postID=5538950649156652607

MY PXURES OF 2011: MY TOP 3 TAKES+1

MY PXURES OF 2011: MY TOP 3 TAKES+1

NISH AND NISHA

32,000 FEET IN THE CLOUDS TO CDO

NATURAL WONDER OF TINAGO FALLS

STRAY CAT IN MY BACKYARD

2011 - The Year That Shook The World

2011 - The Year That Shook The World:

Unlike Communist revolutionaries of yore, the new leaders in the Middle East of what must be called the Islamic revolution of 2011 are not the object of veneration, something that Islam as a religion warns against.

However, while 1917 witnessed a Communist revolution against capitalism and imperialism led by a small corps of professional revolutionaries, 2011 has seen a mass, leaderless revolution facilitated by telecommunications, and in the case of the key Middle East, inspired by Islam.

SNIP:

A Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire in a public square in a small town in December 2010, sparking protests that brought down dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and began a tidal wave of change both in the Middle East and farther afield. Add in the 2011 American withdrawal from Iraq and failed attempts to subdue Afghanistan and Iran, and the writing on the wall for empire is written boldly - in blood.

Hence, the Arab Spring of 2011 and the accession to power of Islamists via the ballot box across the Middle East. Hence, the unwinnable war against the Afghan people, that brought empire to its knees in fateful 2011, even as the slaughter of insurgents and civilians increased. Yes, the imperialists managed a clever ruse, invading Libya to depose the clownish Gaddafi, but the Islamists and fiercely independent tribes there are unlikely allies of empire.

The tsunami of resistance to imperialism surged throughout 2011 around the world, while the empire's leaders put a worldwide "missile defense" system in place. But even as radars and missiles were installed in Europe, the rising tide reached the empire's shores in 2011, as financial crisis led to rising poverty and unrest in the imperial center itself.

Taking inspiration from the Arab Spring, mass demonstrations in Greece and Spain erupted, and Wall Street, the empire's "heartland", was occupied. The "99 per cent" entered the political lexicon as the people vs. the ruling elite (the 1 per cent who own half of the country's assets). Even Israel and newly capitalist Russia witnessed mass demonstrations, as ordinary citizens began to realize how the system, or rather, how it doesn't work for them. The increasing disparity of wealth is a logical result of market fundamentalism and the control of the economy by financial capital.

2011 will go down in history as a year as fateful as 1917, when the blinkers fell away from the eyes of ordinary people in Russia, and they rose up against their oppressors. However, while 1917 witnessed a Communist revolution against capitalism and imperialism led by a small corps of professional revolutionaries, 2011 has seen a mass, leaderless revolution facilitated by telecommunications, and in the case of the key Middle East, inspired by Islam.

Even as the world environment degrades, even as imperial arms continue to kill, maim and choke demonstrators and insurgents both at the heart of the empire and in the heart of the "enemy", we can take heart in the new sense of human dignity which 2011 spawned, and fight the intrigues of empire with new vigor in 2012.

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The Top 10 Science Stories of 2011: MY TOP 3 PICKS Scientific American

The Top 10 Science Stories of 2011: Scientific American:

Record-Setting Extreme Weather

Overflowing rivers swollen by persistent rains. Over a million acres scorched by wildfires. Mighty blizzards blanketing the Northeast. One hundred ninety-nine tornadoes in a single day. The weather outside was not just frightful, but also costly. Although the number of extreme weather events have been increasing all over the world in the past few years, in 2011 the U.S. set a record in weather-related damagewith 12 catastrophes that cost at least $1 billion each. The damage from the May 22 tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., alone could top $3 billion.

Extreme weather events have hit other nations hard as well, including Pakistan, the Philippines and Australia, which have all seen heavy flooding. All the events have convinced many experts that with climate change, the weather will, unfortunately, only get worse.—Rose Eveleth

See our In-Depth Report, "Extreme Weather and Climate Change"

Technology Fuels the Arab Spring

In the last year new technologies didn't just make our lives easier—they completely changed the political structure of the Middle East. Twitter had a hand in bringing down a several dictatorships this year as protestors in the Middle East communicated and organized with one another via social media.

The Arab Spring began in December 2010 after the self-immolation of fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, who was protesting high unemployment rates in Tunisia. News and images of his protest began moving quickly. Protests in Tunisia ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, and by February resistance brought down the 30-year regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, forcing him to resign. In August, after months of protests that erupted into a civil war, Libya's dictator since 1969, Muammar Gaddafi, was hunted down by opposition forces and killed.

To see if Twitter played a role in regime change, researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle analyzed millions of tweets, looking for words like "revolution," "liberty," and "Ben Ali." The occurrence of those words spiked as the revolutions got underway. They also saw that the activity from Egypt on Twitter in the days before Mubarak resigned increased 100-fold. The study concludes that the service played a key role in toppling dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, although other experts debate just how much social media tools drove the revolutions.—Rose Eveleth

The Japan Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis

On March 11, a catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed nearly 16,000 people in Japan—and destroyed a nuclear power complex. In the days and weeks that followed, the Fukushima Daiichi facility went on to experience three meltdowns and, because of a buildup of hydrogen gas, multiple explosions.

After months of heroic efforts workers have officially succeeded in achieving "cold shutdown"—that is, keeping the temperatures in the damaged reactors below 100 degrees Celsius so that the water used to cool the reactors does not just quickly boil away. Such a shutdown state makes it simpler to keep the melted nuclear fuel from undergoing further fission. Unfortunately, leaks in the reactor containment vessels means that water must continue to be added to keep the reactors chilled.

Regardless, much damage has been done. Roughly 88,000 people have been evacuated from an area of 20 kilometers surrounding the power plant, many never to return. Most recently, the utility that owns the plant spilled 45,000 liters of radioactive cooling water, and radioactive elements spewed by the power plant have been found over an area of some 30,000 square kilometers. The multiple meltdownsslowed the pace of new nuclear power plant construction globally—potentially setting back efforts to combat climate change—as well as created the world's newest nuclear park, otherwise known as an "exclusion zone."—David Biello

See our In-Depth Report, "The Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis"

FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=top-10-science-stories-2011&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_SPC_20111223

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CHRISTMAS TREE: THE FORBIDDEN TREE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN

CHRISTMAS TREE

FORBIDDEN TREE

Everything was right; really interesting until halfway through the 2 hours and 22 minutes movie when the topic suddenly turned to Christianity and the prophecies of the Bible. The first half, obviously, was an introduction to the movie's real goal: the Bible as the absolute word of God.

The Bible allegedly surpassed all other religious books, including the Qur’an, in the accuracy of its prophecies. No wonder it is the first movie I watched on YouTube where there are more who disliked it (700) than those who liked it (about 300). The ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ reflect amusingly the real state of Christianity today. The days are gone when people simply swallow what they are told by Christian scholars. With technology that puts knowledge at our fingertips…IGNORANCE IS NO LONGER A VALID EXCUSE, and the liars find it harder to peddle their trades.  

There is, however, an eye-opener for me at the beginning of the movie, where it is extensively presented in a scholarly manner: Adam, Eve, the serpent, and the forbidden tree. I realized, to my amazement, that the “FORBIDDEN TREE” is the modern “CHRISTMAS TREE.” In as much as I don’t want to jump into conclusion; I can’t drive away the thoughts that with all those lovable glittering material objects hanging on a Christmas Tree and gift boxes piled under it similarly represents the “worldly things” Lucifer (serpent) promised Eve if she partook of the fruit against innocence, love, peace and harmony not to mention immortality that the Garden of Eden represented.

I think the Christian world should forbid altogether the celebration of Christmas or continue worshipping the serpent. It is your choice, especially after the now common knowledge that Jesus could never have been born on December 25, a day marked in ancient times devoted to “sun worship.” Why continue doing that which is wrong, like smoking, drugs, or alcohol addiction?

https://www.amazon.com/Nosca-Khalid/e/B01NA7APYQ

MOSQUE SURVIVED “TYPHOON SENDONG’S” DELUGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfsbXa2kBEU&feature=youtu.be

THE MOSQUE SURVIVED THE TSUNAMI THAT SWEPT THE COAST OF INDONESIA IN 2004