[RE]The End is Near

"The many events happening this year troubles me.  I don't believe in the "2012-end-of-the-world" thing, but I do believe in science, and so far, it's been saying that the world is starting to change dramatically."-Calvin Lin

     I also believe that there will be dramatic change within the next few years. It seems that many natural disasters have been happening recently, such as Hurricane Irene, Katrina, or the Japan earthquake. On the West Coast, especially in California and the Bay Area, people have predicted a potentially large earthquake to occur sometime soon due to a pattern of previous major earthquakes in the surrounding region. California has a ninety nine percent chance of being hit with a earthquake of 6.7 or more within the next thirty years. There is a sixty seven percent probability of it happening in Los Angeles and sixty three percent in San Francisco. This might just seem to be an increase in natural disasters because I have not lived that long and it may just be normal events.

      I do not believe that the world will end in 2012. Some people think that the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world in December 21, 2012, while others believe that it will mark the end of the human race as we know it, not necessarily the entire world. Some believe that there will be world wide catastrophe, change in the nature of consciousness, divine balance in nature, or other theories. There are groups of people all around the world coming up with conspiracies regarding the Mayan Calendar, of which some might seem to be plausible. I believe that once the calendar reaches that date, the cycle will simply restart and nothing majorly important will happen.