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As some of you know I am a fifth grade teacher and the other day, as a little breather from all the stress of the comming state standardized tests, I had the kids make new nametags. One of my students wrote, under his name, "eve of extinction, 12/21/12." I thought this was a little creapy. Then I decided to research it. Apparently, that is the next supposed doomsday.

The Aztec calandar (and a few others) end on this mystery day. Then I dug a little deaper, supposedly scientists are predicting that their may be a polar shift then. Where the north and south pole switch. This has happened in the past (I remember reading about it in one of my science classes in high school). Anyways, supposidly the poles switch and long story short it messes everything up. I.E. we all die in lava and floods. Wonderful thought isn't it?

Anyways, a lot of the websites out there seem a little.... um... different. I don't put a lot of faith into them.

So, Here are my questions. Does anyone put any stock into this? Number two, what kind of world do we live in that a ten year old thinks that the entire world is going to be over before he's old enough to drive a car?
 
My sister used to babysit while in college for a little girl that one day strapped all of her Barbie dolls by their necks in the Barbie closet with the tiny coordinating pink belts. When she asked the girl why she'd done this, the girl explained that the world was ending and the Barbie dolls didn't want to live through that. She was pretty freaked out by this and spoke to the parents when they returned home. They were both psychologists and assured here that it was perfectly normal behavior for a six-year-old and that she would be fine. Probably had seen it on TV, they said.

Children are very susceptible - as you know being a teacher - to influences both healthy and unhealthy. I feel sorry for that child who will now go through the next 4 1/2 years thinking that his life will be over soon. I suppose the moronic parents have convinced him that he can expect to live forever with a god in the sky so he's not too traumatized by it.

Now we see how "W" was elected - twice!
 
nope

I regard it as being in the same category of nonsense as astrology and all the other bullshit which comes out of the:
"The ancients knew better than we do today" corner.
I don't know what is worse, people who have perverted scientific work of the 19th century or these nuts. My favorite "scientific" world view is one which is very popular here in Germany among the intelligentsia: "Es gibt keine Sicherheit". Everytime some idiot tells me that, I ask them, why, then, they are not out standing in the middle of the Autobahn, behind a blind curve.
Another pseudo-scientific one:
"Homosexuality must be a perversion, because we are created to reproduce." That's why there is male and female. That one is also based on false assumptions, to the extent Mother Nature (always red in tooth and claw, always balances the books, never forgets or forgives and never ever wrong) exists at all, she only cares about survival of the species, not the individual.
My engineering students last week argued the Monty Hall experiment with me for two whole class sessions, despite having the maths to analyze the statistical evidence and the real life experiments...it just didn't "feel" right.
I think most kids that age are aware of their own mortality and are trying to come to terms with it. Before political correctness and pop-psychology took over the school systems, I would have suggested you have a counselor talk to him. But in the US of today, he'd probably end up in a nut-house or on medications to counteract the psychotic condition of being "male".
The furthest I am willing to go is to be agnostic. I can't disprove the existence of a god, gods or "God", and am not egoistic enough to pretend I can.
Of course, I have the luxury of living in a world where the earth is round, creationism=intelligent design=bullshit and one's religious beliefs do not absolve one from learning the natural sciences or flunking out of school.
I'm headed back to teach in the US sometime in the next years. Will have to choose between ESL and the natural sciences. The way things are going, I think I'll stick with ESL. I am not capable of calling an idiot anything but, my political-correctness-euphemism-vocabulary is double-minus weak.
 
the Monty Hall experiment

Is this the situation where:
1.) you choose one of three things (doors or whatever) looking for the "winner".

2.) one of the two you did not select is revealed to be a loser.

3.) you are supposed to pick the other one if given the opportunity.

Now I don't have the background in probability math to compute this, but my intuition tells me that given the setup above, my chances of success have improved from one-in-three to one-in-two. No motivation to alter my choice.

What does the math say?
 
Here's my take:

1) The Aztec calendar is just that - a calendar. It has no other significance. After all, if the Aztecs knew it all, then they wouldn't have let a small band of dirty smelly tired and hugely outnumbered Spanish soldiers destroy their civilization.

2) If by pole shift you mean the magnetic poles, then yes, they have shifted in the past. And they are on the move again. That said, there is no way, scientifically at least, of knowing when the next shift will occur, and it won't be a sudden thing, but presaged by lots of weird magnetic anomalies. Also the shift can take a few years or thousands of years, and we have no way of knowing which it will be. The worst case scenario is if the earth's magnetic field collapses completely, resulting in increased solar wind/radiation hitting the earth with disastrous effects (such as stripping away the atmosphere). However there's no evidence this has ever happened in the many times the mag poles have shifted, so there's no reason to think this will happen with the next shift. If the poles do shift the main effect will be on birds and other animals that rely upon the magnetic fields for navigation. And, also, of course, on man's navigation devices that rely upon the magnetic field for orientation. I sort of think however that GPS devices will still work. Another concern is disruption of power grids and communication systems due to the fluctuating magnetic field. That could be very disruptive but wouldn't involve lava flow or major natural disasters.
 
yeah, considering some of the places I looked.... I'm not going to put them here, because as I said origionally they were 'different' a.k.a. "weird" and I'm a little red in the face that I actually looked at them. If you search google for the date, you'll find them on the first page.

We can't seem to go but a few years without a "doomsday:" Y2K and the hail bop comet come to mind and I know there are more.

I don't believe it either, but I still think it's sad that this child and others children too have been brainwashed that their lives are going to end on that day, .... That's the truly scary part.
 
The symbols, when decoded properly and not just sensationally indicated an age would end and with the cyclical sections of their calendar, maybe they were just saying a new age would start that was already chronicled earlier in the calendar.

The child is at least watching the Histocovery channels. They will take anything, sensationalize it, use cliffhangers before the numerous breaks and stretch a 10 minute story into 60 minutes; death by a thousand paper cuts. Their programs are best watched when you're doing things in various rooms and have to be away from the TV for segments of time because they do so much rehashing of the story, that you really miss nothing.
 
Yea right,

And those Confederate Bonds and Money my great-grandmother gave me are gonna be worht something one of these days....

I go with the running out of space on the rock theory.
 
2012.

Oh I've heard sh@tloads on that one. Adn don't bother refuting it; I am probably HUGELY misinformed.

It's supposed to be the end of the world "AS WE KNOW IT". (Why does everyone neglect to mention that half of the statement?

Here's my ridiculous spin and understanding.

Extra-terrestrials will expose themselves to Japan. Japan is supposed to be the most advanced technologically. [FEH they still wash clothes in cold water only!]. So they can handle "it" without the opiates and comforts of religion.

The ETs will prove it was they who are actually Moses, Buddah, Jesus, Mohammed, G-d, the north star all wrapped up in one. And that they have been caring for us for eons.

Beginning with the fall of the Roman Catholic church and then every religion known to mankind. Like dominoes toppling one on top of the other. Teh inhabitaints fo the earth will unite under one government and one "system"

[Jeez I miss my apt where the mortgage would have ended before 2012. *LOL*]

Yes the Earth's poles will reverse and hot places will be cold and cold hot. Today's ADHD people will be the ones to transition easiest to the earth's lighter and faster vibration. The rest of us will have to learn.

Scientists also can't explain the increases in silicone in the new generations / the new babies cell's (not topically around the armpit level, dear) All said to be related to the coming changes.

So be ready. The Messiah is coming. Jesus is returning and Mohammed is coming back too. Then there is the expected coming of the anti-christ. [Isn't he already in office with a big "W" on his forehead?]

ARE YOU PREPARED?

Sound crazy? You betcha.
Nurse Marty and Nurse Michael, I need my meds....nurse....
Can I get a sponge-bath please?

 
Here we go again...

Lawd Have Mussy, I grew up in a church that preached doomsday like it was gonna be tomorrow.

"Ya better git right wit Gawd or ya gonna get burnt in the flamin' pit-a-Hell".

The preacher used to SCARE us into repentance by saying "The time of the Lord is nigh, and he will come back with judgement and wrath, and" so on and so forth. Oh really, what happened to the loving God in John 3:16?

That said, I'm very careful who I listen to.
 
It would be far more sensible...

It would be far more sensible to be:

* Prepared for a hurricane/tornado, or whatever bad weather hits your area.
* Try to make yourself as independent as possible. Grow food in your garden, if you can, try to use less water, less electricity, less fuel.
* Take a self defense course. Learn to shoot. (the ex cop would certainly say that).
* Watch what is going down in the world and in your area and try and prepare and react to it in a rational manner.
* Write your leaders, local, state, and national (or whatever your nation uses), to encourage them to stop the excess of spending, taxations, bad laws that remove our freedoms, and to enact laws that guarantee equal treatment under the law for everyone.

We spend so much time worrying about the end of the world, we never stop to make the one we are in better.

Nate
 
A 5th grade teacher...

I have no faith in public education.

I hate seeing those "Educator" auto tags on cars on the expressway.

I work with "Educators" from the public schools.

Biggest bunch of uneducated and stupid...and also arrogant and misinformed UNION group I have ever seen.

Google Clayton County Georgia Board of Education and you will see what I am talking about.

Public education in America died in the early 1970's.

Perhaps earlier.

Put on my shield and hide out here come the PC crowd.

Yes I am saying public education has failed.

We all know why but nobody will say say....

Public Education here has failed.

I work with students every day.

I see the decline in quality of public education.

The 5th grade teacher may reconsider her public school job.

I have high school students asking me how to read cursive handwriting.

And why they can't see news film footage of the civil war.

And the list goes on.

Teachers Unions are Vampires.

And so you so called "teachers" know it,

I am not a hard core republican. Neither am I on the other side.

I just have to deal with what YOU send into society and the university system.

Teachers SUCK big time. Get your act togeather.
 
Greg, I respectfully disagree... and am offended.

I originally wrote this long message here, but I figured it best not to open that can of worms. I wish you well. Goodnight.
 

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