what if 2012 is real

China
December 31, 2010 1:16am CST
Last night I watched the movie 2012 again, which may not be as thrilled as the 1st time when I went to the Cinema, but the catastrophe scenes still rocked me.So I was wondering, what if the Maya predictions are all true? what would you do if there's one day left when u were informed before the end of the world? where do you want to die and who do you want to die with? well, we got way too much questions to think about. We all want to live a full life, leaving no regrets, no loose end,no unfinished biz behind.Then I started to feel kinda of creepy, Coz somehow I feel there's a chance that day would come.Can you imagine all the sky-rocketing mansions collapsing, high-above-the-ground freeways full of cars tumbling down, fire and lava gushing out of the ground and dead bodies like ants? Scary as it imagines, but 9/11 once showed to all us that two iconic skyscrapers collapsed into piles of rubble, and also the China's wenchuan and Hati earthquake did as well.Here's little after-movie thoughts: No matter how powerful weapons we create, how big mansions we build, how developed we moved the society ahead, we human beings still remain tiny little creatures on earth.Live with conscience and live it full, there's no arch anywhere, no chance for us normal people even if there is.
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@artistry (4151)
• United States
1 Jan 11
..Hi billzehua, I have not watched the movie 2012, I don't know why. I guess I have heard so many people talk about it that I don't think I need to watch it to know what is in the movie. The other thing is that I probably don't want the scenes implanted in my brain? Call me chicken I guess. "o) I sort of look at it like the predictions about 2000, all the clamor and nothing happpened. I feel the same thing will more than likely happen, nothing. But the other thing is what can we do about it if it does happen? I really don't want to know when the world is going to end. I do think it will be longer than 2012, many things according to the Bible, if you believe in it, are going to happen before the end. So I live as best I can, try to be as happy as I can and don't worry more than I have to about things that are out of my control. Take good care. Cheers. Happy New Year to you and your family.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
1 Jan 11
Artistry, it really is a good movie, one of those that keep you on the edge of your seat. I honestly don't think the scary scenes will be implanted in your brain anymore than any "disaster" movie. Since there may be some here that haven't seen it and want to, I don't want to be a total spoiler but let me say it didn't leave me with the feeling and doom and gloom I kind of expected it would. It kind of ends up being about starting over, not only for the earth but for the main characters in the film. Annie
@artistry (4151)
• United States
1 Jan 11
...Hi annie, Thanks, I hope others will see it. I appreciate your review. Take care.
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@Jacobus1919 (1683)
• Philippines
31 Dec 10
Well, if 2012 was really real. Then, I would actually live my life correctly everyday. Not that I have not started. I live my life one day at a time though. So, I cherish every moment of my life.
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• China
2 Jan 11
Why don't start now,hehe, thx for your response, Jacobus1919
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
31 Dec 10
Only God knows when the Earth will end and as for the natural disasters, it is the start of the end and we do not know when the end will come. I was watching a documentary made in 2009 about 2012 and they were screaming all about global warming. Now we are in a cooling period. That proves that man cannot predict when the world will end. 2012 may mean that is when a certain weather pattern may take over the earth. It might mean the beginning of an ice age. And when the world end, it will end by fire, not by multiple car crashes. And it will be so sudden that one second we are here, and one second gone, and not even a second maybe a milisecond. That is why God wants us to ready because after this EArth disappears a new one will appear.
• China
2 Jan 11
Ye and looking into 2010, that result could still be bit of mild: the chosen ones still made it through and could create a truly new era.Suspenseful,there are several things that prompt me to start this topic. One is that every 4 or 6 days my parents would call me, I feel so blessed and I never get tired of their nagging about how-to-dos, which I probably know better than they do technically speaking.They are now stepping into their 50s, who the hell would know what will come up someday! The other is that I still love my ex, but she is far far away in the US.On and off she would pop into my mind,tho she hurt so much. So when do i get a chance to let her really say goodbye to me in front my face!
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• China
2 Jan 11
sorry, it's looking into 2012(the movie)
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Actually, the Mayans didn't say that the world would end in 2012, but that a new cycle would begin. It isn't an ending, but rather a beginning. However, if the world is going to end, I'm not going to waste what little time I do have worrying about it; I'm going to live.
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• China
2 Jan 11
Hi,Sketch,That's what I want to express here!Live it full.Thx for the response
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
1 Jan 11
Hi dear, I don't believe in any of these things. If you are alive, wait and see the things will happen as usual and there won't be any changes in the universe or any where in the world. All are based on some calculations only. But the base itself is not clear, what is there in the predictions on it. Also, there were so many other predictions already commented and not even noticed anybody, it just went away. So be relaxed and be practical. People would say anything. If we keep ear to all, we may not able to live. Thank-s
• China
4 Jan 11
Hey, buddy, guess you can't prove yourself either, base what can you give that warranty to all of us, hehe, but anyway, I aint worry
• India
4 Jan 11
We will meet here in myLot in 2013. It is guaranteed. Thank-s
@tboyd79 (22)
• United States
31 Dec 10
I really hope and believe the predictions are incorrect or translated wrong. This was a great post though, it makes you think. That movie was pretty crazy. Let's do our best to live life to the fullest regardless!
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• China
2 Jan 11
ye, it's pretty crazy in its expression, and that's why it could attract eyeballs and turn them into billions of cash. But some parts of the movies are quite inspirational.Remember the scene when that old guy in the ship called his son in Japan.He does not quite go along with his son for long. Look at his age, such an old man yet not being able to make the last call to his son, and think about our own parents.Are we still mad about our parents? are we still in cold war with them? Once a friend asked me who I would call if the world is going to collapse, I instantly answered her it'd be my parents!Why, who's given me that much yet asked for nothing for return! and who'd be the second! the one I love so much yet broke my heart into pieces, left me a loose end, and now she is in the US!I need to tell her that I m so in love with her! But will i really got the chance to say it out when the crunch comes, that's the question that always hovers my head whenever I pass a big big mansion.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
1 Jan 11
To answer your first questions first, I guess I'd want to be near my loved ones, wherever they may be. However, I really don't think "2012" is going to come true. I don't think - and I'll admit it may be "wishful thinking" - the world is going to end in our lifetimes. I also don't think it's going to be because of an ancient prediction or anything like that. Mankind holds the key to saving our planet, to some extent, as does science. Maybe at some point in time a disaster may be heading our way and hopefully our scientists will find some way of diverting it. I suppose my point is that whatever the case, it's not something we have control over. A good friend once said we shouldn't waste time worrying about that over which we have no control. For quite some time I've believed in living life to the fullest because none of us knows what tomorrow may bring. I've always tried to live with conscience and be the best person I can be. I see no reason to change anything. By the way, there have been many predictions of pending doom in my life. It must have been the late fifties or early sixties that the "planets were aligned" supposedly and many were predicting the end of the world. I remember my parents trying to keep me from seeing anything about it but others talked of it constantly and I remember being scared. My mother told me then this had happened several times during her life. I have a feeling one day my grandkids will be telling their grandkids the same thing when yet another prediction of the apocalypse is made. Annie
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Hi Billzehua, We never know when disaster will strike...even if just in our own little world. The unexpected happens all the time. You just never know. No one had warning about 9/11 or Haiti. Everyone should just live their lives everyday as if it is the last day of their lives because it very well could be.
• China
2 Jan 11
totally, Sid556, in the micro level, we don't need 2012 to have a end to us, there're too many unexpected happenings.So I start to keep it in mind-leave no loose end to others
• Nigeria
31 Dec 10
very well said...
@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
2 Jan 11
To find the answers to what will the future hold for us and the earth look in the Holy Scvriptures. Not to the mayans or anywhere else. Go'ds purpose for the earthwas for humans to make it a paradsie. Ge.1:28; 2:8-15. His purpose is certian. Isa.55:11; 46:10,11. Earth is to filled with peacful perfect humans. Ps.72:7; Isa.9:6,7. Paradise will be restored by Jahova's Kingdom. Mt.6:9,10; Re.21:3-5. The literal earth is to be permanent. Ec.1:4; Ps.104:5. Just like the mankind in Noah's day was destroyed, not the earth. 2Pe.3:5-7; Ge.7:23.
• China
4 Jan 11
Hi,nice illustration, but sorta of too sophisticated for me.thx for the response
• Philippines
3 Jan 11
As of the moment i am trying to live as if 2012 is really coming. If you can do things you wanted to do this very moment why not do it while you still can. Even if 2012 is not real you can die anytime. And as such, I am not really thinking how to survive 2012. I don't think it's possible to escape the rage of nature nor can I be as lucky as John Cussack in the movie so if that's gonna happen some time I'll make sure I am by my family's side whether we survive such catastrophe or not.
• China
4 Jan 11
thx for the response, I agree with you.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
1 Jan 11
Your question is moot, as no one knows but The Father when the end will be. This is what Jesus told his disciples when they asked about the end of the world.
• China
4 Jan 11
ye,luck for me that I don't worry too much.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Jan 11
Do I think that there really is going to be a cataclysmic event that is going to happen in 2012? No, I honestly can say that I don't think that the world of living beings is going to come to an end then. Instead, what I think is going to happen is that there is going to be something that happens in the world that is going to change the way that all human beings see things. So, who would I want to die with, of course that would be all of the people in this world that I care the most about. The reason for that is because they are the people that I surround myself with in my life and of course the people that I would want to be with in the last moments of my life.
• China
4 Jan 11
I wish to die somewhere I am acquainted with, and with someone I love. I don't want to be a roaming ghost in a strange place with no one I know.
@Memnon (2170)
1 Jan 11
There have been several speculations about Mayan prophecy. The Aztecs had a similar prophecy which conveniently coincided with European explorers and the Aztec's demise. So to a certain respect that was true. To find the likelihood of such a catastrophe occurring in 2012 we would know more if were able to peer into some world leader's diaries.........
• China
4 Jan 11
That's something new! peer into the world leader's diaries, see, that's what we can't control either.so I said, even if there's Noah Ark is being built, we normal people won't have the tickets to get aboard.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1 Jan 11
Maybe it will happen ... TO YOU :-P I don't really care if it happens, I am not ruled by the world. I like the Seventh-Day Adventist belief that Lord Jesus Christ will return & meet us in the clouds; MAYBE that means that the Earth will be destroyed and we'll be floating in the nothing, our bodies having been changed to adjust to our new environment; and Christ will then easily whisk us away to Heaven a thousand light-years away! goo-goo g`joob
• China
4 Jan 11
Ye, we have different Prophecies to believe. I don't really believe 2012 prediction, but the idea that if there's the day yet I still got a list of things to do, that makes me feel creepy.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Actually, the Mayans didn't say that the world would end in 2012, but that a new cycle would begin. It isn't an ending, but rather a beginning. However, if the world is going to end, I'm not going to waste what little time I do have worrying about it; I'm going to live.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Oh whoops! Somehow posted it twice. My bad.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
2 Jan 11
Don't worry about that year 2012 my friend. Even there is no Arch because we don't need arch in that day...no one will escape of fire and sulfur...God telling us what to do to be save as the bible said...find it and you will be save
@dollar3235 (2062)
• India
3 Jan 11
In one line, mayan calender may be technically correct but the 2012 prediction is BS
• Nigeria
31 Dec 10
But what if it isn't? The crux of the whole matter hnges on us all living right. The right mindset, believe and feelings to other people. for me, I live on and deal with life's issues as they come cos the moment you start thinking about the future, then, you begin to sink into depression.
• China
2 Jan 11
nope, I don't concern when that day would come, I just concern during my presence on earth I should try to live it full, make the points and be no harm to others.