Further, all you've done is named a bunch of things that won't happen. I can do that too.
*** AHHAHAHAHA now you make me laugh... seriously! you are too gullible to think that "WONT HAPPEN" actually stuff i wrote DOES and HAS happened. Collapse of the vacuum -I am pretty sure it WONT happen but then its only in theory and no one can prove one way or the other... Asteroid - FORGOT TUNGUSKA? If asteroid lands in one of the big cities say NY yeah the world will go into a spin -stock market of every country will collapse. Suprvolcano - again forgot mt Helen? one min it was dormant, within 2 months all hell broke loose. Supervolcanos HAVE erupted .. their waking time is unknown because there is no written record but we know they have eruped. There is geological evidence of that. When supervolcano does erupt, the ash of the volcano will circle the globe and wil lturn earth into ice ball for a few centuries. Again... there is enough evidence to support it. READ DUDE READ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory***
\What I asked in my last post is what reason you have to believe that nothing will happen. The fact that many specific things won't happen can't be generalised into "nothing will happen." If you don't have a reason to believe anything particular will happen, then that's what you should say. Even further,
something will happen on December 21, 2012, because
something happens on every day.
** yawn .. sure whatever you say... What you are describing is sounds like a rant of New Agers. MAYANS didnt waste their time calculting such "important" date to THEM just so some New Agers in 21st century will be coming up with absolute lame interpretation. Astronomically i can explain you why dec 21 2012 is important but i refuse to follow mass hysteria. You said "The year 2012 has to do with the end of the world as we know it. " again my point is EVERy day the world changes Dec 21st will be no different !****
I don't know what it will be, but I've never seen a day in which nothing happened. If you would be so kind as to debate fairly, I'll gladly tell my thinking on the matter.
I know that our development is, in fact, accelerating. We have refined and changed more in the last 100 years than in the previous 1,000 years. We are now slowly becoming a global culture that ties together all parts of the world. More than 100 years ago, how could social and political upheavals in Egypt effect anyone across the Atlantic? Then they couldn't, but now they can.
** REAALLLY!? read history, pal, Egypt has been a focal point on Atlantic side for LONG LONG LONG time. As a matter of fact all started when Napoleon entered Egypt through west side Nile River in 1798. Britain's main interest was in stabilizing Egypt so Brits can trade. Why else d you think Suez canal project took off in 19th century? Where are Brits there are Americans ... UK was backing Ottoman empire Where is UK? ATLANTIC.. go on... ****
By anyone's definitions, we are now moving into a state of being in which people in any part of the world are capable of effecting distant parts or even the whole world.
**** havent we been doing that since 1900s? ***
In a sense, our "collective mind" is getting bigger. Just as in the past we made the transitions from thinking about families to thinking about tribes, from tribes to nations, and from nations to empires, a great many people all over the world are now beginning to think globally. We have the ability to communicate, travel, act, and think farther and faster than we ever have in all of our recorded history. We can see that the people of Earth are changing systemically. Our systems (including our thinking) are now transitioning from a superpower/impirial mode of operations to a global mode. This will have definite consequences for everyone who depends on these systems (the entire "modern" world).
*** " We have the ability to communicate, travel, act, and think farther and faster than we ever have in all of our recorded history." You just realized that?! where were you in 1920s? ****
What I see is that we are getting closer and closer to a tipping point in our dealings with each other.
*** Pisces delusion here? ****
We are nearing a point where something's gotta give. When it does, our systems will collapse, many will suffer and die, and then we will build bigger and better systems than ever before with all the knowledge we've gained along the way. This is the normal ebb and flow of societal evolution. I don't know when the triggers that will push us "over the edge" will happen, but I know they are coming because we are ripe for it.
*** HOW IS THIS ISNT end of the world in your words? what you are describing is apocalypse .. RIGHT NOW i dont see 1 single shred of evidence of anyone being on the edge of tipping over. But then again if Facebook / YouTube / Tweeter will go belly up all at the same time, I BET YA there will be some deaths and collapses!****
It could also be thought of as a critical mass threshold. Once you've grown to a minimum point of sustainability, either your population must suddenly get smaller or your systems must change. Usually, these two go hand in hand. The harder we push to try to make our unsustainable habits continue to work, the harder it will be on all of us. The fact of the matter is that changes are coming. Maybe the events that will take place in 2012 will have something to do with that. Maybe they won't. All I know is that something's gotta give and soon
**** You do realize that most people DO NOT know how to survive in the wild. Hardly anyone knows how to SURVIVE on bare basics. right? "All I know is that something's gotta give and soon" that is in YOUR mind .. what you are descibing is called BOTTLENECK phenomenon .. BOTTLENECK HAS happened before at least once. Last one known happened 70,000 years ago, .. It was Toba catastrophy - super volcano in Toba erupted. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! ***