Skeptic Project

I found out about the whole "2012" doomsday in sixth grade. Now as you might've guessed, if 2012 has grown men and women cowering in fear, then yes indeed it had me at the same state as well. I was depressed, I didn't want to do anything other than just plan out my life, what I'll do with the remaining years of my life (I would've died at 20....didn't even get to experience the joy of alcohol poisoning.) and how much I should be enjoying. Yeah, it was that depressing.

I kept most of it to myself. Thinking that most likely, my parents and friends wouldn't believe me until it was too late. So again, I kept it all bottled up for a good two years...I was slowly not getting attached to it, thinking maybe the Mayan thing wasn't going to happened after all...

Then came the specials on History Channel. They intensified my fear of doom and destruction and the end of the human even worse. The idea of people just gone from some type of disaster just made everything all the more worse. from The "bible Code Predicting Armageddon" to the numerous Nostradamus specials, I consumed ever time they came on, I watch them, and listen to these professors, Authors and other "Specialist" give more and more "evidence" and further hyping the possible doom to come. At one point, it reduce me to tears, questioning did I want to live any more, being to the point of not wanting to do school work always replying "What's the point?, we're gonna die in x minus years anyway" and always locking myself away from other people, missing out on my youth....wasting my life....

So what made me stop believing in the 2012 fuckery? Three things.

1. There was a special (where else the HC) that had something to do with Nostradamus/Mayan calendar that said that the earth's cycle lasted for Twenty some odd years that went like this:

(Not exactly how they presented it just an example)

1968+ 20 years= 1988 1 Cycle

Now at one point during the program they mentioned that the sixth cycle started in 1993 and ends in 2013, not 2012..needless to say, they haven't showed said special since then..I wonder why.

2. A teacher I had during my Sophomore year, was discussing the earth's plate movements and whatnot, then someone asked "Hey, do you know what type of earth movement's gonna happen in 2012?". the teacher actually looked at the student, then the class and smiled and said "What's going to happen in 2012, is what happens everyday...nothing special." (In a sense this made me feel slightly better mentally)Then he went on and gave us a damn pop quiz...

3. the people who believed, followed 2012, promoted it before the film and whatnot, Via-youtube we're some of the most mentally fucked people I have ever communicated with. It's like these people WANTED this shit to happen. They wanted to be proven right to the skeptics because of some deep seeded hatred for humanity or what have you. There was no preparation or how to survive 2012 or whatever, no, these people wanted this doom and destruction to actually happen.

So around mid-2009, I finally had seen, heard enough, and thought about it enough with other people who didn't believe the 2012 nonsense to be rid of the nonsense. So from 2004-2009 I basically lived five years of my life in just. A cluster of confusion, doubt and fear. Which is the worst way to live your life, especially as a young person. I look back at that extremely dark period of my life with shame. Not at myself per se, but for the people spreading this vile, misanthropy garbage. I always feel for the young people who have harmed themselves, physically and emotionally over 2012 the way I did.

Today, like many young 18 year olds in America, I'm simply enjoying my life the best way i know how. With friends, family, I've taken up hobbies and such like digital/film production and Long boarding in which two years ago I wouldn't. In all honesty, when 2012 passes I hope all the young people realized the fallacy in shit like that.

In short, 2012 and the people who fund and come up with the B.S. programming @ history channel, can go screw themselves.

-------DJ Agnostic.

Thanks for sharing your story.

I really hate what's happened to the History channel over the last few years, which is why I favor the Science channel. It's bad enough HC wants to show "Ice Road Truckers" and a bunch of tree farmers, instead of showing real history, then they add on 2012 and Ancient Aliens stuff, especially when one of the main speakers on Ancient Aliens, Giorgio Tsoukalos, makes up some of the most blatant lies on camera -- really illogical lies, like not having enough oxygen in the king's chamber to light a lighter, but apparently enough to breathe.

You're likely too young to remember this (but some young people have a good memory) but during the build up to the year 2000 was full of hysteria about Y2K and also traditional Christian end time scenarios. I actually had an uncle of mine who believed nuclear weapons would launch themselves because of a date error. I spent a lot of time explaining to people how dates actually work on computers, and that only a tiny fraction of computers would be effected -- and even those effected wouldn't blow up. It didn't stop a lot of people I know from going crazy, for example my boss at the time bought a bunch of guns and took his family out into the woods.

After 2012 is gone, rest assured, people will find another thing to go crazy about.

(On a side note, I've been wanting to collect as much 2012 video as I can, because after 2012 much of it will disappear, and we need evidence of the hysteria. I've wanted to do the same with Y2K but thus-far I've only found one video, but it's still pretty hilarious.)

The anti-Christ?

I also find it funny how they use the "lost book of Nostradamus" which wasn't even written by him to interpret things about 2012. One of the funnier things was a picture of three moons, which the individual speaking claimed that it meant "three eclipses." That's fine, but he goes on to talk about a lunar apocalypse, a solar eclipse, and a "galactic" eclipse -- of course all of these happen in 2012. The picture was of three moons, not of the moon, the sun, and the milky-way.

Well, Pat Robertson said the anti-Christ was coming in 1983. I'm still waiting.

PETA have a deadline for 2012 for their competition where theyll award the first company to perfect artificial meat with $1,000,000.Perhaps after that CT'rs will be afraid of the sudden rise of Frankenfoods(Their response to GM crops in particular Alex Jones will pale in comparison to this) and the availibility of artificial human meat.ITS SOYLENT GREEN PEOPLE(well sort of LOL)from the Neo-Nazi Vegetarian Lesbo PETA cult!!Quick get your bibles

I don't think there will be riots or other large-scale unrest in December 2012. Sure, a couple of groups of crazies will go into a bunker in Montana or somewhere and get lots of press coverage, but normal rank and file people I don't think will care, or will treat the story as a curiosity, much like people did with the Y2K bug.

In 1999 a lot of people did make some sort of preparation for 2K, but in almost all cases it didn't go beyond stocking up on canned goods or bottled water, which is stuff people would eventually use anyway. I talked to a few people who were doing this and their attitude was, "I don't really think anything's going to happen, but since I'll use this stuff anyway, it doesn't hurt to stockpile it now on the off chance something will happen." That's an entirely reasonable rationale.

I think 2012 will be the same. Lots of hype, and Twitter and Facebook (if they're still around) will be quite amusing on that day, but the next morning people will chuckle and then get back to their Christmas shopping.

Maybe we can get some of these people to sign over their property to us, since they won't be needing it.