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The 2012 Phenomenon
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Written by Angela Trinh, Staff Writer
2012. The mention of this specific year brings forth a plethora of emotions including fear, anger, anxiety, and the refusal to believe it at all. December 21, 2012 was believed to be the end of the Mayan calendar, and what seems to be declared as the end of the world. Yes, the Mayan calendar is complex and intricate, and incredibly accurate, just because it ends there does not mean the world will end. They could not write an eternal calendar, and probably had better things to do than that, and if not, they were not going to live forever and predict the future. But now, scientists are saying they have misread the date, and the year is actually going to be in 2220. But although the date is changed, this does not change the views of many of the students.
With less than three years until the faithful day, the day is coming closer and anxiety is increasing. It can be frightening, but it can be thrilling also.
“It’s scary because the world might be ending, but it’s exciting because it might not but something else might happen.” senior Rosa Quispe said.
While Quispe believes something might happen, other people are not as quick to join the bandwagon.
“It’s all lies,” senior Patrick Kelley said. “All it is is the Mayan calendar ending, that’s all it is.”
Such unenthusiastic views are not uncommon among the student body.
“Nothing’s gonna happen in 2012,” junior Nathan Shayan said. “It’s just a bunch of people doing a bunch of new-age hippie stuff that’s not going to matter.
But 2012 might just be another event that is all hype and when the day actually comes, everyone will all be disappointed, it’s not like it has not happened before.
“It’s kind of like the year 2000,” senior Erika Vasquez said. “When everyone was like ‘Oh! Everything that’s electronic is gonna stop working, we’re all gonna die! But then, the new millennium came, and nothing happened.’”
This theory is not uncommon and a lot of people seem to reiterate the occurrence in the year 2000.
“Everyone was so scared, watching the clock turn from 11:59 PM to 12:00 AM anxious to see if everything was going to shut down,” senior Yeaji Seo said. “But the clock turned 12, and nothing. Talk about disappointment of the millennium. The same thing is going to happen in 2012, so nobody should worry.”
Mayans predict that in 2012, the plane of the solar system will line up exactly with the plane of the galaxy, the Milky Way. This cycle has taken 26,000 years to complete. Virgil Armstrong also says that two other galaxies will line up with the galaxy that the earth is in the same time. A cosmic event. Nothing in this prophecy discusses the possibility of the annihilation of Earth. But the prediction is that something indeed will occur, whether it be a disaster, or a coming event.
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