Doomsday 2012: How true?

Most of us have heard about the doomsday 2012 theory

This is my take on it. 

1)Tracey McKenna's time wave zero (Novelty theory):-

From what I understood from reading about it, Mckenna basically made interpretations from the I ching and tried to make some sort of graph. He didn't know what exactly he was doing but he ended up with some sort of complicated fractal. He looked closely at it and and tried to connect the lower points( lower y-coordinates) to the time.He found that every time the graph touched a low point there was an increase in novelty. For example he found that there were low ordinate values when the earth was formed (4 billion years ago), when the dinosaurs became extinxt and the mammals flourised(65 million years ago) ,when the ice age ended and so on. What makes this even more interesting is that this graph touches the x axis on 21 december 2012. That's odd. We can't really be sure about what it means. If time wave zero is not just a coincidence then according to the general trend there must be an increase in novelty not a decrease. But then how can you explain the grapgh touching zero?. Novelty is at a maximum. But if the world was to end novelty should reach a minimum.

2)The Mesoamerican long count calendar:-

The mayans were a very advanced race. They had complicated calendars to keep track of time and they used systems different from  what we use today (The gregorian calendar).The Maya name for a day was k'in. Twenty of these k'ins are known as a winal or uinal. Eighteen winals make one tun. Twenty tuns are known as a k'atun. Twenty k'atuns make a b'ak'tun.They had different calenders to keep count of different magnitudes of time. For time periods longer than 52 years they used the long count calendar.They used a base 20 system different from the decimal system we use today.Thus 0.0.0.1.5 is equal to 25, and 0.0.0.2.0 is equal to 40.

According to the Popol Vuh a book compiling details of creation accounts, we are living in the fourth world.The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 13th b'ak'tun.

The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on 20th December 2012  followed by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on 21st December 2012.

But then ,if the gods failed in the making of the first three creations ,(I thought gods were infalliable) how can we be sure that the gods will be succesful this time ? And also the Popul Vuh does not say that this world has to be destroyed for the creation of an another world. 

3)The Bible code:-

Basically Bible codes (a.k.a Torah codes) are basically clusters of words or phrases that some people believe are meaningful and intentionally coded in the Bible.

The primary method by which purportedly meaningful messages have been extracted is the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS). To obtain an ELS from a text, choose a starting point (in principle, any letter) and a skip number, also freely and possibly negative. Then, beginning at the starting point, select letters from the text at equal spacing as given by the skip number. For example, the bold letters in this sentence form an ELS. With a skip of -4, and ignoring the spaces and punctuation, the word SAFEST is spelled out.

Often more than one ELS related to some topic can be displayed simultaneously in an ELS letter array. This is produced by writing out the text in a regular grid, with exactly the same number of letters in each line, then cutting out a rectangle.

Often more than one ELS related to some topic can be displayed simultaneously in an ELS letter array. This is produced by writing out the text in a regular grid, with exactly the same number of letters in each line, then cutting out a rectangle. In the example below, part of the King James version of Genesis(26:5–10) is shown with 33 letters per line. ELSs for BIBLE and CODE are shown. Normally only a smaller rectangle would be displayed, such as the rectangle drawn in the figure. In that case there would be letters missing between adjacent lines in the picture, but it is essential that the number of missing letters be the same for each pair of adjacent lines.

Many predictions have been made from the Bible code, some actually happened some didn't. For example, the 1995 assasination of the then Israeli Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was predicted using the Bible code. 

Now what is interesting is the a certain 2012 prediction made from the Bible code. This is how it reads

comet large - stone-like / stony : object - sped / Tongue-like : Sun - whole earth / earth annihilated - smitten / stricken - smitten Planetary / wanderer : fragmentary : sixty mile - blunderbuss / scatter-gun / Crater : Canada : ultimate : terrifying : appalling : lethal / Modifier - mantle - axis - tilting - tipping : Speeded / Seismic - eradication - It will be crumbled / I will tear to pieces.

Scary, but then predictions made from the Bible code have not always been true.For example it was predicted that there would be nuclear holocaust in 2006, which obviously did not happen.

Maybe the Bible code reveals probabilties and not certainities. So according the the Bible code the earth could be destroyed. Not very nice to hear.

There are various other theories but these three are the ones I found "disturbing".

The man on the street does not know much about the doomsday theory and as for me I really don't want to take a side on this. It may or may not happen. I am assuming that this planet will be very much intact for the short span of my life because even if I assume otherwise there is not much I, the sixteen year old that I am, can do about a comet on collision course with earth.

Maybe i can, maybe I just don't want to.

Some parts of this post have been copied from wikipedia.(The base 20 stuff and the ELS coding stuff) [:D]