Yeah, those stones are really weierd, by the way, as we're aproaching that date: 21st December 2012, it's time to discuss the Doomsday no?
Still, seems like 2012 started with an earthquake in Japan:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0007fbh.html
And if i'm not wrong we are going to have a Friday the 13th this month, huh, only bringers of bad luck this year.
I've heard so many ideas of what's going to happen, some think the world is going to end, others say that there's going to be contact with aliens, some say something cosmic is going to happen and that our minds are going to become all connected and there won't be anything bad anymore, lol.
There's allways those that say it will be the end of this era and the begining of another, the chinese will rule the world maybe? Or some that think the new era will be with aliens or something like that, i mostly believe that nothing is going to happen, still let's see
I really don't believe any of these theories but lets discuss shall we?
For people keeping an eye on it, every little thing that happens in 2012 is going to be more closely examined than usual. If something major doesn't happen, all the conspiracy theorist's and such are not going to be taken seriously again for quite awhile. Most people don't take such claims seriously as it is now. If nothing astonishing occurs, such claims will now become nothing but laughable to anyone and everyone. I, for one, almost hope something does happen because 40-50+ more years of this monotony is almost worse than the apocalypse.
As far as what it could legitimately be, if anything, that we are bracing for in 2012, the possibilities are many but can be easily summed up.
EARTH BOUND NATURAL DISASTERS:
POLE SHIFT, MASSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTION, MASSIVE EARTHQUAKES
From what I've gathered on this, all three kinda go hand in hand for the doomsday scenario. If the pole shift occurs we'd then also get volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and more. However, a pole shift would not be necessary for us to be destroyed by volcanic eruption or earthquakes.
The earth, our Earth, is a constantly moving and changing body. Some may
even say it is a living organism. Whether it is a living entity or not is open to debate, what isn't very debatable is that this planet is going to continue moving and shifting beneath our feet and if it's destroyed it's inhabitants before(4-5 times by most accounts) then it will probably do so again.
NON-EARTH BOUND NATURAL DISASTERS:
METEOR STRIKE, SOLAR FLARES, COLLISION WITH A ROGUE PLANET
The meteor strike theory doesn't bother me at all. Things would already be weirder than they are because it'd have been spotted by now. Besides, all we'd need to do is send up some real astronauts and real deep core drillers to destroy the real meteor.
Colliding with another planet is even less likely because I think enough people would be able to see it by now and something would have definitely leaked about it.
Solar flares from our Sun is possibly the most likely of all doomsday scenarios for the year 2012, in my opinion. One burst, if large enough, could cripple the entire planet for a seriously long time. I'm not saying this is what is going to happen but if I had to pick one theory, this could be it.
NON-EARTH BOUND ALIENS:
INVASION/RETURN/FIRST CONTACT
Would they? Did they? Should they?
To look at the sky and think we humans are all there is in this big space is extremely arrogant. The question should be - what is watching us and is it going to do something or not? We tell ourselves and show ourselves over and over that everything in nature is accountable to something higher and answers to something else, yet we insist we are the exception to that. God? Last time people accepted God as our higher power the world was minus about three billion tattoo's.
If 'aliens' were to be the big 'it' of 2012 then I would not be one bit surprised if they do arrive on a long pre-determined date. This is actually the scenario I favor most for occurring on the specified date of 12/21/12 for it'd be the only one that could be set so far in advance.
'Aliens' coming to our Earth and making their selves known to all would be an Earth changing event, no matter the magnitude, but not necessarily a surprise. Afterall, we've been expecting them for awhile and they may have been here longer than us.
HUMAN CHANGE:
CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS, NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION, RAISING TO A NEW AGE
Things of this nature usually occur gradually and go unnoticed. However, introductions of new 'things' to the species could change all of that. These could also be events triggered by any of the above three, or not. New breakthroughs in technology and science or new discoveries could just as likely trigger such a thing. What won't happen is we will not all wake up on 12/21/12 to an all new world and an all new state of being for no real reason.
That said, what if the world and our species did come to a sudden end? Would we perceive it as this change in consciousness or next step in evolution? I think we might.
CONSPIRACIES:
POPULATION REDUCTION, MASS CONTROL BY A FEW, GLOBAL CLEANSING IMPOSED BY HUMANITY UPON ITSELF
We've already seen, time and time again, that humans are fully willing and capable of killing themselves off. The big question is - is it possible for such a force that is counter-productive to human growth to gain enough power to launch an attack serious enough to escalate into WWIII? Or is it something we will instinctually do to ourselves when we reach a point where this planet will allow us to go no further?
Population reduction, mass control, and global 'cleansing' may be what humanity does to delay and stave off something much worse. Hence the plotting and the conspiracy and the ability to do so despite it seeming counter-productive.
12/21/12 could be a self imposed deadline upon ourselves. If such and such doesn't happen then 12/21/12 is the point of no return and the worst then becomes inevitable.
END OF DAYS:
THE ANTICHRIST, THE SECOND COMING, GOD vs. SATAN
Perhaps 2012 could be nothing more than a good ole fashioned biblical battle, Book of Revelations style. The Anti-Christ is said to be walking among us now. The 'mark of the beast' which he is said to wield and impose is already apparent all over the globe in the forms of i.d. cards, bar codes, and tracking and monitoring of all activities.
If the Anti-Christ were to rise, would Satan, Christ, and God all follow amidst a surreal global experience akin to what occurs in Revelations? This could be the biggest longshot of all the scenarios but it could be the only one that encompasses and surpasses all others.
SUMMARY:
Many bad things could happen to humanity and it's planet in 2012 but that can be said for any year. The scenarios being proposed are mostly worst case scenarios and that is what has people saying 'what is up with bombarding everyone with threats of impending doom upon us all?' Rather than simply 'what is going to happen in 2012?'
In my opinion, what's going to happen in 2012 is that the world of conspiracy theories, UFO's, and Doomsday scenarios is going to end and go bye-bye for awhile - it's going to have to after 2012 becomes one of the biggest choke jobs in the history of choke jobs.
FINAL THOUGHT:
And if it is revealed to be nothing more than one long, huge, and elaborate joke upon the masses by the few... then we turn the tables and put the joke on those few, consider it a good morale booster for the species.