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Recently there have been talks about the December 2012 Doomsday, much like the doomsday prediction in 1999. This is according to the Mayan Calendar which ends December 21, 2012. There is also a rumor(?) of a planetary alignment on this day which will bring 3 days of darkness. People's imagination, thanks to Hollywood films, run wild with images from movies of disasters of massive proportions! Tidal waves, earthquakes, planetary collisions. But can we really blame them? With all the calamities we've been having lately, from climate change to the global  financial crisis. 
With what we know of how the moon and sun affects the earth it is possible for all these to happen. But why dwell on the morbid? Like all predictions, they are just that, a forecast of a future event that has no absolute certainty. After all, the Mayan prophesy said it would be a transformation not an eradication of the human populace. Whether or not the transformation or the Spiritual enlightenment comes after a great disaster, we'll  only know when the time comes. Didn't we all wake up on January 1, 2000 thinking how silly we were to believe that prediction. Maybe after the 3 days of Darkness* we'll all wake up to a peaceful morning, if we wake up at all! 

* Oh, and according to NASA's website, there are no known planetary alignments to occur on December 2012, much less one that will bring 3 days of darkness.

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