What are the best books on the subject of this whole 2012 doomsday prophecy phenomenon?

Question

Are there any really good books on the subject? If so, what are they?

Answer 1

Mayan legend. Sopposedly the mayans and aztecs made a calendar with prophocies which fortold things like 9/11, the Pentagon, and World War 2. Now Archeologists and Historians believe they could read the destruction of us all by seeing something to do with that date (2012). I personally do not believe in it since everything else they saw, they saw after it happened. Like the phrase, "The human eye sees what it wants to see", they have no back-up to the 2012 doomsday, meaning it nothing but theories.  

Answer 2

Nostradamus' illustrations. I don't remember the name of the work. Its evolved over the centuries but each illustrations is a prophecy and the last 3 or four refer specifically to this event.  

Answer 3

I hear "What people with no faith believe" is a good one.

Answer 4

Are you looking for books that try to sell the idea, or books that are cited as sources of the idea?

I'm trying to get a feel for your goal here...

Just in case - I want to give you the scientific rationale for why it's all nonsense - that might help you read these books more critically:

The 2012 Dommosday scenarios are all just myths which mysteriously propagates (mostly because of the History Channel and YouTube)

The interpretation of the Mayan calendar thing is just plain wrong – it’s just the end of a cycle. And since calendars are based on astronomical motions of one kind or another, they are inherently cyclic. Our western calendar ends on December 31st every year!

Planet X/Nibiru does not exist. If it did we would have found it by now. We have mapped the sky in the infrared several times in the last 25 years (including WMAP, IRAS etc), and it would show up. It is not there. We would have found it if it existed. So all the nonsense about the return of Nibiru/Planet X is just that – nonsense

There is no scientific evidence for the existence of Nibiru

Furthermore, at the distance it must be to hit us in a little over 4 years, it would be reflecting enough light from the sun to be detectable.

Thanx to previous question from Brant and answer from bikenbeer2000, we know how bright it should be by now – it would have a apparent magnitude of 7.4 – which would not be visible with the naked eye – but easily visible in a modest telescope and would have been spotted by amateur. If there was a conspiracy to keep it quiet – it would be out of the bag by now.

Ask someone where it is supposed to be, get a pair of binoculars and look for it.

Furthermore, it is supposed to be in orbit around a brown dwarf. We have detected brown dwarfs at much larger distances than the alleged distance of the sun’s mythical brown dwarf companion, so why haven’t we seen this “star:?

The videos on YouTube that purport to have evidence are disingenuous to say the least. They put together pictures of other objects (e.g. Jupiter, comets even a dust shell around a distant red giant star) and try to scare people. There is no validity to their claims. They present NO EVIDENCE at all.

As for the predicted catastrophes – the most popular one seems to be the Pole Shift!

The sun will have a pole reversal that year – it has one every 11 years – it is not a problem.

The earth’s magnetic field is less predictable –

but is still nothing to worry about: we know that the magnetic field does not collapse in the process of reversing polarity- if it did, there would be major extinctions that correlate with the geologic record for pole reversals - there is no correlation.

Now let’s tackle the “Galactic Alignment”

Here’s a nice site that explains what it means, and explains that is does not happen on December 21st 2012:  http://alignment2012.com/whatisGA.htm

Also see the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Al...

which tells you that the precise alignment of the solstice with the Galactic equator was in 1998. It did not cause problems. The Galactic Equator is purely a human construct – not a physical thing. And we do not get any closer to the black hole in the center, which remains approximately 8000 parsecs (26,000 light years) away.

Answer 5

time the beginning and the end BY THOSE WHO LOOKED INTO THE PAST  DUE TO ARRIVE ON THE SHELVES dec 22 2012 at a news stand near you by me Twin dog who says if you can't beat um well inform them  and I do mean WELL

Answer 6

look for the 2000 doomsday prophecy then you'll change your mind =D