Several reports and books came out about the apocalypse taking place on December 21, 2012, which is most likely why many dutch prepare for 2012. A lot of people in the Netherlands believe in this predictions and see this in a positive light, especially when this day comes.
2012 is believed by a lot of scientists and religious groups to be the year where major changes in the world will take place. Some see it as cleansing, others see it as the end of the world, and still other view it as the coming of a new age of man.
There are numerous books and e-books about this subject and most have many basis varying from very old prophecies to modern scientific research. The most accepted is the Mayan calendar where the date December 21, 2012 was designated to be the date marking the end of the world. There are many guess works as to why this is so; some say that this will be the last day on earth while A lot of speculations abound as to why this is happening saying that this will be the final day on earth.
Another reference they have is the discovered hidden book of the famous medieval prophet Nostradamus. Recently, one of his books was found attesting that his prophecies concur with the Mayans’ predictions from I-ching and the Hindus.
On top of the prophecies, there are also scientific studies forecasting several world incidents occurring in 2012 and these are mostly cosmic in nature. From these, there is the anticipated event wherein the planets align believed to eventually cause the sun’s radiation to hit the earth and make a catastrophic impact non our planet earth. One more thing is the polar reversal that will cause melting of the polar ice caps, triggering sea water to rise and submerging most of the land.
There is another claim that NASA was able to find a planet that is hiding at the back of the sun, and this planet is said to collide with the earth and the calculated time will fall on the year 2012. While there are other people who say that it will be a giant meteor impacting earth; they are also believed to cause giant tidal waves worldwide.
What is more, there are also so many other ebooks that will teach you about how to best survive this holocaust come year 2012; and like any other contentious issues that may come about, people give different kinds of responses to them such as disbelief, skepticism, although there are also others who think it is a scam to fool people into paying for so-called life-saving information.
In addition, while there are still a whole lot of those people who think there is some truth in this issue although will still need a little bit of a pushing or better yet, still need further convincing, there are also several other people in the Netherlands who have learned to concur and believe such phenomenal things and have actually started their preparation for the coming of this phenomenal change. The Netherlands has been slowly submerging actually and the people blame it to the uncontrollably increasing population; while there are also some people who view it as a good thing to bring them a new world and a second chance. This is the basis for thousands of dutch prepare for 2012.