I suppose there are two immediate reasons. First, he states as a fact that nothing will happen in 2012. Second, he slimes Sitchin pretty hard and Nancy Leider. Oddly enough, aside from innuendo and indirect slights, Morrison avoids yowusa.com like the plague. Obviously, we’re one web site he does not want to call attention to. That’s a pity for as they say in Hollywood, “there is no bad publicity.”
Nibiru is a name in Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left very few records dealing with astronomy. Certainly they did not know about the existence of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.
20. Is it possible that the influx of questions you describe is part of some kind of campaign for a book or movie, in the hopes that the volume of denials is taken as more “evidence” that there is a conspiracy?
I ask myself the same questions every day, as the volume of mail I receive about Nibiru (along with various alignments and pole shifts) keeps increasing — now more than 20 per week. Clearly there is money to be made from people’s fear about an approaching doomsday. Some of this hype is apparently advertising for the science fiction disaster movie 2012 (see Question 19). Many websites are selling books and tapes about Nibiru or even “survival kits”. It is all very sad, that with so many real issues (such as global warming and financial collapse) people are being taken in by these lies. In the final chapter of a new astronomy book (The Hunt for Planet X) by Govert Shilling, he writes: “There is plenty to do for the debunkers – the archaeologists and astronomers who take a long and skeptical look at the tidal wave of Nibiru nonsense and explain with scientific precision what is wrong with this cosmic fairy-tale. They will have their work cut out in the next few years. And on December 22, 2012 there will be a new pseudoscientific cock-and-bull story doing the rounds and the whole circus will start all over again. Because no matter how many new celestial bodies are found in our solar system, there will always be a need for a mysterious Planet X.”
16. All my school friends are telling me that we are all going to die in the year 2012 due to a meteor hitting earth. Is this true?
Your friends are wrong. The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website (neo.jpl.nasa.gov), so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
What we do know is that self-appointed know-it-alls like Morrison were saying similar things the day the Titanic sailed, when 2 NASA shuttle crews died of risks dismissed by NASA managers and of course, the supremely omnipotent “we know better” world of 9-10.
Now that we’re in a post 9-11 world, we know things happen and that they always do, so an up front blanket denial like Morrison’s doesn’t pass the smell test for many. His subsequent attacks are in many respects, flat out lies. However, that is not of concern to those looking for a simple answer. The one that frees them from the responsibility of awareness, so they can return to their usual consumer cycle life.
This is Morrison’s audience and his message is carefully crafted to give them an easy way to ignore consciousness. He wants to humiliate people away from the topic before their growing awareness reaches sufficient critical mass so that it pulls the blinders off their heads. Does it work? You betcha and it will continue to do so for whatever time remains between now and the next major catastrophic event.
However, there are a good number of people who though in a minority, already see Morrison’s FAQ for what it is. A contrived way to humiliate people away from the topic with dismissive fabrications, gross assumptions and pack mentality humiliation.
Since the 2012 film came out, which by the way says absolutely nothing about Planet X / Nibiru, Morrison’s attacks have changed the audience demographics for this topic, and for the better. Their ranks are growing and more are digging for answers like never before.
Since we founded yowusa.com in Dec-1999, the primary audience demographic has always been educated males, between the ages of 45-55. They comprised well over half the total audience.
However, since 2012, what we’re now seeing is broadening effect with these demographics. We’re seeing more women interested in the topic and marked increases in the number of visitors between the ages of 13-44.
So where is this all going? For now, we’re in an uncertain time. Many Americans feel uncertain about the future but until an event the size of Katrina hits home, Morrison and his cynical peanut gallery will confuse the discussion during this relative period of quiescence.
For Morrison to say that nothing will happen two years from now was patently foolish as there is only one absolute in the cosmos and that is change. All things can and do change. After the next major event, his credibility will begin to tank.
If there is one thing I have learned in the last decade while researching this topic, just when you think this topic is down and out, it comes back. This is because it resonates with consciousness and to all things, there is a purpose.
Marshall
18. Can you prove to me that Nibiru is a hoax? There are so many reports that something terrible will happen in 2012. I need proof because the government and NASA are keeping so much from us.
It is not logical to ask for proof that the 2012 doomsday is a hoax. Your questions should be to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary levels of evidence if they are to be believed.
Janice
