Ebbie, I wasn't suggesting that the world would turn "end for end". I was not suggesting a complete 180 degree reversal. What I was suggesting (merely a hypothesis that I've done some reading about...not saying I'm certain about it happening)...is that the planet may do a partial shift to a new position on its axis, and that this may occur at fairly regular intervals of between 20,000 and 25,000 years.

Such a shift would cause perhaps a 20 or 30 or 40 degree shift in the position of the planet relative to the axis of rotation. So, for example, the north pole could shift north to the center of Siberia, for example...or southeast to central Ontaro, for example...or in some other direction.

There appears to presently be a gradual drift occuring that is moving us (North America) in a SSE direction, which means that the North Pole is drifting NNW toward central Russia.

If such a shift were gradual...say over a period of a few years...it would certainly cause radical changes in weather patterns, melting of ice caps, extensive fooding, and it would probably cause much geological instability, confusion in animal migratory patterns, earthquakes, etc.

If such a shift were sudden (a few days or even less time than that) it would cause absolutely massive devastation on the planet.

I am not predicting this. I'm merely discussing a theory that I've read quite a bit about lately. I don't know if that theory is correct. For me to say categorically that it is would be a statement of pure faith...since I don't know for sure.

For someone else to say categorically that it ISN'T would also be a statement of pure faith! They also don't know for sure.

Such statements of pure faith come up from numerous conventional-minded people any time one mentions anything unusual to them, and I find that amusing, because I wonder how on Earth people can be that sure of something they have no way of actually knowing to any point of certainty.

Yes, magnetic pole reversals have happened many times in the past. It would be interesting to know why. Significant physical shifts in the axis of rotation may also have happened at certain times in the past. If so, it would be interesting to know why.

The Mayan prediction may have to do with the ending of a great geological age, relating to pole shift. Or it may not. I can't say, because I don't know. And I have no way of knowing for certain. Nor does anyone else here.