Question:
is the world really going to end in 2012?
ocvicious
2008-11-24 02:18:20 UTC
1. the Mayas or Aztec just did their calendar to the year 2012. and its been proven that.. that's the close any one has come to creating a calendar to the exact point..
Nineteen answers:
imacatholic2
2008-11-24 22:56:13 UTC
Probably not.



One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world.



Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.



"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come." (Mark 13:32-33)



Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.



The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.



The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus' advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.



Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.



For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0993.asp



With love in Christ.
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:40:41 UTC
It is actually proved that the Maya did not end their calendar in 2012. There are inscriptions in Maya buildings declaring for example, that a Maya king will still be worshipped in the year 4000 AD.



The theory of the end of the Maya calendar is very weak and based on a very flawed logic. The Maya date consists of 5 numbers. The first, third and forth number are known to be counting from 1 to 19. The second is known to be counting only to 17, so that the first three numbers describe one solar year.



Now, somebody took a strong dose of his favorite drugs and said: The fifth number ends at 12. The calendar will end end the world will undergo a cataclysm, so it can be completely rebuild. More is not behind it. Only a drugged idea, from a leader of the New Age movement. Supported by three other leaders from New Age, but with different predictions what will happen that day.



In reality, there is no reason to not assume that the last number will also count to 19. And even no reason not to assume that the calendar allows adding a new digit to it, extending it to six. It is just a bit hard to ask a Maya, because they become extinct right in the middle of the 10th Baktun - the 11th and 12th started without them.
anonymous
2008-11-24 11:39:31 UTC
21 December 2012



We hear each day "two oh one two"

The kids all ask if it is true.

"Nibiru, the planet we must fear,

Or planet X shall soon be here.

The Mayan count runs to an end.

I was told this by a friend.”



Nibiru the hoax world of Sitchin

Fit only for the garbage bin.

Devoid of fact, reason or wit,

Science laughs at all the talk of it.



Of planet “X” Nan Lieder cries,

And yet she won't look at the skies,

To come in four short years it's true,

The damn thing must be now in view!



"Where is it?" Science asks with glee,

"You said, 'Beware two thousand three!'

With Earth it didn't make a tryst,

We're very sure it don't exist!"



Galactic lines are the next fright,

And yet the angles are not right.

“Six degrees off!” the scientists say,

“It happens near each solstice day.”

But it would no difference make,

You can be sure the thing’s a fake.



"Planets align!" or so some say

"It will be on that very day."

Yet naught of fact now can they quote,

I'd like to take them by the throat

And try to squeeze some truth right in,

But murder now they say's a sin.



Failed prophets, fools, those full of fraud,

Are people with whom we all are bored.



Copyright to me, and subject to “improvement” as

and when the inspiration strikes.



Ken E



One Mayan day count clicks over in 2012, it is not certain on exactly what date. Since one Mayan king predicted they would be celebrating his anniversary in the 43 century, (modest, wasn't he?) it looks as if the Mayans did not expect anything big in 2012.



Remind me why the Mayan time keeping system is more important than the Mongolian, the Muslim, the Kashmiri or the Jewish.



Did some woo-woo called Jose Arguelles make some prophecy attached to it, while neglecting all the other calendars still in use or once used? Could that be it?



Could it be because things didn't grind to a halt on 31 December 1999 they had to find some other calendar that clicks over soon so as to keep selling worthless survival guides and useless and unsold survival gear?
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:37:06 UTC
According to the 2012ers it will be the end of the world because

1. Nostradamus said so

2. The Mayan calender ends

3. an Ouija Board said so

4. there will be a pole shift

5. there will be a planetary alignment

6. there will be a galactic alignment

7. an asteroid will hit earth

8. Planet X/ Nibiru will appear

9. some crystal skull nonsense

10. we are heading into a photon belt (whatever that’s supposed to be

11. Indian Astronomer said so

12. The Sun will blow up

13. some Volcano or Earthquake

14. a Black Hole will come along

15. the experiments in CERN’s LHC

16. the Aztecs said so (2012ers aren’t really good at making a difference between them and the Mayans)

17. the arabians said every 60,000 years something bad will happen

18. the swedish scientist that are trying to recreate the big bang (2012ers don’t know the difference between Swedes and Swiss either)

and probably some other equally silly reasons.



Makes one wonder why they can’t come up with ONE story, and check some basic facts?

And how often was the world supposed to end already (check www.abhota.info)? The record of the doomsayers isn’t really convincing., isn’t it?
Elizabeth H
2008-11-24 10:22:56 UTC
The possibility that we might be hit by an asteroid is not relevant to whether or not Nibiru exists. I do a lot of work on the asteroid impact danger, as you can see on my website . I also can't promise that you will live through December 2012; you might be hit by a truck. But I can say with confidence that Nibiru doesn't exist. Remember what Nibiru is said to be: a planet (or brown dwarf) with a 3600 year period, known to the ancient Sumerians, that will pass between the Earth and the Sun in 2012 and is already easily seen from the South Pole. That is flat-out false. If there were such an object, astronomers would know about it and have been tracking it for years. Thus "Nibiru" is a lie, independent of other things that might happen like a hit by an asteroid (or a truck).





David Morrison

NAI Senior Scientist
JayDax
2008-11-24 12:48:27 UTC
More precisely it will end (according to the Mayan calendar) at 6:00 am Dec 22nd GMT. (the Mayans were 6 hours behind GMT and Dec 21st is the last day of their calendar).



But then it was supposed to end in 1000AD and lots of other dates including most of the years since 1950.



Why would the Mayans be better informed? My calendar's last date is Jan 4th 2009 but that doesn't mean there won't be a Jan 5th.
Erica s
2008-11-24 11:13:33 UTC
It might for you, if you are careless and walk in front of a truck. In general terms, no it won't. The ending of a calendar is meaningless as a prophecy. Our calendar ends every December 30, but the world hasn't ended yet!
benNY r
2008-11-24 10:24:09 UTC
Yes it will end in 2012, so head for the hills of west virginia like the rest of you morons and idiots. If the world is going to end there is nothing we can do about it.
SX
2008-11-24 13:28:28 UTC
i have made a calendar which ends in 2008

so according to my calendar world will end this year
Michael B
2008-11-24 10:21:50 UTC
I doubt very much the world will end but I can tell you the day before should be very interesting
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:29:00 UTC
Yes, this world is going to end. Just like the time when the world was going to end because of that 'black hole'.
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2008-11-24 13:22:43 UTC
didnt they say the same thing bout Y2K ? ...

nothing happened i dont think anything is going to happenlife is jus gonna keep going ... until we get a sudden stop from a asteroid or something
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:22:51 UTC
did it end in 2000? or the other thirteen billion times people have made false accusations that the earth was going to end? No i doubt it.
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:35:01 UTC
Just in case it does i'm gonna indulge in hookers and cocaine on credit the night before.
anonymous
2008-11-24 10:21:05 UTC
yeah but no one follows the damn Mayan calendar anymore.
anonymous
2008-11-24 11:17:44 UTC
lol



you know, like a thousand ppl ask this everyday - why not save yourself a few points and look at other answers god damnit!!!
ericbryce2
2008-11-24 10:29:02 UTC
Congratulations ,that question has now been asked 5897 times.
Gangbanger
2008-11-24 10:21:09 UTC
yes...plz kill urself now and save the agaony
elliott s
2008-11-24 10:21:26 UTC
it was the mayans



and yes it will, i read it on the internet


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