2012? help??????

Question

Why do people think that the world will end on the day of December 21,2012?????????????????

Answer 1

A long cycle of the Mayan calendar ends. A new one starts. It is no more, no less.

Answer 2

b/c that's when the mayan calendar ends and many the psychics have predicted it as well- also it has something to do with the fact that the earth is going to complete it's full wobble on its axis that day or something

Answer 3

It is more dangerously exciting to believe the world will end on a specific day than it is to think "Yawn. Just another winter solstice (or summer solstice depending on where you live)"

People forget there have been hundreds of end-of-the-world prophesies and not one has come true yet.

Answer 4

because the ancient mayan indians in mexico predicted it would.

Answer 5

it's just talk

nothing's going to happen, and everyone says it's not going to happen because in the bible it says the world will end when we all least expect it, if you believe in that stuff

Answer 6

idk, but thats scary!

Answer 7

Because thats when the mayans last recorded day is and they made the calendar

Answer 8

maybe they are scared of the number 2

Answer 9

Because they are stupid and believe any sensationalist prediction they hear.

Answer 10

lol

Answer 11

eh. wat ever happens, happens..

Answer 12

because you must of heard about the mayans aztec or incas that made a prediction that the world will end in 2012 december 21 i heard it also when i was in 7 grade i am still curious

Answer 13

it all started back i the Mayan times. they did complex math/astrological things, and they started believing this. certain Mayan peoples still believe this today. I'm not sure if it's true... but Who knows. They could have forespeld global warming... who knows. Or our extinction.

Answer 14

People think ridiculous, no-one knws wen the world will end because we dn't knw da future we don't knw wat will happen next...and we r nt gd to decide...

Answer 15

I think it will end earlier than that... but i'm still planning for 01/01/13

Answer 16

i dont know, i know its not true but it still freaks me out.............................(how did the world even bacome to exsist????)

Answer 17

its a long story

its the day the advanced culture's calender runs out

fun fun

and not the end

the beginning of the end

Answer 18

Do not worry.  Do not be scared.  I assure you that the world will not end on 2012 December 21 but it will end one day.  Nostradamus’ prediction of when the earth will end is far into the future, past about 3700.  He still has many prophecies that are not fulfilled yet.  Remember that if there is a beginning, there is an end.  

The Mayan’s Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by Jose Arguelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 2012 December 21 (Wikipedia).  It will be the end of a Mayan calendar cycle to start a new cycle.

In the book of Revelation, it tells us about a period of a thousand years of peace. Has this occurred already since the time of Jesus? Not yet. That will still come. Those that give predictions of the world’s end, such as 2012 and numerous times during the past, are pseudo-preachers. Have they talked to God directly? If so, give proofs.

But there is something that is certain—and that is our physical death. This is what we should prepare for. It may come when least expected. We do not know the day and the hour. It will come like a thief in the night. So we just have to be prepared all the time. Search for the true God and when we find Him, follow His commandments and remain in Him until our last dying breath.

This is all that we have to do. It is faith in the true God that we can take with us when we depart from this world. If we denied Him, He will deny us also before the Father in Heaven and send us to h**l. This is very scary – to live in h**l forever.  If we knew Him and loved Him and followed His commandments, then He may reward us to live with Him eternally in His kingdom in Heaven. This is the survival kit that we should have.

What is also certain to happen very soon (in about 2012 or earlier) is World War III and this is a nuclear war.  This “calamitous war” (as Nostradamus called it) will start from the Philippines, at Spratly Islands in particular.  The Spratly Islands lie on the southeast part of the South China Sea mostly near the coast of the Philippines.  The Holy Spirit told us that the Philippines is the wick of a gas lamp.  Once the wick is lit, it will be on and aglow.  He told us about this prophecy about two decades ago.  He said that the troubles in the Philippines will spread to the whole world until mankind is almost annihilated and a few will remain.  Spratly Islands is being claimed wholly by China, Taiwan and Vietnam; and partly by Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines,  It is considered a tinderbox, a flash point.  It is very rich in oil and gas resources, more than the reserve of Kuwait.  The high price of oil may trigger the grabbing of these islands and start the war.

Four independent prophecies point to the certainty that this will happen.  These are Nostradamus’ prophecies to happen around this time (quatrains 6:24 and 2:62) , the 56th Chinese prophecy of Tuey Bei Tu (the past 55 prophecies have already been fulfilled) found at http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1... Revelation 9:18 of the Holy Bible, and those that the Holy Spirit revealed to us.  If you are interested in the details about these prophecies, please send me your request via email.

After the calamitous war, then we will have a new age and peace for a long time.  The population would have been reduced by a third and there will be much arable land that will be available.  People will be living in proper cities.

Isaiah 35:4 (KJV) states: “Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.”

Answer 19

I HOPE IT DOESN'T BECAUSE THAT IS MY BIRTHDAY.. AND THATS THE YEAR I WOULD GRADUATE IN HIGH SCHOOL.. IN MY OPINION I DON'T THINK SO.. ITS WHEN GOD WANTS IT TOO END.. OR WHEN JESUS COMES BACK.. BUT I DONT BELIEVE IT WILL ON MY BIRTHDAY.

Answer 20

This is a fake rumor made up by fundies and it's borderline abuse to scare children like this. Most institutions try to control people through fear whether its government with constant terrorism alerts or churches with the threat of eternal damnation.

The world will not end on December 21, 2012 because

a) planet X doesn't exsit and won't hit the Earth

b) Alpha Particles (from the sun) won't destroy Earth even if it hits the Magnetic field. Some could be hitting us right now as you read this and you're fine

c) Each time the end of the world is predicted they are always wrong. You'll never find find

d) No reason to believe Earth's magnetic poles will flip, it can't happen in one day. That process takes 1000's of years.

e) Earth will not go out of orbit because if it did it would take lots of masses of force to move it. Not many forces could do that.

f) The Mayan Calendar is ending in 2012, because the Mayans didn't see a point in going further into the future. They might of got bored with it.

Here are all the predictions of when the world would end and each time they where wrong: Before 2012 it was 2000. Then 1990. And 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1982, 1980, 1975, 1974, 1970, 1967, 1960, 1957, 1953, 1948, 1940, 1936, 1919, 1915, 1914, 1891, 1856, 1850, 1844, 1832, 1830, 1794, 1792, 1736, 1689, 1669, 1533, 1524, 1496, 1346, 1284, 1205, 1033, 1005, 1000, 992, 968, 500, 375, 365, 200, 90, 60, 30.

Don't worry about this 2012 stuff. You'll be fine, just live your live and achieve your goals and be happy. Theres no point in worrying about something that you can't control.

Answer 21

because of the mayan calender

The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to

resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT.

The Tzolkin is a 260-day calendar based around the period of human gestation. It is composed of 20 day-signs, each of which has 13 variations, and was (and still is) used to determine character traits and time harmonics, in a similar way to Western astrology. The Maya also used a 365-day calendar called the Haab, and a Venus calendar, plus others. They measured long time periods by means of a Long Count, in which one 360-day year  (a "Tun"), consists of 18 x 20-day "months" ("Uinals"). Twenty of these Tuns is a Katun; 20 Katuns is a Baktun (nearly 400 years); and 13 Baktuns adds up to a "Great Cycle" of 1,872,000 days, ( 5200 Tuns, or about 5125 years).

Mayan scholars have been attempting to correlate the Long Count with our Western Gregorian calendar, since the beginning of this century. There has been massive variation in the suggested correlations, but as early as 1905, Goodman suggested a correlation only 3 days from the most popular one today. Known as the GMT correlation, or "correlation # 584283", this was finalized in 1950, and puts the start of the Great Cycle    ( day 0.0.0.0.0)  on 11th August 3114 BC, and the end-date (known as 13.0.0.0.0.) as 21st December 2012.

Jose Arguelles has pointed out that  the Tzolkin is a harmonic of the Great Cycle, and can be used to map history, as if it is measuring not individual gestation but species gestation, since 5 Great Cycles add to exactly 26,000 Tuns; the "Grand Year" or precession of the equinoxes - a higher harmonic of 260.

NOTE:  The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.

See:  Mayan Database

Sunspot Cycles; Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell, in their book the Mayan Prophecies, say that the end of the Great Cycle is the culmination of a series of long-term sunspot cycles which will flip the sun’s magnetic field, causing earthquakes and flooding on earth. Moreover, the changing magnetic field will alter the endocrine production of  the pineal gland. John Major Jenkins has pointed out that the detailed graphs of the cycles do not actually show significant termination points at the end of the Great Cycle; click here for Jenkins' full unabridged review of  The Mayan Prophecies.

According to John Major Jenkins, it will take 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator.  The Galactic Alignment "zone" is

1998 +/- 18 years = 1980 to 2016. This is "era 2012"

[So why are we worried?]

2007 = 2012 - proof?



Generally speaking, scientifically accepted records of sunspot activity do seem to be heading for a climax in the near future.

From: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/

Note: Real science is predicting the next/current sun cycle to be the worst in 50 years. The first two sunspot's of 2006 are moving in reverse direction.

August 15, 2006: On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward.

"We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning."

Right: The tiny, backward sunspot of July 31, 2006. Credit: SOHO. [Larger image]

"Backward" means magnetically backward. Hathaway explains:

Sunspots are planet-sized magnets created by the sun's inner magnetic dynamo. Like all magnets in the Universe, sunspots have north (N) and south (S) magnetic poles. The sunspot of July 31st popped up at solar longitude 65o W, latitude 13o S. Sunspots in that area are normally oriented N-S. The newcomer, however, was S-N, opposite the norm.

This tiny spot of backwardness matters because of what it might foretell: A really big solar cycle.

Solar activity rises and falls in 11-year cycles, swinging back and forth between times of quiet and storminess. Right now the sun is quiet. "We're near the end of Solar Cycle 23, which peaked way back in 2001," explains Hathaway. The next cycle, Solar Cycle 24, should begin "any time now," returning the sun to a stormy state.

Satellite operators and NASA mission planners are bracing for this next solar cycle because it is expected to be exceptionally stormy, perhaps the stormiest in decades. Sunspots and solar flares will return in abundance, producing bright auroras on Earth and dangerous proton storms in space: full story.

But when will Solar Cycle 24 begin?

"Maybe it already did--on July 31st," says Hathaway. The first spot of a new solar cycle is always backwards. Solar physicists have long known that sunspot magnetic fields reverse polarity from cycle to cycle. N-S becomes S-N and vice versa. "The backward sunspot may be the first sunspot of Cycle 24."

It sounds exciting, but Hathaway is cautious on several fronts:

First, the sunspot lasted only three hours. Typically, sunspots last days, weeks or even months. Three hours is fleeting in the extreme. "It came and went so fast, it was not given an official sunspot number," says Hathaway. The astronomers who number sunspots didn't think it worthy!

Second, the latitude of the spot is suspicious. New-cycle sunspots almost always pop up at mid-latitudes, around 30o N or 30o S. The backward sunspot popped up at 13o S. "That's strange."

These odd-isms stop Hathaway short of declaring the onset of a new solar cycle. "But it looks promising," he says.

Even if Cycle 24 has truly begun, "don't expect any great storms right away." Solar cycles last 11 years and take time to build up to fever pitch. For a while, perhaps one or two years, Cycle 23 and Cycle 24 will actually share the sun, making it a hodgepodge of backward and forward spots. Eventually, Cycle 24 will take over completely; then the fireworks will really begin.

Answer 22

Many people don't necessarily believe that the world will end. Some people, like Daniel Pinchbeck, believe that there may be a major shift in consciousness or in the quality of our day-to-day  life. Therefore, 2012 can be a positive "transformation" that will rescue man from the coming environmental apocalypse. If the transformation doesn't come, then these same people believe that things are going to go totally down the tubes.

Here's an interesting quote from Pinchbeck, though:

"My view is that "2012" is useful as a meme if it helps us to catalyze a shift in global culture and consciousness. Rather than fretting about what may or may not happen on that date, we should concentrate on the work that needs to be done now, on an inner as well as outer level."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7NOOBaZB...

http://www.realitysandwich.com/toward_20...

"# December 21 — Winter Solstice at 11:11 UTC.

# December 21 — The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283). The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date.

It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next."

There are some Hindus that also think that we are living in Kali Yuga, the Age of Kali, in which man less moral and this lack of morality reaches a critical mass, at which time we enter a new age and morality is renewed. According to some Hindus, a time of transformation is also coming. There are at least some sources that say that the Mayan and Hindu calendars are very similar and point to similar things.

http://hinduism.about.com/od/basics/a/go...

[QUOTING]

"PREDICTIONS FOR 2012

Interestingly enough, for all the talk about 2012, it is quite difficult to find a simple listing of all the prophecies.  Most of what you find on the Internet is vague–generalizations of mass destruction or a transformation into a new age.

It appears open to interpretation as to whether 2012 will bring total destruction or a transformation of our world.  So, below are prophecies (not necessarily Mayan) for 2012:

1. There have been three or four previous races and ages of humanity (depending upon the source you read).  All of these have been destroyed in major cataclysms.  December 21.2012 marks the end of this age and it will end in major catastrophes such as Earthquakes.  (see commentary on this statement below)

2. For half of the katun (20 year Mayan cycle) there will be food, for half some misfortunes. This katun brings the end of the "word of God." It is a time of uniting for a cause.

3. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war and ongoing Earth changes.

4.  The Earth will undergo a magnetic field shift, reversing the polarity of the planet.

5.  An asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.

For now, this is all that I am listing as I come across so many vague statements I do not feel comfortable listing them for others to read.  As I continue with my research, I will add to this list when appropriate,  If anyone would like to offer me sound information, please email [e-mail].  Please include the source of your information so I can validate.

Commentary from the author:

Prophecy #1.  Some people contend that this prophecy is erroneous as the last Mayan cycle of 5,125 years did not bring about world-wide destruction.  Humans existed in 3,000 BC and previous to that.  However, the 5,125 year cycle is part of a greater cycle consisting of approximately 26,000 years.  This longer cycle ends on December 21, 2012 as well so perhaps it is this cycle that brings about destruction?  Another possibility is that each cycle marks an era of great change or human innovation, not destruction."

Many Christians believe that we live in "the End Times" but wouldn't necessarily trust a pagan calendar to give that particular date.

I go with Pinchbeck. Rather than worrying about what may or may not happen on that date, we should live our lives with full awareness that what we do impacts our fellow man and the Earth.

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Answer 23

the actuall day is the 23rd, people belive that this is the day that the world will end because the mayan calender ends on december 23 2012, but in other theorys, people belive that 2012 is when the as WE know it shall end, as in that all the cults and critisism racism, will all end ie. judgement day

Answer 24

That is when the mayan calendar ends ans they were a high tech civilization with an acurate calendar.

Answer 25

i don't

Answer 26

It is actually 12/12/12 (December 12th not 21st)

Well I was watching this show about the Bible Code and it predicted the world will end 12/12/12 and also that a horrible earthquake will happen in California in 2009.

SO, if the earthquake prediction comes true, I will definitly believe the the world will end in 2012!