A question about the doomsday theories and such...?

Question

ok i've heard about the world ending on december 21 2012 for some time now and i decided to look it up on this site to see what everyone was saying.. most people seem to think its nonsense and that the mayans aren't credible and didn't have the technology and what not.. but apparently they were able to predict lunar eclipses or something thousands of years before they occurred? shouldn't the doomsday theory be the same? Especially since this is not nostradamus propaganda either...

Answer 1

The Maya do not predict the end of the world in 2012. It is rather the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. Doomsday has been predicted to happen every other month for the past two thousand years and beyond. It hasn't actually happened yet and the believers are always left standing on a hill somewhere oddly disappointed that they are not dead. It is possible that the world will end one day but it is not likely to be today.

Answer 2

The Mayans DID NOT predict "doomsday" on 21 December 2012.  That is merely the day their "long count" calendar finishes.  Much like 31 December is the day our Gregorian calendar finishes.

If you want proof that the Mayans DIDN'T predict the "end of the world"... there is a stelae (erected by King Pacal), which proclaims that he will "still be remembered" in a year that roughly equates to 21 October 4772.  Obviously, he wasn't worried about the "end of all civilisation as we know it".

21 December 2012 will simply be New Year's day, and we will begin the fifth cycle of the long count.

Answer 3

the mayans were very bright people. They were able to predict eclipses and such without sufficient technology. However, there is nothing to prove that the world will end on that date.

Answer 4

I agree, the Mayan's are very credible when it comes to their calender. However, their calender ends on December 21, 2012; It does not say the world will end on that date. It is possible they just did not finish more of the calender.

Answer 5

Uhmm....people are predicting eclipses now too. They're also predicting weather patterns. It's called almanacs, and it has to do with natural patterns and studying the earth. It's nothing supernatural. However, I'm too tired right now to tell you how foolish it is to believe in doomsday predictions, so honestly, you believe what you want. But it's completely false.