Did the Mayans really predict the world would end in the year 2012?

Question

im kinda scared lol...

Answer 1

Not really.

Ever since the 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenario did not pan out, the scare mongers 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 everthing 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/Newslett...

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Mayans never made such a prediction.

Doomsdayers (specifically Jose Arguelles) have made this prediction based on the Mayan calendar.

There is a Mayan stelae that bears the inscription to the effect that "(king) Pacal (The Great) will still be remembered and celebrated" at a date that roughly translates to 2000 years from now in the Gregorian calendar.  Hardly supports the notion that the world's coming to an end in 2012.

Answer 3

don't worry people thought the world was going to end on 6/6/06 too. and also sometime like 2 years ago in april because they said that was really Jesus' birthday or some c**p and ALSO y2k...so people just get paranoid and start rumors to freak people out. i doubt the world will end so soon. maybe in like 350 years but we will be dead so i dunno

Answer 4

The ancient Mayans kept three calendars. One of them was used to measure very long periods of time and they called this the "Long Count" calendar.

Our calendars use a series of 3 numbers that increment to keep track of the date, so for example 08.25.2008. The Mayan long count calendar uses a series of 5 numbers. The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was 0.0.0.0.0 which corresponds to August 11, 3114 BC by our calendar. Every 144,000 days, which they called a baktun, the first number would increment, and a new baktun would start.

Remember how exciting it was, at the turn of the millennium, to see our calendars go from 12/12/1999 to 1/1/2000? That's exactly whats going to happen to the Mayan calendar on December 12, 2012. Its going to change from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0, just as it has done the previous 12 baktuns.

There is no evidence that the Mayans expected anything special to happen on this day, except for another new years celebration. And there is absolutely no evidence of any astronomic or geologic event that's supposed to take place on that day.

Still, conspiracy theorists have managed to interpret this as meaning the world is going to end. Throughout history, the end of the world has been predicted countless times. Those days have all come and gone without incident. I suspect that December 12, 2012 will come and go, just like any other day, and nothing will happen.

Answer 5

No - this is just when their current calendar cycle ends.

This IS, however, when "The Colonists" return after leaving earth during the last ice age.  The will use human hosts to reconstitute themselves in human hosts using a black viral oil that they have left here on earth, which also forms their blood.

Answer 6

See the detailed article by astronomer David Morrison in the current issue of Skeptical Inquirer.

Answer 7

That is only one theory of many.