Does anyone believe that the world will come to an end in 2012?

Question

plz explain and give me reasons why agree or disagree with the mayan calender....

Answer 1

I turn 60 in 2012, I d**n well better not end. I can't collect Social Security until 2019, and I'm not going anywhere till I get back all that I paid in!

Answer 2

No i don't believe it. Read this

In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 13th b'ak'tun.

The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.

Significance within the New Age movement

Three figures within the New Age, the artist and theorist José Argüelles, John Major Jenkins, and the late ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna, have publicized theories concerning the significance of the end of the cycle. (They arrived at their conclusions separately from one another.) They have jointly inspired a number of articles and books that this will be the end of this creation, the next pole shift or, as McKenna speculated in his theories, the end of history and events as "novel" as the origin of life on Earth, which we could not possibly imagine. Jenkins has focused on the occurance of a Galactic Alignment in the "era of 2012". Other, more mundane speculations involve a worldwide catastrophe, such as a pole shift. The idea of the significance of the date has also increasingly passed into popular culture.

Refutation

In this age we are approaching the same count again, only there is a common misconception of the Maya's practice of abbreviating their dates to five vigesimal places. According to the Maya there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of the 13th 394 year period, but not the end of the world.

Inscriptions beyond 2012

Maya stelae occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque the following Long Count date was found: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (24 March 603 Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol, or 21 October 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.

Summary

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

"There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."

Answer 3

I do agree that the Earth will end soon but I think it will be a few years later than 2012 (lets all hope I am wrong about this) !

Answer 4

Yes there are people that believe this.  No, I am not one of them.

Every century, for centuries now, people have been interpreting the end of the world, and guess what, it hasn't happened.

There are hundreds of religious mythologies around the globe and nearly all of them account the end of the world - just as they account the beginning.  Personally, I don't take any religious text as being literal, to me it is all metaphor for the unknowable.  (I am curious when the Mayans say the world began!)

The future is uncertain, and people would like to believe there is some certainty in it, whether going to a fortuneteller and finding out if you're going to meet your love, or buying into the end of the world.  Hey if it makes you feel any better...

Here's a fact: We will all end one day - that is the definition of life.

Answer 5

I am another who doesn't believe it, but I speak with some authority.  Like the Mayans, I am a Native American, though of a different tribe.  I can assure you that we, as a people, have absolutely no special insight into the end of the world.  Moreover, I am also a qualified astronomer, and I know perfectly well, as do all astronomers, that there is no, repeat no mysterious planet, alignment, change in polarity or any other happening that is going to damage the Earth in any way, at least, not for several billion years.

Answer 6

Not this puppy.

Answer 7

According to the 2012ers it will be the end of the world because

1. Nostradamus said so

2. The Mayan calender ends

3. there will be a pole shift

4. there will be a planetary alignment

5. there will be a galactic alignment

6. an asteroid will hit earth

7. Planet X/ Nibiru will appear

8. some crystal skull nonsense

and probably some other equally silly reasons.

I would take those doomsayers more serious if they

- had a better track record (just how many times has the world ended already?)

- could make up ONE story about it

Answer 8

i strongly disagree. look, if we are basing the existence of the world based on the mayan calender ending in 2012, then the world might as well end on december 31 2009 because no calenders have been printed for 2010 yet.

unfortunately, there are many people that believe the world is going to end in 2012. there is no scientific proof... no scientific evidence for that matter.

does y2k ring a bell? people were saying the world was going to end at the turn of the century. why? i don't know, i wasn't one of them. but here i am, 8 years later, typing on my keyboard on yahoo answers. and 4 years from now, i will be   doing the exact same thing except this time, the end of the world will probably be in 2022.

the entire idea is rubbish. the entire thought process is just plain sad. people are basing this assumption on a prophecy, not scientific fact.

people have been talking about the end of the world for centuries. its what humans do- they predict their death date. but no one can look into the future. there are no such things as prophecies.

as for Nostradamus, well he was a clever writer... not a psychic. he was able to formulate certain events that could be interpreted any number of ways based on the situation.

don't believe any of this *c**p*.

Answer 9

No it will DEFINATELY NOT end in 2012.

THERE IS A 100% CHANCE that the Earth will never end in 5 trillion years. THIS IS NOT A THEORY, IT IS FACT.