Is it True About The Mayans?

Question

That The World Will End on June 6th, 2012

Answer 1

I don't think its true, but you never know.

Answer 2

Yes, it is true. But it is not 2012 AD. It is 2012 Mayan era

Answer 3

No, not the world, the Mayan Calendar will end on December 21st (Winter Solstice), 2012...

Then like we do around Christmastime, the Mayans will have to go to a Mayan Grocery Store, and buy a new calendar for the coming year!

Answer 4

Was this rubbish on TV recently? This question has been popping up a lot lately. No it is not true. The Maya calendar is amazing, and 2012 means absolutely nothing for our society. Maya civilization, known for forms of writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Mesoamerica. The 2012 bit was for their society. First, the Maya calendar does not "end" at 2012 - the Long Count calendar was constructed to track a little more than 5,000 years, then reset at year zero, and thus marks the end of a specific era. Sort of like a car odometer resets to zero - your car does not explode at 100,000 miles.

Answer 5

No.  That's just more superstition, although some Mayan might have predicted  that.  Be careful believing what is claimed, even by "experts," about ancient cultures.  A lot of it is speculated on very flimsy evidence.  Anthropology, and even paleontology and archeology, are not hard sciences.  There's a lot of guess work.

People from many cultures have predicted an "end time."  That includes Jews and Christians.  I'm not sure about Muslims, but I suspect they have also.

Answer 6

No, it's not true.

This prediction has been brought to us by a man called Jose Arguelles.  Some of you might remember him as the mind behind the "Harmonic Convergence."  In August 1987, when the planets were "aligned," Aguelles and others including Shirley Maclaine claimed that a new era of peace and justice and enlightenment would be ushered in.  Jose Arguelles trained as an art historian at the University of Chicago.  Also, his interpretation of the calendar doesn't match that of Maya scholars.

In any case, the calendar doesn't really end in 2012.  The Mayan inscriptions include 5 different counts.  In our calendar, this would be like saying Sunday, 3rd day, 8th month, 1st decade, 21st century.  The inscriptions just included five counts like this and added another (like "Second Millennium").  I'm not planning to worry about this any time soon.

Here are some sites about end-of-the-world predictions.

http://www.armageddononline.org/failed_a...

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/oracle/9...

Answer 7

The line from "Men in Black" comes to mind: "There's always an Arcturian battle cruiser or death ray about to end life on this planet..."

Which means there's always an impending catastrophe about to end things for us.

The Mayan calender goes to 21 Dec 20012. That's the end of one of their "Long Counts." While there's vagues predictions for the ends of all the long and short count cycles, there's NOTHING that says the world is going to end or everything stops. NOTHING.

Those harping on this non-event project their hopes and fears into the date. Many are New Age types that see peace, love and happiness while more are of the "Doom Boom and Gloom" school. Many of them have books, articles and websites. Yes, and there's lots  "I read it on the Internet so it must be true."

Mayan scholars (ie degrees, done the hard work and know what they are talking about) view this as hysterical bunk.

My prediction: One 22 Dec 20012 we'll still be here, nothing momentous will have happened and all the doom sayers will be off on another impending disaster.

Remember Y2K? Didn't happen. Going back I recall the "Population Bomb" where by 2000 there would be so many people we'd be at standing room only. "Famine 1975"when we'd run out of food, the "Jupiter Effect" when the planets would line up. Theses were all best selling books that claimed the same thing as those that deal with 2012. Something awful was about to happen.All the authors had invested a great deal of time in writing the books. They also made a great deal of money from lectures, royalties and such. Looking back, I've never found any of these people that later wrote: "Whoops I was way wrong."

Research the previous posts on this topic. It's been asked many times (two days ago) and there's lots of information; as well as balderdash.