Life ending in 2012?

Question

What do you think about it?

I've only briefly heard a little about it.

My coworker was telling me about how she watched this program on television about life ending in 2012. How all these prophecies predicted the end of civilization in 2012. And how sciensists are predicting the earth will collide with the sun or something to that sort. And how even the all-mighty Bible predicted the end of civilization as a "fiery end".

Do you think these are all coincidences, or that scientists could have simply based their theories on the Bible thus resulting in an ultimate "fiery end"?

What do you think on the subject?

Answer 1

In the Maya calendar, day zero (represented as 0.0.0.0.0) occured on 11th August 3114 BC.  The ending day of that calendar (represented as 13.0.0.0.0) will occur on 21st December 2012.  Most scholars don't see this as an ending but the starting of a new cycle.

I'm kinda hoping that the space aliens come down and take all GOOD people to a nicer planet and leave all the BAD people here.

Answer 2

That's a crock.  People said the same thing about the year 2000.  And probably the year 1000 for that matter.  

Answer 3

No actual credible predictions have been made, especially not by scientists.

This whole mess was started with the Mayan calendar.  They had two of them.  The first one was similar to the modern calendar, predicting a yearly cycle.  The second one calculated out 5000 years (imagine printing out calendars up until the year 7008 and stapling them together, carving them onto stone, etc).  It's in 2012 that the long-cycle calendar will end, but the Mayans made no predictions of doomsday, it was simply the end of their calendar!  The people getting up in arms about this whole thing are, in effect, looking at the calendar on their fridge and saying "Oh no!  My calendar doesn't show anything after December 31, 2008, that must mean the world will end!"

These sort of doomsday predictions come about every few years.  The "experts" (i.e. people with no real qualifications that a) pretend to be scientists and b) get the news shows to listen to them) were convinced that a rogue planet (i.e. Nibiru) was going to destroy earth in 2003.  Since that obviously didn't happen, they've simply readjusted their predictions to fit the latest doomsday fad.

Answer 4

no a lot of people think that. they think that because the mayans calender ended in 2012 but it didn't signify the end but a new begining. for example when your 2008 calender ends what do you do? you get the 2009 a lot of people misunderstood this. dont listen to any of the bs that people say. i bet you like 100 bucks after 2012 there going to say omg world is going yo end in 2022 thats how its been going on its all about making money. Dont worry about 2012. worlds not ganna end for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOng time. and if you anything about a planet called niburi or somthing dont listen its bull. scientits even proved it.

Answer 5

they are all bonkers the world will end at 00.00.01 on the night of new years day the 1/1/09

sorry i am a scientist

so live your life

spend everyday like its ur last

Answer 6

I believe everything on TV too

Answer 7

I'll let you know in 2013.

Answer 8

I bet you $1000 that nothing catastrophic will happen 12/21/12. Prophecies are dumb and wrong always. Scientists did not invent this nonsense, so do not blame them for it. Scientists will tell you this whole idea is nonsense. They base nothing upon the Bible, the Quran, the book of Mormon, the Sutras, etc. It started with some wild guesses about the Mayan calendar, and someone added c**p to that. TV shows are notoriously unreliable. Check on it for yourself.  

Answer 9

hey im going to graduate in 2012!!!

no i dont know that and i've never heard of it!!!

maybe u should research iyt or something..

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Answer 10

just say no, and it won't.

Answer 11

<<My coworker was telling me about how she watched this program on television about life ending in 2012.>>

I've seen the Swiss spaghetti harvest on tv.  That doesn't mean there is one.  The programme explained that this stuff grows on trees in Switzerland.

<<Do you think these are all coincidences, or that scientists could have simply based their theories on the Bible thus resulting in an ultimate "fiery end"?>>

Name a single scientist who's predicting the end of life in 2012.

Answer 12

Well i did watch a documentary about the same exact thing. it was on line and one of my friends works in a cd store so as i went to say hi to him he wanted me to see it. it was showing the climate changes, the storms,fires and a bunch of stuff that is actually going on right now . scary huh. a little heads up we really don't know when the world is going to end there is a lot of predicting going on .  

Answer 13

Never heard of any theories like that. You may want to do your own research before you start asking silly questions. Sounds like some Nostradamus type stuff to me