Maya 2012 end of the world?

Question

Maya 2012 end of the world?

Answer 1

well time is ment to stop and we will all become part of evrything else the next stage in life but no one really knows?

Answer 2

no.

i could make a piece of paper numbered to 2100. and call it a calendar that doesent mean the world is going to end in 2100 just because i got tired of writing.

Answer 3

well thats what they say...

Answer 4

Not necessarily the end of  the world but of this age of existence....consciousness.....awareness... a far greater level of enlightenment.

Answer 5

Y2K end of the world? No.

80's end of the world? No.

Nostradamus end of the world? No.

Why would this be any different? Also, the mayans didn't predict the end of the world; this is simply the end of this calendar cycle!

Answer 6

maybe..we just have to wait & see

Answer 7

The Mayans never predicted the world would end in 2012, that's just the end of the long count of their calendar.  The end of the thirteenth long count, I believe, and the world didn't end the last twelve times.

Answer 8

http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_r...

Answer 9

Which calendar are you using? It's 5700 something in the Jewish one. There's also a 7 year math error in our calender, so it's really 2014.

The Mayan calendar supposedly stops at "Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era. "

One problem is calculating this date to our calendar. An excerpt from some discussion runs: "in which the Venus Round is cut short after 61 Venus cycles to locate a new 1 Ahau Sacred Day of Venus near an actual Venus morningstar appearance, is probably only one of many conceived by the Maya...potent Venus Round of 37,960 days...dichotomy between Lounsbury's work and Thompson's, ... correlation question...Thompson correlation of 1930 (corr# 584285), while Thompson himself revised it 2 days in 1950 (corr# 584283).

http://www.alignment2012.com/fap9.html

So what will happen on this date (or has already happened, or may happen some indefinite time before or afterwards?)

"Lawrence Joseph forecasts widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End. Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a "true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine" in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a "change in the nature of consciousness," assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/200...

What so others say?

"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 in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 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."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/200...

"The Straight Dope" simply says: "will that be it – the end of everything? There's no reason to think so, or to think the Mayans thought so. Just picture a very large and complex odometer flipping over to a long line of zeros and continuing on from there."

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmay...

As for disasters, a review of the last 40 years has these books and events predicting disaster:

1968 "Population Bomb". Too many people in the 1980s and starvation.

"Famine 1975" In that year we run out of food

"Greening of America" We all become hippies eating un-homogenized peanut butter.

"Future Shock" We'll have too many choices. (The concept of multi-tasking wasn't known)

the 1970s had a concern of a "new ice age": we should increase the greenhouse effect

"Jupiter Effect": the planets will line up and the earth will do something.

"Y2K": Points given for those that can explain "why" it was a concern.

Millennium: Supposedly it was to be the end of the world. The question was"Is it 2000 or 2001?"

If you get the impression, there's a lot of disaster predictions and they sell books, you're right.

During the 1800s there were a number of movements that predicted the end of the world. People gave away everything they owned and gathered to await the end. A couple of days later, they started trying to get their stuff back.