What? World coming to an end in 2012??? Has anyone heard of this???

Question

Why is everyone saying it is the end of the world in 2012???? I'm confused here?!! It is to my understanding that I have read Scientists and NASA are claiming a solar storm in 2011-2012. A solor storm that won't do much harm but more than likely disrupt telecommunications because of sunspots forming again with-in their 40 year mark formation period. This is the first time I have heard the world coming to an end in year 2012. Meh???? It can't be possible because I don't want it to. Anyone else heard of this???

Answer 1

Haha, you have not heard of this?  It's only been asked about on YA 7,392 times!  (http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_r...

I have heard the most ridiculus predictions about Dec 21, 2012.  Here are a few.

-An asteroid or comet will collide with Earth.

-The magnetic poles will reverse, causing havoc

-Earth's rotation will reverse

-All the planets will align and the solar system will align with the center of the milky way

-The apocalypse will occur (or WW3, along with a nuclear winter)

--Earthquakes, tsunamis, and every other natural disaster conceivable

-The sun will hit an amazingly powerful solar maximum, and we will be hit by deadly amounts of charged plasma, solar wind, gamma rays, and whatever else.

-And my two favorite, and the two least possible scenarios:

1) It will mark the start of a new age, an age of a global awakening to the psychic realm, and all the world will live in peace and harmony with nature (there are several versions of this, I kind of combined them.  Basically it's a hippie's wet dream)

2) The planet Nibiru (also known as Planet X) will either A) crash into the earth, or b) come close enough to earth that the Anunaki, the ancient reptilian race who created humans 36,000 years ago, can come back and enslave us all (we were created to be their slaves, but we revolted)

Honestly, with how much that last scenario makes me think of the OT3 story, I'm surprised Scientology hasn't tried to cash in on this, too.

I've also heard that the end was predicted on this date by the ancient Mayans, the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Bible, Nostradaumus, Edgar Kayce, Miss Cleo, etc etc.

Of course, none of this is true.  This whole mess started with a misinterpretation of Mayan prophecy and the Long Count Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica...

In short, (according to Mayan mythology) this world is the 4th world and was created at the end of the 12th b'ak'tun (1 b'ak'tun = ~400 yrs) of the last world, so some people thought maybe this world would also end at the end of the 12 b'ak'tun, which is Dec 20, 2012.

Answer 2

I don't know if it's true...but I hope not

Answer 3

i dont think this could happen-we would know in wayy advance.

Answer 4

they think something because a bunch of like ancient calendars all end in 2012. like the aztec and mayan calendars.

Answer 5

yeah i have it was on the history channel there will be a big astroid and it will blow into a billion pieces and we will all die;also the myans or aztects (don't remember which one) predicted the world will end on december 23 2012

Answer 6

Think for yourself and don't swallow any of this stupid nonsense. By the way those answerers who tell you to follow God or Christ or whoever are just as misguided - don't be fooled by their fairystories.

None of these apocalyptic myths have any truth to them. You'd be better off believing in Spiderman, Captain Kirk, or The Cat In The Hat. They're just as real.

Answer 7

Yeah, it was also supposed to end 6/6/06... and it didn't.

Answer 8

This is not true. The world is not coming to an end in 2012! The only person who will be destroying the world will be God whenever he desires. It will be destroyed by fireballs very very soon. Don't be caught up in God's Rapture. Become a Christian and love God with all your heart.

Answer 9

Yea, but heard a much different theory. Its called timewaze zero.

Answer 10

I would worry about this as much as we did with Y2K and the beginning of the 21st century and the year 2000. The ball dropped in times square and nothing happened ....

Answer 11

The world is not going to end in 2012. There are a bunch of doom-sayers out there who are saying this because the Mayan calender ends in 2012. People have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of recorded time and no one has got it right yet. If you remember the Y2K bug (all the computers would stop working at midnight Dec 31, 1999 because they couldn't switch over to the year 2000) nothing happened.  Relax and enjoy life.

Answer 12

of course it is, the world as you know it now is coming to an end by the time 2012.  because of global warming, the ice shelfs are breaking up and melting, its going to raise the sea level by 20ft, its going to put under Indonesia and a good portion of China under water, most of the worlds coastal cities will also join them under water.   scientists everywhere are going nutty over this, if the ice glaciers melt look out world, here today gone tomorrow.   and of course I belive its the end of mime calendar, theres nothing on it after 2011 or 2012 cant remember which year but some believe thats anoter sign of the world coming to an end, they didnt see anything after that and who knows there may not be the way this world is coming along. we allow and tolerate more things today than in any other life time, just think about some of the things we didnt allow way back then that we do now.   say goodbye world.

Answer 13

Yes it is, better get some while you can!!!

Answer 14

The word of God says he will come as a thief in the night. No one will know the hour or the day that he will return. It may be before 2012 of after 2012. Just be prepared to meet your God.

Answer 15

i don't believe in this thing..

Answer 16

well, it's reasonable to say that all events have occured before 2012. so, deductive reasoning leads us to believe that all events occur before 2012. therefore, no events occur after 2012, AND WE ALL DIE!!!

AAAAHHAHHHAHHHHHHHH!!!