Why does everyone think the world will end in 2012 because of the Mayans?

Question

maybe the Mayans just got bored of making a calendar for so many years!

Answer 1

The solar maximum that occurs roughly every half a decade or so is due around that time.....basically the sun is going to have diareeha and shoot god d**n  radiation all over the place..we may or may not die

Answer 2

Why should we listen to them?

Answer 3

When was 10 yrs old,I was told the World will come to end in 2000, we have crossed that.Some muslims of their view the world will come to end after2012 or something.Anyway there should be a way for this human being to the life and live>that is possible only with a new gene(tics)ration,let that start from 2050 or 3000,something like that.This pollution ,starvation,enemity,poverty,everything should go by 2012.

Answer 4

2012 = 23 imao! 2 lives and never dies. Spookie!

Answer 5

Why would you agree to a something without evidence?

Answer 6

Lol, maybe they did get bored. Yeah, the Mayans are pretty accurate in predicting what'll happen in the future and so far all of their predictions are right. I don't believe the world will end in 2012 because everyone who predicted the end of the world was always wrong and that's how it's gonna stay. They Mayans are just really accurate so I wouldn't be surprised if everyone thought the world is gonna end in a few years, but I highly doubt it.  

Answer 7

Because they love to belive any old **** that is presented to them !

Answer 8

the mayan calender ends 2012 because, it supposedly restarts from the beginning all over again

Answer 9

The Mayan calendar predicts a "great event" in that year. (Mainly all the planets in the solar system are to align on the last day of the calendar.) Also the Mayan calendar is cyclical. The last date on their calendar is on point to be December 21, 2012. However most believe it just restarts their dating system. I HIGHLY doubt the world will "end" but it is said that a new "era" will begin.

Answer 10

not everyone thinks the world is going to end in2012,in the case of the mayan calender as one cycle ends another begins.

Personally i think the reason that there is so much hyp about 2012,Nostradamus prophecies,bible prophecies ect,its due to the increasing awearness of what is happening around the world in terms of the energy/ financial/agricultual,economics of the social and cultural conflicts/problems,

many countries have nuclear capabilities and not very good relations with their neiboughs so the prophecies concerning another great war is not an impossibility.

Religion is always going to be a point of contention,the im holyier than thou attitude of some religious ideologys is retrictive and distructive,Historically proven- catholic&protestant,holy crusades the holy inquestions are just a few.

Answer 11

stupid people in 2008 BC in ancient Egypt probably thought the world will end in 2012 BC, humans are boring

Answer 12

thats when the mayan calender ends...most information that was recorded has been destroyed over the centuries by various leaders..no one knows why so it leaves us with this eary kind of feeling doesnt it?

eh, not really..its been a good run though!

Answer 13

I agree,I don't think the world will end in 2012!

Answer 14

Because they are being irrational.  Have you ever wondered why the Mayans were defeated by the conquestidores?

Answer 15

The year 2012 is rumored to be the end of the world.  I assure you that the world will not end on 2012 December 21 but it will end one day.  Remember that if there is a beginning, there is an end.  

Here are what I would like to share to you and to the world, many of which I heard and learned from the Holy Spirit:

Nostradamus and the book of Revelation

Nostradamus’ prophecy of when the world will end is far into the future, past about AD 3700.  This is in agreement with what I heard and learned from the Holy Spirit—that there will only be about 144,000 around AD 2200, peace reigns for a thousand years while the Devil, or Satan, is chained up and locked up in the abyss till around AD 3200 (Revelation 20:1-7), and then Satan will be let loose from his prison to deceive the descendants of the elect for about 500 years (Revelation 20:7-10).  After that, the end will come (Revelation 21:1).

Mayan calendar

The Mayan’s Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by Jose Arguelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 2012 December 21 (Wikipedia).  Mainstream Mayan scholars consider “cataclysm” or “apocalypse” as a misinterpretation for to the Mayan scribes, it literally means uncovering or revealing.

The Long Count has 360 days in a year called “Tun”.  A “Tun” has 18 months or “unials” and each “unial” has 20 days.  Twenty (20) Tuns is a Katun and 20 Katuns is a Baktun (144,000 days or about 400 solar years).  Thirteen (13) Baktuns is a “Great Cycle” of 1,872,000 days (5,200 Tuns or about 5,125 solar years).  The Great Cycle in the proleptic Gregorian calendar started on 3114 BC August 11 (day 0.0.0.0.0) and ends on 2012 December 21 (day 13.0.0.0.0) – winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.  The Great Cycle restarts the next day (day 0.0.0.0.0).  The representation of the Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar is as follows: (13 Baktuns.20 Katuns.20 Tuns.18 Uinals.20 days).

A thousand years of peace

In the book of Revelation, it tells us about a period of a thousand years of peace. Has this occurred already since the time of Jesus?  Not yet. That will still come. Those that give predictions of the world’s end, such as 2012 and numerous times during the past, are pseudo-preachers. Have they talked to God directly? If so, give proofs.

Inevitable physical death

But there is something that will certainly happen—and that is our physical death. This is what we should prepare for. It may come when least expected. We do not know the day and the hour. It will come like a thief in the night. So we just have to be prepared all the time. Search for the true God and when we find Him, follow His commandments and remain in Him until our last dying breath.

Survival kit – faith in the true God

This is all that we have to do. It is faith in the true God that we can take with us when we depart from this world. If we denied Him, He will deny us also before the Father in Heaven and send us to h**l. This is very scary – to live in h**l forever.  If we knew Him and loved Him and followed His commandments, then He may reward us to live with Him eternally in His kingdom in Heaven. This is the survival kit that we should have.

2012 is 20 + 12 = 32, age of Jesus when crucified

Did you know that in his/her boredom, “Thanks for reading this” theorized in Yahoo Answers, Religion & Spirituality section, that 2012 could be 20 + 12 = 32, the approximate age of Jesus when He was crucified and died?  I answered that he/she is correct in his/her theory.  When Jesus died, He was actually 32 solar years old, equivalent to 33 lunar years.  This is found in the results of a study that I did to check if what the Holy Spirit said regarding the crucifixion of Jesus on August 17 is correct or not.  Details are in http://www.geocities.com/peacecrusader88...  Is this a sign that God is warning us of the impending calamity around 2012, like the end of the Mayan’s calendar cycle?  But I repeat, 2012 is not the end of the world yet.

The 144,000 marked good people

The Holy Spirit also told us that beings from another planet will take only the marked good people out of this world.  I asked Him if it’s a million.  He said much less than that.  Then I asked if the number is the one mentioned in Revelation and He affirmed it.  A few weeks ago this year, 2008, as I was reading Revelation, I came across Revelation 14:3 to wit (King James Version):  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœAnd they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœRedeemed from the earth” means saved from the earth.  And there were 144,000 of them.  This must be what the Holy Spirit was referring to several years ago.  

Advice of the Holy Spirit

His advice to all: leave their wicked way of life and change their way of thinking.  We should come back to the true God before it’s too late.  (I read in Isaiah 55:7 this message, to wit (KJV): “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”)  Be good then so that we may be considered to be among the 144,000 who will be saved, and later will restart and repopulate this world.  The Holy Spirit told us to tell people about this prophecy even though they accuse us as being out of our minds.  He assured us that this will happen, similar to Noah’s prophecy of the Great Flood which took a hundred years before it was fulfilled.  The ark was the vessel used to save Noah and his family and the animals.  This time, another kind of vessel will be used to save the elect.

  

World War III to start at Spratly Islands

What is also certain to happen very soon (in about 2012 or earlier) is World War III and this is a nuclear war.  This “calamitous war” (as Nostradamus called it) will start from the Philippines, at Spratly Islands in particular.  The Spratly Islands lie on the southeast part of the South China Sea mostly near the coast of the Philippines.  The Holy Spirit told us that the Philippines is the wick of a gas lamp.  Once the wick is lit, it will be on and aglow.  He told us about this prophecy about two decades ago.  He said that the troubles in the Philippines will spread to the whole world until mankind is almost annihilated and a few will remain.  Spratly Islands are being claimed wholly by China, Taiwan and Vietnam; and partly by Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.  The area is considered a tinderbox, a flash point.  It is very rich in oil and gas resources, estimated to be more than the reserve of Kuwait.  The high price of oil may trigger the grabbing of these islands and start the war.

Certainty of WW III

Four independent prophecies point to the certainty that this will happen.  These are Nostradamus’ prophecies to happen around this time (quatrains 6:24 and 2:62) , the 56th Chinese prophecy of Tui Bei Tu (the past 55 prophecies have already been fulfilled) found at http://www.alexchiu.com/philosophy/super... and Wikipedia, Revelation 9:18 of the Holy Bible, and those that the Holy Spirit revealed to us.  If you are interested in the details about these prophecies, please send me your request via email.

Spiritual awakening after the war

After the calamitous war, we will have a new age, a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, and peace will reign for a long time.  The population would have been reduced by a third and there will be much arable land that will be available.  People will be living in planned cities and communities.  Would you like to live in a city where the land is free and you are guaranteed possession of the land for 50 years, renewable, and which you can bequeath to an heir?

Come back to the true God now

The Holy Spirit has given His prophecies and these are what will happen.  Be rest assured then that the world will not end yet.  But please, heed what He advises us to do—to change our wicked way of life and change our wrong beliefs.  Come back to the true God now before it’s too late.  There a lot of lessons to study.

The decision to believe rests upon you

I am just sharing with you what I heard and learned from the Holy Spirit.  The decision to believe Him or not depends upon yourself.  I am not forcing anyone to believe in what I share.  It is not my responsibility to save you or anyone, but the person’s.

Reassurance of the true God that He will save us

Isaiah 35:4 (KJV) states: “Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.”

Answer 16

"EVERYONE" do not believe it, only a few superstitious followers of the history channel's make believe.

The world is an organic body, it will survive until we kill it.  Even after that and all human life is gone, it will recover.

There are no magic individual predictions, or mysteries that have any basis in fact.

Answer 17

I could go very in depth about the apocalypse but it's not worth it, all I can say is London 2012 was a total let down! :D

Answer 18

yeah your right...but they believe that because the Mayans predicted many things hundreds of years later...so ending their calendar at 2012 can possibly mean it will end i dont know how sure we can be though

Answer 19

LOL!!! isn t fear something else??

but we re supposed to be rational..... :)

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Answer 20

let's hope not. but your right  

Answer 21

well i belive that the romans did this calender and when there emporiour falls or dies out then the world will end and the calender stops at 2012 so they think that, that is when the world will end but i think other wise that is just my opinayan but that is why they think that it will end in 2012 is u dont get that e mail me at [e-mail] my name is rosa and ill explan it 2 you and if you were wondering i am 11 years old and im in the 6th grade but you dont need 2 know that but ya ok