Critically examining the "End of the World"
Did the Mayan calender predict the end of the world for December 21st, 2012?
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Question:
I’ve been reading that the Mayan calender will end on December 21st, 2012, and that is when some kind of weird alignment will happen in space and something weird will happen here on earth on the winter solstice. This was predicted thousands of years ago by the Mayans. Will something happen? Also, crop circles have been appearing for the last several years that symbolize certain things and ancient designs.
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about 1 year ago
+Watch the video for your answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I&NR=1
about 1 year ago
that is correct. though the mayan calender ends, people think the world will end to. but i think u are more correct with the alignment or sumthing
about 1 year ago
None of that is true. But that doesn’t stop lots of people from claiming that is it true. Use you common sense to see through the hoaxes!
about 1 year ago
man i hope not.. two days after my 21st bday??????
about 1 year ago
No, and the calendar doesn’t end. It is only the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new cycle. The Maya didn’t predict anything. They were not in the business of prophecy.
The big 2012 doomsday hoax was created by several people who, as famous astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson so tactfully put it, “didn’t take enough science in school”. None of them have any qualifications to back their claims. Jose Arguelles, an art major, misinterpreted the Mayan long count calendar and decided that it ends in 2012, when it actually recycles. Zecharia Sitchen, a literature major, misinterpreted ancient Sumerian references to the planet Jupiter as Nibiru and made up an impossible 3600 year orbit, saying Nibiru was to return in 2085. Then Nancy Lieder came along. She says she is in mental contact with aliens from Zeta Reticuli who told her that Nibiru would return in 2003. When it failed to arrive on schedule, she took Arguelles claimed end of the Mayan calendar date of 2012 and made it her new doomsday. All of the claimed astronomical and geological occurrences are, without exception, untrue and have no scientific validity. There is no truth whatever in the 2012 doomsday scenarios and no real scientist supports them.
Crop circles have been appearing for decades and some of the people creating them have admitted it. There is no reason whatever to associate crop circles with the 2012 hoax, except that the crackpots are throwing in everything but the kitchen sink.
about 1 year ago
No. The Mayan calendar was simply a calendar, and didn’t predict _anything_. It simply recorded the dates. No alignment, weird or otherwise, will happen on that date, that doesn’t happen every year on that date.
Oh, don’t dredge up crop circles! Those are well known to be fake, and mentioning them just shows how gullible you are.
about 1 year ago
No – the current incarnation of their calendar ends then – the next incarnation starts immediately and the calendar goes on, and on, etc
Its kinda like the end of a century for us, or even the end of a year. We say that the current year will end at 11:59:59 on Dec 31. One second later, it is Jan1 of the next year, etc., etc., etc.
about 1 year ago
Correct, the calendar ends on Dec 21, 2012. And what happens when our calendar ends on Dec 31 every year? We start up a new one.
The Long Count calendar was a tool for keeping track of time (for agriculture, social events, celebrations, etc.) The Mayans considered the end of one cycle (ba’aktun) to be a reason to celebrate (like we do on New Years Eve).
No, there will not be some “weird alignment” in space (can’t happen as is claimed in all the trash that has been recently created about this).
Nothing weird will happen on the winter solstice.
No, the Mayans didn’t predict anything – this is all simply a huge pile of trash compiled by some unscrupulous people in 2003 (and since it didn’t happen then, they just changed the date to 2012 and kept it going.
Crop circles have appeared since the 1970′s and most have been explained as either deliberately created by people as hoaxes, or as natural occurrences (downdrafts, etc.)
Its really amazing what you can learn if you simply do a little research (on reliable sites, not ones dedicated to perpetuating trash).
http://www.2012hoax.org/
about 1 year ago
All total rubbish but if the World does end you can come back on here and tell me I was wrong.
about 1 year ago
I can tell you what’s going to happen. All the crackpots will have to dream up another stupid story cause nothing is gonna happen.
Crop circles are now being designed with a computer drawing program and then they are created by programing this info into a GPS guided tractor. At least the first guys to make them did a little work.
about 1 year ago
It’s just a new year’s! Celebrate!
about 1 year ago
It is their prediction for the midpoint of what modern Christians refer to as the Tribulation.
about 1 year ago
The Mayans did not predict the physical end of the world in 2012. What they predicted was the end of their fourth kingdom and the beginning of their fifth kingdom. The sun gets to within 5 degrees from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy EVERY winter solstice. I still want to know exactly when a circular stone calendar “ends”.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4RNWE_enUS309US309&q=mayan+aztec+sun-stone+calendar+images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=9mqPSu3WAZGIswP8xJEM&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1
about 1 year ago
Crop Circles? Seriously? So, when those two Brits came out and confessed that they started the whole “crop circle alien” things using rope and a log… where were you?
The Mayan Calendar doesn’t end.
There will be no alignment.
2012 is a hoax… and not even a cool one.
about 1 year ago
The only thing that will happen on the 21st December of 2012 is the Winter Solstice but there is no need to worry about that it happens every year. Just because the calander ends does not mean the world will end. my 2009 Calander ends on December 31, 2009 and that does not mean the world will end then. Crop circles have always been appearing they are a joke that is done by people mostly college students.
about 1 year ago
No. It’s simply the end of one of their cosmic cycles. The sun rising in conjunction wilth the so-called Dark Rift of the MilkyWay on Dec 21, 2012 is of no cosmological significance whatsoever.
about 1 year ago
yea they did and i kinda think it will happen becuase the mayans perdicted their being giant earthquakes and floods and stuff but so does the bible so who knows 2012 could be the return of Christ
about 1 year ago
No.
One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world.
These predictions are scare tactics, conspiracy theories, and chances to make money from books and movies.
Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.
Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFAQ18.htm#q306
If you want a bit more information on the 2012 hoax, try: http://www.2012hoax.org
“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.” (Mark 13:32-33)
Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.
The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.
The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus’ advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.
Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.
For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0993.asp
With love in Christ.
about 1 year ago
people that say that stuff don’t know God now i don’t know if you are Christian but for you to ask this question is dumb and if you are christian it even stupid and ignorant cuz u should no better that only God know when he will end this world he created not even the angels in heaven know when it will end also we don’t know how so when are calander it we start a new one right it just dumb stuff that the devil wants us to believe as for crop circles the been around for a very long time they are even made by humans
about 1 year ago
i think its not going to end because they probably just ran out of room