All humans like patterns, hence the 6/6/06 and 7/7/07 claims. Also, the years 1999-2000 had a great deal of significance to us. These attention seekers will attribute the ‘End of the World’ to anything and everything and will use anything to ‘prove’ them right: even if the ‘proof’ in question is ficticious.

What I heard about the Mayan calander is that it only resets to the year 0 in 2012.

We hear each day “two oh one two”
The kids all ask if it is true.
“Nibiru, the planet we must fear,
Or planet X shall soon be here.
The Mayan count runs to an end.
I was told this by a friend.”

Nibiru the hoax world of Sitchin
Fit only for the garbage bin.
Devoid of fact, reason or wit,
Science laughs at all the talk of it.

Of planet “X” Nan Lieder cries,
And yet she won’t look at the skies,
To come in four short years it’s true,
The damn thing must be now in view!

“Where is it?” Science asks with glee,
“You said, ‘Beware two thousand three!’
With Earth it didn’t make a tryst,
We’re very sure it don’t exist!”

Galactic lines are the next fright,
And yet the angles are not right.
“Six degrees off!” the scientists say,
“It happens near each solstice day.”
But it would no difference make,
You can be sure the thing’s a fake.

“Planets align!” or so some say
“It will be on that very day.”
Yet naught of fact now can they quote,
I’d like to take them by the throat
And try to squeeze some truth right in,
But murder now they say’s a sin.

Failed prophets, fools, those full of fraud,
Are people with whom we all are bored.

Copyright to me, and subject to “improvement” as
and when the inspiration strikes.

Ken E

The prophecy of something big and possibly nasty was invented within the past several years by woo-woo scribblers like Jose Arguelles. The Mayans predicted nothing.

I think you can discount anything in old Nosty’s verses. He only got one thing right, the death of a king of France in a jousting accident and that happened seven years before he died. He was used to support the end of the world in 2000 and doubtless other ends of the world as well, in pre-internet days. I used to have a 1999 magazine poking fun at the end of the world crowd from then with the so called prophecies of Nostradamus in it, in cartoon form.

Some people are primed to accept this stuff by the rapture doctrine developed by some American religionists back in the 1830s. One American sect or another has been predicting the end of the world every ten years or so since about 1840. Most Christians do not accept their prophecies, as you know it says no man knoweth the hour.

The idea is being promoted to sell books, videos and survival guides, possibly left over from 1999-2000 or some other end of the world that did not happen. It might also be being used to lure the unwary into religious cults.

Actually the Mayan calendar thing, a transit of Venus in June 2012 and the possible peak in the solar cycle, which may be in late 2011 are about the only things in this that approach reality.

The rest is fraud.

At least i hope so. Otherwise it will another regular day one step closer to a true end of the world — World War 3

Well, drea_me_3000, you can be confident that God is going to cancel this 2012 thing and your prayers will be answered. And when it turns out that I am right, that will make me a prophet and I want you always to remember that.

“the end will come like a thief in the night. no one knows of the day nor time. not the angels in heaven, nor the son. Only the father knows. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come”

so basically… no one can predict when it will happen. I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime. that’s just my gut instinct.

what will happen 2012 with the whole magnetic shift and such?

Possibly earthquakes and volcanos will happen. That’s possible I can see that… however I don’t see it as the end of humanity.

I don’t know about the science mumbo jumbo but once we get to that point, it will take several lifetimes to where the shift will effect life as we know it. Most likely our kids, their kids and their kids kids won’t be here to see that effect.

that’s at least what I read in a science blog not too long ago.

Me, I’m not worried about it. I put my faith in God and pray for the best. I’m still single, I want to be married and have a family… and one day have grandkids. Obviously can’t accomplish that in 3 years, so I’m praying for a much longer life.

**I never said God would “cancel 2012″, because I don’t believe in the doomsday prophesy of 2012. I said no one can predict the end because only God knows when that will happen, so 2012 is a mute point in my opinion.

your blatant lack of disrespect for my faith and beliefs proves you’re not a religious person. I’m very sorry to hear that.