Does anybody really believe the end of the world will occur when the mayan calendar ended in 2012?

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Whats exactly supposed to happen according to theorists thats gonna cause the world to end?

According to the Mayan calendar 2012 will be …?

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…. an election year in the United States. So get out your crystal ball or your numerology texts and predict what the outcome will be. Who will be the Republican nominee? Will there be a viable third party candidate? Will a significant number of third party candidates be elected to Congress? Who Obama win reelection?

What are your thoughts.

As a side note the commercials for that new 2012 movie look VERY cheesy. If that movie is not a comedy it will be a bomb.
I meant to type WILL Obama win reelection.
I find it hilarious how many people did not read the entire question. This hilarity is why I wrote it the way I did!

LOL!

Based on what the Mayans calendar said, and also the galaxy alignment, is the world going to end in 2012?

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The Mayans calendar ends..and people say that the galactic alignment is going to cause chaos. I don’t know what to believe. Are people just stirring up rubbish? Tell me what you honestly think. I haven’t found anything from a credible source about the galaxy thing…wouldn’t someone be telling us if it were true?

MAYAN CALENDAR & HUMAN DNA I – DARK RIFT RADIATION & 2012 – 3


Maurice M.Cotterell in The Mayan Chronicles (1995), co-authored with Adrian G.Gilbert, explored unconventional and alternative research into the effects of solar radiation and solar magnetic influences. Using Mayan mathematics and their complex calendar, Cotterell explored research carried out by a number of scholars on the cyclical activities of the sun and Earth and their correlation to known climatic and population changes in the recent ten thousand years. The last ice-age came to an end about 12000 years ago. Massive flooding (and the advent of the wet) resulted from the extraordinarily rapid melting of the vast glaciers and ice-caps. Ocean levels rose hundreds of feet within a few years. No doubt, the flood myths that every old culture retained were stimulated by these comparatively recent disasters. This period of change was not different to many others in the last two million years of the Pleistocene, but its effects were being imposed on a different kind of mankind. No wonder the last 35000 years have been the most eventful in our descent, if already anatomically modern mankind 167 had been bombarded by cosmic radiation. The mutations had not changed the skeletons and general anatomy of humans, but it had affected their brains. Inside their brains lurked a different kind of mind. Many speculations about these millennia could be sharpened into focus. Archaeologist Marion Popenoe Hatch excavated the Olmec site of La Venta, in the Tabasco province, at the beginning

Besides the Mayan calendar, what other theories are there for the world ending in 2012?

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Im just curious to know why people are so intrigued with the whole 2012 theory and whether there is more than one reason people believe this will be the end?