The Mayan calender stops at the year 2012! OMG! Is the world gonna end?

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Just becuse the Mayan Calender ends on December 21 2012 doesnt mean the world will end?

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For real man, come on! Just cuz it ends there, why does everyone jump to conclusions and say that means the world will end?
HOW ABOUT THE PPL THAT WERE MAKING THE CALENDER JUST DECIDED TO STOP AND GO DO SOMETHING ELSE,

I mean no ones gonna sit there and make a calender that goes on forever, even the calender on my cell phone only goes up to like year 3000, but that dont mean the world will end then, it just means sprint didnt feel like adding any more years on to the phones calender.

Am I right or am I right?

Can someone please tell me the exact events predicted by the Mayan Calender? Like specifically what they were?

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While researching the 2012 theory, I need help in knowing what and how accurate the mayan calender eficiently predicted.

according to mayan calender and nostrodamus prediction world will come to an end on 21dec 2012.is that true?

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the Mayan calender predicts the end in 2012. How has this be established they were before our calender started

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how did the mayans’s make the dooms day prediction as 2012? I heard recently that in 2012 we will cross as spacial distortion that will cause the poles to swap (would this lead to floods?) I’m guessing that they were just really good astrologers or astro physicists, however as their calander and our calander are different, who and how was the date 2012 reached? how accurate is that date?