does anyone believe in the 2012 extinction level event?

NO...all it is the Mayan calendar ending!

I'll let you know in 2013!

Seriously, though, it looks very much like something nasty happened about 10 to 14,000 years ago. This is what caused the growth of civilizations in Egypt and South America, supposedly from survivors of a lost land identified with Atlantis, but possibly from what is now Antartica. A slip of the Earth's crust caused this disaster according to many. Antarctica was once much nearer the equator but moved South causing unthinkable chaos.

This is supposed to be one reason why so much research is being done at the South Pole. The land beneath the ice proves this happened but Governments won't let on!

As the Aztecs were phenomenal astonomers, and survivors of this, they were able to predict when forces, such as the cosmic alignment in 2012 where the pull of the sun moon and other planets will all be acting upon the Earth, would cause the same thing again!

This could be one case where Global Warming might save us! if the Ice Caps are smaller there will less chance of the pull causing them to move.

Don't start watching any serials in 2011!

Oh what all happens.. lets see...

The sun is entering a new phase of intense solar storms that will be at their most violent in 2012.

An asteroid is supposed to pass between the Earth and the Moon in 2012.

The center of our Solar System aligns with the center of our Galaxy in 2012 (which is why Nostradamus and the Aztecs all predicted the end/stopped their calender in 2012).

But no, I don't believe 2012 will be the end. Man has been predicting the end of time for thousands of years now... they haven't been right yet... I see no reason to believe they are right now. When Plate Tectonics stop for good or when the Sun turns into a red giant... if we haven't killed ourselves off.... then the Earth will end. Not till then.

Heck.. maybe we'll propagate out into the Universe and make it as a species till the known Universe dies

I like Rachelle's point of view on it. I don't think it's the end of the world, I just think that there is going to be significant changes in our world....especially our governments.

The reason people connect 2012 with the end of the world is because the Mayans predicted a crap load of stuff by their calendar that has happened when they said it would. But the calendar suddenly ends in 2012. I actually think because at that point in time, the future is unwritten. This cycle that we have been in was quite predictable but the next cycle is not.

Only really mean, heartless and cold people will have a problem with the changes coming up. Everyone else will delight in them. :) It's nothing to be afraid of. :)

I don't really understand where all the fear is coming from. The Mayans Calendar, which is not predicting the end of the world in 2012, but the start of a new era on December 21st, 2012. The year 2012 marks the end of the "Great Cycle." When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles.

Many ancient civilization had predicted apocalypse over thousands of years, from the Book of I Ching to Nostradamus, and the Native Indians to even the Holy Bible all predicted that the world will come to an end. However, we as humankind are still around today waiting for that "doomsday" to happen. All predictions are open for different interpretations, and every few years some lunatic is going to flip through some old pre-historic predictions and exaggerate it based on his/her own interpretations. Once your mind starts to persuade you into thinking that apocalypse is going to happen, you would honestly start to believe that it is really coming.

No. It is not based on anything scientific. This is just another in a long line of end of the world predictions. All of those in the past were wrong. This one will be added to the list come January 1, 2013.

it is sort of hard to not believe if you know what the calendar said previously and how it predicted 9/11. It didn't say the exact account of what happened, but that "something" will happen. look it up on the history channels website.

Nope because it is a prediciton of when the end time is and as a Christian I honestly believe it is going to be a surprise.

i am freaked out about it but

i think all it is is that the Mayan Calender ended.

idk what the big deal is or why everyone thinks its the end of the world. maybe they just...didnt want to make any more? like seriously, people are getting ahead of themselves.

Not here... I think the Mayans just got tired of making a long range calender, and figured they would go drink beer instead.

lol no

but I'll use it as an excuse to party like crazy the day before december 21

=D