Are the mayans right about 2012?

First toss out the "predicted all the eclipses and stuff" Many cultures knew how to do this long before the Maya.

Second the Maya had a calendar with three cycles. In 2012 the "long count" ends and starts over. It's the same as on December 31st when out calendar "ends." That's all it is.

Third the only source for this "doomsday" is a badly eroded inscription. It saws something will happen but what it is has crumbled away.

Fourth the Mayan calendar doesn't "end'. there are Mayan prediction that go out 4,000 years from now. If we all die how can those predictions be true? While many clam the calendar "ends." the date isn't 2012.

"this date lies some 41,341,049,999,999,999,999,999,994,879 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_doomsday_predict...

Fifth the real answer to all this hype is money. Just money. Think how much money the producer of the TV program made. Do you really think in 2013 he'll apologize for scaring people? More likely he'll be off making more shows and will have forgotten about this one.

As Mom's be around for a while ask her if she remembers these disasters:

1968 "Population Bomb". Too many people in the 1980s. We’re shoulder to shoulder and have starvation.

"Famine 1975" In that year we run out of food

"Greening of America" We all become hippies eating un-homogenized peanut butter.

"Future Shock" We'll have too many choices. (The concept of multi-tasking wasn't known)

the 1970s had a concern of a "new ice age" we should increase the greenhouse effect

"Jupiter Effect" In the 1980s the planets will line up and the earth will do something.

"Y2K" Points given for those that can explain "why" it was a concern.

Millennium Supposedly it was to be the end of the world. The question was: "Is it 2000 or 2001?"

If you get the impression, there's a lot of disaster predictions and they sell books, you're right.

During the 1800s there were a number of movements that predicted the end of the world. People gave away everything they owned and gathered to await the end. A couple of days later, they started trying to get their stuff back.

Please read the short article provided from USA Today.

The Mayan calendar goes in cycles, and one cycle would end in 2012, but that doesn't say anything about what will happen to the world.

Think of the Mayan calendar like our calendars today. The month of November will end on the 30th! (or 31st, whateveR) OH NO! will the world end on December 1st?

No, it's just the start of a new month.

And if the Mayan culture were still around today, they wouldn't worry about the end fo the world at 2012 because they would know it's just the beginning of a new cycle.

That's all

don't worry

No need to worry about it....it's a question of who has accurate information...if that's even possible and if you want to consider some other sources, Sir Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world in 2060 so who can we trust? Him or the Mayans? He was one of the greatest scientists of all times. The Mayans were indeed very good at calculating future astronomical events but the 2012 date is simply the end of one of their "era's" when a new astronomical era will begin.....much like our year 2000 (or 2001) starts a new century or how we calculate earth's precessional cycle in it's orbit approximately every 25,800 years.

According to the Bible, only God the Father knows when the end will come so any human predictions of an exact date are just false...including Newton's or the Mayans or any one of the hundreds of predictions that have come and gone in the past.. The Bible does give us some hints as to things that may precede the end times like strange wonders in the heavens or increasing wars, famines, earthquakes, increased knowledge and travel, the re-establishment of Israel as a nation, etc...but nowhere does it state that anyone on earth will have prior knowledge of it's exact date or time. Many people have tried in the past to calculate it from various codes or interpretations of the Bible but all have failed and will continue to do so.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Isaac-Newton-Predic...

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=isaac%20newton%20...

I believe that there will be changes, but not the end. I think the changes cover the words----end as we know it. But to fear something you are not sure of is taking from your life now. Don't get worked up over uncertainty. I believe the Mayans are on to something, but don't second guess what is going on. It may be that they finely just decided to quit with the calender. I believe there will be changes, but I don't know as too what. And no one does for sure. So keep living your life, and don't fear what you don't know will or will not happen.

I once saw a caricature about this and it went like that: a Mayan child telling his father, "Daddy, let's make the calendar infinite, otherwise some people in the future will craze out thinking the end of the world will come on the day it ends!"

Or something like that.

No, seriously, it had a point.

ok this is what i believe is going to happen :

the mayans have predicted that gods were coming to there land but really it was a conquistador.

maybe , some things may happen in 2012 but only God knows whats going to happen then .

maybe some earthquakes , some tsunamis , some big storms but maybe not the end of the world.

as a christian , i believe that storms , earthquakes etc. at that time might be signs of the second coming of Christ.

I guess we will find out in 3 years.

Scientists from all over the world say on that day the planets will be in a certain alignment which will cause a huge magnetic pull on the earth.

It is possible that there will be a polar shift. If it happens quickly, they say it will be a miracle if a single building will be left standing. Volcanos, tidal waves, earthquakes, etc.

Polar shifts have happened before....the continents used to be together eons ago.

You can read up on polar shifts on google.

Fear not. Ask your mother to tell you about the Y2K predictions.

yes, the mayans are correct. we'll all die in a gigantic ball of fire!

(actually, no one knows.)