Will 2012 really be the end of the world?

You're right to be skeptical

The whole 2012 thing, to my mind, has about as much significance as the calendrical "odometer flipping" of 1999 to 2000. That is, other than being kinda' cool, not really much at all.

Yes, the Mayans had a calendar. Yes, that calendar completes "cycle" in 2012. Yes, the Mayans had a religion and apparently believed that some sort of "renewal" would take place when their calendar's "odometer" flipped.

My response to this is... "So?"

A lot of religions believe a lot of things that don't come to pass. The Mayans have cache, because they were old, mysterious, seemingly "at one" with nature, and left a bunch of cool art and architecture behind for us to marvel at. They have the benefit of having a system that is a) not very well understood (most of their writings were destroyed) b) quite alien to our modern-western way of life and c) their system has a prediction that takes place in our future (and, therefore, can't be tested against reality.

Should we take seriously the idea that something big is going to happen when their particular calendar does its big odometer roll over? I think we should take this no more seriously than we do the idea that Christians had that the second coming would happen in the year 1000, or 2000. Or as seriously as the predicted "end of the world" as preached by any number of apocalyptic cults over the ages (including those of many 1st century Christians, who believed the end would come in their lifetime). Or as seriously as the idea the end will come when the last avatar of Vishnu (in the Hindu relgion) appears. Or as seriously as the idea, widely believed, in 1910 that comet Halley would engulf us all in poisonous fumes. Or take seriously the ever-shifting dates of interpretations of Nostradamus (as a kid, I was petrified by the widely held interpretation of Nostradamus that said that the end of the world would take place in 1992. Then, when got close, that shifted to 1997, then 2000, then 2001... and then I stopped paying attention.)

And so on... and so on... and so on...

The idea that 2012 is somehow spiritually/existentially significant is hype. This hype is based mainly on the fact that the Mayans and their vaguely-understood belief system are kinda' cool to us Westerners. Add to this a few, booga-wooga, self-promoting authors who have jumped on this AND add to this a slew of "documentaries" that have jumped on the bandwagon (you can't turn on the TLC or Discovery or History without them cropping up), and you have much ado about almost certainly nothing much.

The good news is that there will almost certainly be no bad news. That is, other than the run-of-the-mill bad stuff that happens all around us every day... wars, natural disasters, politics, sickness and death, and Michael Bay movies.

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" ...given the mayan calender?"

Given "what" about the Mayan calendar (and which one, by the way)?

In the 1980s, some dude born in Minnesota decided that he was going to make money selling a book about HIS understanding of old Central American calendars. To make the book interesting, he pretended to be a reincarnated Mayan priest. To make it even more interesting, he invented the lie that one of the calendars (the one we call Mesoamerican Long Count) "could" end in 2012 -- at least, in the original book, he admitted that he was not sure.

The Long Count calendar does not end. It is simply a day-count calendar (it just adds "1" to today's date in order to form tomorrow's date -- as long as you don't run out of numbers, it cannot end).

Fake-Mayan-Priest took a round figure and decided that this would be a good date to end the calendar. There is a round figure every 394 years and a quarter. The last one was in the Autumn of the year we call 1618 (Long Count day number 12.00.00.00.00); the upcoming one falls on December 21, 2012 (day number 13.00.00.00.00) and the next one after that will be in early 2407.

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The Big 2012 Hoax was created during the summer of 2003. It is simply a repackaging of the Planet X hoax (Planet X was supposed to finish us off in May-June 2003). Charlatans (not associated with Fake Mayan Priest) had made tons of money selling books on how-to-survive Planet X. After June 2003, of course, their book became useless.

So they needed to create a new hoax.

They picked the fake Mayan date, their own Planet X hoax, plus they stole a bunch of other hoaxes, lies and stories, and they changed them to fit their new hoax (most of them had nothing to do with 2012 before the charlatans modified them).

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There are over 30 measurable earthquakes a day on this planet (over 12,000 a year) with about 20 biggies a year and two or three extra-biggies.

The distribution in time of the super-biggies is random (some year could be 1, the next year could be 7). The present distribution still follows the random distribution that we have always had.

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The Mayan calendar cannot be "proven to be wrong" given that it makes absolutely NO predictions. NONE. Zero. Zilch.

Sorry, it does make one: tomorrow's date will be today's date + 1. In that respect, it is extremely precise. But then, so is the modern "Julian Day" calendar used by modern astronomers (works on exactly the same principle).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

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Roland's movie "2012" is really the scenario of the 2003 Planet-X hoax because that is all he got the rights for. The title was chosen in order to ride the wave of "popularity" generated by the Big 2012 Hoax. Roland knew that the Big 2012 Hoax contains ideas stolen from other stories and hoaxes, without their real authors' permission. The best example is all the stuff stolen from the story for which the planet Nibiru was created back in the 1960s.

When the Big-2012-Hoax charlatans stole these ideas, the real author of the story containing Nibiru did complain. Roland knew that, so he stayed away from the newer forms of the hoax, and he stuck with most of the stuff that was contained in the 2003 hoax (plus the lie about the Mayan calendar).

But calling the movie "2003" would not have been a good idea.

No, it is simply a crude hoax composed of absurd lies that scientists ridicule. You have been reading only absurd nonsense, if you believe anything distinctive will occur in 2012. Frauds lied about the Mayan calendar and other things too in creating a hoax to make money from books, TV shows and a movie about this "ngao si". You will only see untruthful nonsense if you read only literature perpetuating silly hoaxes. You should try to find some essays by scientists and skeptics to be fair. Start with the NASA website. You can never find the truth in any area by hearing only one side.

For someone who is skeptical, you sure fooled me. LOL.

Have you ever heard of y2k?

What you heard about 2012 is misconceptions that white new agers are exploiting the Mayan culture to exploit ignorance.

The Mayans themselves are a bit upset that people think that they predicted the end of the world when it was some dumb white guy (Micheal Coe) who started this lie in the first place.

More info on my links. I recommend you reading them.

No. The end of the Mayan calendar, but not the end of the world.

the Mayans had to stop somewhere. they could have made another year but they just said screw it.

No.