The number one film at the box office this weekend was 2012, raking in an impressive $65 million despite lackluster reviews. The movie is about a theory that the world will end on December 21, 2012. This is based on the Mayan calender's end -- no more calender, no more world, claim believers. But is this what the Mayans intended when they made up their calender thousands of years ago?
Back in 3114 BC, the Mayans came up with is called the "Long Count" calender, which lasts 5,125 years. It runs out on on the 21st (or 23rd, depending on whom you listen to) of December, three years from now. Back in the 1960s, one scholar wrote a book saying the Mayans suggested Armageddon would come when the calender runs out, and a movement was born.
As the day was drawing near, in the 1990s other scholars looked into the prediction, and decided perhaps it would be a day of celebration, rather than doomsday. Now, it's a matter of just whom you want to believe.
It should be noted that the modern-day Mayans themselves don't put much stock into the doom-and-gloom predictions. Except for some Guatamalan tribes, Mayans don't even use the long count calender anymore. In addition, Mayan experts say the concept of an "apocalypse" is a Western idea, and is not even part of the Mayans' beliefs.
But that doesn't deter believers. A writer named Lawrence Joseph is one of them. In his book and Web site, Joseph claims his scientific study shows the end is near:
Joseph concludes that we are in a race against time. Apocalypse 2012 is an authoritative and deeply unsettling appraisal of just how close the earth, or at least our species, might be to extinction.
Nonsense, says Ann Martin, a doctoral candidate in Cornell University's department of astronomy. According to an article in Science Daily:
The Mayan calendar was designed to be cyclical, so the fact that the long count comes to an end in December 2012 is really of no consequence, according to Martin. Simply, it is the end of great calendar cycle in Mayan society, much like our modern society celebrated the new Millennium. It does not mean that the "world will end." In fact, the Mayan calendar does not end then, and there is no evidence to suggest that the Mayans -- or anyone for that matter -- has knowledge for the world's demise.
So is the world going to come to an end on December 21, 2012? Or is this just a bunch of Y2K-like nonsense? All we can do is cross our fingers, hold our breath, and wait for the day to come, and hopefully, go.
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Birds and fish are dying all over the world if the 2012 theroy is right we are seeing signs already. We might have a problem if we start to see govornment officials retire or missing. Keep an eye on the news more and more weird things to come!!!
Its scary to think that what if it does happen?
I mean, you have all these people telling you this and that about it and no one really knows anything. Maybe the mayans just got tired of all that calender bull. But with all this talk about the world ending on that day, maybe the mayans did know what they were talking about in the form of this calender. They were right about EVERY single lunar eclipse before it even HAPPENED. So maybe they do know that they earth is gonna end. Tons of government places are saying this is all a hoax, but they could be lying and actually know that something like this is gonna happen and dont want to tell anyone.
No one knows what to believe anymore. People are going sooo far into this, I was reading an article the other day were a man actually quit his job and moved to the mountains just because all this 2012 bull crap. I say, If the world does end on December 21st, 2012 let it, and if it dont, then it dont.
another year and none of this magic alignment BS amounts to didiley. It ranks with the Easter bunny and anthropomorphic dude gods. What is really happening is that around the 3114 BC Mayan time all around the planet god started to be a really popular psychological tool to unite tribes and as a sort of propaganda used by governments helped them convince their subjects to kill people from other tribes without any thought of compassion or guilt afterwards. We are evolving beyond the singular omnipotent patriarchal god hierarchy carried over from our animal instincts. Science is a basic tenant of the next religion, which does not have a god only the collective cooperative force for the good of Homo Sapiens and the planet. This holds they key to any chance of a connection to eternity there is for our species. The new awakening as I coined it "Beyond The Next Religion" is the beginning of the next spiritual level of humanity and what 2012 is all about. It is does happen within one day or even one year it started maybe with Einstein and once started it won't be mature until it is the most popular spiritual belief system on the planet. Don't worry it is not to be built against the currently established religious spiritual knowledge; it is to be built on top of it and advance from it. 2012 is only a handy date to signify the beginning. This next religion based on science and our true potential as a species will not end until we go past the speed of light and rediscover the unified field that always was and always will be. These may be my words but you are the shaman and the prophet if you understand what I just wrote.
I bet my neighbor $1000 that the world will NOT end in 2012 . I tried to get him to go higher but he would only shake on the $1000.
Heads I win, tails he loses. LOL
He sure is stupid!!!
Did anyone hear the story of the teacher who told his class that the sun would "go out" in 15 billion years? One student said, "You're kidding! Only 15 million more years left." The teacher said, "I said 15 BILLION. To which the worried student replied, "Oh, thank G-D! I thought that you said 15 million. You had me worried."
The thought of the world ending in 2012 really has me upset. That is when I plan to retire! I won't get to enjoy it!
Actually, I think that PETA ought to protest. The world ending in 2012 would definitely be gratuitous violence against those poor innocent animals (don't forget plants).
I also wonder whether the second coming of Buddha would happen in 2012 so that believers could be reincarnated as aliens.
Perhaps the American Psychiatric Association will have to come up with a new disorder for the fear inculcated by this pending disaster. They could call it Pretraumatic Stress Disorder.
Nah, its just another Pyramid Scheme.
Doomsday believers are, essentially, cultists or quacks clamoring for attention or profit. In the first place, FUTURE EVENTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED. Empirical event prediction requires the existence of observable and identifiable precursors (a comet's return to the Sun, for example). "Psychic" predictors and astrologers, such as the late Jeane Dixon, are, quite simply, fake. Make enough predictions and you'll get a few right. Dixon had a horrible track record, but she benefitted from great marketing.