How accurate is the mayans prediction in 2012?
Like the end of the world in December when "the sun blows up" based on more modern predictions, will this really happen?
There was no Mayan prediction, so I would have to say 0% on the accuracy of a nonexistent prophecy. Congratulations! You win the prize for being the first one I’ve seen saying the Sun was going to blow up. You can collect your prize on January 1, 2013 by going out to see the Sun rise.
The only predictions are modern ones, made up by those who invented the big 2012 hoax. No, it won’t happen. It was invented to make money selling doomsday rubbish.
Speculation has been made, but nothing groundbreaking. i wouldn’t worry about it.
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No. Just because on old cultures calender ends on a certain date, doesn’t mean the world is ending.
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i,m not sayin nothin ,..just watch…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I
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you just have to wait to find out
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Yes, yes it will. Now give me all your worldly possessions cause you won’t be needing them.
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The sun isn’t going to blow up on that date I can assure you that.
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comon jerry the mayan calenda aint be predictin no end of worldz the mayan homies be havin a cyclical belivin of time anywayz n such anyway they jus finishin up that there calendz
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Very highly unlikely. Why don’t you ask this question again on Dec 13 2012 and I answer then.
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We’ll see.
Anyway the Mayan calendar as far as I know really doesn’t predict awesome devastation. It just tells when the sun will be in the middle of the milky way stream thingy, which means nothing unless you are into astrology or cosmic superstition or whatever.
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if your are going to even consider any predictions about the end of the world then you should take a look at nostradamus. he predicts it will be in 2043 (or something like that). he seems to be right most of the time.
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Nah, I would say that their prediction isn’t very accurate at all. Of course, anything is possible though. But we really still aren’t sure exactly why their calendar ends in 2012. It may have nothing to do with a prediction at all. It probably has more to do with astrology than anything else. Remember that time is a man made creation. It’s artificial if you really think about it. There really is no time in space. So for anyone to predict something based on something artificial in the first place is not really logical.
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It’s 100% accurate. We will all die a horrible, sun blow uppy death.
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http://www.mayansbepredictin.com
The mayans haven’t predicted anything. Their calender merely ends on that date. What is odd is that other people have predicted cataclysmic events on this date. By "people" I don’t mean current scientists.
Three extremely rare events are taking place on the winter solstice, and scientists of this planet don’t have advanced enough technology or education to accurately tell us if those events will be cataclysmic. The sun is not blowing up, that is merely part of the hoax as none of that was ever predicted.
It is more than likely that something very big will indeed happen because of the extreme rarity of these three events happening on the same day, people are only discouraged by the 2012 predictions because of people trying to make money off of it.
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No doomsday is gonna happen in 2012.
First know why they devised a calender
They devised a calender with three cog wheels .
One having 365 teeth
another one with 260 teeth
the small cog wheel is inside the big one and inside the small cog wheel is inturn another cog wheel .
1.Make a mark at zero point and move the wheels . At the time the zero point again come to the same place, that time is on dec 21 2012.
"They made this for their return to earth after their long voyage from space"
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See Mayan history + return of the gods
The problem with your question is you assume that they predicted something for 2012, which they did not. No predictions at all. People who say otherwise have no idea of what they are talking about.
And their calendar does not end in 2012, it just starts the next cycle, similar to us reaching the year 2000.
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The sun will not blow up. The sun still has AT THE MINIMUM of 1 billion years until it turns to a red giant. We’ll be dead long before then. Also, the Mayans NEVER predicted the world would end then, its just some stupid rumor going around to scare the gullible and History channel watchers.
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The Mayans didn’t actually predict the end of anything except a calendar cycle in 2012. The Mesoamerica Long Count calendar simply clicks over to the next cycle – like our calendar does every Dec 31 when it clicks over to the next year.
The "sun blows up" and all the other trash about the world ending in 2012 is all pure trash.
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The Mayans didn’t predict anything, so your question cannot be answered.
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Neither ancient or modern Mayans predict anything for 2012. Just check out "Chile Pixtun" on the net.
The predictions of disaster in 2012 were based on superstition but are now entirely lies.
The Mayan calendar was not particularly accurate. They had a 365 day year but it is not certain that they allowed for leap years like we do. It would not matter whether their calendar was accurate or not, what matters is whether prophecies of doom are any good. And they never are. See "A Brief History of the Apocalypse" which sets out hundreds of different doomsdays that never happened.
In any case, the Mayans did not predict the end of the world. All that happens is that the current cycle of their long count of days (which is not really a calendar, just a count) will reach a round figure according to the Mayan counting system, which was not like ours. According to another of their inscriptions, one of their kings will be remembered in our 48th century. If the Mayans still had a government of their own, it would probably be party time as it was a sort of new year for them.
Everything else you have been told, read, seen on YouTube or the Hysteria Channel is lies. Stray planets, galactic or planetary line-ups, bees dying, Nostradamus, I Ching, ancient Egyptians, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish or Christian scriptures, Bible codes, magnetic or geographic pole shifts, you name it are all lies. Most of the bunk is recycled from the ends of the world that didn’t happen between 1999 and 2003.
The lies about this multiply by the month as some new fraud comes along and tries to frighten people into buying survival supplies, guns, disaster shelters, lying books, DVD or in to dangerous religious cults where they can get at all the sucker’s money.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/2012-isnt-the-end-of-the-world-is-it-20091012-gtn9.html
See http://www.2012hoax.org
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It doesn’t even predict anything.
See why the world will NOT end in 2012 here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/14/2012-combat-the-nonsense/
and here:
http://www.universetoday.com/category/2012/
Hope you read them all!
Clear skies and have a nice day!:-)
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There was no Mayan prediction, so I would have to say 0% on the accuracy of a nonexistent prophecy. Congratulations! You win the prize for being the first one I’ve seen saying the Sun was going to blow up. You can collect your prize on January 1, 2013 by going out to see the Sun rise.
The only predictions are modern ones, made up by those who invented the big 2012 hoax. No, it won’t happen. It was invented to make money selling doomsday rubbish.
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http://www.2012hoax.wikidot.com
We Hindus don’t believe that the world will end in 2012 because no Hindu scripture says so about any such possibility. These are all imaginary events. Please stop rumors.
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They did predict the foreign invasion that nearly destroy their entire civilization. 2012 is not end of the earth, but something new era, could be like a major world war or alien invasion or nature disaster.
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I don’t understand why this type of question keeps coming up! Why would anyone think that a culture that has zero record of predicting anything could predict successfully when the world will end?
There is a lot of things in this world to worry about. This is not one of them.
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There is no Mayan prediction.
One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world. Here is what a Mayan elder says on the subject: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_apocalypse2012
These predictions are scare tactics, conspiracy theories, and chances to make money from books and movies.
Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.
Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFAQ18.htm#q306
If you want a bit more information on the 2012 hoax, try: http://www.2012hoax.org
"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come." (Mark 13:32-33)
Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.
The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.
The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus’ advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.
Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.
For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0993.asp
With love in Christ.
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The world will not end in 2012 on December 21st 2012 at 11:11am.
Yes we are told that the mayans predict the end of the world, chaos will happen, poles will switch, earthquakes, everything. what we are not told is that the poles switch all the time. everybody tries to make the mayans predictions true, even if they aren’t.
we also apparently get sucked up by a black hole when the sun and moon align with the centre of the milky way (little do we know this happens very year), the closest black hole is 20,00 lightyears away and couldnt reach us in thousands of years
no one could possibly predict such a thing, wither they are the most talented person around, how could you even know that? the world really could end at any possible time, tomorrow, anytime.
there is a lot of things that are meant to happen. eg a planet will hit us, earthquakes. everything. BUT, this started off as nothing and its like chinese whispers, it developes and developes until it becomes the end of the wold. since the beginning of time there have been so called apocalypses, dooms days and massive changes. noting that is really being predicted hasn’t already happened, but obviously as people don’t know all the facts, it sounds extremely bad.
apparently the true ending is in 450,000,000 years away, when the sun will get to warm and boil water to lava.
hope ive reassured you a little.
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There are NO Mayan predictions of doom. None. Zero.
Back in 1966, in a book titled "The Maya", Michael Coe mused that "if the Mayans viewed their long count calendar as beginning at the Creation of the world, did they view its end in 2012 as the Apocalypse?" or words to that effect.
It was just a researcher considering the viewpoint of the culture he was studying. NO ONE has ever suggested that the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar was ACTUALLY the creation of the Earth. That would be about 3110 BC. Do YOU think the Earth was created in 3110 BC? If you are one of the many people claiming pertinence of the ENDING date of the Mayan calendar (as many have suggested in the answers to your question) then they MUST place equal importance to its beginning.
Oddly, no one does. People that WANT to find supporting evidence to their CRAZY claims will "pick and choose" the available data, throwing out the stuff that doesn’t agree and using only that which does. This isn’t fair and it CERTAINLY isn’t science.
After Coe’s book came out, a disreputable Art Historian named Jose Arguelles (who now calls himself Voltron Viagra, or something and claims to be a reincarnated Mayan Priest), wrote a book using the speculation of Michael Coe as its principle theme. Of course, very few people paid attention.
As we get closer to the mysterious 2012 date, more people have cited the works of Arguelles (safely ignoring the fact that he is CRAZY) as evidence that "The Mayans KNEW something!". Of course, they didn’t. Facts, however, get in the way of hysteria.
Please stop by 2012hoax.org if you have any more questions. There is a section about the LHC which I didn’t get into here. You won’t find any crazy claims there thrust at you with no evidence, like you get here in Y!A.
Enjoy!
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