Can you explain why I shouldnt worry about the Mayan 2012 end of the world prediction?
I already broke up with my boyfriend, cash all my bonds and whatnot and plan on dropping out of school at the end of the year and totally living it up for 2011 since thats our last year on earth.
My mom caught wind of this and has been yelling at me non stop. I’m doing it anyway but she did put a thought in my head that the Mayans could be wrong.
1) The Mayans didn’t predict ‘the end of the world’. It’s the end of one cycle of their long-count calendar which runs for thousands of years.
2) Even experts on the Mayans aren’t all agreed on when exactly this cycle of the calendar ends, and even fewer are agreed on what it means, although the majority don’t think it means the ‘end of the world’.
3) The whole ’2012′ thing has been massively over-hyped and exaggerated by people who wouldn’t know a Mayan if they fell over him. It’s just another dose of pseudo-Millenial paranoia which seems to surface every few years.
4) On New Years Eve in the year 999AD, people all across Europe were sh*tting bricks because they believed that on the first day of the year 1000, Jesus would return, the dead would rise from the grave, the world would end, and the Day of Judgement would kick off. Many stayed up all night, praying fervently, weeping, wailing, gnashing their teeth, and generally being overwhelmed with fear in expectation of the End of the World.
The next morning, they all felt a bit silly.
Don’t waste your life with this rubbish you idiot.
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Because it just will not happen.
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Common sense.
No, you’re definitely right. Remember when Y2K came around, all the computer systems crashed because of the change of century, and the world went into anarchy and everyone died?
…oh wait.
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Simply because it’s a false prophecy.
Just like when people thought the world would end when the year changed from 1999 to 2000. Funny how that turned out, right?
Just don’t worry about it. If you’ve done good in this life, then when the world DOES end, you can be confident that you will have a happy afterlife (depending on what your beliefs are).
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It is the end of the calendar, not the end of the world.
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Well… the prediction isn’t until December 21, 2012 so you still have over two years until the predicted date.
Also, the Mayan calendar doesn’t "end," but merely restarts. The Mayan calendar runs in cycles that translate into roughly 520 years each. The end of each cycle supposedly results in a drastic change in the world. The last time the calender "ended" was in 1492, when Columbus sailed to the New World and opened up the floodgates of European exploration and imperial expansion into the western hemisphere.
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No, I cannot, I was hoping you could tell me !
I am so worried I have tore up my calender for 2013
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As Wanderer said, ‘End of the World’ typically means ‘End of an Era’.
In the early 1800s, many Biblical scholars predicted the biblical end’ would come and Jesus would return in the mid-1840s (Rev. William Miller set it in 1843). Many people believed this, sold everything, put on ‘ascension robes’, and climbed the nearest to wait, and wait, and wait. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church sprung from this movement.
Interestingly, one era did end, and another began; on May 23, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message, ushering in the era of electronic communication. The message: ‘What hath God wrought?"
Also, a few hours early, in Iran, the Babi religion (forerunner of the Baha’i Faith) came into existence when the first believer accepted ‘the Bab’ as a Prophet of God.
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On December 20th, 2012, some groups will commit mass suicide, some of the talking heads will have the people in a frenzy.
On December 21th, 2012, nothing happens
Moral of the story:
I am 59 years old, every prediction with just as firm evidence, of some major calamity forthcoming has never come true, not even a ripple.
The odds of this being true are not good.
Your mother is right
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The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012, which is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae related to this date have been proposed, but none have been accepted by mainstream scholarship.
A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that during this time Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios posited for the end of the world include the Earth’s collision with a passing planet (often referred to as "Nibiru") or black hole, or the arrival of the next solar maximum.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea that a catastrophe will happen in 2012, stating that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the existing classic Maya accounts. Mainstream Mayanist scholars state that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history. The modern Maya, on the whole, have not attached much significance to the date, and the classical sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean.
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Worrying about something that may happen is like paying interest on a debt that you don’t have by throwing money down the drain.
Please make sure that whoever put this idea in your head is not helping you spend your money, destroying your future and generally screwing you up, for their own advantage.
The only certain thing in this world is that your mum loves you and is right most of the time. Right now you will think that she knows little, by the time that you are 21 you will be surprised by how much she really knows.
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Don’t drop out of school at a time like this. You’ll need to graduate for college. Without a college degree you’ll have a lousy life and be forced to depend on others. The date and story just stores up commercialism. Movies, TV shows, controversy. Every ones world can end at anytime by getting killed by accident but it’s no reason to plan on doom. Listen to your Mom on this one. She has it tough enough without you rebelling on your future because of something you’ve heard or read.
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Why worry if is going to happen will, worrying stop it NO.But its not going to happen,plenty of people have said it before. AND we still hear.
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The Mayans didn’t predict the end of the world only the end of a cycle. It is the interpretation of modern self proclaimed scholars who maintain the ending of this particular time cycle is the ending of the world. Corporate media and these so called experts can make a nice profit sell books and producing quasi- historic documentaries on such tempests in a tea pot.
Furthermore if corporations and government can keep people frightened they can manipulate them easier. It is a well known axiom in Psychology that fear makes people think and act irrationally like blowing all their money and not planning for their futures.
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You shouldn’t believe over hyped events in the media and by scare mongers, people misusing this information should be liable to criminal charges. People should be more careful how they report information because they have a duty to their fellow men, a 16 year old indian girl killed herself because she was so scared that the Large Hadron collider would create a black hole and it is irresponsible and shocking that after such tragic events that people are not more sensitive, and that doesn’t even count the number of mass suicide cults that have killed themselves over similar events! Knowledge is power don’t abuse it!
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A rant
Do you remember Y2K??
Who wants to admit they came out of their bunker the morning of 1/1/2000 & found, yep, the world was still here? The only thing they needed to feel 100% like a moron was have Nelson from The Simpsons point at them & laugh out "HA HA!!"
The ONLY end of the world for you will be the day you die.
Either thru natural causes or b/c you were gullible enough to join that doomsday cult.
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There is no real evidence that the world will end when the Mayan calendar returns to its starting position, any more than the world will end when this year’s calendar reaches Dec 31st. It is merely the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. I’d worry more about the political situation in the world, and the global warming that some still say is bogus, despite the ever melting polar ice caps and increase in major storms.
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1) The Mayans didn’t predict ‘the end of the world’. It’s the end of one cycle of their long-count calendar which runs for thousands of years.
2) Even experts on the Mayans aren’t all agreed on when exactly this cycle of the calendar ends, and even fewer are agreed on what it means, although the majority don’t think it means the ‘end of the world’.
3) The whole ’2012′ thing has been massively over-hyped and exaggerated by people who wouldn’t know a Mayan if they fell over him. It’s just another dose of pseudo-Millenial paranoia which seems to surface every few years.
4) On New Years Eve in the year 999AD, people all across Europe were sh*tting bricks because they believed that on the first day of the year 1000, Jesus would return, the dead would rise from the grave, the world would end, and the Day of Judgement would kick off. Many stayed up all night, praying fervently, weeping, wailing, gnashing their teeth, and generally being overwhelmed with fear in expectation of the End of the World.
The next morning, they all felt a bit silly.
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