Do you think we will survive 2012?what will happen?
Im kind of scared.
Everyone is reminding me that it is in like three years
and i watched this video in history last year and it was about how the Mayans pedicted it, and they are 3 seconds of all of there predictions
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but the bible says we wont know the date/time of the last day on earth
what will happen?
The only thing that the Mayan "predicted" (and may not happen for them) is a time of celebration. They had set up their day-count calendar so that the day with the round number (day number 13.00.00.00.00 in their system) would fall on their New Year’s Day (Winter Solstice).
That celebration for them would have been like January 1, 2000 for us.
Sure enough, ours got ruined by charlatans predicting the end of the world (Y2k). In the same way, other charlatans (they are not the same charlatans, I checked) have invented a fake prediction of the end-of-the-world for the Mayan’s big day.
One problem is that the video that "proves it" was prepared by the same charlatans…
It is as if I pretended to be your uncle and, to "prove it" I would show you a video where I say "I am your uncle". Not a very convincing proof.
Some people say that it might be an Enlightenment. Some kind of New Age. Even that is not sure.
We are not even sure that the Mayans, when their empire was strong around a thousand years ago, really expected a New Age of Enlightenment. The only indication of that is a book that was written by a Spanish priest around 500 years ago (five centuries after the cultural decline had begun). Even that book is lost: we only have a translation that was done by another Spanish priest about 250 years ago. This book (the translation) is called Popol Vuh — it was in Chicago the last time I checked.
So it is difficult to say that the beliefs in this book really represented the beliefs of the Mayan people, or simply the hopes of the mountain villagers that the priest met, 500 years after the Mayan people started losing their empire.
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But from a scientific point of view, none of the doomsday promises that have been made for 2012 will happen.
None.
Zero.
In fact, most of them are just plain impossible.
The Mayans predicted an era of spiritual ascension, which doesn’t mean we will all die. People seem to misinterpret those things all the time, simply because some people can’t live without the fear or the intrigue in their lives.
In short, yes, we will survive 2012, unless we die of accidents, natural causes etc. But we will not die because of the destruction of Earth. Nobody knows when that will happen.
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Nothing.
Remember when everyone was going crazy when 2000 was just around the corner and apparently all the computers in the world would glitch up and the world would go into chaos. Did it happen? No.
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We will survive it. People have got to stop asking this question.
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Its not worth posting because some people will say nothing will happen when others will say something will. Personally I think nothing will happen. If you want more information I will give you some videos and pages on 2012 in my sources section.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012
http://www.hulu.com/search?query=2012
The only thing that the Mayan "predicted" (and may not happen for them) is a time of celebration. They had set up their day-count calendar so that the day with the round number (day number 13.00.00.00.00 in their system) would fall on their New Year’s Day (Winter Solstice).
That celebration for them would have been like January 1, 2000 for us.
Sure enough, ours got ruined by charlatans predicting the end of the world (Y2k). In the same way, other charlatans (they are not the same charlatans, I checked) have invented a fake prediction of the end-of-the-world for the Mayan’s big day.
One problem is that the video that "proves it" was prepared by the same charlatans…
It is as if I pretended to be your uncle and, to "prove it" I would show you a video where I say "I am your uncle". Not a very convincing proof.
Some people say that it might be an Enlightenment. Some kind of New Age. Even that is not sure.
We are not even sure that the Mayans, when their empire was strong around a thousand years ago, really expected a New Age of Enlightenment. The only indication of that is a book that was written by a Spanish priest around 500 years ago (five centuries after the cultural decline had begun). Even that book is lost: we only have a translation that was done by another Spanish priest about 250 years ago. This book (the translation) is called Popol Vuh — it was in Chicago the last time I checked.
So it is difficult to say that the beliefs in this book really represented the beliefs of the Mayan people, or simply the hopes of the mountain villagers that the priest met, 500 years after the Mayan people started losing their empire.
—
But from a scientific point of view, none of the doomsday promises that have been made for 2012 will happen.
None.
Zero.
In fact, most of them are just plain impossible.
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No, it’s just when they stopped writing the calendar at 2012, could be because of a number of reasons, probably the got tired/bored???
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Yes- you will survive this HOAX!
2012 is a 100%—genuine– junk science– hoax! The internet is FILLED UP with 2012 junk science!
We get 20-40 questions everyday about this FANTASY– before posting any more 2012 questions please Search on Yahoo Answers for one of the 35,000 answers already posted.
And while you are doing that check out these two web sites– NASA and Neil deGrasse Tyson– not your average internet low IQ blog sites!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I Tyson Debunks 2012
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
NASA 2012 link– Questions and Answers
Please post your future 2012 questions in Yahoo’s new Topic forum–
"Science for people who skipped all their school classes".
Thank you
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Well, MY calender ends on December 31 of this year (2009). Does that mean that the world will end simply because the calender on the wall ends at the end of this year? Obviously not.
So, who do you believe more anyway? The Bible, or some crazy Mayans?
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Look There been a lot of talk about 2012 but ppl are thinking the earth will end then but why cant it be the beginning of the end 2012 is the start. even in the BIBBLE Armageddon don’t start in one day it works its way up sowhy cant that be with 2012 thank about it
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if you look into the night sky and squint really hard you can see the object that will hit the earth and destroy it look hard!
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gahhhhhhhhhhhh
2012 will be just like any other year.
the world will not end.
the mayans didn’t predict the end of the world, it’s just a time when their calendar resets.
don’t believe the scare-mongering, it’s all nonsense.
we’ll be fine =]
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Did we die in 2000? Did we die in 2006? Will we die in 2012? NO.
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