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Who believes the Mayan prophecy that the world will end on 2012?

What is actually written in the prophecy?

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1. There is no prophecy. Some people mistakenly believe the calendar ends that year, but it doesn't. It RESTARTS and we enter a new cycle. It was never intended to mean the end of the world.

2. Fundies do.

3. they were recording the precession of the earth's axis, not predicting the end of the world. just as with our own calendar, when we get to December 31st, we start back at the beginning with January 1st.

4. There is no "prophecy", their calendar just ends one of its cycles (like a decade) in 2012.

5. the bible says none will know

6. I dont believe it!!!!! no one knows maybe yes or no but i prefer no because I just stick (hoping to be saveD!!) to jesus christ He is also our father too!!!!!

7. Although many will tell you its just the end of a calendar cycle, there is something coming soon.
You can see that for yourself in the news.
Its probably got a lot to do with the poles of the earth.
There is nothing anyone can do about it though. We are in for a rough time of it.
I do believe that will happen, and not because of the Mayan calendar ending in 2012.
It will have nothing to do with religion. But the earth will most likely not be completely "destroyed" but definitely changed.
Here is a source for you to look up online:
http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm

8. I don´t think that i the end, but i'm shure that something is going to happen.

9. Some American teenagers on the internet.

10. have you seen the new Star Trek movie?

11. Wow, "Mother Nature" - way to oversimplify!

2012 coincides with a lot of cosmological events that could, in fact, destroy the Earth.

A supercollider has been built that spans across France and Switzerland. There will be a testing in 2012 that has the theoretical potential to create a black hole on Earth.

If the Earth is destroyed (for any reason - Yellowstone, meteor, whatever) we have no one else to thank but the CHRISTIANS for the lack of technology and population control to get off.

If it weren't for religion (particularly Christianity) holding back scientific progress and understanding, we would have built extra-terrestrial colonies to migrate to in the event of a Global disaster - YEARS AGO.

But now, not only can we not do that, but it is the RELIGIOUS that have 5,6,7,10 - children - continually ruining everything for everyone else, biogenetically, psychologically, politically, technologically, etc.

12. There is no end as "the earth endures forever." Many who believe in a future 2nd Coming or end of the world overlook this scripture. There are also 2 others that say "world without end, amen." etc.

The Mayans were amazing in their calculations, very precise w/ the movement of stars, planets, etc. Dec. 21, 2012 marks the end of their long count cycle and that very well could mean some earth changes (polar shift, increased sunspot activity, etc.) or the beginning of something new.

13. I totally believe that there is going to be an end to something,but not for life on earth. More like life as we know it. Personally I think we wil come to know a new truth and it will change life on earth as we know it. I think that the end of religion will happen. Some one will find the truth because something big will happen and give it to us. I think people will freak out and it will change so much more then we know. But because of it,we will have peace on earth for the first time ever.

14. There is no prophecy. All that happens is that their long count of days runs out on 21 or 23 December 2012, and that is because of their particular belief and counting systems. Perhaps they expected to have a party like any New Year with us, for other Mayan inscriptions mention kings being remembered in our 48th century.

The prophecies were invented recently by Jose Argulles and Mark Hazelwood. Argulles is an academic musician and consistent scribbler of woo-woo books. Hazlewood is a drug taker who writes down his visions, a self -described "psychonaut".

Neither of them, and none of the other prophets of doom are real scholars of the Mayans, in fact the real scholars are those who are saying the prophecies are hysterical nonsense.

The whole thing is fraud for money. It is intended to sell worthless survival books and videos with ideas left over from 31 December 1999. When nothing much happens at the prophesied time, they will just pick another date about 5 to 8 years after and start going on about the Mongolian scriptures or the Tibetan book of the dead, or some such obscure material.

15. The thought that the Mayan prediction that the world will end in 2012 is actually a misunderstanding. The Mayans worked on a calendar that is a 26 000 year cycle. There calendar does stop at Dec. 21, 2012, but they are not saying that the world is goind to end. The mayans connected their calendar, not only with our physical beings but our spiritual beings, and for them, 2012 is the turning point. 2012 is when we must determine the right path, either the path that will EVENTUALLY lead to our distruction, or in fact have us finally intergrate us will all that we exist with. The reason that the have no more on the calendar, is because it's the tiping point, but NOT the end.

16. No one I have ever met.

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.

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.

If you want a bit more information on the 2012 hoax, try AstroGeek's page: http://astrogeek.wordpress.com/hoax/

Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFAQ18.htm#q306

"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.

17. Those who fear life, and just want to go to a magical afterlife, are always looking for an end.

18. I do not believe that there is a prophecy. You have received several excellent answers so far on this. I can't tell you what is written in the prophecy because it doesn't exist.

The only people who 'predicted' some major cataclysmic event in 2012 were some new age types who were unqualified to interpret Mayan artifacts, and thought that something major will happen in 2012.

Probably the chief culprits were Jose Arguelles, Terrence McKenna and John Major Jenkins.

2012 is a hoax.