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What do you think about this mayan prophecy?

Well I herd a lot of rumors about this mayan prophecy. Being curious and naive me I had to look into it. I found out that mayan philosophers believed that the world will end in December 21 2012. Now I know that most religions such as Christians believe that the world will end some day but know one knows... besides "God". I know that we as humans don't know when the world will end but... do you believe that the mayan prophecy or is it just modern rumors.

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1. im not sure, but in islam, it is said that no one knows except god, but it will be on a friday, and december 21 2012 is a friday.... =/

2. The Mayan Calendar makes NO doomsday CLAIMS because 2012 is merely the end of a cycle. We are currently approaching the end of the 4th Mayan cycle. That means that Doomsday has happened THREE times before. For the ancient Maya it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting is a complete fabrication- and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.

People who promote 2012 are doing so to sell books and advertising on their doomsday shows. After each "predicted" doomsday passes with nothing happening there is a new one invented. I have watched the 2012 Doomsday program on the History (Hysteria) Channel. The content isn’t about any real 2012 event happening and it isn’t about history. It is about selling books and selling advertising on the TV programs.

There is no scientific theory that anything unusual is going to happen in 2012. ZERO scientists believe that anything out of the ordinary will happen in 2012. It is all total CRAP. These people are interested in one thing - MONEY. And by listening to their programs and/or buying their books you provide them with - MONEY. The more MONEY they make the more twists and turns they invent to make it more interesting so you will listen to new TV programs so they can make even MORE MONEY.

If you had hogwash to sell wouldn’t you try and package it so looked like prime rib? That is just what these shysters are doing… selling to those who will listen – HOGWASH. Drink deep!!! They need MORE MONEY. They need YOUR MONEY.

By the way... 2012 isn't the first Doomsday prediction. Here is a link to other Doomsday predictions from the past and present…

Here: http://www.abhota.info/end6.htm

THERE HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS… and none have come true.

3. modern rumors.

4. STOP * ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT 2012, OK?????

5. There are no Mayan prophecies or predictions; all of that has been made up by people from our current generation. The only thing that comes from the Mayans is that their long base calender starts over in our year of 2012.

6. You need to look into it a bit more carefully. Here's what the Mayans actually said about 2012, taken from a partially defaced stone inscription:

"The Thirteenth 'Bak'tun" will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K'ank'in).
... will occur.
(It will be) the descent(?) of the Nine Support(?) God(s) to the...[ "

Any talk of a prophesy is an invention by a bunch of crackpots, trying to sell worthless doomsday books and videos. In fact any prediction for 21st December 2012 other than the solstice (the shortest day in the northern hemisphere) can be dismissed as garbage.

7. Actually, the Mayan calendar is just a calendar. The Mayans used it to tell them when to plant crops, etc. It doesn't prophecize anything - it never did.
The Mayan philosophers believed that it was the end of a world CYCLE, not the end of the world. Our world cycle ends every year on Dec 31 - the world doesn't end on Dec 31.
It is NOT a prophecy of the end of the world.

8. The sun will align with the center of the galaxy on that date, the mayan calendar RESTARTS not end, but the I Ching, one of the first books ever written, predicted major global events including WW1 and 2 and it ends catastrophically at december 21, 2012.

9. What do I think? I think people should read the countless other 2012 questions here before they post new ones!

10. It is just modern rumors.

11. What do I think about it? Diddly squat!

12. We know that the Mayans did NOT claim that the end-of-the-world would be in 2012.

They left writings where they describe event that they thought would take place on Earth (involving humans) well after the year we call 4000. They use their calendar to give the date.

Obviously, they expected neither the world nor their calendar to end.

There is an old "belief" that the Mayans thought that there would be a renewal of creation (without describing what it really means). The only serious descriptions comes from a book called Popol Vuh.

According to the story in that book, the Mayan gods will visit Earth at the end of each cycle (5,125 years) to determine if they are happy with their creation.

Unfortunately, the book was not written by Mayans. It was written by a Spanish Priest 500 years ago (5 centuries AFTER the decline fo the Mayan empire) while the Conquistadors were conquering the Aztecs and the Incas. The priest went into mountain villages where Mayan people were still living, and he collected oral stories that people had been telling from one generation to the next, for centuries.

The book was written in the language spoken by the Mayans, but written with our Latin alphabet (the priest would simply transcribe the stories phonetically without trying to understand them).

It is very difficult to guess how much of that really represents the real beliefs that existed at the peak of the Mayan empire. Especially since this book has since been lost. We have to work from a translation into Spanish, done a few centuries afterward (by another Spanish priest).

And in the translation, the stories are "enhanced" with passages from versions of the Bible that existed in Spain around the time of the translation. This leads some of us to think that it is not a pure translation.

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Linking the Mayan "prophesies" (the Mayan gods deciding if they must renew their creation -- whatever that means) to the doomsday promises of the Big 2012 Hoax is a very modern invention.

Many of the links were simply made up after June 2003, when the original Planet X hoax (end-of-the-world in June 2003) went beyond its "Best Before" date. That is when it was recycled into the Big 2012 Hoax.

13. None of you are very educated on this subject, are you? The Maya, the Hopi, the Incas, and a host of other civilizations all basically agree on the December 21, 2012 prophesy.(The exact date is disputed though). A rare galactic alignment, an increase in solar flares, and other astronomical events will be occurring in 2012. Who know's what will happen. But I wouldn't rule out something amazing. By the way, the Bible does not say the earth will end! There will be a new heavens and a new earth. The earth will continue on, it will just be returned to a paradise.

14. There is no prophecy. It is all made up to seel books, movie tickets, and advertisement space on the History Channel.

The 2012 hoax-off has many claims, even quite a few that are self contradicting, and many others that contradict other parts of it.

It is difficult to calculate where it began. It seems several different armageddon's sort of (slowly at first, then faster and faster as of recent months) "merged" into one.

First off, you have the Mayan Calender, (a cyclical calender) that turns over to a new Baktun on Dec. 21 (or 23 to some people's interpretations) 2012. It's the equivalent of a new year's day for them. The calender rolls over, like your car odometer would... and you car doesn't end when it ticks over to a new front digit, does it? The guy to blame for this nonsense is Jose Arguelles. Do a wiki search on him to determine if he has any understanding of archeaology or interpretation of Mayan artifacts, (credentials are lacking, imagination is not). Then decide if you wish to believe him or not.

The Planet X nonsense is the concoction of Nancy Lieder. She tried to sell books to "survive the end of the world" when this planet was suppossed to crashinto earth, or cause a pole shift, or whatever... back in 2003.

Since she didn't sell enough books, she republished it, changed the date to match with Jose Arguelles' end of the world, and, VOILA! A new money making machine with zero scientific evidence whatsoever!!! Hooray! A sucker is born every minute... And Ms. Leider wants that suckers wallet. Throw her lil sidekick Mark Hazelwood into the mix, and you have a recipe to confuse people into scaring them into emptying their wallets.

It's a shame if you ask me.

What else?

Zechariah Sitchin's Niburu?

Ooooh, don't get me started. First of all, he misinterpreted an ancient Sumerian artifact. Fudged some dates on some mass extinction periods on earth, and came up with some 2085 date for the Annunaki to come back and get the gold from earthlings that we've alledgedly suppossed to have been mining for them for a few millenia.

Problem is, Sitchin's fake planet was not intended to come in 2012, he claims it will return in 2085 (equally impossible), either way he is upset the 2012ers had no problem hijacking his planet and throwing it into the mix, not that a fake planet will come by no matter what hypothetical year you attribute to it.

Do you want me to continue?
I can certainly go into greater detail, if you would care to delve into it.

http://www.2012hoax.org

15. I believe December 21, 2012 is the dawn of a new age.

16. The Mayan prophecies speak to us of the changes towards the fifth Ajaw (fifth sun), on December 21, 2012. This date begins the period of 5,200 years. This is a cycle of wisdom, harmony, consciousness and the return of the natural order.

It is not the end of the world as many from outside of the Mayan tradition have misinterpreted it to be. The fifth cycle will be a fusion of both feminine and masculine energies. It will be a transition where there won't be any more confrontations between the polarities. It will bring balance and there won't be hierarchy of one over the other.

Also the Hopi Indians, Cherokee, Hindu scriptures (Brahma-Vaivarta Purana), and Terence McKenna's novelty theory based on the ancient I Ching are telling us that on 2012 the world will be transforming and going through great changes.