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What is your opinion on the Mayan doomsday prophecy for the year 2012?

Do you believe in it? Is it just silly superstition? Do you care at all?

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1. ah well i think it is possible but honestly i think that we will be our own destruction. we are doing a pretty good job of it so far. but hey who knows? odder things have happened but there have been other times when people have thought "well, this is it, the end of the world is surely coming soon" they were wrong and it is all possible that the mayans are wrong too.

2. Don't really care. The world will end when it ends. I just gotta make sure I'm ready for it.

3. To a degree I think it has some significance.
I don't believe the world is going to end on that date, but I do believe they could be close.


4. It's not a doomsday thing, it's a dimensional shift thing. The Mayan calender is cyclical and does not indicate an ending but a beginning.

5. I think such a fatalistic prophecy befits a strain of humanity as bloody and morally sclerotic as the Myans.

Oh, I know how 'advanced' they were as a people, but recall a certain European country's skill for synthesizing shiny and happy new chemicals and loading those chemists' creations in artillery shells during WW1

6. I'm only answering this question because I saw a TV program on A&E on this subject. The Mayans have a big funny looking clock in the middle of the jungle somewhere that allegedly has kept perfect time since it was made. The narrator of the show claims that the prophecy "predictors", or whoever they are, said that when the clock stops, on some date in 2012, it will be the end of the world.
Whatever... doesn't mean nothing to me.

7. There is no Mayan doomsday prophecy.

No, Im not saying its superstition... I AM saying that it doesnt even exist. The Mayans never predicted any doomsday

8. i believe we should be scare no matter what the outcome. let me explain:

if it comes true, we all die

if it does not come true, imagine the people who believe it and cause chaos. just imagine the people who believe it and what they will do.

that day will is definitely one to be feared
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Facts: according to historians, the end of the calender does bring a new beginning....but my question is: does this new beginning include us or whatever is left after the end (assuming there is one)?

9. The Mayans had an extremely complicated calendar. It was very well thought out though, and very close the the calendar we use today in some respects.
They had calendars to predict the paths of the gods, and of life. Everything centered around time for the Mayans. They could predict days when the Gods would be angry, days when good harvests would come, and such.
They were quite good mathematicians those Mayans.

Now, every few years, 72 I believe, but don't know for sure, the Earth shifts on it's axis. So, one day we see one thing when we look up at the sky, and the next it will be just a little bit different. It's not a huge difference, but for the Mayans it was incredibly scary. They paid attention to the sky like nothing else, because that's where a lot of the Gods, and especially the ones that controlled life lived. When things changed, especially up there, they assumed that the Gods were so angry with them, that they had abandoned them for another world.

The year 2012 is a year when the Earth will shift. The world will not come to an end. At all. It's just a day on the Mayan Calendar that could not be plotted out because it matches a pattern of days when the Gods abandoned the Mayans.

We have nothing to worry about.

10. There isn't a doomsday. It's the end of the longest of many nested cycles in the Mayan calendar. There is no known reason for it to be more significant than 12/31/1999 in our own calendar. I think the Mayans had some kind of prophecy about it, but it would've been in symbols that aren't interpretable for us today, referring to Mayan gods and whatnot.

I think it'll be one of those things where we look back on it and say hmmm, maybe that date was a time of great change, but the day and year will not seem particularly climactic for us. I don't know whether or not any big changes happening for humanity would really be related to the Mayan astronomical cycles or not. I think the fear of "doomsday" is superstition, but I don't think we have the perspective to completely rule out some significance to the cycle-end.

11. Divination, is an extremely flawed concept.

A bunch of head hunting primitives, that couldn't keep their culture alive.

Really don't fill me with confidence with a doomsday prophecy for the year 2012.

Logically if they could predict doomsday, then surely they could have predicted their own downfall and taken steps to prevent it.

12. Well, there were some things relating to the 2012 date. Astronomical events such as the sun looking as if it's passing through the center of the galaxy and the Earth making a complete wobble are known to happen by our own astronomers. However, there were ancient Mayan texts that held the predictions or some events of specific dates. When the Spanish arrived, they burned most of these ancient texts when trying to convert the Mayans. However, one of the last books did survive, and on the last pages it describes the 2012 prediction:
A picture of water bearing god-like figures are shown and it depicts massive flooding of some kind.
Besides that, it seems to be also like a transition into a new age.
I like to study these types of things, and from what I can tell many different sources point to a pole shift -like event. But hey, how are we to really know?

13. I would call it silly if so many people were not getting scared about it.

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.

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.

"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.

14. i believe there will be an end to this world, but not on that day. and if it is, who cares? when there is a beginning, theres an end. it will happen eventually. it is enevitable. knowing the date will not change the chance of it.

all we can do now is live out lives to the fullest, because the end of the world could be tomorrow for all we know.

15. Yeah...there's something to it...
I have an interesting video uploaded called "Connecting the dots" here
http://www.yuwie.com/r/43640/
check it out
also... this guy, Texe, talks about 2012 here
http://www.powerofprophecy.com/102008/will_demons_arrive.htm