What exactly will the new age be like after 2012?

Question

This is according to the Mayans.

Answer 1

First of all, kudos to you, for not calling it the "Aztec Calendar", as most people incorrectly do. The Mayan Calendar doesn't really offer evidence of anything, except that the Mayans had a very sophisiticated understanding of math.

The Mayans were superb mathematicians - one of only two cultures, along with the Babylonians, to have independently discovered the zero. This resulted in an understanding of engineering, astronomy, and other sciences that boggles modern minds.

The Mayan numeric system was base-20, meaning, that whereas we count from zero to nine before turning the next digit, they counted from zero to their equivalent of nineteen. However, this didn't jive with the way the solar year worked - 365.24 days.

Looking to reconcile the solar calendar with their numeric system, they hit upon a hybrid - one that combined a 20-unit "secular" year with a nested 12-unit "sacred" year. The two years turned, like different-sized cogs in a machine; and whenever they both simultaneously came back around to "one", it was the end of an age, a "baktun".

The Mayan Calendar accomodates 13 baktun - or, more accurately, 13 baktun minus one day. Why? Probably because the whole calendar just resets to the very beginning at that point. We'll never know for certain, as the Conquistadors destroyed nearly all of the Mayans' written works. However, the interpretation developed since that time, that 13 baktun represents the "end of time", rather than merely the end of the cycle.

The human mind has always been fascinated with beginnings and endings - it's probably impossible for us to conceive of any earthly thing that doesn't "end". Whether it's a child turning ten years old, or an older person turning 100, the turning of that new digit always feels like a momentous occasion - something to be looked forward to, or else intensely feared.

No doubt there will be many people sitting on mountaintops in 2012, waiting to see what happens - just as there were in 2000, and then again in 2001 (for those who are sticklers for their millenia). If they experience any kind of personal transformation, then that is all they're likely to experience.

But even a personal transformation isn't bad.

Answer 2

We shouldn't dismiss it as nothing, because the Mayans were very much before their time. Their calander has been usefull so far so why put it off as another year. I believe they Mayans could have made a year 2013 or any after that but why waste your time making a calander that will out last your civilization for more than 2000 years.

Answer 3

The same as after 1999. Nothing is going to happen that would not have happened on it's own. Remember, people used to have a god for everything (sun, wind, rain, fire, earth, ice, etc.) and people wrote thousands of prophecies based on what they knew at the time. It'll just be 2013 and this planet will still be a s**t hole because we treat each other like crap.

Answer 4

Many economists are predicting a worldwide systems collapse based on the reduced levels of oil reserves that will be available. This theory is called "Peak Oil" and it suggests that as the reserves dwindle and demand increases, economies based on petroleum will face collapse. When it becomes more expensive to pull the oil from the ground and refine it, countries sitting on these reserves will simply stop producing it for the rest of us. Desperate countries with the military means will inevitibly seek to control these oil rich countries to safeguard their access to the oil fields. It doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to see this. Many, including myself, see this happening already with the US occupation of Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan. Remember: petroleum doesn't just mean gas for our cars; it is the means in which we obtain electricity and produce food on a large scale to name a few.

Answer 5

You're referring to the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in that year. Well, it's not that far off, so we we'll have to wait and see.

Answer 6

Lots of people are supposed to die because of some massive self-brought on disaster. But afterwards, those who do survive are supposed to have a completed rejuvinated new, "cleansed" life with a "new" Earth.

Answer 7

Peace will guide the planet, and love will steer the stars. We hope.

Answer 8

modern technical, scientifical developement in all fields in all countries among all people.

Answer 9

see where we were in 2000, and extrapolate

Answer 10

wild i bet im just guessing though