What does October 12, 2012 mean to you? Interested in all serious thoughts on this.
2006-12-05 00:50:57 · 15 answers · asked by Gwydyon 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is a misunderstandig actually. I does not end in 2012. The cycle ends there, and they have not mapped any further. It just means that 2012 wil be the Apex of an astro-physical transformation wich is believed, will have effects on all of us. In theory, the world will just get worse until that year. After 2012 though, things should start to look better given that we will be in a new age and with a new awareness about our condition as part of wholesome bigger energy wich is the substantial basic energy of the universe. That energy is the same energy that keeps the atoms together, electrons spinning, the planets aligned, the tides turning, etc. In simpler words, we will be closer to being one with the universe, as our energy will comunicate in a stronger way with it. That, of course, according to Mayan belief through a modern point of view.
2006-12-05 01:02:04 · answer #1 · answered by Boag Bugger 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(I take a deep breath.)
#1. The Mayan calendar is not ending. The 12th Baktun is ending. The 13th Baktun begins 12-21-2012.
#2. Notice the date: DECEMBER not OCTOBER.
#3 Therefore 10/12/2012 means NOTHING. It's a Friday in our calendar. In the Mayan calendar it's 12.19.19.14.10 12 Oc 13 Yax, none of which have any significance.
#4 There IS something besides the 13th Baktun going on on 12-21-2012. There is a grand astronomical alignment that only happens every 26,000 years due to precession of the equinoxes. To the Maya, this alignment signified the start of a new world age. Not the end of the calendar or Armageddon.
BTW, A baktun is a Mayan unit of time which lasts approximately 396 of our years (400 of theirs).
2006-12-05 05:23:36 · answer #2 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that they ran out of space on the stone, nothing more.
First - how is any civilization, no matter how technically advanced, going to know what will happen hundreds of years in the future? We certainly can't - how would a group living in the jungle without even the benefit of the wheel be able to do better?
Second - the calendar you have on your wall ends in about 25 days. Do you attach any mystical significance to that? Are you afraid that the world will end once you use up the last sheet of paper on your calendar? Of course not. (Well, if you do, I hope at least you don't have any positions of responsibility any where). You'll just hang a new calendar that you got within the last month or so, or maybe you have it on your wish list for friends and family to get for you as a gift.
Odds are, that's what the mayans planned, too. When the time came near, they'd just carve another calendar, is all.
Or maybe they'd drop some heavy hints on the Incans that the latest calendar with Olmec pin-up girls would be really cool to have hanging in the temple.
2006-12-05 00:58:49 · answer #3 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have the book "the Mayan Prophecies" and they give the date as Dec, 22 ,2012. Not the end of the world but the time when the earth shifts on it's axis as it has done every +- 5000 years through time. This shift (caused by sunspot activity) brings about earthquakes, floods and every other kind of climate disaster you can imagine. The earth and it's people won't be destroyed just changed. Yes, lots will die but not all. This book correlates with the Hopi, Cherokee and 11 other tribes of native americans as well as the predictions of Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus. The book is fascinating and gives all the mathematical equations to support it's hypothesis.
2006-12-05 00:58:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That they can't count higher then that? I don't think it means the world will end. They either ran out of room or out of numbers or thought it was far enough in the future that someone would take over and continue the calender.
2006-12-05 00:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont think it means the end of the world ( as many believe it does )
i feel it is time for great change ... as i have heard this in other beliefs also
and i cant wait
2006-12-05 00:52:06 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the process of reading the book 2012 now. fascinating theory and will be interested in seeing what happens as great changes are supposed to take place.
2006-12-05 00:57:10 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If things keep going the way they are I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if God ended this system of things by then.
If he doesn't come back soon he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
2006-12-05 00:58:33 · answer #8 · answered by Mad Maxine 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well if it marked the end of the Mayan Civilization, they were wrong!
2006-12-05 00:52:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's been hypothesized that the world will end on that day. I don't know if this is true, since I saw this headline on those grocery store news thingy.
2006-12-05 00:53:42 · answer #10 · answered by Lord L 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋