To qoute REM, " Its the End of The World as we Know It"?

Question

Why does everyone say the World is going to end in the year 2012?

Going pretty good, Zanbhudar.

Well, THe Mayans also say the world began 6000 years. It is commonly misinterpreted that THe Mayans said that December 22nd, 2012 would mark the end of the world. It Marked the end of a 26,000 year cycle, making 2012 the begging of a period of good fortune.

Answer 1

Because people love to panic over things without facts. The year 2012 is a pivotal year in the Mayan calendar, with a significant celestial catastrophe predicted.
But the Mayans aren't around anymore, and there is no proof that their calendar has any scientific basis.

Answer 2

Every single time we learn something new, or we make a new acquaintance, or we lose a loved one, it is, quite literally the end of the world as we know it, and the beginning of the world as we now, newly, perceive it. So to me, the lyrics to that song sung by REM don't mean what they appear to mean to so many other people.

They aren't saying that it's the end of the world, just the end of the world, as we know it.

As for why the year 2012?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWN,RNWN:2006-39,RNWN:en&q=2012+end+of+the+world

The Mayan calendar, accurate as all get out, and the first calendar to incorporate the concept of the number zero into its counting system, was not equipped with the concept of infinity, so its usefullness to humanity will come to an end in 2012, not necessarily because the Mayans beleived the world will come to an end, but because the Mayan Emperors or kings or whatever they had, didn't feel like commissioning a committee of astrologers, astronomers, mathematitions, or whatever, to come up with a bigger, better, longer-lasting version of their calendar, before the Aztecs conquered them, and destroyed their temples, and the Yucatan rain forests overgrew their temples and lost their calendar to the world until earlier in the previous century when archaelogists found it again, studied it, and started misinterpreting it and remisinterpreting it for decades.

Thanks to Mel Gibson's movie "Apocalypto" there are a lot of people who think that the reason Mel Gibson found funding for his movie is that it predicted the end of the world instead of just the end of the Mayan Civilization, and who knows, that might be true.

People have been predicting the end of the world, the beginning of doom and destruction, and all sorts of bad things, as well as some potentially good things, ever since at least the Prophet Jeremiah, who correctly predicted the downfall of the Kingdom of Judah.

Since then, there have been predictions that Christ would return and set up his kingdom on Earth in the 1870s, and when that didn't happen, it became 1914, and when that didn't happen, it became 2000, which was assisted by the Cold War, which actually came to an end more than a decade before 2000, and when 2000 came and we didn't al die, someone figured that 2001 needed to be the year, because of the fact that the early Christians couldn't count straight, because they didn't understand the concept of zero, so 2001 was actually 2000 years after Christ, and that, too, is part of why a group of islamic terrorists caused so much turmoil, is because they knew that so many American Christians were expecting someting even bigger and more terrible than the destruction they were capable of doing.. but, we showed, them.. huh?

So, now, the doomsayers are using the Mayan Calendar to support their beliefs that the world will come to an end in their lifetimes.

Me, I tend to agree with Womannblak24.. in saying that the end of the world COULD be tomorrow..

Are you ready?

If so, then you have no reason to fear when or even IF it comes during your lifetime, at all.

Answer 3

I saw a special years ago about the Mayan calendar writers and they apparently predicted very accurately the calendar far into the future. For some reason - and no one knows for sure why - they suddenly stopped on what would be Dec 22nd, 2012 in our current calendars.

So speculations evolve about why they stopped on that particular date, but the more I think about it, it's kinda silly to expect that they knew the future and would thus know exactly when the earth was going to explode or spin out of orbit.

Most likely they just got tired of writing calendars.

Answer 4

Nice song that's all.
The term world is relative, the end of the human civilization, the end of the religious world, the destruction of the planet Earth, the blow of the solar system, the collision of Andromeda and the Milky Way, etc.

Answer 5

Because the Christian fundies can't get it out of their heads that their apocalyse isn't going to happen, so they've latched onto the Mayan calendar in a desperate grasp of hope.

Hopefully they'll settle down again, untril the next round of milleniumism in the late 2020s/early 2030s, around the 2,000th anniversary of the supposed time of Jesus' death.

Answer 6

the mayan clock, they predict everything will end on 12/21/2012

its been accurate for lots of other things for hundreds of years

Answer 7

Dear GMAN:

Hey dude, how's things going?

There is no end of the world in 2012.
It will happen sooner than that now that Iran is developing
nuclear weapons and north Korea already has them. I
have serious doubts that we will make it to 2012 in one
piece. Mankind will more than likely be obliterated in a series
of nuclear blasts starting in or near the middle east.

Answer 8

I dont know what year it will be...I just know its coming soon...could be tomorrow!..are ya ready?