What do you think of the Mayan 2012 prophecy?

Question

It predicts a time of great change when many prophecies come to gether. A time ends and another begins. A paradigm shift. Many believe it has already started.

Answer 1

it's as much BS as the Bible

Answer 2

Well it's a great topic of discussion. I've already heard senarios on the radio. I've read a couple articles on the subject. One was saying that the reason the Mayan Long Calendar was ending on Dec 21, 2012 is because the sun will be lined up with the galaxy (or the galactic equator). This same article was stating that we'll start seeing signs w/in 5 years of this happening. So technically, it's begun. The sun being aligned this way was of a great significance to the mayan people. They believe that the earth would be passing through the Sacred Tree. The Sacred Tree was believed to be an umbilicus which is a human beings intrance into life as well as death. However, some have said that the Sun's alignment with the galactic equator has already occurred.....back in 1997 in fact. There were other article's stating how to survive 2012. Didn't we have this same sort of concern for the year 2000? Christians believed that Christ would come again, and the world would come to an end. Now it's 2012. Pretty soon we'll have a man walking down the street ringing a bell screaming "Bring out your dead!". No one knows a 100% for sure what's gonna happen tomorrow. For all we know, some idiot will push the little red button, and from there we'll proceed to blow ourselves up. For all we know tomorrow will bring the second coming of Christ. For all we know, tomorrow the Bird Flu will become a communicable disease, start spreading from human to human, and kill millions. For all I know tomorrow I'll be hit by a car. POOF! Your gone, and it happens in a blink of an eye. We just don't know. As far as 2012 bearing any sort of significance on the future of the human race, well...who knows. Maybe there will be some astronomical anomoly that will happen this day. I think the ability of the Mayans to be able to have their 13 bactum calendar end on a winter solstice is something to be impressed by. As for a time of great change, well, we can only hope.

Answer 3

Amazing, a good question, intelligently and understandingly asked, and still there are people who want to 'hear' 'End of the World' !

I think as you do that this date has become known to us for a reason, and that it was 'foreseen' eons ago, long before the Mayans, by a culture still steeped in the true and unbelievably ancient wisdom that trickled down to us, heavily altered for the most part by poor interpretation.

Insofar as no 'future' is immutable, then one could argue that this 'prophecy' is mumbo jumbo. I believe that we each have sufficient command over our perceived experience that shoudl we choose not to 'see' a paradigm shift at that date, then that will be our experience.

I, for one, like I suspect the questioner, believe that it is 'time'for a change, and that the suffering that has characterised this 'age' has served it's purpose, and that now we can move on.

It's really quite simple, would you prefer to stay as we are, and have been for several thousand years, believing wars, starvation and drought are a necessary part of the human experience, or would you rather see a more pleasant world, where we can share our abundance and individuality for the benefit of all ?

I choose the shift.

Answer 4

there is not any might desire to be afraid. there became no Mayan prophecy. That became made up, alongside with something of the 2012 hoax. there will be no international ability outage for any quantity of time, no longer to point for 5 years. there may well be none in any respect. We basically had an x type flare. Did you spot something in any respect? No, the sunlight won't blow up, ever. this is not any longer almost super adequate to pass nova. whilst it runs out of Hydrogen interior the middle, this is going to grow to be a crimson enormous, in approximately 5 billion years. there is not any longer something to represent that 2012 would be something different than a classic year.

Answer 5

there have been so many end of days prophecies that have'nt came true but this one has been predicted since the first civilisations which makes it all the more interesting.wether true or not our world is in a constant stage of change at the moment(you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that this is true).We are heading for something big in the very near future but what this is i do not know.I believe that deep down more people in the world feel the same.So it could very well be a true prophecy we'll just need to wait and see.

Answer 6

Well according to what I have read about this. Our machines are suposed to turn against us. And with the way people are careless and try to advance computers without thinking of the consequences, the 'terminator' thing is a possible result. People need to completely disreguard the bible here. That is Christian dogma and the mayan dogma are two completely different things. I believe that the world's technology base would collapse because of some event and that the world will return to a more rustic way of life.

Answer 7

I believe the world and we humans are always evolving and changing. Times always change...from dark ages to middle ages, etc. The Mayans haven't predicted anything that hasn't been known for thousands of years; that we are in a constant state of change. And the year 2012 is not the end of time or the world as we know it - that prediction has been made since time began. Just because their calendar ends there doesn't mean we will cease to exist.

Answer 8

I seriously doubt these people really had that much superior knowledge.According to a documentary on the History Channel it would seem that some type of extraterrestrial deity(s) had supposedly taught them this advanced knowledge. Even then the likelihood that these people would have been that capable is highly doubtful in spite of the alleged evidence. Many mythical stories and religions may have their origins this way and seems to point more towards extraterrestrial visitations especially during climactic and cyclical events which some have also referred to as end time raptures, apocalyptic etc. In this respect I think it's more likely any so-called golden age may be these sudden disclosures or revelations of the real truth behind our history and future especially in space travels, ecology, economics and world government(s).

Answer 9

So many prophecies have been made over the years about great change and disaster in the world and none have come true. I think in the last 10 yrs the world was meant to end at least 4 or 5 times in my memory but strangely and eeriely enough we are all still here... creepy aint it? You would think that at least one of these so called sooth sayers would be able to get it right. Or maybe there is another off the wall reason for this failure. Let me run it up the flagpole and see if you salute it... maybe, just maybe they are all a pile of c**p!

Answer 10

There have been many prophecy's like this over the years, and where still here, and if the world ends, so what, what can worrying do to stop it, when it comes it comes, but
The world will not end in 2012, only one of the cycles of time chartered by the Maya.

Answer 11

There is no Mayan prophecy. It is simply the end of one cycle of time according to the Mayan calender. Why would they bother making dates for a period of time over one-thousand years away. They can't just chisel dates ad infinitum, they had to stop their calender some where, why not at the end of what they consider a "long cycle?"