Yo what's up with all these people saying that 2012 is the new end of days.?

Question

Been listening to people talking about 2012 AD. being the time for a huge comet/meteor impact, man that would be cool setting on the beach laid back when " BAM " ride that huge babe for all its worth - it'll be your last! What would you be doing if you knew it would be your last few weeks/days alive????????

Answer 1

2012 is the end of the current cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar. it does not mean that there will be one single event on one single day that changes or destroys the planet, rather it is given as a general time frame or point of reference to a time of great change(NOT destruction) for all humankind.
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December 21, 2012 — The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).[1] The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.[2] However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The December solstice for 2012 also occurs on this day.

NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of current 11-year sunspot cycle. Some believe this will amplify the effects of retarding magnetic field on earth, as harmful charged particles blasted away from the sun would more easily penetrate the earth's atmosphere.

In 2012, asteroid 2004MN4 comes into view again to recalculate odds of impact.

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the twelfth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

* The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
* The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by discarnate entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars.
* The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
* The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
* The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
* The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
* The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
* The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.

Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:

* Terence McKenna's mathematical novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which a great number of things could happen, including "hyperspatial breakthrough", planetesimal impact, alien contact, historical metamorphosis, metamorphosis of natural law, solar explosion, quasar ignition at the galactic core, or nothing. [11]
* The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, speculated that Pope Benedict XVI would reign during the beginning of the tribulation of which Jesus spoke, and sometime later a future pope described in the prophecy as "Peter the Roman", the last in this prophetic list, would appear, bringing as a result the destruction of the city of Rome and the Last Judgment.
* Many new age spiritualists and philosophers ("new-agers") believe humankind will enter an age of enlightenment in 2012. There are a range of varying, generally positive, beliefs shared by a subset of spiritualists from the mundane to exceptional — including a positive social shift and age of peace, mankind becoming psychic and connected by a collective, and/or an evolution of the human race into non-corporeal beings made of "spiritual" energy, or light energy, i.e. 'ascension'.
* Some alien-enthusiasts (e.g. Riley Martin), along with some new-agers, believe 2012 to correspond approximately with the return of alien "watchers" or "caretakers" who might have helped the first human civilizations with developing their technology and may have been waiting for us to reach a higher level of technological and/or social advancement. Beliefs range from the extra-terrestrials having benevolent purposes — such as to help human society evolve — to malevolent purposes — such as enslavement of mankind and/or manipulation.[citation needed]
* The Nepalese ascetic Ram Bahadur Bomjon, the so-called "Buddha boy", reportedly told his followers that he would return around 2012.
* Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012. [12] [13] [14]
* There is a Hindu following indicating the appearance of an Avatar (God in human form) with God-like powers who will herald a new age. An interesting website to this effect appears at End of the World 2012.

Answer 2

Well it is based off the Mayan calender and some graphic images of the Mayans. According to them the world is going to end dec 21. 2012. Which is based completely off of the solar/lunar/ and venus positions. ON that day according to legend the machines he have will turn against us.. Wierd and freaky. Maybe the terminatror or matrix thing will happen. I doubt that anything will change.

Answer 3

To my understanding ... The ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar. The Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago!

Of course, like all other "end of days" prediction ... This one too shall pass!

Answer 4

I think all the talk is associated with the ending of the Mayan calendar on December 21 2011.

Answer 5

Read up on the Mayans and the Mayan calendar. I'm a Christian but put quite a bit of thought into that date. If we make it past 2012 we are sailing, the Mayans were as advanced as the Egyptians, so they had some good ideas.

Answer 6

I think thats a reference to that Mayan calendar theory, I don't know how the Mayans would know, but if I remember correctly thats what my history book said. Nobody knows the day nor the hour, only God knows, you don't have to agree with me, thats my belief and reason for not believing all these different year predictions for the end of the world.

Answer 7

2012 might be the time I retire from 20 years of Air Force service. That might be the year A-Rod hits 800 HRs. 2012 the rock band Kiss might have their 40 year reunion.

Answer 8

It's probably the same ignorant folks that thought the end was coming in 2000 or even 1996.

Answer 9

"The End" has been predicted so many times before and some believers sold everything they own...some even killed themselves and expected a space ship to pick them up. Learn from their mistakes and don't do any of them. Scaring the crap out of people is so common today that most ignore it! Do that!

Answer 10

Because 2000 didn't happen and they figured the next time through the Chinese zodiac would work?