Does believing in 2012, mean joining the Mayan religion?

Answer 1

No, it does not. You can be an eclectic spiritual being and believe many different things from many different religions. This just means that you cannot label yourself as a Buddhist or a Mayan or a Christian.

However, I firmly believe that no one knows when the end will come. I believe the words of great philosophers are twisted just like passages from the bible or any number of other places of self-proclaimed wisdom. These "prophecies" are twisted until they resemble the purpose or meaning a specific person wants the prophecies to have. It's easy to apply meaning after the fact to such predictions. Y2K is a great example. We are 7 years later, not dead or deprived of technology. The world continues on.

Answer 2

Separating out the facts from New Age hype isn't easy if you listen to those who sell books on the subject and buy their stories. The beliefs of the Mayan Shaman Kings are understandable, but perverse, and the religion of the modern Mayas...

The Mayan shaman/kings thought in terms of eons instead of decades, but their calendar does NOT END on the Mayan equivalent of 12/23/2012 - it's a date that represents a minor reset of the date that changes the middle and lower registers of the grand cycles to 0's --Yes, the Mayans separately invented zero! -- that will be the date that alledgedly will align the sky by calculation of the anniversary of certain celestial alignments; a configuration, according to the New Agers, that exposes the Earth to Inner Galactic Rays from our Galaxy's Cocore. 'Booga, booga, booga! And, Buy, buy, buy!' ;-Þ

Why the Shaman/King city states of the Classic Mayan culture fell apart remains unknown. The culture that created the calendar is extinct, and the remnants of that culture are being forcibly marginalized, consumerized, and xtianized.

Their are several theories that try to explain the sudden collapse of the shaman/kings -- everything from long, severe droughts, to traders finding sea routes that bypassed the major cities, to the common people walking away from the temple complex cities into the jungle because they no longer believed in the invinciblity of the shaman/kings, or because the Flower Wars among the shaman kings had increased to the point of anarchy and were were destroying their culture from within.

Classic Mayan cities that had been around for generations were suddenly and unexpectedly dethroned by newer, more vigorous cities. To be a shaman king meant always being right and suddenly they weren't being right, and the absolute faith in their magicians faltered, then failed.

The effects of these later conquests changed the human sacrifice from juat warriors and shamans - those that were responsible for the war and those who actually fought in it, to include the artisans and common classes in the sadistic tortures and deathball execution rituals. To me that's a sufficient reason to skip town and "civilization"....

Answer 3

No, I believe in 2012, the 366 days after the end of 2011 just like I believe in the sun coming up in the morning.
I believe, I believe, I believe.

Answer 4

no since it is more scientific now more than ever. also many other religions and tools (web spiders) even predicted the same thing. check out this website for the science aspect of it http://viewzone.com/endtime.html

Answer 5

We search and hope devoutly that the world will end in our lifetime, since our individual death is too sad to contemplate.