well i dont remeber when,but i remeber reading this article about the mayan calender.The article said that the claender would end around the year 2009.now its said that the mayans could supposobly tell the future b/c they predicted events such as 9/11 well n e ways if its gonna end in 2009...does that mean somthing catastrophic will happen enough 2 stop the earth or sumthing?(p.s i might sound smart but im not that smart so dont expect another question as well written as this 1 lol !!!)
2007-09-28 15:48:02 · 10 answers · asked by I Eat Broken Crayons 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
i know i might sound kinda dumb 4 asking this...but i dont wanna look it up.....wtf is the apocaylpse i think i heard that in da bible ....ahhh confusion >.<
2007-09-28 16:01:00 · update #1
ppl im 14 btw thats y i messed up so much on the question...srry heh....
2007-09-28 16:02:57 · update #2
it was december 21st, 2012.
2007-09-28 15:50:57 · answer #1 · answered by cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan calendar simply ends in 2012, it doesn't state the world will end.
Writings in the Mayan religion say that the current "world cycle" will end, but their explanation of world cycles sounds like a cross between religion and the New Age mysticism of the 1970's. The change they talk about could be a sudden world peace, a change in the way humans govern the world, could be something like the first verified contact with an alien race - it could be anything (or nothing).
There have been all kinds of people throughout history that predicted all kinds of events - some of them sound like the predictions came true if you interpret the prediction correctly (most predictions are worded so that they are rather vague and could mean almost anything).
The world could end this month, it could end in 2012, it might be another 100 years - no one knows (including the Mayans who have been gone for thousands of years).
The only "known" end of the world is the scientific calculation that the sun will expand into a red giant in about 5 billion years - that will burn and scorch the Earth and all life will end.
By the way, apocalypse is a biblical word meaning the disclosure to certain privileged people of something hidden from the majority of humankind.
Today it is often used to mean "end of the world", which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means "revelation at the end of the world".
2007-09-28 23:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ry K is right, the Mayan Calendar says something will happen in 2012 that will change the world order. That doesn't mean the Earth will be destroyed or anything. It just means there will be a huge change. It could be a worldwide flood or a bunch of natural disasters, or it could be the Apocalypse. It would definitely be something big enough to affect most everyone and everything.
2007-09-28 22:57:05 · answer #3 · answered by SVAL 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Many events in the current newspapers are indeed frightening, and if we read the predictions of generations
that lived before us we may become even more disturbed
about our future on this planet. I suggest to you that the farther back in history you go, the less scientific and global based the predictions become. In the early days man lacked the ability to communicate rapidly across vast distances and collect data necessary to correlate glaobal events.
For the present situation, you may, however, expect the United States, as we presently know it, to be rendered impotent and run assunder if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential Election in November of 2008. I recommend stocking up on MRE's, bottled water, and gold coins of any denomination you can find.
2007-09-28 22:59:22 · answer #4 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you grow up just a little more (not long now!) you'll have all sorts of questions about the world, but the most important is how you can tell what is true, and what isn't. And that's the basis of what is called science (from the Latin "scio", meaning know).
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2007-09-28 23:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by tsr21 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. That's just the Mayan version of the Y2k bug. It's just a quirk in their calendar design.
2007-09-28 22:58:57 · answer #6 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You've got the date wrong, but it really doesn't matter, since the whole thing is a farce anyway. There's absolutely no reason to believe that this will be "doomsday" any more than the hundreds of other dates which have been proposed in the past thousand years. Don't you remember all the cartoons of old geezers in robes carrying signs saying "The End Is Near!"?
2007-09-28 22:56:43 · answer #7 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not 2009
its 2012
2007-09-28 22:58:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. But on your specific advice I shall sell all my worldy belongings and buy a canoe.
2007-09-28 22:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by andy b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world wont end. it will have a huge change-
the republicans will be destroyed forever!!
LOL
2007-09-28 23:26:35 · answer #10 · answered by Formerly Known as 30stm 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋