Is The End Of The World In 2012?

Question

I'm a kid and I saw this article and I can't describe it any other way other than I AM FLIPPING OUT! I am so scared. Is this true?
http://www.viewzone.com/endtime.html

Answer 1

Kid, relax. It's rubbish. Please learn at a young age that the internet, fun though it is, isn't a reliable source of news and information.

Answer 2

You know, I have stated several times, that I am pi$$ed off by these kinds of predictions, (and the media support they get), mainly because they scare people...especially kids. As a teacher during some of the doomsday predictions of the past, I have seen what it can do to children. So one perspective is that the people who promulgate this nonsense are emotional bullies.

There is no indication that the world will end that year, any more than it did on the many of previous, equally popular predictions.

People are also alarmed because they think that their sources of information are reliable. Most aren't. Even local news, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and especially Fox, have aired material of the most scientifically invalid nature...all for, well, you know what.

We who understand and have a lot of specific knowledge about cosmic events can quickly spot fraud and tabloid-like exploitation of people who have not studied these subjects. I hope others will help me in assuaging your fears. This will not happen. Virtually all of the premesis for making such claims are absurd. If you would like to e-mail me the specifics of the information you received, I will explain to you why it is nonsense. Or I will direct you to legitimate science sites which provide information you can use to debunk these claims yourself.

Nostradamus, the History channel, and the bible are crap. Also, where Nosty and the bible are concerned, no such predictions have been made. Every time Nostradamus has been "right," it was always after the fact, and by only the most extreme stretching of the imagination. Virtually every prediction made *before* the event has been wrong. The bible is just as bad. But it is really people extracting meaning from things that simply do NOT say what they claim they do. Nostradamus never made ANY of the predictions cited by the person below me. See for yourself.

Hey, kid, if you are really afraid, e-mail me and I will tell you about such a scare back in 1960 or 61, which freaked me out, too. But hey, I'm still here! And at least a dozen claims of doom have come and gone since. (Goddamnm bullies!)

Answer 3

First time i heard about this i was just as frantic as the next guy, but i got over it, there is no proof that the world will end 2012, its just many predictions and rumors just like the y2k scare. Now im not going to go into detail about the whole thing or get into anything biblical, despite the fact i am a christian some people are offended by this so i wont go there. Anyways the date 2012 is the date set that the Mayan calender would end, Why? I dunno ill go as one...wait there all gone i cant do that. Did anyone ever think that they maybe st oped on 2012 there because there all dead and dead people dont write out new calenders. Also this mathematically advanced civilization ramed sticks up there penis's because they thought they could see into the future through pain. Now who will we beleive on when the world will end? A long dead race of people with sticks in there d*cks (haha that rhymed). Or the holy bible.

Answer 4

No, nothing is going to happen in 2012. Crazy people have been predicting the end of the world for a thousand years, yet it's still here. There's absolutely no scientific evidence, from astronomy, archaeology, or linguistics, that anything unusual or dangerous is going to happen in 2012. Please don't be scared...I'm not.

[Edit] KBW3 is right on when he says these people are nothing but bullies. I simply can't imaging anyone stooping so low as to make up doomsday stories to scare little children, all to make a few bucks.

Answer 5

The end of the world is often not so much literal as metaphorical.. Meaning they say it will end.. but when something happens so that we look at the world differently, they say, "See the world as you knew it ended."

All in all, i wouldn't worry about it.. since the worlds will probably be here for a few more billion years until the sun expands and burns it to a crisp.. at which point i don't think you will have anything to worry about.

Answer 6

According to legend it's the end of the current world and the beginning of a new one. The world is not supposed to totally be destroyed, it's merely a transition. That is, the end of this era and a beginning of a new one. We'll a be alive whether we believe such things or not.

Answer 7

Don't worry about it, kid. We humans haven't master our own biology yet. We cannot master the universe until we have first mastered our own biology. After we have mastered the universe and have become as gods, then the world can come to an end.

Answer 8

The end of the world has been predicted hundreds of times over. So far all of them have been wrong because the world still exists. I'll see you in 2013.

Answer 9

I think its in the year 3000 something because there was this prophet called Nostradamus, he got chased away by the church because he started to predict things that haven't happened yet. He finaly got set up someplace else. He continued his fortune telling carreer and he predicted that the prince of France or England (i can't remember wich) will get hurt during a jousting match. Sure enough, a couple days later it happened. Later on, he predicted that the Natziz (the dudes in WW2) would take over Germany in a couple of months and they did. His last prediction before he died was that the world would be destroyed in the year 3000 but humans will board flying ships and be saved. (he said there will be flying ships before the airplane was even invented).

Answer 10

If they could really see the future, wouldn't they have told us how to avoid the end of the world instead of just telling us that its coming? Sounds like fear mongering to me. These people were nuts to begin with. They had knowledge of the cosmos from math and could predict eclipses and such. They would tell the common people that "god" was angry with them and that he was going to take the sun away unless they gave all the power to the priests. Of course the people agreed and the sun came back.