If 2012 means the end of the mayan calendar, does that mean that the calendar we know now becomes obsolete and replaced with a new kind of calendar?
2007-10-30 08:40:21 · 21 answers · asked by Captain Galactic 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
just trying to get some facts straight
2007-10-30 08:40:53 · update #1
excuse me. I'm just talking about the calendar system. I'm not implying that the world ends in 5 years.
2007-10-30 08:49:11 · update #2
We do not use the Mayan calendar. Doh!
2007-10-30 08:46:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan’s Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by Jose Arguelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 21 December 2012 (Wikipedia). The date may just be the end of a cycle of the Mayan Calendar, but it does not mean that the world will end. The Mayan Calendar was used only by the Mayan civilization. The world now is using the Gregorian calendar since 1582. It replaced the Julian calendar which had been used since 46 BC.
Will 2012 signal the replacement of the Gregorian calendar with a new kind of calendar? I hope so. I hope that the Aristean calendar will be that new calendar and implemented worldwide by then. It is just sensible to change the present calendar with a perpetual one, like the Aristean.
2007-11-01 03:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Peace Crusader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012. It continues. The 12-21-2012 date everyone is so excited about is the first day of Baktun 13. A baktun is about 400 years long. The current structure of the Long Count supports 20 Baktuns, so there are thousands of years left before the Baktuns go back to zero-which still isn't the end. When that happens, the next level of time begins, which is the Pictuns (each pictun is 20 Baktuns, or 8,000 years), and there can be 20 Pictuns (or 160,000 years) and by then I don't think humanity will care much about the Mayans and their calendar...but I am sure there's another level that equals 20 Pictuns, I just haven't researched it yet.
Today's date in the long count is 12.19.14.14.2. On 12-21-2012 it will be 13.00.00.00.00. On October 12, 4772, it will be 19.19.19.17.19, and the next day it will be 1.00.00.00.00.00. (The next to the last column goes to 17, not 19.)
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2007-10-31 00:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't use the Mayan calendar, we use the Gregorian calendar. 2012 is the year in which the Mayan calendar vaguely hints that the world will end.
2007-10-30 08:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by Rachael 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the two the Mayan and Aztec calendars have been based upon the "a while of guy" or eras which lasted approximately fifty two years each. The calendars have been interpreted to end interior of a few year of one yet another between 2011 and 2012 - a date which coincides with some interpretations of the chinese language calendar in the I-Ching. while those calendars end, some human beings have faith that the international will end. The Mayans genuinely believed that a international disaster could ensue, yet that guy could stay to tell the tale to grow to be a greater spirtual being. The Aztecs believed that adult males have been destroyed many cases in the earths previous, yet this can be the perfect destruction of guy. Do i've got faith in those issues? I genuinely have super recognize for the Mayan civilization and the Aztec accomplishments, yet i do no longer in my view have faith that they have been waiting to foretell the destiny with such accuracy. yet, am I going to social gathering in December of 2011 and 2012? You wager your butt i'm going to!
2016-10-03 00:59:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, our calendar is based on the julian calendar which doesn't "run out"
Don't believe a the hype about 2012, until i see HARD evidence that the world is going to end, then i wont be planning anything special for 2012
2007-10-30 08:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by scotsman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2012 is the year when the universe is reset. All will start anew, the planets reformed, the stars refueled, your rent will be raised, and your dog will get pregnant.
don't worry, it's just another date on our Gregorian calendar. The Mayans are long gone.
2007-10-30 08:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I have planned is to renew my driver's license in October... it expires on Halloween 2012.
Wouldn't the Mayan calendar just cycle through again, like ours?....
2007-10-30 11:47:46 · answer #8 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use the Barney Rubble calendar, myself.
Sorry, but my Mayan calendar expired in 1872.
2007-10-30 10:49:34 · answer #9 · answered by Warren W- a Mormon engineer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Nostradaumus, he actually made a prophecy on this date that the world would come into chaos, I just seen it on the history channel a couple of night ago, it's pretty carzy but he predicted a lot of things like World War II, and the World trade center being demolished, it crazy!!!! Check it out.
2007-10-30 09:04:38 · answer #10 · answered by mellymel180 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋