is the world gonna end in 2012, or are we following the mayan calendar?

Question

me and a couple of coworkers were having a brief debate about if the world was gonna end. one time i was chilling with some of my associates and then this drunk man came up and was talking about the world ending in 2012, so when i walked in work this morning i brought it up, ad it turned into an ugly debate. now i want to hear the people's voice and i want to know wat u think.

Answer 1

The chances are very small. There are 3 main theories (at least that I've studied) that say the world is going to end in 2012: Nostradamus, Bible Code, and the Mayan Calendar.

You would think that if more than one source says 2012 is the date, then its true, but look at it from a skeptic's eye:

Nostradamus is bull**** or at least all evidence points to it. His book, the Prophecies, people claim that he predicted both world wars, the September 11 attacks, and more, but if you look at the history, none of the events have been predicted before-hand. His prophecies are written so vague, ambiguous, & "catch-all" so that anything can be interpreted as to been a "actual prediction." His followers will even twist some of the meanings of his words to give evidence of predictions (all after the events happened). Check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Nostradamus

The Bible Code also predicts the world will end in 2012. The Bible code claims that there are hidden messages (of future predictions) in the bible using a computer to "decode" the Torah in Hebrew. However, an Australian mathematician also discovered similar hidden messages of future predictions in the book "Moby Dick", the lyrics of rapper Vanilla Ice, and other books. Read...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code

The Mayans,... well, they couldn't predict the Spanish coming & killing them off, so what would they know about 2012?

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.

Nostradamus and Bible Code followers both used the Mayan calendar as a basis for scaring people into their beliefs.

Does that help?

Answer 2

Well , lets not disdain the whole issue without checking out the basic facts. This prediction isn't done by Nostradamus , it was done by Maya about 2300 years ago . Maya were a group of adept astrologers who predicted of such a disaster would fall in the winter for the major world (Upper Hemisphere). The only universally accepted knowledge and language today is Mathematics. So we have a task of proving this disaster mathematically. Why the number 21-12-2012 ? The numbers 21 & 12 are mirrors of each other , which indicate symmetry or justification. why 2012 ? 20 + 1+2 = 23. 2/3=0.666666666666.....666 is the devil's number. The next question that arises is that whether the term 'World coming to an end' necessarily mean the destruction of life ? ...'World coming to an end' could also mean a change in the current working system of the human life to allow a different force or follow a different way of life ...What does this mean ? ...In simple terms...the first act of the 'AntiChrist'....The reign that every astrologer has been talking about will finally come in colors.

Answer 3

The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 . But that year does however fall within the biblical time for the return of Christ (the world never ends, just a time dispensation ends). The bible states that we are can not know the day nor the hour when Christ will return. But it does however say that we are to know the season. The bible basically says that from the restoration of Israel ( happened in 1948) until the destruction of Jerusalem(happens when Christ returns) would be seventy years. So 1948 +70 more years = 2018. But the time for satan to be allowed on earth and pretend to be the real Jesus is shortened from seven years down to whatever God decides. That is why only The Father know when the end will come. So to my reckoning it will be somewhere between 2011 and 2018. Give or take a little

Answer 4

I would not hold your breath on the end of the world happening in 2012. A lot of terrible things could happen by then, but a cataclysmic end of the world scenario is not in our near future. I prefer the Hindu calender. It tells us that we are in the 4th age called the Kaliyuga. It is an age of darkenss and illusion. There is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 400, 000 years left in this age before Visnu recreates the Universe.

Answer 5

Only GOD knows the answer to "when the world will end". His own Son Jesus or the angels in Heaven didn't know so I can say as a matter of truth that no man knows the hour. Especially a drunk man....

Answer 6

The Mayan Calendar doesn't actually end in 2012. This particular CYCLE of the calendar ends and we begin another one.

Answer 7

It's just a rumor. After God created us all, he took bets with Zeus and Quetzalcoatl on how long we'd last. They have $5 on a date, and Quetzalcoatl's date is December 21, 2012.

Answer 8

Each year my calendar ends. Then I have to buy another calendar.

Similarly, if the mayans were still around, they'd be able to sell you a new mayan calendar.

Answer 9

No, we're using the Jewish lunar calendar. But only God knows, and He's not telling.

Answer 10

Look at what we have done to the earth. We will destroy ourselves. Blessed Be