I'm really worried about 2012!?

Question

I just read about it and watched some videos and now i'm shaking and feel like i'm gonna throw up!
People are building bunkers and stuff!

What is supposedly supposed to happen?
Its supposeed to line stuff up in the solar syatem or something right? And then what?
Do you believe it will happen?
Why or why not?

Please make me feel better i'm really scared!!!!

Answer 1

Let's see... 2012, the year in which the current cycle in the Mayan long-count calendar comes to an end. And what happens to cycles when they end? They start again! What happens when a calendar runs out? We buy a new one! I do not expect the end of the world in 2012. The Mayans themselves did not expect the end of the world in 2012. So why do so many people believe this misinterpretation of Mayan time keeping?

Perhaps because of the correspondence with galactic cycles. Not entirely unexpected, given that they Mayans based their calendar on it. However, the perfect alignment of the sun and the galactic equator occurred in 1997. Because the sun is an actual three-dimensional object and not a no-dimensional point, it takes 36 years to pass through the galactic equator. So the Mayans were over a decade out of date, but it's not a bad calculation, given their equipment at the time.

However, the sun never aligns with the galactic center, because its path through the space as seen from Earth lies five degrees above the galactic center.

There will be no alignment of planets in 2012, I checked, they're not even close. A true alignment is impossible anyway, because the planets do not orbit in identical planes. And the ideas I've heard that relate the cause (planetary alignment) and effect (end of the world) are ludicrous and simply cannot happen.

There are no known asteroids likely to hit Earth during or near this point in time.

Of course, it is possible that some catastrophe could occur in 2012, but it is no more likely than in any other year and certainly will have nothing to do with the date or the Mayans silly long-count calendar.

Actually, the Mayans had a unit of time that was longer than the time since they believe their creation myths occurred and 2012. Why would the Mayans even have such a unit if they expected the world to end before one such unit could even be counted?

Answer 2

The Mayans were good at drawing calendars. They made no predictions about the world ending in 2012. This is just when they drew their calendars up to. They had to stop at some time. The prediction of the world ending was made by modern "scholars" of astrology and pseudo-science, not the Mayans. If they had survived longer, rather than being wiped out (something that they didn't predict), then they would have drawn up another calendar.
Ignore Spiritmolecule's response. The world has been here for 5 billion years, humans have been here for 2-3 million, in one form or another. It seems extraordinary that it should suddenly end in a few years time.
Let me ask you a question. If the Mayans were so good at prediction, why didn't their calendar end when their civilisation ended 1000 years ago? Why go to the trouble of making a calendar past that date. They did not predict the Spanish invasion, either.
I have slept through more End-of-the-World predictions than I care to remember. So have you, if you think about it. This one will be no different.
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Answer 3

Goodness, there are some very bad answers.

The 2012 thing is pure nonsense. Trust me. Predictions like this litter the pages of history and nothing happens. Nobody is building bunkers – it is pure rubbish.

It alsways amazes me, this and some people’s fear of aliens (also garbage). Do you not listen to the news, read the papers? What can be worse than being raped an murdered, or smashed up in a road accident? Those are things your should be aware of – not scared, but wary.

The answer above that said you might as well have as much drink and sex as you can is also misleading. You have enormous control over your lifespan. I am 62, can do 60 push-ups, run 20k. I love my work and have no desire to retire. All comes from being aware – of what can harm, whether that is bad living or driving too fast, etc.

There is no scientific basis at all for that Mayan prediction. There are a million scientists and astronomers in this world who research in the areas of catastrophe. Don’t you think they would know? The Mayans were quite bright for their times and environment, but compared to today, they were like children.

PS - and ignore the mention of Nostradamus - that is all nonsense also.

Please have a look at:

http://www.abhota.info/

This guy has compiled a history of predictions. There are hundreds of them and none of them have turned out correct. People have given up all their possession, and even comitted suicide on the sayso of past predictions - don't be so silly as to fall for it.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I was a young child in the 80's and that is when all those nuclear disaster movies came out. The school made us watch them and it scared me very very bad. I couldn't sleep and thought about it constantly, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. I am still here though. Before my time period there was the Cuban Missile Crisis and people built bunkers and thought the end of the world was upon them. They were wrong though. No one can predict the future. You are not doing yourself any good by obsessively worrying over this. You can worry so much that you will make yourself sick. The saddest part about worry is that you can spend all day every day thinking about something and it won't change anything. Nothing positive will come from worry. Just take a look at history and how many times people felt the end of the world was upon us and how we are still here. We will all die someday, but I firmly believe that it will come as a surprise, no one will have predicted the precise date and time.

Answer 6

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
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.
The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.
Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:

Terence McKenna's mathematical novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012. [13][14][15]
Some alien-enthusiasts (e.g. Riley Martin), along with some new-agers, believe 2012 to correspond approximately with the return of alien "watchers" or "caretakers" who might have helped the first human civilizations with developing their technology and may have been waiting for us to reach a higher level of technological and/or social advancement. Beliefs range from the extra-terrestrials having benevolent purposes — such as to help human society evolve — to malevolent purposes — such as enslavement of mankind and/or manipulation.
There is a Hindu following indicating the appearance of an Avatar (God in human form) with God-like powers who will herald a new age. A website to this effect appears at: End of the World 2012

Answer 7

Don't worry about those stupid bunkers. Supposedly, once every 3000 years the center of the solar system lines up with Earth (... happens on 2012...). To the point, the bunkers won't save them ... Happy Thanksgiving!

Answer 8

If you believe in Nostradomus, rest easy, he supposably predicted things way into the 3000's, 3797, to be exact. I would be more worried about that date, ohh, no I wont, I'll be dead......
I think its all nonsense. People keep mistaking the Mayan calander ending in 2012 as the end of the world. It was obvious to millions of people who know exactly what this means and that it is NOT the end, but a NEW cycle and most people that know this believe it will bring in a golden age.

I think that "Lost Book" thing, which by the way, they cannot prove was written by Nostradomus, was all about the fall of the Catholic Church, not the end of the world........

And on another note, if someone could see into the future, why wouldnt they just say "this is gonna happen on this date." That would make life alot easier.

Here's a nice link about it.

Answer 9

What's happening is that unscrupulous people are making money selling videos and books about something they've made up by combining ancient myths from completely unrelated societies and twisting their meanings.

In the process, they scare some people like yourself, but that isn't their problem. Trust me. Or ask a scientist or teacher. It's crap.

Answer 10

It's supposedly said that the world will end, but don't believe it. This kind of doomsday stuff has been predicted plently of times before, and yet here we are.

We'll just have to wait till 2012, now won't we?