Will the World End on December 21, 2012?

Question

Please give me reasons why it will not.

Answer 1

No, it's been moved up to next Tuesday.

Answer 2

You don't need reasons why it will not, you need reasons why it will.

And there are none that are scientifically credible. It's all about unscrupulous people making money selling videos and books by scaring people using spooky references to a dead civilisation and astonishingly bad "science".

This is the third time I've used the following response TODAY (sigh):

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 So the Mayans were over a decade out of date, but it's not a bad calculation, given their equipment at the time.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 3

No When I was Little they said the world will end in the year 2000 and now they say 2012. I think they will keep on saying that. Just watch the year 2012 on Christmas someone will say that's Bull $h!t the world will end on12/12/12. Oh yeah on 2001 or 2002/3 I herd someone said the demons will destroy the world on 6/6/06 and it never happen so some people will keep on saying that after that year.

Answer 4

IT WILL NOT END. NOT IN 2012. THE BIBLE SAYS 'WORLD WITHOUT END'.

But some people think it will. Here's what *some* people believe...

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 5

Yes and No, this is the end of Mayan calendar cycle. and according to them this is when the world should end, if it doesn't end then the world will exist for another cycle.
The reasons for the Mayan to define the end of the world is actually to give people time to think, what they should do in the new world given to them for the next cycle. This is the time to stop and end the old ways of the old worlds, and think what we can do better in the next cycle, which they called a new world.

Answer 6

i thought 12-20-2012 sounded like a nice day to end the Earth... don't know why ppl are insisting on 12-21-2012... guess its palindromic or something.

is there ONE shred of evidence that the world is endandered other than the Mayans ran out of toilet paper and had to use the calendar?

Answer 7

It's no more or less likely to end on that day than on any other day. It sounds like you have watched a hyped-up docu-drama on TV about the Mayan calendar.
For a good explanation of how the Mayan calendar works, check out this site from the University of Delaware: http://www.ece.udel.edu/~mills/maya.html

Answer 8

YES, okay? Are you happier now that you know? I am REALLY geting sick of this incredibly stupid question, which is asked in this forum about twenty times a day. How is it possible that you missed that? Or did you just decide to forge ahead and ask again, because it's special when YOU ask?

Way too many morons on this planet! Please refrain from reproducing.

Answer 9

no. even if humankind as nwe know it ends by then, the earth will still be here



would it really matter anyways? really who gives a damn when the world is gonna end i'd personally not know about it ahead of time...

Answer 10

Difficult to give you reasons why it will not when you give no reasons for thinking it will. Let's have some first.

Answer 11

no, could be before, could be after. could be on that day, then again which timezone are you refering to coz its very different days depending where you are :D

i reckon only God knows when the world will end, and no man can ever claim to know such a thing