Is the world ending in 2012 or is it a myth?

Question

Everyone even my sister say the world should I meen will end in 2012!?!

Answer 1

What do you THINK? That's not meant to be a shout. I mean, have you actually thought about that? How would anyone know that the world is "ending" in 2012. What does the expression "world ending" even mean? It'll disappear?

Tell your sister to sell all her possessions and send the money to me, then I'll make sure it doesn't happen.

For the purposes of your question, "It", whatever it is, is a myth.

Answer 2

Its really just a myth. 2012 will come and go and not much will be different on good old planet Earth. But here's what some folks are thinking:

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 3

Myth. Drivel. Garbage. Woo-woo ravings. Someone must be making money pushing this nonsense. Is it the "History" channel? That's why I don't have cable.

Before 2012 Fox will be promoting some other EOTWAWKI date based on a diary kept on whale skin by a marooned Biblical scholar whose ship sank in 1672 off the Bermuda triangle. Or maybe another prophecy based on reading every third letter of the 1860 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or maybe by examining the livers of sacrificial animals.

Answer 4

no. every theory ive heard about it ending is either 100% wrong or extremely misinformed.

and what that dude said about a comet is one of those misinformations. ithe comet hes talking about is apophis. it has NOTHING to do with 2012. it will pass by earth in 2029 and it will miss us. they used to think that it could pass through a "keyhole" that would cause it to come back around and hit us in 2036. new evidence shows that it wont and it has been downgraded to a 0 on the Toronto Scale, which means there is no threat at all.

the mayan calendar doesnt end, it starts a new cycle. its like going from 2007 to 2008. sure theres a new date but it really means nothing.

there will be no pole shift. that takes thousands of years and even if it did happen it wouldnt effect us at all. our compasses would reverse, thats about it.

Answer 5

nope... Some say it's 2021 because I heard that the Mayan calendar ends in September of that year or something like that and it's been going for thousands of years so why stop in 2021?!! Anyways I personally think that there's an end for all this but I hope we get to explore the whole universe before this civilization vanishes.

Answer 6

There is an asteroid that will fly by the earth, relatively close, I forget the name now. But the scientists are not sure how the earths gravity will affect it and it might be closer in the year 2017. There was a good article on this asteroid a while back in an issue if Sky and Telescope.

Answer 7

She might have got that idea from the Mayans. They believed the world was going to end on dec 21 2012.

Answer 8

The world has been ending by a certain date for many hundreds of years. This could be the real one though.
Rob a bank and boogie, you've got less than 5 years to do it...Just don't hurt anyone..........If it's not true, you'll probably spend the rest of your life in prison though.

Answer 9

It is a myth. No man, knows the time the world will end!

Answer 10

The world is supposed to have ended various times.

What I know is that on 2012, an event that happens every 26,000 years will take place. On 12/21/2012, our sun will line up with the center of the milky way galaxy. This is what the Mayans referred to when their calendar ended, and it is called the Galactic Alignment.