My teacher scared me?

Question

he was telling us about the mayan calendar and that we were all gonna die in 2012 is this true what is he talking about?

yes I am young and this class is called life skills

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

Your teacher is full of it and you can tell him personally from me that if he believes in this stuff then he's also an idiot.

In simple terms the Mayan calendar ends on Dec 21, 2012. A lot of people have said that since the Mayans were such great astronomers that they knew something was going to happen on this date. And something will happen, their current calendar ends and a new one begins. It's a new age but it's going to look exactly like the old age. So you wake up Dec 22, 2012 and the world looks just like it did the day before.

Just remember that people have been predicting the end of the world for milllennia now. Remember 7 years ago when people thought the world was going to end in the year 2000? And then when the planets aligned, people said the gravity would cause the poles to shift and the entire surface of the Earth would suddenly move? Or some guy that said we'd be hit by a comet on May 25th, 2006 because he read it in crop circles? Nothing happened. We're going to pass through this date and people will still be making these doomsday scenarios for future dates.

So don't worry about it. We're still going to be here.

Answer 3

That is not true.. We will not all die in 2012.. Just like nothing happened when 2000 came.

The Mayan calendar is just like our calendar. It is only that it is very long. Our calendar ends this coming December 31 in this year. As for the Mayan calendar it ends at 2012 in this precision.

In a year the earth makes a complete revolution around the sun while in a precision the sun makes a complete turn across the sky that in our view in earth it will align with the center of the galaxy. There are already many precisions that came by before the coming 2012 precision.. And still we are here still alive.

In the year 2012 at 21st of December, we are lucky that we will witness an astronomical event of the alignment of the center of the galaxy, the sun and the earth like an eclipse where the sun, the moon and the earth are aligned.

Perhaps your teacher has been reading too much hoax emails lately.

Answer 4

Is the teacher telling you you are going to die in 2012 or that the Mayan calendar stops at year 2012? The calendar stops there, but that does not mean it is the end date of the earth.

We should be more interested in our own life and death than the end of time because our time ends when we die. That is the important thing to think about. During the past four years ago, I knew 2 people 16 years and younger who died with cancer. Young people do die, so don't worry about the end of the world, worry about how you live now.

Answer 5

The world will not end in 2012.
Yes, the Mayan calendar does end in 2012, but that doesn't mean that we will be gone. There are other theories that suggest that the reason the calendar ends is because we move from the state that we are now, to another, higher level of consciousness. This can mean all sorts of things,, Massive Social change, a massive spiritual awakening and so forth.

Also remember that any programs you see on television will attempt to sensationalize their supposed facts on this doomsday topic.
Don't be fooled by these programs, even if they are on TLC or The Discovery channel. The people that put these programs on know that sensationalism sells and keeps people glued to the boob tube.

Yes, some "prophesies" have come true. However, if you look at any given prophet, tally up his or her number of predictions, and then calculate the percentage of predictions that came true, you would find their accuracy level to bee laughably low. If you make a thousand predictions you are bound to get at least a few right. Do you get what I'm saying? There have been many, MANY doomsday prophecies, and many have shared the same dates and they have yet to come true. Live your life people. It is convenient to think that the world is gonna end because you don't have to push yourself to accomplish anything. The world is doomed anyway right?
C'mon people, we make our own future. Focus on that and lets try to make it a good one.

Answer 6

Your teacher should be smacked so hard he doesn't wake up until 2012!!! What is he thinking saying something like this to students?

I remember being in high school 25 years ago and hearing a similar story about the end of the world that would have happened right around the time I expected to graduate from high school I remember this vividly because it was my 16th birthday. I was terrified and depressed. This was at a time when the cold war was going on full blast and any horrific thing seemed possible - much like today. It took me a long time to get over that worry.

Honey, I am now 41 years old, happily married with 3 children.

You have a long, long life to live and don't let your goofy teacher scare you one bit. These kinds of "doomsday" prophets have been around since the beginning of time. Still are. There's always some religious nut, or voodoo hack that thinks they can predict the future.

The future is what you make it. Live your life. Be a good person. Enjoy every day.

God Bless!

Answer 7

I've heard about this. That the Mayan calender ends in 2012, and so apparently, does the Chinese calender. Rumor has it that the Mayans believed that time would end in 2012. Of course people are free to believe what they choose to believe. Kind of like the millennium scare that all the worlds computers were going to crash on 01-01-2000, and a host of other things were supposed to happen, but nothing did.

So... I just keep going on my merry little way, and look to the future as I always have. I do however believe that if we don't get a handle on our carbon emissions, global warming is going to be our biggest problem in the near future.

EDIT: I can't believe all of you fools, that are telling a kid to sue his teacher, and that his teacher is an idiot. You don't know the context in which the teacher was discussing the Mayan Calander. Kids also don't always communicate the whole story. As far as a law suit, Go ahead, sue yourselves, because when you sue a school district, where do you think they get the money to pay for the litigation, etc...??? Uhhhh the man on the moon?

Answer 8

The Mayans have an amazing and complicated calender. It is based on long term movements of the universe. One of those very long cycles ends on 12-20-2012.
No one knows what it means, other than a new cycle may begin, so they get all dramatic. I think it is a likely a new beginning for our world, not an end of Earth or people.

Did he say this as a known fact? It's not a fact. It is wrong for a teacher to say that to students and frighten them. Unless it is a class on potential apocalypse or eschatology, it should only be presented as a future myth. It is a calender that ends, just like the Sun moving from one zodiac sign to the next.

Answer 9

Your teacher is an idiot. That is the Mayan calendar. Not ours. And let's say it is true. How come the Mayans aren't here to back up this claim? The Mayan calendar stopped for that year. It doesn't mean the world will end.

Answer 10

Hi,
Well yes it is a theory, but then again, who knows?. According to this theory the world with end on December the 21st 2012. Don't get too anxious about it, because their has been many other similar theory's made by different people about the world ending. (for example, Some believed the world would end in 2000) But then again, The Mayan calender has also had many other prophecies and all of them have came try. I am a little nervous about the topic, but it is just a belief, it may be fake, it may not. This is from the Mayan Prophecy site "Thus the December 21, 2012 AD is not the day where all of the sudden a light switch will flip on and everything will change, rather, we are NOW in the process of this transition from one World Age to the next. The changes are underway and will continue steadily accelerating as we head towards the culminating date!" go to the Website at http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm
Hope this has helped!

Answer 11

The Mayans were a very superstious people who created about 50,000 Public Idols by the time the Spanish arrived . They constantly sacraficed humans to mytholical gods such as the Sun God . Numbers facinated them and numbers like 12/20/2010 were interpetated like palm readers interpet lines in your hands . It is meaningless !
But if your teacher presented this information to you as though it were a possible fact , he is teaching religion and superstition in a public school and MUST be reported : to the priciple , the school board , and the ACLU . If he was simply teaching that the Mayans were a group of people who believed in superstions and human sacrafice , then it is OK . But if he said there is any sort of reason to believe this he is a bad teacher , he needs to be reported . You might also tell your parents to get a lawyer because you say this teacher upset you , without any reasonable cause .