December 21, 2012 11:11 AM... Is it true?

Question

I've heard about this whole phenomenon about 12/21/12 and at a first glance, I was a little stirred up because, well, thats my 21st B-Day. My whole family has been seeing 11:11 everywhere! Even 2 days ago, this guy sitting near me in 3rd period just out of nowhere blurted out: "2007: Population, 6 Billion. 2012: Population, one." What is your opinion? I don't want to believe it, but if its true, I'd have to celebrate my 21st birthday as also, the end of my life! I'm a Christian, but this little controversy has been making me have doubts about my religion.

Answer 1

That date marks the end of the Mayan Calendar - which may or may not be significant. Here's what I think:

I am pretty sure that we are heading for a major change, though I do not think it will be The End. I believe a sort of day of voting, day of reckoning is approaching - at which time humanity as a whole will be assessed. I think those who think the world is ending will be weighed against those convinced that a renaissance for humanity is coming. Either it will make the decision for all of us (majority rules, of course) or there will be a split and we will each be able to live in the world that we wish to.

People are beginning to really understand the power of intention and that we attract into our lives that which we expect - that is to say, whatever we dwell upon in our heart and in our minds is what we manifest in our own lives and that is getting to be more and more evident (if also sort of more true).

Don't you worry, honey. As you develop your own nature, all else will follow. It is unlikely that the world will dissintegrate when you turn 21 - really, it is.

Peace!

Answer 2

Sweetheart, please don't worry about this. Do you remember when everybody was freaking out over Y2K? There were "signs" everywhere that this would be the end of all things.

If you go into my profile, you can click on my Best Answers tab. Look for the question about the Mayan end-date. That is where the December 21, 2012 hysteria comes from. I posted some good info in that answer that explains what the Mayan calendar was all about.

There is NO REASON to believe that anything of significance will happen on that date. No reason at all. Not only is there no scientific reason, there's not even any spiritual reason. Think about it - does it say in the Bible that that's the "end date?" No! So why are you concerned about it?

For hundreds of years, people have been using "prophecies" to determine the "end date," whatever that means - usually the Second Coming of Christ. They've nailed down specific dates, just as they have now with 12/21/2012. Every single time in the past, it's failed to come true, in spite of compelling "evidence" that the end was definitely near.

I'm sorry to say that the "evidence" for 2012 is even less compelling than ever before. Not only is there nothing in the Bible that points to this date, not only have there been no Nostradamus-like prophets speaking of this date, but the Mayan calendar - the source of all this hysteria - ends on that date for a very good reason - and there is NO reason to believe that the Mayans saw December 21, 2012 as "the end of the world." It marked the end of their *calendar*, just as our calendar ends each year on December 31. It was the time to make a new calendar. Nothing more.

Please stop worrying about this. I was raised to live in constant fear of the End of Days, so I know how destructive and terrifying this communtiy-induced fear can be. I hate to see other people going through that unnecessarily. Just look back on all the many dozens of "definite end dates, prophesied and proven by ancient texts" that have already come and gone with nothing happening. You have nothing to worry about. Your parents are being irresponsible and abusive by feeding your fears, and the kid in your class is probably exposed to the same crap at home. Look forward to your 21st birthday, plan to have a good time, and don't worry about the world ending. It's just not going to happen in your lifetime. Especially not on your 21st birthday.

I bet the ancient Mayans would be so ticked off if they could see how we've distorted their calendar and appropriated their culture for our own hysterical uses.

"no one knows what will happen when the sun aligns itself with the Glactic Center (which is a scientific fact). some think the magnetic poles will shift,"

True, nobody knows what will happen. But geological evidence doesn't put pole shifts with previous allignments of the sun with the Galactic Center (it puts them much more frequently than that, actually), so there is no logical reason to expect that this will happen. Even if it does, the worst it will do is mess up polar navigation until we figure out what's happened and adjust for it. And some whales and birds might go astray on their migration routes. A polar shift is another widely-hystericalized "problem" that will really not be such a big problem for us. yes, I made up the word "hystericalized."

There is NOTHING to fear in this date. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. It's just a human-created fear to sell books, as somebody already pointed out. Just like the Y2K bug.

Answer 3

Well I think your actually going to have a pretty sucky b-day dealing with the sun. The Mayans do not say the world will end in 2012 but do say an event will happen. I'm not so sure about "Apocalyptic", but something will happen. A new age perhaps?
There is supposedly going to be a solar storm that will do catastrophic things involving technology. It will alter the Earth's magnetic field most likely reversing the poles. There will also be an alignment with the planets. But as far as apocalyptic, not gonna happen.
But the effect of people to this conspiracy, yes. A really big event. So just relax because after all of this blows away, everything will be better.

Answer 4

This whole 2012 thing is highly entertaining and also quite fascinating. But I am certain that nothing will happen in 2012 that will fulfull any of these supposed prophecies.

However, I do think that people can get pretty excited and these things can become sort of self fulfilling in a twised way.

Here's what some people think will happen on or around 2012:

"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

It will be a day like any other day. It will be one day earlier then December 22, 2012 and one day later then December 20, 2012. The only thing you have to worry about is if you believe in your religion or a Mayan calender. Have a happy birthday.

Answer 6

It's completely and totally bogus. Just like every other doomsday prophecy that's been made for the past several thousand years.

There's more evidence and credibility to the idea that I will become a world famous guitar god on that date than there is that the world will end.

So if you see me on TV, plinking away at Mary Had a Little Lamb, then you can start to worry.

Until then, save your anxieties for things that are really happening.

Answer 7

It will be fine it will be a day like any other day
You are referring to the end of the Mayan Calendar. Its not the end of the world it is the end of the Mayan Age.

You will wake up on 12-22-21 .. maybe hung over but you will wake up none the less

Answer 8

Yeah, the Aztecs prdicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012. The day before my 32nd B-Day. Isn't going to happen though...I hope.

Answer 9

Nonsense! No one knows when the grand finale is going to happen. Even Jesus said that he didn't know - only God the Father knows.

Of course, that didn't stop people from guessing and predicting. The Jehovah's Witnesses "knew" that the end was coming in 1914, then 1915, then a series of other speculations. Please note that we've survived every one of their prophesies.

Happy birthday.

Answer 10

No one even understands the Mayan calender. Once people understand it say what such and such is based on than take it serious. You need to know the formula before you except the formulation.