Does anyone believe that the world will end in 2012?

Answer 1

i hope not...

Answer 2

Not really, the reason that people believe in the 2012 catastrophe is mostly attributed mainly towards the Mayan calender, and how it's due to run out at that point.

I believe it has something to do with the number 66, although i might be getting mixed up with some other ancient civilisation.

Anywho - i don't really believe there is such a thing as a definite end, as after all there is not really such a thing as a definite beginning.

In a sense, a lot of things will end in 2012, the summer olympics will begin and end in 2012, for example - but as far as the 'world' is concerned, that could mean any number of things - it may be the end of human society as we know it, it may be the end of the way we look at the world, and so on.

Prophecies have a tendancy of being real non-descript, i've noticed.

Answer 3

There are probably some people who believe that the world will end on some finite date, perhaps in 2012. However, according to the bible, no one really knows when the world will end. See the 2nd book of Peter: chapter 3, verse 10 in which is written: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."

Answer 4

No. It's just like every other doomday prophecy that has ever been made...people tend to forget that the year 1000 was supposed to be the end, and the same with the years during the Cuban Missile crisis. Same with Y2K. It's hysteria, plain and simple.

And if you truly do believe that it will end in 2012, then what are you doing dwelling on it and whining about it? If you truly believe you only have 4 years left go out and make the most of the time you have...live it up, instead of worrying about dying.

Answer 5

Ever consider the fact that they did not finish the calendar because they could not OR they no longer saw the relevance of finishing it since saving their lives was a bit more of an issue at the time.
It makes for a good end of the world prophecy but it is more likely something logical like that happened than some big prophecy.
It is possible, yes, but I do not believe it will end just like I did not beleive it would in 2000 either...........we are still here...........I do think the world will end with some man made catasrophe but not in my lifetime.

Answer 6

Plenty of people do.

Just like they did in 2000 and on the 6/6/06 etc etc.

It wont, and if it does it will be complete coincidence. This is due to the fact that the calender and the events of the world are separated. Natural events, Divine events, and even Human events are not limited to and by the commands of our calender.

The world will not end simply because an ancient civilisation said so. Just as it did not end simply because there were three o's at the end of the years title.

Answer 7

Who knows what will happen in or around that year? Sometimes propheices can come true because people make them come true.

Here's a quote from a wikpedia article on 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 8

(Matthew 24:36-44) 36 "Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; 39 and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned; 41 two women will be grinding at the hand mill: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned. 42 Keep on the watch, therefore, because YOU do not know on what day YOUR Lord is coming. 43 "But know one thing, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 On this account YOU too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming.

Answer 9

*sighs* This is getting old.

Christians have been doomsaying for 2000 years, thats enough already.

So what.. the mayan calendar ends on that date.

You need to look up "astrological age". 2012 is right around the time of the beginning of the end of the age of pisces and the transition into the age of aquarius. Whether we believe in that stuff or not doesn't matter, the ancients believed it.

Answer 10

I hope the world does not end on th 21 of 2012 , but the Mayan calender predicts it and astronomically some weird stuff is predicted.

Answer 11

I believe that our world as we know it is headed for some drastic change during that time period. Do I believe it will be a catastrophic burning of the earth in a physical sense? Probably not. But I believe that the changes that come will be huge enough that I want to be prepared, mentally and spiritually.