Does the world end in 2012 ?

Question

I am 15 years old and i'm scared that the world will end in 2012 and I won't be able to live my life. I been praying everyday as much as I can to god that the world doesn't end and I will be ready it's just the thought of not being able to live my life with my friends and family scares me. I not afraid to die I'm just afraid of not being able to live my life.

Answer 1

Probably not. The whole 2012 apocalypse theory is based on an ancient Mayan calender. This calender is called the Mesoamerican Long Count Calender. It is based on counting in a base-20 scheme from it's start date, August 11 3114 BC. They count from this start date in groups of 144,000 days, which is approximately 400 years. A period of 144,000 days is called a b'ak'tun, and we are on the twelfth b'ak'tun right now. The thirteenth will start December 21, 2012. This is significant because the long-count b'ak'tun date of the starting point will be repeated for the first time in 5125 years.

Some people in modern times think that this might mean the world will be ushered into a new age, or possibly end. The apocalyptic theory is bogus because there are instances of Mayans predicting events after 2012, indicating that they believe there will still be a world around after that year.

Susan Milbraath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012. (Source listed below)

If you are still scared you should read the book "2012: The Return of Quetzacatl" by Daniel Pinchbeck. He gives a lot of evidence to support the idea of a positive change beginning in 2012.

Answer 2

Don't worry. Nothing will happen.

Its all just a bunch of myths



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 3

All this stuff about 2012 is because the Mayan calendar (surely an overlapping gadget of three calendars) includes an end on the instantaneous. even as the Maya were very advanced in a lot of diverse parts, i imagine that in the journey that they were so adept at prediction they could probable have fared better antagonistic to the spanish.

Answer 4

Don't worry about it. It's a myth based on the unfinished Mayan calendar. The Mayan calendar ended in 2012 simply because the Mayan tribe was exterminated by the Spanish before the calendar could be continued. The world is not going to end in 2012.

Answer 5

You are the only risk that you will not be able to live your life, by being overcome with fear. Wise up. The world is not going to end any time soon. I guarantee it. It will end in about 5 billion years, though, but that's not our problem.

Answer 6

The world can end anytime. But be comforted in the faith that there is an afterlife which is a whole lot better than this one. Relax. Dates are just speculations.

Answer 7

I hope you're praying to the Mayan gods because they're the ones who came up with this date. On the other hand look what good they've done for the Mayans. I don't think they have it in them to finish off the whole world. They can't even keep their own people in good shape.

Answer 8

I don't understand why so many Christians believe in a Mayan prediction. Do they want the Rapture so bad that they'll believe any prediction of the end of the earth?

Answer 9

My children feel the same way. They always tell me that I am excited to go to heaven because I am old and have lived my life, which in many ways is true. Just ask Jesus to give you peace about this, He will.

Answer 10

Do you have any idea how many thousands of times throughout history that people have chosen a date that the world will end? It has never happened. I'm 99.9% sure we're safe this time, too.