what sources say the world will end in 2012?

Answer 1

Only disreputable internet sources. There is no ancient myth or modern research that says such a thing is going to happen.

Answer 2

Since I see this one a lot, I thought I would start preparing an answer since people keep asking it without bothering to see if it has been answered already (I've seen it three times today already).

No, it will not end. It's a bunch of hogwash superstitious junk that has been blown out of proportion by people with no scientific basis to prove it. The date came from a Mayan calender that ended on that date.

But let me ask you something that crossed my mind earlier. Let's say you decided to make a timeline. You were using a computer to calculate when some events would happen, events like eclipses and positions of celestial bodies. Stuff that can be predicted to a surprisingly accurate degree (though accuracy starts to fall a bit the further you get from the present time). I doubt you want to make a timeline lasting several million years. So you put a cutoff date that it would end. You start adding events as time goes on, filling in important world events as they happen. Then, your timeline starts getting quoted by others, maybe even getting an article or an entry into a book. Everyone knows it's just a prediction of those particular, unimportant, non-lifethreating events mixed into a timeline of recorded events in the world. Yet, several thousand years from now, somebody happens to find just that timeline, with little extra information, and what they do know is the original date of creation (and they don't know that you added to it along the way). They notice that the final date is less than 10 or 20 years away. That person shows some other people, who show other people, until finally someone comes along and says "Hey, these people were pretty smart to predict all this stuff. Maybe they ended it because that's when the world will end." Others begin to believe, and pretty soon, you have an end of the world prediction.

That's EXACTLY how this 2012 stuff got started. Somebody found an end date on a Mayan calender that only went so far. They can't ask the Mayan's why it doesn't go on any further, so they have to use what information we do have. Somebody out there questioned if they were predicting the end of the world...and the rumor got started. That's the kind of sources we have for this...rumors based on one person's interpretation of something.

Answer 3

It was the end of the Mayan calendar and, well, you know how people are. There is an interesting web page detailing failed end of the world predictions throughout the centuries. There have been many. The sad thing is that people keep believing people who make these claims. It's ridiculus. Everybody knows the world is gonna end on July 14, 2035 at 15:34:17, Eastern time.

Answer 4

its wildly entertaining to see people "of very little brain" clamoring to include such end of the world-isms as Nostrildamus (who they said predicted the next war in 1999) and the Apopeye asteroid (which is due to MISS the Earth twice in 2029 and 2036)

The Nostrildamus one is cute, because the fake wrote in 4 languages and anagrams just to make his 'prophecies' completely unintelligible (sorta like listening to Bob Dylan... you know he has a message, just can't quite make it out).

In the movie "The Man Who Saw The Future" narrated by the melodious (though extreemly reluctant) voice of Orson Welles there is the great line "A "King of Terror", wearing a blue turban, will rise from Persia (Iran), and with the assistance of Russia will wage World War III against the western countries (after a nuclear attack against New York City), including the United States, Great Britain and France (1999)."

Yup, I hardly even saw the flashes as the world burned.

Answer 5

It doesn't matter. Who cares if the world ends? Earth is a small planet and we're ultimately meaningless, in the large scheme of things. Humans are arrogant because we, as a collective people, believe that our lives are worth something. I hate to sound overly nihilist, but... they're not. We are all the same decaying organic matter. We're all apart of the same compound post.

And if the world ends, I'll be glad. Because maybe we have it coming. Maybe we deserve the apocalypse. We dug our own grave. To rebuild, you have to destroy. Destruction is beautiful and I don't see why we would attempt to prevent it. Laises Fare, man.

Answer 6

no because people have said that the world was gonna end in 2000 [there were other years too]
and obviously that didnt happen so im pretty doubtful that the world is going to end in 2012

Answer 7

To Expand on what Cirric said Nostradamus predicted that same date, also the Mayans , and the Aztecs.
Now what that in mind go turn on the news.

Answer 8

there is quite a lot on the web on this subject, as well as many talk show hosts who have had this as a program emphasis. you can google "2012" and get lots of hits.

A lot of people think it has to do with the magnetic fields of the earth shifting from north and south. If this does happen, all electronics on the planet stop working, as the energy going to ground would be going in the wrong direction.

Answer 9

well the mayan calendar ends on 21 of november of 2012

Answer 10

Hi. None. The Mayan calender was only calculated until that date. (Some say the planes of the solar system and the galactic plane are coincident at that year, but I'm not sure.)