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From Wiki:
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun.

The b'ak'tun is a time frame of 394.52 solar years (144,000 days). 2012 is round 13 ending and round 14 begining.

Well of course 2012 will happen. Time still goes on doesn't it? (Sorry if some else said something like that before me I am just to lazy to look)

Now I your talking about the world ending then no I do not believe it will happen, but something could happen with the American government. Which will make or break us. Either that or it will a decade or two before we get fix'd!

Now I think there is supposed to a Solar Flare (spelled right?) someime during the year.

well, scientist said tht in 2004 the world was gonna end.... now its 2012.... its an eight year cycle.... so when 2020 shows up, scientists will say AGAIN that the world will end, but it will never happen... except when our sun dies and explodes, which will be in about 3.5 trillion years

well, scientist said tht in 2004 the world was gonna end.... now its 2012.... its an eight year cycle.... so when 2020 shows up, scientists will say AGAIN that the world will end, but it will never happen... except when our sun dies and explodes, which will be in about 3.5 trillion years

Will it happen or not?

I really don't think that they Mayan calender correctly predicts the end of the world for several possible reasons:

1. The Mayans basically locked a bunch of people in a room and told them to predict all events in the future. They might have just gotten fed up with their jobs and said that the world would end on X day, so that they could go back to their lives, hoping that day X would be too far into the future for anyone to remember that it was them who predicted it when the world presumably would not end.

2. The Spanish Conquistadors killed them before they got a chance to finish the calender.

3. They might have gone completely insane from being locked in the aforementioned room, and killed themselves before they could finish.

4. They might have gone completely insane from being locked in the aforementioned room, and were so delirious that they really thought the world was going to end.

5. Or maybe they were on drugs.

Either way you slice it, they probably weren't right.

I really don't think that they Mayan calender correctly predicts the end of the world for several possible reasons:

From Wiki:
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun.

The b'ak'tun is a time frame of 394.52 solar years (144,000 days). 2012 is round 13 ending and round 14 begining.

TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

The world will never end until about 5 billion years from now. When the sun turns into another form, extending in size and reaching Earth.

I agree with JalapenoFez, the world will end with SCIENCE!

we will never die, so quit saying we will...(except when its time for ourselves to die)

Eh... several reasons state that the world will NOT end in 2012. Just to begin: the mayan calendary is in fact ASTEC and it will not end in 2012. It is divided in cycles: 2012 is the end of a cycle. It ended other cycles before and the world didn't end along them. And there's no reason why the world would rip itself apart because a planet alignment. Why would it.

So, I really think the world will not end in 2012 (I hope so, at least ).

The world will not end in 2012. There is a solar flare coming at that time (the biggest one yet) and scientists are unsure how it will affect all of the life on this planet, but the vast planet (or world) itself will not end. See you all there

ALL THE SIGNS POINT TO IT!!!!... yeah i'm not seeing it happen, for example, that religious fanatic said that people would get raptured and that didn't happen now did it?

that religious fanatic said that people would get raptured and that didn't happen now did it?

I survived a tidal wave (india 2006) an earthquake and tons of hailstorms