Comments on: Q&A: What is your opinion on the Mayan doomsday prophecy for the year 2012?

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:45:27 +0000

The Mayans had an extremely complicated calendar. It was very well thought out though, and very close the the calendar we use today in some respects.
They had calendars to predict the paths of the gods, and of life. Everything centered around time for the Mayans. They could predict days when the Gods would be angry, days when good harvests would come, and such.
They were quite good mathematicians those Mayans.

Now, every few years, 72 I believe, but don’t know for sure, the Earth shifts on it’s axis. So, one day we see one thing when we look up at the sky, and the next it will be just a little bit different. It’s not a huge difference, but for the Mayans it was incredibly scary. They paid attention to the sky like nothing else, because that’s where a lot of the Gods, and especially the ones that controlled life lived. When things changed, especially up there, they assumed that the Gods were so angry with them, that they had abandoned them for another world.

The year 2012 is a year when the Earth will shift. The world will not come to an end. At all. It’s just a day on the Mayan Calendar that could not be plotted out because it matches a pattern of days when the Gods abandoned the Mayans.

We have nothing to worry about.

By: Maestrotx

Maestrotx — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:28:41 +0000

i believe we should be scare no matter what the outcome. let me explain:

if it comes true, we all die

if it does not come true, imagine the people who believe it and cause chaos. just imagine the people who believe it and what they will do.

that day will is definitely one to be feared
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Facts: according to historians, the end of the calender does bring a new beginning….but my question is: does this new beginning include us or whatever is left after the end (assuming there is one)?

By: CogitoErgoCogitoSum

CogitoErgoCogitoSum — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:17:55 +0000

There is no Mayan doomsday prophecy.

No, Im not saying its superstition… I AM saying that it doesnt even exist. The Mayans never predicted any doomsday

By: Ania

Ania — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:00:30 +0000

I’m only answering this question because I saw a TV program on A&E on this subject. The Mayans have a big funny looking clock in the middle of the jungle somewhere that allegedly has kept perfect time since it was made. The narrator of the show claims that the prophecy “predictors”, or whoever they are, said that when the clock stops, on some date in 2012, it will be the end of the world.
Whatever… doesn’t mean nothing to me.

By: Pollux Is Better

Pollux Is Better — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:25:26 +0000

I think such a fatalistic prophecy befits a strain of humanity as bloody and morally sclerotic as the Myans.

Oh, I know how ‘advanced’ they were as a people, but recall a certain European country’s skill for synthesizing shiny and happy new chemicals and loading those chemists’ creations in artillery shells during WW1

By: matte stone

matte stone — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:09:49 +0000

It’s not a doomsday thing, it’s a dimensional shift thing. The Mayan calender is cyclical and does not indicate an ending but a beginning.

By: jwd21

jwd21 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:17:30 +0000

To a degree I think it has some significance.
I don’t believe the world is going to end on that date, but I do believe they could be close.

By: joearnold00

joearnold00 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:14:52 +0000

Don’t really care. The world will end when it ends. I just gotta make sure I’m ready for it.