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The year 2012 is true.

The 2012 end of the world scenario is not.

One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or about 5125 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world. Here is what a Mayan elder says on the subject: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...

These predictions are scare tactics, conspiracy theories, and chances to make money from books and movies.

Ever since the Y2K and 6/6/6 (June 6, 2006) End of the World scenarios did not pan out, the scare mongers, conspiracy theorists, book sellers, and television executives have been touting the 2012 End of the World scenario. When 2012 does not happen either, I am sure they will think of something else.

Here is also what NASA thinks about the 2012 End of the World scenario: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/StarFAQ18.htm#q3...

If you want a bit more information on the 2012 hoax, try: http://www.2012hoax.org/

"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come." (Mark 13:32-33)

Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to know when the end of the world would come but that we were always to be ready.

The early Christian Church thought that Jesus was going to return at any moment. Only after a couple of centuries did the Church realize that it may be 2,000 or 4,000 or 8,000 years before Jesus returns.

The Catholic Church wisely follows Jesus' advice and teaches that each of us should live as if we will meet our maker in the next ten minutes and that we need to work to make the world a better place for our 100 X great-grandchildren.

Do not worry about the end of the world. Trust God to make sure everything happens to plan. Just be ready to meet God at any time.

For more information, about what Catholics believe about the end of the world, see: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0...

With love in Christ.

Yes, Virginia, there will be a year 2012 and a year 2013 and a year 2014...

Pop culture invented the 2012 "end of the world" scenario to make money and not much else. They based it upon the ancient Mayan long-count calendar which, when it ended, would be the cause for a great celebration (not the end of the world). In other words, the Mayans viewed the end of their calendar the same way we view the end of our yearly calendar - with a party!

No end of the world, only the start of another year and, in the case of the Mayans, another very long calendar.

Citations: 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 first day of the 14th b'ak'tun.

Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization FAMSI, notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". She considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." The 2009 science fiction apocalyptic disaster film 2012 is based on this belief.

Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of catastrophe in 2012. Mainstream Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the existing classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history. The modern Maya do not consider the date significant, and the classical sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean.

Additionally, astronomers and other scientists have rejected the apocalyptic forecasts as pseudoscience, stating that the anticipated events are contradicted by simple astronomical observations. NASA has compared fears about 2012 to those about the Y2K bug in the late 1990s, suggesting that an adequate analysis should preclude fears of disaster. None of the proposed alignments or formulae has been accepted by mainstream scholarship.

For the full story, see the wikipedia articles (always a good place to start doing research).

The only thing anybody knows for sure is that the world will end when the sun burns out. That won't be for more than a billion years.

The mayans were an ancient civilization in guatemala that aren't around now. They were very advanced mathematically, and developed a calendar that ended in 2012. As a matter of fact the sun, as seen from us on the earth, will align with the center of our milky way galaxy in 2012. This event is what we figure made the mayans end the calendar on dec 21, 2012.

Sorry, I should have said the calendar starts over in 2012.

So that's it. There is no real evidence that the galactic alignment means the end of the world.

How can we have proof about the future?

The Universe is unpredictable. Anything could happen at any time. We could blow up in an hour for all I know.

2012 is neither true nor false, because we cannot predict the future to a 100% certainty.

The first thing I heard about 2012 was an asteroid was going to hit Earth, which has now been proven false after further mathematical calculations. But hey, if you want a scare, there's a huge asteroid coming our way in 2029.

Then I heard about solar flares. Which are so unpredictable, how could the Mayans predict one was going to destroy us on an exact date thousands of years in the future?

Oh and lets not forget about Scientists colliding particles in a huge machine that MIGHT create a black hole and gobble us up. Please, spend 30 minutes reading about a black hole and you'll know a minuscule one couldn't possibly consume the whole Earth.

Believe the world is coming to an end in 2012 if you want, you'll just be giving doomsayers more fuel.

No, it will not end in 2012. It was supposed to end in 2000 too. We're still here! :) People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, and they have always been wrong. No human being knows any more than any other human being about future events. Many just believe they do. Again, those who have believed they knew have always been wrong. In addition, there are others predicting the end of the world in 2013, 2017 and onward. How can it end then if it has already ended in 2012? It is all superstition, guesswork, and, sometimes, a misunderstanding of another culture's stories, etc.

Try not to worry about it. If you are interested is seeing a long list of many past dates the world was supposed to end, and, in some cases, what that prediction was based on, you can find that here:

A Brief History of the Apocalypse: http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

No it isn't true. It's entirely made up. Nothing will happen. The whole thing is an invention by a bunch of frauds and crackpots trying to get you to buy worthless books and videos. None of it has any basis in real science. The people promoting this have no knowledge of science. They just like to pretend to be knowledgeable in order to impress the gullible. Don't be one of the gullible.

There is no 'ancient prediction' by the Mayans or anyone else. These were all invented in the last 30 years.

There is no 'mystery planet' about to pass by. Why don't the fraudsters tell us its current location in the sky, so we can all look at it? You decide.

There will be no rare alignment, either planetary or galactic. When was the last alignment that caused us any problems anyway?

There will be no pole shift. A magnetic pole shift is not imminent and probably tens of thousands of years away. A sudden rotational pole shift is a physical impossibility.

The next solar maximum is expected in mid 2013, not 2012 and is expected to be less intense than the last maximum in 2001.

Other predictions such as the photon belt and Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero are just too silly to bother with.

No, it isn't. You won't remember because you were only, what, 1? But when the year 1999 was drawing to a close, a bunch of people were panicking, saying the end of the world was coming. People probably said that at the year 1000, too., if they weren't too busy fighting off huns or whatever (I don't know if that's when huns were really around). People are always scared of some year or another. When and if the world does end, we're not gonna know about it ahead of time. For now, avoid diet soda, enjoy being 12, and don't stress about things so completely out of your control :)

It's all a big misunderstanding. 2012 is a significant date in the Mayan calendar but it was never supposed to mean "the end of the world." Not even the Mayans themselves believed that. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter, because there have been ten billion end-of-the-world predictions throughout history and they've all been wrong. People predict this stuff practically every year and nothing ever happens.

2012 is most likely not real! my proof in 1999 everybody said that the world was going to end because all the computer systems in the world were not made to go past 1999. everybody made bomb shelters and bought tons of food from all the stores. at around 11:00 pm everybody went inside there bomb shelter (well not everybody just the people who thought it was going to happen) then when 2010 was official here nothing happened! that proves that it is not real

No dear. When you were 2 years old, people thought the world would end in the year 2000. When you were 8 they thought it would end on 6.6.06. As you can see it didn't. It won't end in 2012 either, nor will it in 2020 which will probably be the next end of the world date.

Don't worry.