okay please don't worry about this. it's all fake. there's a quote: "the world's not going to end today because in australia, it's already tomorrow." if that's not enough, julius caeser created leap years after the mayan calendar was written. leap years give us and extra day every four years because a year is 365 1/4 days so we get that one day back since we would've lost it every four years. that being said, the world should have ended months ago because of the fact that the mayans wrote the calendar before caeser created leap years... just think about it, the mayan who wrote this calendar could've just forgotten about it or got lazy. i mean, we do that a lot! why should ancient mayans be an exception. this mayan could have continued the calendar on a separate rock or whatever he used to write down the calendar. just don't think about it. back a couple years ago, there was yet another rumor that the world was to end. many people ran into a cave so they wouldn't get hurt. obviously, the world didn't end and the people in the cave died. if they hadn't been so naive, they would've survived. they were just gullible idiots.
Modern Maya like Apolinario Chile Pixtun were already fed up with questions about this in 2009.
The Maya were a powerful central American nation right up until about the year 1600 and there are still something like 7 million of them. Their astronomer - priests found that they could predict the cycle of the seasons, the appearances of Venus as a morning or evening star and even eclipses by counting days. Several other civilisations have done the same in ancient times. This does not mean they could predict anything like the end of the world or whether little "Johnny" would grow up to be a farmer, a soldier or anything else. They might have tried stuff like that, but it has never worked for anyone except by sheer chance.
One result was that they counted days. They did not count days in tens and hundreds, they counted in 20s and 18s. Then from there on in 20s. That gave them a unit of 360 days which was close enough to a year. They knew the year was 365 days and probably about 365.24 . . . .days as well, but that was not important to the day count.
Twenty times twenty times 360 days was called a bak'tun, it's a bit short of 400 years obviously. They also believed that 13 was a lucky number. Now, as far as we can tell, the old Maya believed that the world was created about 11 August 3114BC (by our count) and if you add 13 bak'tuns to that you get 21 December 2012 which is the solstice. This is an estimate made by modern scholars, it may not be correct but leap years have nothing to do with it.
Over the past 40 years, the late Dr. Jose Arguelles, one of the founders of "Earth Day" began to go off his rocker. He became obsessed with the Maya and their time counting systems and started to claim he was a reincarnated Maya and a lot of other bizarre stuff. One of the claims was that there would be a great spiritual change on 21 December 2012.
Then in the 1990s Nancy Lieder began to claim she was abducted by aliens and told the Earth would be damaged by the close approach of a stray planet she called X. This was supposed to ben in May 2003 and cause a geographic pole shift which would kill 2/3 of the population, and it was supposed to happen in May 2003. She started web sites and so forth which attracted jokers and crazies. Some of the jokers were confidence men and started to make a bit of money selling books about impending doom and destruction.
When nothing happened in May 2003, the confidence men wanted to keep on making money so they postponed planet X to fit in with the existing nonsense started by Jose Arguelles years before. Another nine years of making money from the gullible and the paranoid.
Since then many other frauds and crazy theories that have existed for a long time have been added, alignments of this and that, solar flares, photon belts, Nostradamus, you name it. We saw much of the same stuff telling us the world would end in 1999 / 2000. The photon belt story was supposed to happen in 1958!
These people are in it for the money. They are selling books and DVDs. Their dot-com web sites make a fraction of a cent for them from advertisers every time someone opens them. They make schlockumentaries and sell them to the History Channel and any other TV outlet that will buy.
It's all about money.
http:/www.2012hoax.org
Earths magnetic poles are expected to switch which in turn leads to a series of bad events
i herd dat da earth is goin 2 melt n 2012 dats all i har n da newspapers n sh*T
i didnt think anything was going to happen until i saw this:
Well I don't know by but I keep freaking out on what they say about the world ending. I freak out with the while Mayan calendar thing. They also say that this year a thing called to new world order will happen. I am really scares and don't know what to believe anymore!!! Can I get some input from all of on If I should be worried or not. Should I even be scared at all? Is it all fake?
