Nothing, at least, no sort of end-of-the-world type stuff.
All the notions that the Mayans predicted the end of the world ignore the fact that the Mayan calendar is not based on the same system as ours. For them, their Great Cycle, which lasts about 10,000 of our years, ends on the day we call...December 21, 2012. Their next Great Cycle begins on a date we call December 22, 2012.
Does the fact that your wall calendar stops at December 31, 2012, mean that the world is going to end? Of course not.
Yet that's exactly the sort of claim these doomsayers are claiming.
After all, the world is so much more interesting when you ignore basic facts and just make s#!t up as you go along.
Besides, how else do you think these folks could have sold so many copies of their books, articles, etc.?
Where I live, it will get dark really early. The weather will be coolish. The stores will be chock-full of Christmas shoppers and they will stay open late so that shoppers can maximize their spending. Lots of places will have Christmas decorations and lights. And the calendar will roll over to December 22nd. Some people might watch the movie 2012. They say it's the ultimate disaster movie. But chances are that some kind of "Christmas-themed" movie will be showing at a theatre near you. Let's hope its not those annoying high-pitched chipmunks.
And of course if you turn on the news that day, they will talk about the Mayan calendar and the event that didn't happen. Additionally the media will report on the usual sensationalized garbage - "severe weather", traffic accidents, Dancing with the Stars updates, political bias, etc.
Dec 21st will come and go.
Whatever happened to Y2K? Wasn't the world supposed to end when the calendar rolled over from 1999 to 2000? Weren't legacy computers supposed to think that the year is 1900 and perform all kinds of system shutdowns, launch missiles, spew out cash from ATMs etc.
Well, let's see... It's a Friday & the first Day of Winter... So it'll probably be Cold & potentially Snowy- & I'll have to rush to the Bank after Work- to cash my Paycheck so I can finish up my Christmas Shopping over that Weekend ! The Stores will be PACKED. -The Traffic, Dreadful. -And I just KNOW I'm not going to be able to find a good Xmas Gift for my Mom ( because She's already GOT 17 of EVERYthing ) !! :( NO doubt about It; - I Predict 12/21/12 is gonna be a LONG Day... .. . :)
Find a calendar in your house and look at the last page...doubtless it just "stops" on December 31, 2012, right?
Does that mean anything specific is going to "happen" on that date? Or is that just when that specific CALENDAR ends?
The Mayans "ran out of room" on their big round slab of rock when they got to 21 December, 2012, that is all...
(Not to mention that they did not have "leap years" at that point in history, and if you account for them? Well, the date that WOULD have been 21 December, 2012 has already come & gone....and I don't know about you, but I am still here!)
Silly goose!
Americans will breathe a sigh of relief because, having thrown an anti-American socialist out of office, they will, on January 20, 2013, begin to repair the enormous damage the democrat party has inflicted on America.
I just got an email today that said:
I know that the world is NOT going to end in 2012 because Marty McFly traveled to 2015.
(Back to the Future)
Sorry, it made me laugh!
I predict that I will wake up, have a long day of listening to "ahhhhhh the world is ending!!!!!" Then I will go to bed, wake up the next day. And live like normal.
what's going to happen will happen
What do you think will happen?
