Massive tidal waves, asteroids striking the earth, poisoned water, earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, tempests raging, and atomic wars that end in a nuclear winter: It all sounds like a high budget Hollywood blockbuster. Yet, many experts predict that just these sorts of events will actually occur in the year 2012. They base this belief on the Mayan calendar which abrubtly ends in the year 2012, and mark this year as the end of the world. In all truth the world will not end so abruptly. Over the years several experts have predicted the end of the world, but were silenced as the predicted dates passed without anything occuring.
A simple google search will uncover over 100 failed end of the world predictions. The 2012 date is just the most recent in a long history of failed attempts to pin down the end of the world. It seems that mankind needs to have end of world myths just like they need creation myths. Almost as if man must ask himself, “why should the world be immortal when I am not?” In reality, we should ask ourselves “why should the world be mortal?”
I predict that everything that is predicted to happen in 2012 will not happen as predicted.
And if you have ever seen the covers of that Weekly World News magazines in the supermarket, then you'd know they predict the end of the world every other week. Last time I was there, they were saying the world would end on July 4th.
I feel bad for people who take that stuff seriously.
Oh look. The world didn't end and it's July 5th.
I don't see why anything should happen at all, nor why we would expect the Mayans to continue the calender forever. They had to stop sometime right?
Was that the Mayan's got sick of making the calendar and took a break. If someone found one of our wall calendars in the future, would they assume the world should of ended because we only make them for one year?
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Good point, I was actually thinking a similar thing after reading this blog, but more along the lines of "What if they just ran out of space on the calendar for more years?"