Do you believe in the 2012 Mayan doomsday prophecy?

Question:Well according to the Mayan's (who have a good track record so far) we have 4 years, 8 months, 9 days, and about 6 hours until the end comes. Their calender is a tad more accurate then our Gregorian calender used today.

Many have said "this cant happen because Im to young"

or "I dont care how advanced they were it just is not gonna happen"

but the best has been "dooms dayers have been wrong before and they have yet to be right"

The planets will be aligned like never before when that time arrives

with climate change (notice I did not say global warming) and the current conflicts throughout the world one cant help but wonder "what if their right?".................. what do you all believe?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Well according to the Mayan's (who have a good track record so far) we have 4 years, 8 months, 9 days, and about 6 hours until the end comes. Their calender is a tad more accurate then our Gregorian calender used today.

Many have said "this cant happen because Im to young"

or "I dont care how advanced they were it just is not gonna happen"

but the best has been "dooms dayers have been wrong before and they have yet to be right"

The planets will be aligned like never before when that time arrives

with climate change (notice I did not say global warming) and the current conflicts throughout the world one cant help but wonder "what if their right?".................. what do you all believe?

Since the timing is right for several religions and philosophies, including some of the Native North Americans, I plan on being high in the mountins of Western North Carolina, sitting in a hot tub drinking wine on Dec. 21, 2012. There are some Native American legends that talk of a "Great Flood" comming about that time.

So, since I usually take a few days vacation that time of year, I'll be somewhere relatively safe when the big "Climate Change" happens. If nothing happens, I'll go back to work after the new year, and wait for the next "End of the World".

The Mayans have a good track record so far?

Did they see their own demise coming?

Is there scientific evidence to support their beliefs in the effectiveness of human sacrifice?

What was on this track record of theirs?

It can be true or untrue. The Mayan's didn't see the end of their civilization coming. Although they have been acuarate there's no telling if it is or isn't true. I can't see the end of the world coming in my lifetime but we have to let time unfold to discover.

Best question I've seen all day. STARRED.

I'd say this is even more stupid than the Y2K bs.

Well i can answer your question in two ways. One from the christian viewpoint or beliefs. Two from point previously stated about the Mayans not being able to forsee their own demise. Lets start with the first one.
According to the christian beliefe, Jesus Christ, Son of God, will come down from earth to judge the living and the dead. He will have all the characteristics of man just like when he was alive 2000 years ago. He will come with original tribes of Israel. There are alot of things that will happen at this time but it is impossible to write everything down here. What you can do is try reading the book of Revelations. I can state a few more things though. Revelations were visions given to John, showing him how the world will end or the second coming of the Messiah. Jesus being the Messiah, will fight Satan or the antichrist along with the true believers. This is called armageddon. Satan will be defeated. But there will be tests for man. The antichrist would have great power over man. If you have heard about 666, thats the number which will be branded on everyone's forehead at the time of the antichris's rule. At this time the human race is supposed to suffer alot. After all this Christ will take the righteous to heaven.
Islam states similar things, but their are some other things that are totally different.

Second, the it is true the Mayans weren't able to predict their own demise. But there is not evidence of how the mayan population and culture started to decline. Their demise could have been gradually brought by foriegne invaders or just social issues they had. If that was the case then they probably wouldn't have had the chance to predict it at all. Usually we have heard myths of people predicting the fall of an empire or a nation with a great war or a plaque happening. Their is more evidence for saying that their demise had nothing to do with religion.

Well, with what you pointed out in the last paragraph of your question, it certainly is debatable, but only to a certain extent.

I gave you first responder a thumbs up, he brings up some good points.

Yes, the planets will be alligned, but if you think about it in mathematical terms, since no orbit is the same as another, this was bound to happen sometime.

But many other (groups of) people have come up with 2012 and, more specifically, December of that year. The Mayan prediction is the most specific, as they also give a precise date. But, those other people who have come up with 2012 as the doomsday date may just have been basing it off of the Mayan predictions.

I'm a Christian, and as the Mayans did not have Christianity, God did not tell any one of them that the world was gonna end in 2012.

Everything that I've stated above are possible arguments that I could see coming from the Mayan prediction. Now is where I cut into it.

The doomsday that the Mayans "foresaw" on December 21, (I heard 26, but whatever) 2012 was in fact not a prediction at all. The Mayan mathematicians and astrologists and astromonists were in sync with each other. The math guys were making the calendar to reach as far into the future they could before they died. The astro guys were making predictions of where the objects in the universe would be on these dates that were set up by the math guys. They were figuring out what the layout of things would be and what we could see from here on Earth. No one knows for sure what caused it, but somehow and for whatever reason, the Mayans just dissapeared. Were they conquered? Did they starve? Did they run themselves into ruin with civil war? There are many theories. But what we do know is that they happened to fall apart when they got to late December 2012. The only reason people think the Mayans predicted doomsday on this date was because that's when their calendar ended. Their calendar ended because the fell apart. It just so happens that that's where they were at in their calendar-making when they dissapeared.

The Mayans believed that their race would last till that year. They believed that they would not need a calendar paqst that time.

The end of existence is not a belief. It is fact or fiction