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Will the World End in One Year?

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You've heard about it, you've seen books about it, maybe you even watched a certain Nicolas Cage movie about it. According to the Mayan calendar, the world's 13th "b'ak'tun," or 144,000-day cycle, will come to an end on December 21, 2012. Some think the Mayans associated the end of the 13th b'ak'tun with the end of the world, and that's why there have been so many rumors of an approaching doomsday.

But the reality is, even if the Mayans were right, calculations suggesting the end of the world would arrive in 2012 are fragile at best. John Hoopes, a scholar of Maya history, told Livescience, "A lot of the end-of-the-world mythologies are the result of Christian eschatology introduced by Franciscan missionaries." He went on to explain that some believe the Mayans would have simply treated the date as a "new beginning," much like the new year or the new millennium. But if it happened in a Nicolas Cage movie it's probably worth investigating, right?

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  • ugn 2011/12/26 13:17:07
    No
    ugn
    +1
    (sorry my vote is for yes)
    surely the world would end in one or another year(you didn't mention it next year know)
  • KATniss 2011/12/26 13:10:46
  • dwight 2011/12/26 13:07:37
    No
    dwight
    +1
    the world and the solar system will be here for a long duration.
  • Frank 2011/12/26 12:48:59
    No
    Frank
    +1
    It is amusing to me. That people would believe something mystical from a pagan religion, based on no evidence whatsoever- as a real possibility- but dismiss out of hand many proven assertions from the scientific community - where evidence is the only guide.
  • Space Invader 2011/12/26 12:07:06
    No
    Space Invader
    +3
    BUT; it will feel like it....2012 will be a terrible year; financial collapse; the EU strengthening their hold on world-wide power;with Germany emerging a 3rd time as a dangerous power..the US Stock Market will be a blaze; and War will break out..the world will be shaken with Huge Natural catastrophes....and that's only the beginning...
  • Wally-M... Space I... 2011/12/26 16:35:17
    Wally-Molon Labe!
    +1
    And what's the bad news? LOL
  • Officia... Wally-M... 2011/12/27 07:17:48
    OfficialTwilightFilm
    You've got a point there. xD
  • Officia... Space I... 2011/12/27 07:18:07
  • Steve 2011/12/26 11:29:34
    Yes
    Steve
    +1
    Yes, but only for those who happen to die in 2012. For them, it will be the end of the world.
  • Henry Massingale 2011/12/26 10:57:11
    No
    Henry Massingale
    +1
    Will, I hope not I am not done with this 2012 Elections, and the 2014 -2015...
    So lets just move on to the real world as we know it.
  • ChrisCopper 2011/12/26 10:55:59
    No
    ChrisCopper
    +1
    I'm a little worried about whoever voted 'yes'. You'd have to be pretty stupid to think that the world will end in 2012.
  • Ego Death 2011/12/26 10:45:01
  • Ryan 2011/12/26 10:28:05
    No
    Ryan
    +1
    no .................. god won't let girls die virgin !!!!! :D



    dnt die virgin
  • DarkStar 2011/12/26 10:18:26 (edited)
    No
    DarkStar
    +1
    well thats only if i can't find my big red button :P and if anybody actually reads the "translated" text then it says a new beginning as well as what we will never know because of the conquistadors and their lust for gold leading to countless historical documents being destroyed
  • Wong wei lin 2011/12/26 10:15:20
    No
    Wong wei lin
    +1
    i'm a christian and only true christians know, it is written in the bible that no one will ever know the true date of the end of the world. only God does. so how can anybody predict anything related? rebuke any christian that tells you "this date or that date is the end of the world" with the word of God.
  • explorer1618 2011/12/26 09:07:43 (edited)
    Yes
    explorer1618
    So long as it is convenient enough for the GOP pure bloods !

    Please step aside cause their girth can be overwhelming .... I've seen smaller but it grows when a bit annoying and short voice poops out saying FOX???? is not bias over and over again in some sort of non- what ever KKK sitz bath !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
  • thksfrthmmrs 2011/12/26 07:08:55
  • TheFutu... thksfrt... 2011/12/26 21:08:26
    TheFutureMrs.Sakurai
    OMG YOUR RIGHT! -- DAMN THAT'S FOOKIN 16 YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN LOL
  • coach k 2011/12/26 07:04:52
    No
    coach k
    +1
    i rather doubt it
  • findthelight2000 2011/12/26 06:44:20 (edited)
    Yes
    findthelight2000
    +1
    If the religious fundamentalists (including the Christian Evangelical/Fundamentalists) of the world have their way, it would. But won't they be surprised when they don't get that "rapture" they keep talking about. Why would God want to save people that have no concern for God's creations that they willingly let them go extinct, and people that have been working so hard to destroy the Earth through overuse of fossil fuels, fracking, and nuclear reactors and fighting against safe, renewable energy sources, not to mention teaching hatred of other people and cultures?
  • ed 2011/12/26 06:27:02
    No
    ed
    +2
    Wouldn't that be crazy if it actually did end? Very few people really believe that it will happen, but what if, just what if, it does? Think about how nuts that would be if the Rapture begins. Kind of like that episode of American Dad. Think about waking up one morning to see people raising to heaven, and others remaining. Think about all those people who don't believe in God (Any one of our Gods), think how that would change everything, suddenly there is hard fact that religions are real. All of us that don't follow the bible remaining on Earth while a 7 year war with evil begins. Just think about that, the world drastically and permanently changed so suddenly. I mean there is virtually no chance that there is any truth to the world ending, but just imagine if it actually did happen. With our same thoughts as today, that its all false and the world will not end, but then getting hit with cold hard reality, and there is no fudging around, judgement day suddenly is upon all of man kind on Earth. No running, no hiding, no diplomacy, no councils of delegates to negotiate a truce. Just the cold hard reality that nothing will ever be the same, and that there is virtually no one on Earth that has done anything that actually mattered. Crazy man, just crazy.
  • Wally-M... ed 2011/12/26 16:40:47
    Wally-Molon Labe!
    +1
    Two thoughts. We're already in a war against evil. The rapture will make the population control freaks very happy. Won't have to feed a couple billion people.
  • MENAH 2011/12/26 06:25:48
    Yes
    MENAH
    +3
    I don't believe it will on that specific day but soon. I think we should prepare anyway, better safe than sorry right?!
  • Shady MENAH 2011/12/26 18:14:30
    Shady
    +1
    I agree with you.
  • JGunny16 2011/12/26 05:56:48 (edited)
    No
    JGunny16
    +1
    This is stupid, the world is not going to end. May I remind of Y2K and how we were "supposed to" die in May earlier this year with the rapture. Its just more BS that is unneeded in the world.
  • vinone 2011/12/26 04:55:45
    Yes
    vinone
    But we're going to survive, riddle me that!
  • Danny Barker 2011/12/26 04:51:30
    No
    Danny Barker
    +1
    I guess it will ends when it ends.
  • vetogod 2011/12/26 04:40:57
    No
    vetogod
    +1
    i dont think so
  • Strikhedonia 2011/12/26 04:32:41
  • Otaku Link 2011/12/26 04:26:51
    No
    Otaku Link
    +2
    I don't think it'll take that long...
    In fact:
    5 4 3 2 1
  • Sunset ... Otaku Link 2011/12/26 08:11:03
    Sunset moon
    +1
    pop.....what the-BOOOOOOOOM! haha
  • Bitwise Operator 2011/12/26 04:21:59
    No
    Bitwise Operator
    +1
    That depends on whether or not you have a place reserved under the Denver Airport with the New World Airport commission.
  • You Know IT 2011/12/26 03:57:13
    No
    You Know IT
    +1
    and if it does, who cares the world ended, why would it matter? whether or not it ends life will or won't go on, no point worrying about it unless u know the cause and a way to prevent it in case such a event could possibly occur
  • SC You Kno... 2011/12/26 05:44:42
    SC
    quite right. since it is not likely anyone can act on this vague and unlikely information, it is best to go on as if this prediction does not exist.
  • HorseGal 2011/12/26 03:41:54
    No
    HorseGal
    +1
    How many times have we been over this?
  • You Kno... HorseGal 2011/12/26 03:59:55
  • Nathanial Evans 2011/12/26 03:31:58
    No
    Nathanial Evans
    +1
    I'd be surprised if it took us that long
  • SatansMexicanGardener 2011/12/26 03:08:03
  • MOJ 2011/12/26 03:06:41
    Yes
    MOJ
    This world is bound to end at one point or another. I mean unless we find a new world to move to (and have the ability to do so) our sun will end up swallowing us if something else doesn't do us in first.

    Will the world end in 2012? I believe that is utter bull. Nothing will happen in 2012, other than what we humans will dish out for ourselves to suffer.
  • ghostrider 2011/12/26 02:44:24
    No
    ghostrider
    +4
    Will this silliness ever end?

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