The Mayas and other highly advanced cultures predicyed the end of this era or world by 2017 or 2019 ?
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The Mayan "long count" calender turns-over in 2012.  This has far more to do with their counting system and way of writing dates than with any particular "forcast of doom."\n\nThink about it this way: You hit 100,000 miles on your car's odometer.  It rolls over and starts at "0" again.  Did you old car come to an end, only to be replaced by a new car, or did you just run out of digits in the system that measures how far you have traveled?  The Mayan long count calender starts over in 2012 for the same reason.
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Haven't you heard?  The world's going to end, just like it did back on June 6th 1006.
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The world is comming to an end?
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hmm i believe in 2050 or 2020, due to our slow destruction of the Earths atmosphere.
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There are always prophesies about the world ending. When one doesn't come true and time passes on then society starts looking for the next clue - or the old prophecy is reinterpreted! I think science beats them all, since they predicted that if we did not change our ways the Earth would make us suffer. Now we are seeing its true - though science says we are too late to change anything now. I guess we'll see who was right when the time comes!  I think the world will end just as science says, by catastrophic global changes, and that will happen on a big enough scale to finally end us all on the date the Mayan calender runs out...... :)  Or it could be 6-26-06...who knows?!!\n\nIn the meantime check out this prediction: http://www.theworkofgod.org/Pope/saint_malachy_prophecies.htm
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This world is going towards its end.
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ummmm . . . .no . . . .at the end of the world, the world is gonna be gone (that means china too)
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It is NOT the end of their "time records" --their Long Count calendar is rolling over from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns, not unlike our calendar going from 1999 to 2000, except that a Baktun is 400 years long.\n\nOn the date 13.00.00.00.00, which is 12-21-2012, this is what WILL happen (there's no "expect" about it): There will be an astrological alignment between the sun and the dark area of the Milky Way at dawn.  This alignment will not take place again for thousands of years.  The Maya believed that the dark area of the Milky Way was the birth canal of the universe so therefore, when the sun came up out of the dark area, it was being reborn.  \n\nA lot of people have interpreted that to mean that it's the end of the world.  Actually it's the beginning of a new one.  This world's already dead--that's why it's so awful right now.\n\n\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog for other information on that day.
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The Mayan calender ( not the Aztec ) ends on 12 / 21 / 12, and some people like to think that's when the world will end...
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It has to do with the destruction of the Mayan culture, which, for them, was the apocalypse
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Zealous Christians have been predicting 'the second coming' and the end of the world since Jesus' time.\n\nIt's been 2000 years.\n\nAre you going to start living in reality, or are you still waiting for the world to end and you be given everything you desire in heaven?
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There are many theories concerning this.  Warfare, famine, and collapse of the ruling elite have all been put forth.  Jared Diamond puts forth a good possibility in his book "Collapse".  he speculates that without written history to guide them, the Maya expanded their agriculture into drought sensitive regions in the  lower plains, which collapsed their agriculture the next time A 500 year drought returned.\nStill, it is possible that not enough evidence survives to tell.
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there will be no world left soon
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it is near the end of times
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What is the world coming to.
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Some say that the world will end on that year and in my opinion I say yes,why because I know,that and it says so in the Mayan calendar.I know,it's stupid and all but the Mayan were really advanced and most of things they predicted came true.So why not this?
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it depends, because it is such a porfound, specific idea to see amoungst the planets. i dont really think that most astrologers know the specific aspects that would lead to the end of the world.\n\nthe mayans seem to think it was in the year of 2012, but they couldnt even predict the end of their own civilization. but yes they did it by their own astrology.