My teacher told us yesterday on December 21,2012 the world is going to end is that true?
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of course not, people come up with wacko stories such as the one your teacher told you every day.  People thought the world was going to end on 6-6-06 but it did not. don't worry you will hear people say things like that many more times in your life.
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Generally yes, I do believe the world will come to an end. Not necessarily as it predicted in religous text but eventually the world will cease to exsist from one disaster or another.
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No.  The Bible says at the end of time, the Earth will be as it was in the days of Noah, when people's minds thought of evil continually.  So yeah, things are only getting worse.  Hopefully, Jesus won't wait too much longer.
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It's "aren't people" -- FYI\nPeople are mostly kidding.  The date today is 6/6/06 - NOT 666 as in six hundred sixty-six.  No one said the world is going to end on 666 anyway.  It's a mark - not a date
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what is your question? of course the world will end at some point in time...but I don't believe you have proof.
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when the world comes to an end?
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The Mayan calendar is like an odometer in a car.  When the odometer hits 100,000 miles it "turns over" and starts again at 00000.  The car does not self-destruct, the odometer simply starts over again at zero.  That is what will happen on 21 Dec 2012.  The odometer will turn over and the Mayan long count will start over at zero.  Nothing will happen.  The Maya believed that the long count had turned over several times in the past.  Indeed, this is the 12th "long day" as I recall, and the 13th "long day" will begin on 21 Dec 2012.\n\nNote to previous poster:  No, it is the Mayan calendar NOT the Aztec calendar.  The Aztecs were a relatively "primitive" people compared to the Mayans where astronomy and mathematics are concerned.  They had no calendar.\n\nNote to later poster:  That "predicting Cortes" thing is just myth.  The Maya did no such thing.
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Only God knows when the world will end. It ends for someone every day if you really think about it.\n\nGood luck!\nG.G.
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Barring the very unlikely event of a meteor hitting Earth, no, the world isn't going to end any time soon.\nIf you mean, could our lives change drastically because of global warming soon, well, perhaps.  But Earth itself will continue.
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I don't know what time the world is supposed to end on Dec. 21, 2012, according to the Mayan calendar.  However, there appears to be some controversy about this signaling the end of the world:\n\n"The end of the 13th baktun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind."\n\nThe last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinitely larger number of units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)\n\nThis is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on 13 October, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.
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Yes, we are living in the days of 2Timothy3, that describes the end times.  Sounds like a summary of today.\n\nBlessings,\nDavid
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it might be the end of the world one day
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ummm people will die, people will be born. There will be an election in the US and probably several other countries. There will be hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. There will also be a bunch of new TV shows, and some guy will win the lottery. Basically it is going to be the same as every other year.\n\nNow if you are referring to the fact that it is the end of the Mayan calendar, and several freaks out there are predicting the end of the world, well don't worry. They have never been right yet. And what did they Mayans know, if they were so smart they would still be around.\nRemember all the people that said the year 2000 was going to be a big disaster? guess what... nothing.\nSame thing different calendar. \n\nNow go out and enjoy what time you have left.... heh.
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The Mayan calendar does not predict the end of the world on Dec 12th 2012. \nThe exact date of the end of the current Mayan Long Count is still a matter of debate amongst Mayan scholars, although it is likely to be around Dec 21 2012. \nThe Mayan calendar is cyclical, and there are names for cycles longer than 13 bactuns of the Long Count which are coming to an end in 2012. \nEven if the Mayans did believe that the world would come to an end at the end of the Long Count, there is no reason to assume that they have any special knowledge which would allow them to make this prediction correctly. You are free to believe the Sun won't come up tomorrow, but it will anyway.... \n\n\nThe fact that the winter solstice on 2012 is "aligned" with the plane of the Galaxy has no significance. \nIt takes the winter solstice 700-1400 years to cross the plane of the Galaxy. \nThe solstice last year (2005) was within 0.1 degrees (or 1/5th the size of the Sun) of where it will be on 2012. \nThe Sun crosses the plane of the Milky Way twice every year with no ill effect.
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This is a very philosophical question in that to answer it, you need to define what is meant by the world ending.\n\nIf by the world ending, you mean the end of the human race, then the answer is simple.  All humans will die.  The question was not asked how though.\n\nIf by end of the world, you are speaking literally of the world::Earth, then most likely the Earth will burn up in the sun when our sun expands out in search of fuel before dying out.  The sun is expected to go out as far as possibly Mars when this happens and thus, that would be the end of the 'world'.\n\nIf you are a teenager, then the end of the world for you might be when you get seen getting out of your family's minivan in front of the school and you mom yells out the window, in front of all your friends, "Love you hunny!  Have a good day!"
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Anybody who tells you that the world is going to end on this date or that date should not be listened to.  God is in control and He will fulfill His plan at and in His timetable.  The Bible makes it clear that we do not know when the world will end and there have been people predicting it since the time of Jesus...all wrong so far!  Blessings.
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Yes. I believe one day the world will end. According to the Bible, the end of time has already begun, but won't actually "ENd" for a long time... \n\nIf you're a beleiver of the Bible, read Revelations. It'll tell you what to expect as we approach the end of time... but don't get scared, It most likely won't happen in our lifetime.