INTERESTING FACT

Also, the arctic is going to melt in 100 years.

Those Mayans were fu**ing geniuses.

I have been through this before. It used to depress me when people would look back, back ,back to other cultures whose world views don't apply to ours. Brillient? Yes. But for the Mayans what we see as science was to them was a tool to some how figure out how the relm of there Gods opperated. For me to think that thr mayan calander was going to pridict the future I may as well take up sacrificing the hearts of my enimies on an alter.
Global warming was pridicted not by a Mayan calander. It was pridicted by men and women who understood the scientific method.

At 2012, we will experience magnetic polar changes, making our North Pole into South Pole. This was predicted by Albert Einstein and it will most probably not mean the end of mankind. This will expose us to three times the radiation since our magnetic field that protects us from radiation will weaken during the change. That means we'll suffer more cancer due to overexposure to radiation, but I think we will develop a cure for cancer or our body will just adapt to it. Humans have always overcome obstacles and thats why we're still the dominant
species on this planet.

The mayans whole way of life was built around the end of the world, they were obsessed by it. And indeed their calender was ingenious. But it would not apply to us, they worshiped statues and as pedro mentions, we have a better understanding of the world now, then any other civilisation in our history.

I don't belive wat the mayans have predicted. The Bible says "no man knoweth the day nor the hour" and i believe the Bible ;therefore the mayans do not i repeat DO NOT know the end of time.

they were hot

sorry to break the bad news to you but only god knows the hour and day not the mayan!!!!!!!!!

I think everyone shoul stop hating on the Mayans. They predicted what they could with what amazing knowledge they had, to discredit them proves that we as mankind now, are more arrogant than we should be.

leave the mayans alone and prove that there was a god or a jesus and that they were not just a by product of a good story teller

The bible also speaks of the end of the world... In actual fact its the end of an age and the begining of a new one(Age of Aquarius)
So you see, the Bible (and any other text of any other religion) is only as true as its translation.

god knows **** all! the bible totally contradicts itself! there is no proof of god or jesus and to be honest it all sounds like a guy with a really god imagination creating the 'god' we know today.

I have been studying latin for about 11 years now, and consider myself (a little bit arrogantly) as an expert. I have recenty discovered a mistranslation in it. The mistranslation is on Mathew 1:2 you know the one that begins:

''Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob....''

it goes on and on and on and on for ages.
Well the word previously thought to mean begat, actually means....

Punched.

The Mayans made a prediction based on scientific fact. However, we know much more today and are able to rule out their prediction. It is very impressive that they were able to predict the shifting of the poles.

N.B. anyone who wants to discuss science on a forum like this, please do not refer to the Bible, Religion, or God's "all knowing power" (note the sarcasm)

I love how most religious people, are the most Uptight, Closed-Minded, and inslaved people on our planet. Good job in discrediting yourselves you egotistical idiots.

There is no evidence for a polar reversal in 2012 and there was no way for the mayans to know when it will happen next or that it has ever happened, seeing how the last polar reversal took place 780 thousand years ago. Polar reversal can be recorded by veiwng the magnetic alingment of sedimentary rocks for various ages. THE NEXT POLAR REVERSAL IS PREDICTED TO BE IN 3000-4000 AD, not in 3 years.
A polar reversal will not cause the world to end because it has happend before and the world is still here, and it will not cause any mass extinctions because the recorded reversals of the poles do not coincide with any mass extinctions.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson debunks another 2012 myth

actually the most magnificent evidence for magnetic polar reversals is in the mid ocean ridge basalts....which are igneous - but also in sedimentary rocks too....

also I like to refer to the whole hot button topic of "Global Warming" as "Global Climate Change" which is also a beautiful recurring theme throughout the geologic record....you know if you believe that record more than that book that dude wrote on mountain...hey I have an ego what can I say - you offend me by trashing my books - I'll stoop to your level

Oh please, there is no god. The bible was written by a MAN trying to unite his kingdom. Him and a few other men decided what to put in it, and many of the "holidays" ironically coincide with pagan celebrations. Learn the facts. I believe what the Mayans predicted more than some silly book.

The Mayans predictions are real and true, i would bet my life on it. on dec. 21st 2012 the poles are going to shift causing a series of natural disasters which are going to wipe out mankind. end of story.

well this is just bullsh**???
actually i don't think this can happen.

looks like people started to believe in the ape man! hahaha how do you even trust the fact that those people almost centuries ago predicted this unless u have some concrete evidence and not some rock drawings. its all mumbo jumbo... grow up..

Sooo, does this mean I don't have to buy Christmas gifts in 2012? Seriously though I predict this will be another Y2K. A ton of stress and worry for nothing. But if I'm wrong feel free to call me a dumb dumb on Dec. 22 2012. Oh wait.....

cant wait till dec 21 2012

they didnt predict that the world was going to end the calendar just runs out then. and the mayans were smart for their time but they can't predict the end of the world.

Really??? Yall are acting like teenagers (which is what I am) fighting over something that needs to be forgotten.
Our nation does not understand that the Maya predicting the end of the world in 2012 was a...PREDICTION!!
I believe the end of the world will come when no one leasts expects it.
We really don't need to think a whole lot on the past or the ending of our world but on present day stuff.

Maybe the Mayan calendar guy got killed or got fat and lazy and stopped making calendars...who would wanna do that forever?

I remember my geography teacher talking about the polar shift and the consequences, never thought it to be so soon.
On new years eve 2011 I will be hiding under my blanket

i dont get it mayans are werid 2012 yeah

I lived during this time period and i went back in time a flicked of the empoer

The world is not really going to end in 2012!!!!!!!!!

WEll, be it polar shifts, end of the world, or great change call it what you will. The truth is change and eveloution is happening, and as our ancestors before us they either made the cut or not. As far as the God fearers are concern it is true no MAN will know the hour of the second coming ie.end of time! As for the science lovers it is true we are made up of energy infact the iron that runs through our viens are the same that the stars contain. On Dec.12,2012 it will not be the end of civilation. Just the end of our egotic, selfcentered, selfish ways. We will become fully aware of what truly is and what isn't. I can go on with many truths but too many are to dense to understand. This I know because my grandparens still speak the ancient language of the Mayans.

All I want to contribute re: God in all this....I would rather live my life knowing God and accepting His Son and when I pass from this world will be saved. If I don't believe and I'm wrong,my entire eternity will be without God and then it's too late people!!!