Welcome to the year of “Doomsday.”
Yep that’s right, today marked the start of 2012, the year the Mayan Long Count calendar ends and rumor has it, the world does too.
The Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012, a date many believe will be significant in that it will wipe out the human race and possibly the whole Earth.
One reason many believe this “doomsday” to be true: according to ABC, the Mayan civilizations had a talent for astronomy and created what has been called the most accurate calendar in the world that begins in 3,114 B.C.
If you notice, doomsday is also set to go down on the winter equinox, coincidence? Maybe. One rumor of how disaster will strike that day, is that our poles will reverse.
Doomsayers have predicted a slew of other cataclysmic events they say will go down in December of 2012 leaving the Earth in peril, like a series massive earthquakes and tsunamis, among others.
And we all know what else can happen on that fateful day thanks to doomsday movies like “2012″ and “Day After Tomorrow,” that have been building up fear and excitement over the past few years.
Still, others say the end of the world isn’t going to happen like many other doomsday predictions that failed to take place including the most recent by Harold Camping. Camping predicted the world would end this past May and again in October. He also predicted the world would end in the 1990s.
One good reason why the world won’t end this December is that the prediction may have been misinterpreted. The Mayans never actually predicted the end of the world just the end of a calendar count. Many say that the date actually marks an end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar not the apocalypse.
And as we previously reported, this April, the Mayas released a letter saying something similar.
“Contrary to popular belief, the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years.” the letter reads. Click to read more about the letter
Another reason, according to a recent study by an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, the date may also be inaccurate and at least 60 days off, reported Discovery.
What do you think?
