Does the End of the Mayan Calendar Mean the End of the World?

Since the beginning of time man has been fascinated with making predictions on what he deems will be the day that the world will cease to exist in the form that we are familiar with, but fortunately he has been wrong thus far. However, the next planned major prediction doesn't come from one man, but from a whole complex group of people.

This advanced cultural society known as the Mayans used a technical system predicting doomsday as the last day of the Mayan calendar which falls on December 21, 2012. With the technology and resources available during their time they compiled a theory that existed within their thought process as the projected Armageddon. However, modern scientists of various levels see this as just another false prediction made up of mathematical and solar system studies, compiled with extreme educated guesses from the very intelligent Meso-American civilization.

The Mayans very existence involved rituals that included a breathing in of the galaxy of sorts that was instrumental in the daily life of a Mayan due to their strong belief that the cycles didn't change; only the consciousness of every man who dared to pass through it did. With this he would be forever and ultimately aware and dwelling in a process that ultimately guided him toward deeper perfection.

Newspapers, books, movies and other media sources have opened us up to the very possibility of the worlds end in just a few short years. And when you mention December 21, 2012 to any number of people you will get a varied degree of responses, especially from those people who have been following worldwide news coverage. Just zooming in on the number of rapidly growing catastrophic events involving natural disasters, strange diseases, and other off the wall reports could be leading us directly to the end of times.

Armageddon, the final days, the coming of Christ, doomsday, the end of times or the apocalypse; call it what you want because the meaning no matter how it is put is justifiably going to have the same conclusion to anyone discussing the mind boggling, forever life changing topic. No more life on this planet due to some type of extreme ending from an unknown cause or possible reasons that make no sense to those wishing to continue life on Earth.

If you believe everything that you watch, hear or read on the Apocalypse the world as we know it will no longer exist by the end of the year in 2012; instead it will take on the form of a barren waste land that is only suitable to vermin. In fact nothing but cockroaches will remain, as all other life forms will have been eradicated by a fire so forceful that it will annihilate the heavens and Earth and all that lives and breathes within.

The bible itself offers many scripted answers to that particular question that burdens our mind, but it is worded with such a broad spectrum of time frames that it leaves most of us scratching our head. In fact the end of the world is worded in one Bible verse as "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." Jesus Christ.

No exact date is given here, but you almost feel as if you will be thrown a major warning that it is coming; at least we hope that we will be prepared. And unless God was in cahoots with the Mayans, you can pretty much speculate that the chosen day is not on December 21, 2012. And if it is indeed judgment day; I can lay a pretty good bet that nobody is readily buying tickets for this extreme event.

The book of Revelation covers the final days at greater length, and will put fear in just about anyone that reads its entirety. It has a wide variety of interpretations that range from the simple message that we should have faith that God will prevail, to a more complex end of time scenario. It is both fascinating to read and will also scare the hell out of anybody with common sense.

Whether it's a movie, book, website, article, or an act of God; the fact remains that most of us are wondering if it is truly the final days of our life here on Earth, and not necessarily according to how the Mayans calendar planned it. The Bible gives us the written word of signs that warn us of the coming end of times.

False prophets, wars, famines, earthquakes, tribulations, new found faith and Bible versus being taught worldwide are all signs leading us to the end of times as we have known it. While we are also well aware that we will not know the exact date of Armageddon, God obviously wanted us to know when that time was getting closer.

For the average pessimist it is plain and simple, cut out the abuse of our extremely over-worked planet or we will suffer the consequences. They don't necessarily believe that the world is headed straight for a proverbial doomsday due to hidden messages from a variety of sources that may or may not be dead on.

Most optimists feel that warnings of the end of times has been repeated over and over, and for the most part are born out of made up ridiculous innuendos including the prediction of the world's end when the new millennium came around. Pandemonium set in as citizens everywhere waited for a technical cataclysmic event to unfold; however it soon became clear that very little was going to happen by the end of the day in the new year of the 21st century other then it being dubbed the less than glamorous Y2K or the new millennium.

After putting some thought into the things that are happening around us daily and witnessing devastating events you can sense that many of the signs that test our patience, endurance, and possibly even our faith are being put forth into action. So bearing all of these key factors in mind, will December 21, 2012 more then likely be the day that the heavens open up with a wave of catastrophic events occurring that will forever change our very existence or will it be the beginning of trials and tribulations that will test even the most faithful of believers?

Doomsday Predictions: Fact or Exaggerated Claims

Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasts that part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. He writes that on the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m.

Armageddon was to occur in 1914 according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Their reasoning was due to prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The message referred to seven times, and the Watchtower likened this to an equation of 360 x 7= 2520.

The Mayans discovered that every grand cycle has its minor cycles that carry the same characteristics. One galactic day of 25,625 years is divided into five cycles of 5,125 years.

Some of the interpretations of the prophecies of Nostradamus support the 2012 doomsday while others clearly state future predictions well into the 3700's.

One prediction of doomsday was made by Petrus Olivi over 700 years ago in 1297. He predicted that the end of times would occur in the year 2000.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Doomsday as Judgment Day. No exact date has been given for that day, unless you understand the Torah codes hidden within the Bible.

National Geographic aired a segment titled "2012: Countdown to Armageddon" and tested the Mayans theory. They concluded that pole shifting has nothing to do with the Mayan calendar or their 2012 prediction of the world's end. Precession "the wobble of Earth's spin" is the process that John Major Jenkins thinks the Mayans were able to observe and in fact used to predict certain alignments on which to base their long count calendar.