Why are people saying the world is going to end in 2012?

Read revelation chapter 21 and Matthew 24. No one but God Himself knows the exact time. But be ready by asking Jesus to save you and forgive your sins. He died for your sins. God be with you.

People like to create mass hysteria. It's like a huge rick roll.

Apparently the Mayans didn't prepare calendars beyond that date. Why they needed to is beyond me. My calendar ends in December, 2009.

I've even seen some trying to fit a Biblical prophetic view of end-times into this 2012 framework. It doesn't fit, so far as I can tell from my understanding of Biblical end-times prophecy.

No good explanation. Only what men have put together from the Incas, Mayans, Nostradamus, or whatever. No truth in it, only to make money for movies, books, etc.

The discover button will reach critical mass and start a massive explosion, due to the sheer volume of 2012 questions.

The world will end.

there is zero scientific evidence the world will end in 2012. Only God knows, no one else.

Every time a 2012 question is asked a puppy dies ...

Please ... for the sake of the puppies ... stop asking them ...

No good explanation. The Mayans's calendar ends on December 21, 2012 and people are freaking out, thinking that it means it's the end of the world. Neither the media nor the documentaries on The History Channel are doing anything to assuage their fears.

Because they have nothing better to do than think up conspiracies. I plan on using that day to giggle at them profusely.

Good explanation? yes, those saying that are stupid.

Ignorance, plain and simple.

The explanation is the Christian Apocalypse merchants are plagiarizing the Mayan calender. It has nothing to do with Christian death cult ambitions what so ever.

The Mayan calender is cyclical, it is not an ending but a beginning again. Its a giant clock. :)

Practicing Shaman... quantum physics rocks.

Because the evil emperor of the evil land will be elected as president.

Because the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012. That information and $1.25 will get you a fat-free latte.

it's funny because atheists are saying that because they believe in the mayans and aliens and crap. There won't be an end. Scientifically, there's no data pointing to an end in 2012....now, if they meant 5,002,012...then they might be right.

It's good business. It makes people want to go see that movie, it will sell a lot of emergency supplies, and otherwise keep us occupied while ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is going on.

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Actually, the 12/21/2012 date isn't the Mayan Date... The Mayan date is 12/23/2012.

The 12/21/12 is this:
Dec 21, 2012 - Terence McKenna combines Mayan chronology with a New Age pseudoscience called Novelty Theory to conclude that the collision an asteroid or some "trans-dimensional object" with the Earth, or alien contact, or a solar explosion, or the transformation of the Milky Way into a quasar, or some other "ultranovel" event will occur on this day. Anyway, something is supposed to happen, and he has lots of pseudoscientific gobbledygook to back up his thesis.

Another 2012 prediction is:
2012 - James T. Harmon's Rapture prediction #3. (Oropeza p.89)
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There are MANY retarded theories ranging from the Sun will throw out intense radiation and fry the earth to the return of "Planet X" and the aliens that 'seeded' us on earth so that they could harvest us for slaves to "Mine gold in the asteroid belt".

I SWEAR that I am not making any of that up...

I have collected a number of articles and videos on each of the various 'theories'.

I hope these help...

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Penn & Teller: The End Of The World:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9182939

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Penn & Teller: The Apocalypse
Official Sho.com Video Preview: http://www.sho.com/site/video/brightcove/series/title.do?bcpid=14033851001&bclid=28919763001&bctid=28992656001

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ A Brief History of the Apocalypse
2800 BC - today...
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates)
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080508-bad-doomsday.html

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ World to End in 2012: A Hoax Gone Too Far?
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090614-end-of-the-world-hoax.html

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ End of the World in 2012 (Cont.)
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090615-earth-doomsday-2012.html

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The End Is Coming in '2012'?
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/2012-roland-emmerich.html
Few people have destroyed the world more than Roland Emmerich. In his mega-hit "Independence Day," aliens laid waste to pretty much every metropolitan center on the planet, and in his eco-thriller "The Day After Tomorrow," much of the northern hemisphere finds itself buried under ice. In his third crack at presenting the apocalypse, this fall's "2012," Emmerich taps into the angst of thousands of astrologers, doomsday enthusiasts, and conspiracy theorists who fear that a massive cataclysm will strike the earth on December 21 of that year. Yet unlike previous dates tied to the Earth's expiration, this one has its roots in various sources throughout history including interpretations of the Mayan calendar, astrology, and the ancient Chinese fortune-telling text the "I-Ching."

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The End is Nigh -- Again: Scientists Say 'No Way' to Solar Tidal Doom http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/planet_alignment_000309.html

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The Planet X Saga: Introduction
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 'Parowan Prophet' Predicts U.S. Will Be Nuked by Christmas
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/081215-parowan-prophet.html
-> posted: 15 December 2008 08:46 am ET <-
CHECK THE DATE...

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 06/06/06: Another Date with Para-Science
http://www.livescience.com/history/060525_numbers_game.html

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The Psychology of 'Knowing'
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090319-bad-movie-knowing.html
Though the plot is fictional, this scenario has occurred many times in the real world. In 1997 Michael Drosnin published a best-selling book titled "The Bible Code," in which he claimed that the Bible contained a code (hidden in numbers and letters) accurately predicting past world events. Drosnin's work was later refuted, with critics demonstrating that the "meanings" he found were simply the result of selectively choosing data sets from a vast sea of random letters.

Similar "hidden codes" were found in other books such as "Moby Dick" and "War and Peace," demonstrating that any sizeable text can produce such codes if you look long enough.

In psychology, the tendency for the human mind to find coincidences, patterns, and connections in random data is called apophenia.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apophenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad,[1] who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Open-mindedness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI&feature=channel_page

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The problem with anecdotes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqerbz8KDc&feature=channel_page

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ The Superstitious Pigeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f15PNrk94kg&feature=channel_page

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Skewed views of science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9XntsSEro&feature=channel

The Mayan calender randomly stops on 12/21/2012, and several well known psychics that had predicted actual events all predicted that armageddon was in 2012.

Because the people are tired of living in this world and wish if this world could end or if the date of the end of this universe is already know one can live in the world with freedom not caring about the future which is already ascertained!

Well the Mayan calender ends that day, the Earth will line up with the black hole in the middle of the milky way, all the planets will line up..... There are a lot of reason people believe the world is going to end. Does that mean all life will end in some worldwide disaster, or a new age will begin (i.e. magick enters the world again, God comes for his people,ETC.) and the world ends as we know it, I don't know. The future is not set in stone.

cause we want it to???

They think the Mayans predicted it. The truth is, they did not. These people that say they did are morons.

No, no good explanation.

Because they are idiots.