2012 Mayan apocalypse miscalculation

krunkskimo · Oct 20, 2010

Well since 2012 is just around the corner and no end of the world is in sight, doomsdayers can relax and monger over a new date.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed

current calander conversions off by 50-100 years.

Now you are free to soothsay about any date you wish.

I_Gaze_At_The_Blue · Oct 20, 2010

Didn't Nibiru come round in 2003 ???

http://www.rense.com/ufo5/nib2000.htm

http://www.metatech.org/planet_x_nibiru_earth_changes.html

http://ravenwoods.tripod.com/RavenwoodsNIBIRU.html

When we all died ... remember !!!

Independent with a voice · Oct 20, 2010

Now, watch as the History Channel changes Nostradamus' predicted date for the world to end along with the Mayan date to whatever the Mayan date is now, after the dust has settled. December 21, 2062 or December 21, 2112? Perhaps, it's already passed us by and we're all supposed to be dead already.

waltky · Dec 18, 2011

Granny says, "Dat's right - the world gonna end an' we all gonna die...

Mexican city installs digital clock to count down December 2012 'doomsday'
Saturday 17th December, 2011 - A city in Mexico has installed a digital clock to count down the time left for December 21, 2012 - when some believe the world will end.

According to the Daily Express, the clock in Tapachula will start ticking over on Wednesday, a year before the supposed apocalypse. Tapachula is not a popular Mayan tourism destination, but nearby Izapa is more of a draw - the Tree of Life stone was discovered there in the 1950s and is thought to convey an ancient Mayan tale.

The doomsday theories stem from a pair of tablets that describe the return of a Mayan god at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, which falls on December 21, 2012. Experts say the date marks the end of a 5,125-year cycle that began in 3113 BC - and the start of another.

Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, or Earth's collision with a black hole, passing asteroid or a planet called "Nibiru". Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012.

Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture. Astronomers and other scientists have rejected the proposed events as pseudoscience, stating that they are contradicted by simple astronomical observations.

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KSigMason · Dec 18, 2011

Even if 2012 is some kind of apocalypse, I don't think it is the end of the world, or existence.

paradiselove · Dec 22, 2011

i think is all crap... hopefully i would be right

paradiselove · Dec 22, 2011

not real ????

waltky · Jan 2, 2012

Awww shucks, is just the start of a new calendar...

2012 end of the world? It is not, says Mayan expert
Jan 2, 2012: Contrary to what many believed, year 2012 will not mark the end of the world but will just be a start of a new calendar, according to Mayan timekeeper.

Many consider it a joke although others are scared we might never live to see next year thanks to the Mayan calendar's 'apocalyptic' prediction, the Daily Mail reported. But Mayan expert Leonzo Barreno, of Saskatchewan, Canada, has asserted that the 'apocalypse' concept is a false interpretation of the Long Count calendar. The University of Regina journalism professor said Mayan elders told him that December 21 this year simply marks the beginning of a new calendar.

Barreno, who immigrated to Canada from Guatemala 23 years ago, was trained by Mayan elders to read the calendars. "There are two sides to the story," he told CBC News. "The one that we know is this apocalyptic meaning that has been given to the Long Count." "The other side of the story is the Mayan side, which you rarely see on media articles, because they never interview my own people."

He revealed that Mayan people are featured for just five seconds of the film '2012', starring John Cusack, which is somewhat based on their 'predictions'. "When I grew up during my training I never hear the word "end of the world" from the elders or spiritual leaders." Mr Barreno added. "For them it's a joyous event, not an apocalyptic event. What is coming is the end of a calendar and the beginning of a new one." Barreno said that it is 'cyclical'. "This has happened before. According to the elders it's the fifth time it's happened," he added.

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CoolWalker · Jan 12, 2012

Who in their right mind pays attention to a civilization that isn't around to backup their claim that the world is ending? Their world ended, but ours will be here for millions of years to come...unless we blow ourselves up because our governments can't get along.

waltky · May 11, 2012

Oldest Mayan calendar unearthed...

Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists
10 May 2012 - The preservation of the artwork surprised archaeologists, given the dwelling's shallow depth

Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables. The site, in Guatemala, includes the first known instance of Mayan art painted on the walls of a dwelling. A report in Science says it dates from the early 9th Century, pre-dating other Mayan calendars by centuries. Such calendars rose to prominence recently amid claims they predicted the end of the world in 2012.

The Mayan civilisation occupied Central America from about 2000BC until its decline and assimilation following the colonisation by the Spanish from the 15th Century onwards. It still holds fascination, with many early Mayan sites still hidden or uncatalogued. The ruins at Xultun were first discovered in 1912 and mapping efforts in the 1920s and 1970s laid out much of the site's structure. Archaeologists have catalogued the site's features, including a 35m-tall pyramid, but thousands of structures on the 30 sq km site remain unexplored.

In 2005, William Saturno, then at the University of New Hampshire, discovered the oldest-known Mayan murals at a site just a few kilometres away called San Bartolo. in 2010, one of Dr Saturno's students was following the tracks of more recent looters at Xultun when he discovered the vegetation-covered structure that has now been excavated. When Mayans renovated an old structure, they typically collapsed its roof and built on top of the rubble. But for some reason, the new Xultun find had been filled in through its doorway, with the roof left intact.

Dr Saturno, who is now based at Boston University, explained that despite it being under just a metre of soil today, that served to preserve the site after more than a millennium of rainy seasons, insect traffic and encroaching plant and tree roots. "We found that three of the room's four walls were well preserved and that the ceilings were also in good shape in terms of the paintings on them, so we got an awful lot more than we bargained for," he said.

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Apocalypse never: Newly discovered Mayan calendar further disproves doomsday myth
May 10, 2012 - Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known Mayan calendar ever discovered and it further shows that all this December 21, 2012, apocalypse talk is a bunch of hooey.

The world is not going to end on December 21. No, not even according to the Mayan calendar. And especially not according to the awesome newly uncovered Mayan calendar the oldest known Mayan calendar in existence which was recently discovered by Boston University archeologist William Saturno. First glimpsed by an undergraduate student of Saturnos in 2010, this new Mayan calendar was found buried at a well known Mayan archeology site in Guatemala. After first dismissing the value of the bit of paint spotted by his student, Saturno later went back to record the discovery, regardless of whether it had value.

What Saturno found turned out to be a well-presevered mural that includes the oldest known Mayan calendar to date. And just like the Maya Long Count calendar, which serves as the basis for the apocalypse myth, this calendar extends indefinitely into the future. The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future, University of Texas archeologist, author, and Maya expert David Stuart told LiveScience. Numbers we cant even wrap our heads around.

In case youre stumbling upon the Mayan doomsday nonsense for the first time, heres the gist of it: The Mayan calendar is broken down into baktuns (or baktun), each of which equals 400 years, or about 146,000 days. According to Mayan legend, the current world the one in which we are all currently living was created over 12 baktuns ago. At the end of the 13th baktun, the world as we know it will cease to exist. December 21, 2012 the winter solstice is that day.

Of course, many scientists with real understanding of ancient Mayan culture and language have for decades tried to explain that, no, the end of the 13th baktun does not literally mean the end of the world. In fact, they say, not even the Mayans themselves believed such silliness. The end-of-world myth was actually concocted by Christian missionaries. And some experts say that the end of the 13th baktun is actually December 23, not December 21. The newly discovered Mayan calendar has cycles of time recording 17 baktuns, rather than the standard 13. This and other details, which Saturno describe in this weeks issue of the journal Science, should be all anyone needs to stop their urge to stock up on canned food and ammo.

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KSigMason · May 14, 2012

I was hoping that my installation as Eminent Commander of the Knights Templar coincided with the End of the World...dang...and I planned on having such an awesome going away party too...clowns and everything.

raymondo · May 14, 2012

CoolWalker said: ↑

Who in their right mind pays attention to a civilization that isn't around to backup their claim that the world is ending? Their world ended, but ours will be here for millions of years to come...unless we blow ourselves up because our governments can't get along.
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The Mayans did not make these claims , neither did their calendars . Writers made them , looking for money and a Spin headline .

Space_Drift · Jun 17, 2012

waltky said: ↑

Oldest Mayan calendar unearthed...

Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists
10 May 2012 - The preservation of the artwork surprised archaeologists, given the dwelling's shallow depth

See also:

Apocalypse never: Newly discovered Mayan calendar further disproves doomsday myth
May 10, 2012 - Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known Mayan calendar ever discovered and it further shows that all this December 21, 2012, apocalypse talk is a bunch of hooey.
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I bet Santurnos old student that originally saw the calendar was maaaad!

waltky · Jul 23, 2012

Granny says, "Dat's right - it says in Revelation inna Bible we all gonna die an' den Jesus gonna put dem lefty lib'rals inna place where the Devil gonna be pokin' `em inna butt with his pitchfork...

2012 Doomsday: It's not just Mayan claim
22 July`12 - Countless cultures predict end-time scenario this year

An author investigating ancient prophecies is again sounding the alarm about numerous predictions suggesting 2012 could be the beginning of the end of the age spoken of in the Holy Bible. Last year, WND reported on Tom Horns efforts to let everyone to know calendars besides the ancient Mayan one predict the demise of human civilization in 2012, and he claims a demonic plot bringing about the end date could be hiding in plain sight inside the U.S. Capitol. Hes now continuing his effort to publicize the matter with speeches across the nation, providing more possible clues into when apocalyptic prophesies of the Bible might be fulfilled with the Second Coming of Jesus to administer the kingdom of God on Earth.

In his latest book titled Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here, Horn sheds light on ancient non-biblical prophecies from St. Malachy concerning the Catholic Church, and provides evidence the next pope, the one following Benedict XVI, is to be the final pontiff before the return of Jesus. As the legend goes, says Horn, Malachy experienced what is today considered a famous vision commonly called The Prophecy of the Popes. The prophecy is a list of Latin verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, Peter the Roman, whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome.

While the prophecy itself does not mention the year 2012, Horn says the Vaticans Jesuit mathematician and codebreaker Rene Thibaut wrote 61 years ago it would be fulfilled in 2012, and he adds current events at the Vatican certainly point to the soon fulfillment of this prophecy. When translated from Latin to English, the final segment of the prophecy reads: In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter the Roman, who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the City of Seven Hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people.

Horn also points to 19th century collection titled Lectures on the Revelation by Rev. William J. Reid, pastor of First United Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pa., which were given over a period of time ending in March 1876. An excerpt from one of the lectures published in 1878 attempts to determine the official start of the papal system, combining both temporal and spiritual authority, and states: If it began in the year 752, and if it is to continue for one thousand two hundred and sixty years, then it is to be destroyed in the year 2012. Keep in mind this was published in 1878! exclaimed Horn. What is it about this period of time we have entered? What is it about this period of time inaugurated in 2012 that has caught the attention of so many divergent traditions?

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doverknight · Sep 6, 2012

Independent with a voice said: ↑

Now, watch as the History Channel changes Nostradamus' predicted date for the world to end along with the Mayan date to whatever the Mayan date is now, after the dust has settled. December 21, 2062 or December 21, 2112? Perhaps, it's already passed us by and we're all supposed to be dead already.
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Maybe we are already dead, if Bruce Willis didn't know he was dead what hope do we have lmao

waltky · Nov 8, 2012

Climate change did the Mayans in...

New Evidence Links Mayan Collapse to Climate Change
November 08, 2012 - Scientists get finding after analyzing a natural mineral formation called a stalagmite from a cave in Belize

The ancient Mayan civilization, which developed a sophisticated culture in the Central American rainforests, vanished mysteriously a thousand years ago. Now, an international team of anthropologists, archeologists, chemists and climatologists says it has identified the cause of the Mayan collapse: climate change. To create a weather record for the past 2,000 years, the scientists analyzed a natural mineral formation called a stalagmite from a cave in Belize, using oxygen-isotope dating to determine how much rain fell on the region over the centuries. Stalagmites build up incrementally, like tree rings, as water drips through the cave ceiling, preserving an accurate climate record.

Mayan rulers commissioned stone monuments to record important events such as their rise to power, major battles, civic unrest and strategic alliances. Pennsylvania State University Anthropology professor Douglas Kennett, the study's co-author, says the team was able to compare changes in the society documented on those monuments with their new climate timeline. On a podcast for the journal Science, he said the team saw a relationship between rainfall levels and political stability. "The growth of Maya civilization and increases in population and levels of sophistication actually correlate with a very wet interval that spans several hundred years and the decline of the Maya actually appeared to correlate with a downturn generally in climate and climate drying," he said.

Abundant rainfall led to bumper crops and a population boom, but a climate reversal and drought triggered famine, political competition, increased warfare and eventually, the society's collapse. Scientists have long suspected that climate change played a role in the fall of the Mayan civilization, but the precise timeline - published in Science - provides them with new confidence in that connection. Kennett suggests their methodology could be used to increase understanding of the influence of climate on other ancient cultures that also have nearby cave systems.

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KSigMason · Nov 9, 2012

I get installed as Eminent Commander for my Commandery of Knights Templar on the 20th! Maybe my installation is the cause...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

waltky · Dec 3, 2012

Yea, Uncle Ferd wantin' to know if dey need any help at dat womens prison?...

In Russia, its official: This isnt the end of the world
Mon, Dec 03, 2012 - APOCALYPSE NOT NOW: One Russian official has proposed prosecuting people who spread a rumor that the world will end on Dec. 21 starting on Dec. 22

There are scattered reports of unusual behavior from across Russias nine time zones. Inmates in a womens prison near the Chinese border are said to have experienced a collective mass psychosis so intense that their wardens summoned a priest to calm them. In a factory town east of Moscow, panicked citizens stripped shelves of matches, kerosene, sugar and candles. A huge Mayan-style archway is being built out of ice on Karl Marx Street in Chelyabinsk in the south. For those not schooled in New Age prophecy, there are rumors the world will end on Dec. 21, when a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long Count in the Mayan calendar supposedly comes to a close. Russia, a nation with a penchant for mystical thinking, has taken notice.

Last week, Russias government decided to put an end to the doomsday talk. Its minister of emergency situations said on Friday that he had access to methods of monitoring what is occurring on the planet Earth, and that he could say with confidence that the world was not going to end this month. However, he acknowledged that Russians were still vulnerable to blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, floods, trouble with transportation and food supply, breakdowns in heat, electricity and water supply. Similar assurances have been issued in recent days by Russias chief sanitary doctor, a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church, lawmakers from the State Duma and a former disc jockey from Siberia who recently placed first in the television show Battle of the Psychics. One official proposed prosecuting Russians who spread the rumor starting on Dec. 22.

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You cannot endlessly speak about the end of the world, and I say this as a doctor, said Leonid Ogul, a member of parliaments environment committee. Everyone has a different nervous system, and this kind of information affects them differently. Information acts subconsciously. Some people are provoked to laughter, some to heart attacks, and some to some negative actions. Russia is not the only country to face this problem. In France, the authorities plan to bar access to Bugarach mountain in the south to keep out a flood of visitors who believe it is a sacred place that will protect a lucky few from the end of the world. The patriarch of Ukraines Orthodox Church recently issued a statement assuring the faithful that doomsday is sure to come, but that it will be provoked by the moral decline of mankind, not the so-called parade of planets or the end of the Mayan calendar.

In Yucatan State in Mexico, which has a large Mayan population, most place little stock in end-of-days talk. Officials are planning a Mayan cultural festival on Dec. 21 and, to show that all will be well after that, a follow-up next year. Russians can be powerfully transported by emotions, as the Reverend Tikhon Irshenko witnessed during his visit to Prison Colony No. 10 in the village of Gornoye. In an interview with the Data news service, Tikhon said he was summoned to the prison last month. The wardens told him that anxiety over the Mayan prophecy had been building for two months, and some inmates had broken out of the facility because of their disturbing thoughts. Some of the women were sick, or having seizures, he said. Once, when the prisoners were standing in formation, one of them imagined that the earth yawned, and they were all stricken by fear and ran in all directions, the priest said.

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waltky · Dec 13, 2012

Chinese gonna save us from the Mayan apocalypse...

Great Ball of China to save world on doomsday
Fri, Dec 14, 2012 - As people across the globe tremble in anticipation of next weeks supposed Mayan-predicted apocalypse, one Chinese villager says he may have just what humanity needs: tsunami-proof survival pods.

Camouflage-clad farmer and furniture maker Liu Qiyuan, 45, inspected his latest creation: A sphere several meters tall he calls Noahs Ark, which is designed to withstand towering tsunamis and devastating earthquakes. The pod wont have any problems even if there are 1,000m high waves ... its like a ping-pong ball, its skin may be thin, but it can withstand a lot of pressure, he told reporters at his workshop in Qiantun, an hour from Beijing. Lius seven completed or under construction pods are made using a fiberglass casing over a steel frame and have cost him 300,000 yuan (US$48,000) each, he said. The pods are equipped with oxygen tanks, food and water, as well as seat belts essential for staying safe in storms, Liu said, strapping himself into position before his assistants shook the sphere vigorously from outside. The pods are designed to carry 14 people at a time, but its possible for 30 people to survive inside for at least two months, he said.

Their insulation was such that a person could live for four months in the pod at the North or South Pole without freezing, or even feeling slightly cold, Liu added. One of the spheres even boasts the domestic comforts of a table, bed and flowery wallpaper. Liu said he came up with the design after watching the 2009 Hollywood disaster film 2012, which is inspired by the expiry on Dec. 21 of the Mayan Long Count, a more than 5,125-year-long calendar used by the ancient Central American civilization. Apocalyptic predictions have provoked widespread fears among believers, including in China, where two rural counties sold out of candles this month after a panic that three days of darkness would begin on Dec. 21, Xinhua news agency reported. A businessman in Zhejiang Province has received 21 orders for bright yellow doomsday survival pods for 5 million yuan each, the state-run China Daily reported.

A man from Chinas northwestern province of Xinjiang told reporters that he has invested all his savings, approximately US$160,000, to build a survival ark, fearing that his home will be engulfed in a doomsday flood. Chinese authorities have sought to reassure citizens, with Beijings police force publishing an online notice on Wednesday stating that the so-called end of the world is a rumor and advising citizens to use scientific concepts. Liu first conceived of spherical houses to withstand earthquakes, but switched his focus to survival technology after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed nearly one-quarter of a million lives.

Liu, who is married and has a daughter, said many were skeptical when he first outlined his plans and he has not sold any of the pods, and is worried about repaying loans he took to fund his workshop. I worked for many years without saving much money ... I invested most of my money in the pods, because its worth it, its about saving lives, he said. Keen to demonstrate the designs strength, he used a step-ladder to clamber inside one pod before an assistant reversed a pick-up truck into it, inflicting only a minor scratch on its surface. Peeking out of the hatch, he grinned triumphantly.

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waltky · Dec 17, 2012

Granny says China got their crazies too...

Man who slashed 23 kids in China feared worlds end prophecy
December 17, 2012 - The suspect who slashed 22 children in an elementary school in central China might have been paranoid about the world coming to end, authorities said on Monday. But it didnt prevent even the usually supportive state media from saying that official response to the violent incident was slow and cold and that details about the case remain sketchy.

According to reports quoting the police, Min Yongjun (previously reported as Min Yingjun) is thought to have burst into an elderly womans house near the elementary school of Chenpeng village in Guangshan county in central China, around 7am on Friday, hitting her and stabbing her with a kitchen knife he picked up in the house. Min then rushed to the school, and allegedly knifed 23 students, before being subdued by teachers and police.

Initial police investigation found Min, a long-term epilepsy sufferer, had been strongly psychologically affected by rumours of the upcoming end of the world predicted by ancient prophecy, state media reported.

Rao Mingsheng, health director for Guangshan, said on Monday that none of the people injured in the attack was currently in a critical condition. Some remained locally hospitalised, while others have been transferred to bigger hospitals.

State-run Global Times newspaper made comparisons with the shootout in the US. The two school tragedies have exposed the powerlessness of both the US and China in certain aspects of society.

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waltky · Dec 18, 2012

Granny didn't know there was such a thing as Chinese Mayans...

China arrests over 500 members of pseudo-Christian Mayan Apocalypse sect
18 December, 2012, If the end of the world does indeed happen on December 21, some of the people predicting it will meet it in a prison cell: Chinese authorities have arrested more than 500 members of a doomsday cult in a nationwide crackdown.

The underground group Almighty God which unofficial sources claim may have several hundred thousand members held unsanctioned meetings for its followers, distributed warning leaflets and spread doomsday predictions through social media and text messages. "Dec. 21 is approaching, and on that day half of the world's good people will die, and all evil people will die out only if you join the Almighty God movement can you avoid death and be saved," reads a handout found in Shaoxing, in eastern China.

Violent clashes between police and dozens of Almighty God members in several provinces has been reported. A man who stabbed 23 children in Henan province last Friday claimed he was motivated by rumors that the end of the world was coming, though it is not clear if he was exposed to the teachings of Almighty God, authorities said. The sect, sometimes known as Eastern Lightning, claims to be an offshoot of Christianity, but would be barely recognizable to Western Christians. Founded in the late 1980s, it states that Jesus has been resurrected as a Chinese woman.

It has appropriated the December 21, 2012, date from the Mayan lunar calendar, which has been interpreted to predict the end of the world or a great upheaval. Official media reports that Almighty God only latched on to the date recently, as it has caught the public's attention. Eastern Lightnings pamphlets predict that the date will herald three days of complete darkness, without sunshine or electricity.

Mainstream religions and critics alike have criticized Almighty God for their recruitment tactics which frequently involve seeking out poor or ill members in existing Christian groups and for brainwashing followers, who are kept under tight supervision. There have also been official accusations of even more sinister behaviour, such as kidnapping, embezzlement, and torture. The group also advocates the destruction of the Great Red Dragon, which is a euphemism for Chinas ruling Communist regime a radical position in a one-party state.

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waltky · Dec 19, 2012

Granny says the sky gonna fall Friday...

Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
19 December 2012 - One in 10 of us is said to be anxious that 21 December marks the end of the world. The Ancient Mayans predicted this doomsday, and the press is eating it up. But where are all the believers?

That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, thanks to the internet, Hollywood and an ever-eager press corps. Recent hurricanes, unrest in the Middle East, solar flares, mystery planets about to collide with us - all "proof" of what the ancient Mayans knew would come to pass on 21 December 2012. According to a Reuters global poll, one in 10 of us is feeling some anxiety about this date.

Russians have been so worried that the Minister of Emergency Situations issued a denial that the world would end. Authorities in the village of Bugarach in the South of France have barred access to a mountain where some believe a UFO will rescue them. And survivalists in America - many of whom use the term "prepper" - have been busy preparing for all manner of cataclysm. So I set out to find people who believe 21/12/12 is D-Day.

It was harder than I imagined, despite seeking out preppers, bunker builders, and even a Mayan shaman. Eventually I turned to Morandir Armson, a scholar of the New Age and Esoterica at the University of Sydney, Australia. "If you told me there were more than 5,000 people who genuinely believed the end of the world was coming rather than just having vague fears about it, I'd be surprised," he says. Armson adds that those people are probably "in the wilds of Idaho, heavily armed, and won't talk to journalists anyway". The heightened fear around this date is, in his view and that of other experts, almost entirely due to the internet. More specifically they blame the blogosphere.

It is not how the whole 2012 phenomenon started. In 1987, Jose Arguelles, a man who devoted much of his life to studying the Mayan Calendar, organised what was called the Harmonic Convergence, a sort of post-hippy Woodstock. It attracted tens of thousands around the globe. The event was an attempt to "create a moment of meditation and connection to the sacred sites around the earth," says Daniel Pinchbeck, author of 2012: The Year of the Mayan Prophecy. It was also the beginning of what many in the loosely-defined New Age movement regard as a process in the transformation of our consciousness - a transformation that goes into full effect at the end of this year.

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waltky · Dec 20, 2012

Granny says, "Dat's right - leave it to the Chinese to take alla fun outta it...

Earthlings prepare for end of world
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 - LIKE THERES NO TOMORROW:The end of the world purportedly foreseen in the Mayan calendar has been a boon for the tourism, hospitality and bunker industries

Diehard doomsayers will be scurrying to the nearest shelter in fear of a Mayan prophecy of the worlds end tomorrow, but many more from Delhi to Sydney will ring in the date by partying like there is no tomorrow. One thing is certain: From off-the-shelf bunkers to Worlds End menus or trips to esoteric hot spots, Dec. 21, singled out by the ancient Mayan long count calendar as the end of a 5,000-year era, has spelled big business worldwide. Across the Mayans ancestral homeland, a vast swathe of Central America that includes parts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, The End of the World As We Know It has been a shot in the arm for tourism.

Ancient Mayan sites will be buzzing with activity on Friday, hosting ritual reenactments, conferences and sound-and-light shows often against the backdrop of protests by indigenous groups who complain their culture is being hijacked. However, elsewhere around the globe, there will be no shortage of shelters or shrines to host the fearful or simply curious crowds through the night. Apocalyptic-minded folk in Brazil can head to the village of Alto Paraiso, a place pulsating with mystical energy, as local lore would have it, which has been readying for the end for years.

An anti-Armageddon ceremony will take place on the Island of the Sun, in the middle of Bolivias Lake Titicaca, the highest in the world, where legend has it the founders of the Inca empire were born. And illuminati in Serbia are predicting that the pyramid-shaped mountain of Rtanj will glow on Friday night, which is also the solstice. The village of Sirince in western Turkey has also become an apocalyptic magnet, with all 400 hotels in the vicinity fully booked. It is reputed to be doomsday-proof because the Virgin Mary is said to have risen to heaven from there.

Likewise, the picturesque south Italian village of Cisternino, singled out by an Indian guru as a safe bet come the end of the world. Or there is Frances apocalyptic spot of choice, the Pic de Bugarach in the foothills of the Pyrenees, though the site is cordoned off to keep out the hordes, and a local hotel will set you back 1,500 euros (US$1,98 payable in advance. Short of a sacred site to weather the doomsday storm, there is always the man-made option of a good old bunker. For 30,000 rubles (US$970) per head, the wealthiest Muscovites can check into a Stalin-era communications bunker 65m underground, which is offering 300 people a 24-hour experience called A chance to survive.

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World Wont End on Friday, Chinese State Media Assure Nation
December 19, 2012 Chinese authorities are trying to allay doomsday rumors that appear to be circulating quite widely in that county, and which police say were behind a frenzied knife attack on elementary school students last Friday.

Amid reports of panic buying and the arrest of members of an apocalypse-embracing cult, state-run media are quoting experts and others across a range of fields dismissing fears that the world will end on Friday, in line with some interpretations of a supposed ancient Mayan prophecy. Scientists from NASA and elsewhere have for months been debunking various theories, ranging from a looming planetary collision to planetary alignment causing a total blackout of Earth, but the message seems to be slow to take hold in parts of China.

On Tuesday, police in central Chinas Hunan province said that a man who attacked an elementary school last week confessed that he believed he was doomed and hoped to do things to make the world remember him before he died, the state-run China Daily reported. Min Yongjun, 36, stabbed 23 students before being subdued by teachers and police. Police said none of those hurt were in critical condition. Min had reportedly been influenced by a 61 year-old local woman who is on the run. Police seized dozens of doomsday brochures from her house.

More than 100 members of a cult known variously as Eastern Lightning and Church of Almighty God have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumors of an impending apocalypse. Security officials in eastern Chinas Jiangsu province, where some of the arrests took place, said the groups adherents were telling people that December 21 would usher in three days of complete darkness, and that joining the cult alone could offer salvation. There would also be power failures over those three days, went the rumor apparently the reason why in some counties stores supplies of candles and matches have been sold out.

Media have also reported on other actions taken by fearful Chinese, including property owners trying to sell for way below market value and a run on marriage license registrations for Friday. Citing reports from across the nation, the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times reported that the manager of a network technology has given his employees Thursday and Friday off to mark the end of the world. A man in far-west Xinjiang has spent the past two years and his life savings building an ark before an apocalyptic flood hits, while elsewhere an inventor has built a large yellow spherical vessel that he says is designed to withstand earthquakes, flooding, fire and radiation, and carries a years supply of food.

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