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I don't know what "end of the world video" you watched, so I don't know just how to answer your question.



Personally, though, I DON'T think the world is going to end in 2012, even though I'm a very pessimistic person. I think there's good reason from watching the nightly news to think that human beings will keep doing bad, bad things to the planet and to each other for the next 4 years -- and for a long time beyond that.



But we've been doing that for a long time, and although we need to stop, I think you just scare yourself half to death and make yourself powerless to do anything good for anyone if you give in to fears of the world ending - RIGHT AWAY.



Christians in particular have been expecting the world to end "right away," or "very soon," ever since Jesus was crucified around 2,000 years ago. Sometimes we've worried about it less, in other eras (for example, in around the year 1,000 AD, and again in around the year 1260 AD) we've expected the "end times" to arrive any moment.



And SO FAR, anyway - the world hasn't ended. Although terrible wars have come and gone, plagues have swept across the world killing millions of people, and other very bad things have happened.



So I think we've mostly been scaring ourselves with visions of the end. And I think also there have been many times in history when some Christians have WANTED the world to end soon, often because the Christians in question were poor & oppressed by the governments of the day & just looked to God to get it all over with.



A Jewish American historian named Norman Cohn wrote a book in the 1930s, "The Search for the Millennium," on some of the heretical Christian movements that have arisen since around 1000 AD that looked forward to the immediate end of the world. It's a fascinating read. Other historians also have treated the same topic -- looking, for example, at the beliefs of the "flagellantes" that flourished in Europe at around the time of the Bubonic Plague.



And so far, anyway, the "millennialist" Christian sects have been proven wrong.



I'm a radical environmentalist, and personally I think that our Western habits of energy use and environmental destruction cannot continue forever. Nor do I think that Western capitalism can continue forever without doing very terrible things, both to the natural world and to most human beings.



But even at my most pessimistic & most radical, I don't really expect "the end of the world."



I'd add -- supposing it IS going to end in 2012, which I don't think is true. Well, suppose that it WILL end then - what can you, as an individual, do about it?



Nothing, I think. Some of the Christian groups I once belonged to used to advise me, "Well, you can get on your knees and pray that you'll be one of the Saved few who get caught up in the Rapture instead of enduring the rule of the Antichrist."



And I got on my knees and prayed quite hard at one point in my life .. who knows if it worked. But what the Christian "end of the world" people DIDN'T tell me was anything I could do to make life better, and make our society more environmentally friendly, and to make people I loved any safer -- while waiting for "the end" to come.



So as kind of a secular humanist today, I'd like to urge you (a) to give up worrying about this particular fear, partly because I think it's wrong, but also because I think it's not very useful to think about, and (b) to start thinking about things that you can do to help make the society and the world around you nicer, kinder, more compassionate, and more environmentally sustainable.



If you're not a pessimistic Christian, but a pessimistic environmentalist or a pessimistic Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or Native American, I'd offer you the same advice.



If the world really is fated to end - well, pray that God or whatever will spare you unnecessary suffering. And accept that the end is coming if you need to .. but then realize that you can't predict when and if the end is really coming. And realize that neither can any other human being, which is maybe why "end of the world" prophecies keep being wrong.



And having realized that, see if you can think of some good things to do that will put of the end for a little longer. Some things that will reflect God's love, if that's what you believe in, or that push our society in the direction of greater natural harmony, if that's what you believe in.



Don't just stand there and worry about cosmic events you can't change. If God or Nature or Fate is truly out to get us - well, we'll know that soon enough. Might as well keep busy doing good deeds in the meantime.

1) Some interpretations of the Mayan calendar determined that the "Long Count" cycle would end on December 21, 2012 and the end of the world would result. However, if one thinks about it, if the "Long Count" is a 5,126 year cycle, then presumbly the world also ended 5,126 years prior to 2012, or in 3114 BCE, during the Protodynastic Period in Egypt and the Uruk Period of Sumerian culture. We have artifacts from that era, and no evidence of a worldwide cataclysm.



2) In the final episode of the X-Files TV Series, the colonization of the world by aliens is predicted to occur on December 22, 2012 (alluding to the Mayan date). That episode may have increased awareness of the 2012 date in pop culture.

It may or it may not end well for most of the human population but yu can be assured that there are continuity projects that will insure the survival of the human race (mostly people who the government think is vital mostly doctors, politicians, billionaires (who have resources while others might have there own hiding), nurses (the best) surgeons (the best) and mostly as i said who are important ) so be happy if you or someone you know is chosen because he or she has a responsiblity and you know him or her. But it doesn't neccesarily mean the world will end because the earth has gone through many changes and if it happens (hopefully not) it will be just one of many and there will be more to come.

I believe that this is theorized because of

1. The Mayan calender

2. The earth and the sun will be aligned with the sun in the center of our galaxy for the first time in a very long time.

3. The sun is supposed to do something that will knock out all our sattelights a couple of years previous to 2012 and since the ancients had such a knowledge of space they may have seen this as the end

4. The Maya believed that everything came in cycles and used this to successfully predict the year of Cortez's coming and supposedly the final cycle occurs in 2012

I heard about it too. For sure nothing is impossible in this world, I mean every things could be happen including the end of the world. The Reason why??? just see the world nowadays... war, terrorism, global warming, pollution, world disaster (tsunami, earth quake, sea level increase) these all a is signs of end of the world as a result of human activities.. It gonna be painful to face it, not only you or me but all life things in this will have to accept it if the world going to be end... from now we have to chance our mind set, STOP all these activities that could bring the world to the end and treat the world as our home.

The reason for the 2012 target has to do with the Mayan calendar. It only projects up to 2012. Some people take that to belive the world would end. When the reality is more likely they were planning on working out the rest of the years later, but they were wiped out.



I don't believe there is any real indicators that the world will end any time soon. Many religions claim that there will be an end of days and leaders have been trying to predict it throughout history.



Live your life and don't listen to hysteria. None of us knows when we will die, so be a good person everyday. Live like you will die tomorrow, but plan like you will live 100 years and you should be ok

The whole Earth wont end just a world on earth naming the way people think.

the Mayan did not say it will be the end the Governments made it up.the end part anyways

all of it has to do with astronomical stuff.

but u cant say nothing will happen something very big is going to happen the year around from now to 2015 . billions of people will u know.

the only pain u will fell is being tricked by evil from another Dimension.

Every few years someone comes up with a new date for the end of the world. All the others have passed and the world is still here. Some predicted that it would end in 2000.

im not saying i know for sure that the world is going to end in 2012.in fact i dont really believe it. anyway, many people across the world have predicted the end of the world for thousands of years. yet all of them were wrong. there is no eveidence to prove that the world is going to end on 2012. the sun isnt due to shrink for another few billion years. when that happens, we'll all be dead, so i wouldnt worry..

The mayan calendar ends on 12/21/2012. Whoop-de-doo! It just means that this 25,000 year cycle is coming to an end.

Unfortunately, the Mayans disappeared before they could design a new calendar.

On the 22nd of December, 2012, I'm going to be having a cold beer at my favorite haunt. Care to join me?

Ok. It's the Johava's Whittnesses Religion dat beleive the worl dwill com 2 an end. IT WON'T ANYTIME SOON>bcuz they said da same thing 10 yrs ago, 10yrs b4 dat and it keeps goin on and on. so don't worry. The world will not com 2 an end soon.

It has something to do with the Incan/Aztec/Mayan (not sure which one) calendar that ends in the year 2012. (Of course if the Republicans have their way, it'll end sooner than that!)

Different people believe the world is going to end every year. Don't take it seriously, because it probably isn't true.

The end of the world has been predicted and the date has passed hundreds, if not thousands of times. Don't worry about it.

Lots of end of the world scenarios

www.exitmundi.com

well, you can get a LAUGH from this one...lol



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsb...

because of global warming, or the sun is gona BOOM!!!

XD that happens when stars get too old. THEY COLLAPSE!!

I don't really think the world is going to end but i heard other people say it's going to turn into a better place

The sea leavel is rising becaz of the ice and glaciers that are melting becaz of global warming.

ight 20+12=42 right that means that all race exect black are going to die if you don't get me ask a baseball fan about the number 42

i feel the same way!!

i will only be 18

i dont think i can answer your questions

srry

but i hope someone else can!!

Eat, Drink, Be Merry, for lies are killing us all