2012

A year just like any other. Nothing different will happen, the world will not end, and everyone who thought it was real will feel like an idiot.

December 21st of this year will be hell. Not because the world will end, but because of all the lunatics thinking that the world will end.
1-People will run red lights.
2-Minors will drink more than they ever have before.
3-The most terrible crimes will be committed.
4-The stock market will crash.
5-Thousands will gather in churches.
6-Religious groups will go wild preaching their beliefs and offering you your last chance for salvation.
7-Agnostics will question their doubts.
8-Atheists will ignore the crowds.
9-People who haven't done their christmas shopping yet will put it off just to see if tomorrow comes.
10-Casinos will be jam-packed.

And then when everyone wakes up the next morning Most will regret their actions from the previous night, especially the criminals who will be rotting in jail and the minors who are hungover.

The mayans did predict the end of the world to be 12/21/2012, but not end as in everyone dies and it blows up. end as in stops this phase and becomes something else. the real story is they say we are in one phase or dimension, supposedly 1985 was the end of the 5th and we are between dimensions, and in 2012 we will enter the sixth and all become smarter, get weird new senses, and other stuff and changes in our mind and reality. it actually seems kinda cool. but i think u will go to like mayan hell according to them if u are bad. but the thing wasnt strict basically just be nice

Looking at an Urban Dictionary definition and feeling a sudden wave of nostalgia and depression when you see it's written in 2012

the mayans didnt predict the end of the world. they predicted something to do w/ evolution.

A commonly misunderstood theory.

The Mayans DID NOT predict the end of the world in 2012. That's urban legend and myths, mixed with Christian Apocalyptic themes. There was no evidence that the Mayans predicted the end of the world.

The Mayans loved to make calenders. One of their calenders was called the 'Great Cycle' or something similar, and it was supposed to last thousands upon thousands of years. 2012 is the estimated end of this calender. As of now we are in the 4th cycle.

The Mayans never thought anything drastic was going to happen in 2012. It would be like New Years to us - just a change in the calender.

The reason this theory is the end of the world is the Christian doomsayers began claiming that Armageddon was coming soon. However, they had no proof. When some of them discovered this Mayan 2012 theory, they twisted it so far than pop culture turned it into a phenomena - the end of the world. This is simply not true.

the supposed day of the end or a new beginning of this world. it is all off of the mayan calendar. yes they were very advanced and were right on everything but they did NOT predict the end of the world or a new dimension.

For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle” says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is “a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.”