yes'm, I live in a Maya village, near ancient Maya ruins.

as Lavendula noted, the apocalyptic-doomsday scenarios are a common myth and misinterpretation of the Maya Long Count calendar...

fun to speculate upon, but baseless, and in error, according to scholars.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about December 21, 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in pop-culture media as the 2012 problem.

"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, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar

so, no doomsday, but instead, a joyous celebration.

I read about the Mayans and the end of their calendar, and possibly the world, years back...before the MS diagnosis and pretty much thought "meh!" about the whole thing.

Now, since the MS diagnosis, I've pretty much been thinking, "Great! Just 'x' years of this MS crap to go, and then I can sit back and watch the Apocalypse.".

Hopefully I wont have Optic Neuritis that week.

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper -T.S. Elliot The Hollow Men

HA! Thanks for all the input. Proof that when I tell people this place is amazing, I ain't lying.

Now then, I don't buy into any of it. Just seems to be part of human nature. The pessimistic side. Years ago the Cold War scared us with MAD. (Mutually Assured Destruction with nuclear weapons between us and the Soviets). Then that fizzled out and Y2K raises everybody's blood pressure. My now ex mother in law was actually dissapointed that we woke up and no zombies were running through the streets and planes dropping like lawn darts.

True story.

Seems some of us aren't happy unless we got something horrible to look forward to. HA!

Well if you read one of the many Christian bibles Apocalypse takes place twice. Once when they lock Satan up for a thousand years and then let him out to off him for good. Now, the question is, has that happened already? Questions, questions.

I'm actually fascinated by the Mayan's and good ol' Nostradamus. I've even had dreams about it since I was a child. That may have something to do with nuclear bomb threats and such and hiding under our school desks. I became more interested in this type of belief when I took an eastern religion class. Pretty fascinating stuff. Sometimes Jim's doctor and I sit and have the most fascinating conversations about it. He's Hindu and we discuss differences and similarities. Of course that has nothing to do with Mayan's but you get my point, right?

Anyway, my main point, and more importantly, what is going to happen on 11/11/11 at 11:11 am/pm? 11:11 is when it is thought the angels are at their most active time, sometimes even mischievous. Some say 11/11/11 at 11:11 am/pm is when this whole beginning of the end starts. Numbers play a big part. Even Revelations speaks of the mark of the beast.

Things that make you go hmmmm...

this is why on the 20th we are celbrating my bday in 2012, you know i always took this fact in stride, till I saw a show recently and there is an ancient chinesse text, and guess what date they have set aside yep and the sun will be in the center of our universe and we are expected to have polar north and south change, will be interesting is this yet another y2k or should I go find a cave now

LOL, Moose. Why even bother. (That would make a cool Christmas season. No commercialism.)

I read an article on the Mayan calendar and the way that they calculated their calendar is different then ours (Julian). So the date really doesn't mean that much. In fact, I believe the Mayan 12/12 already passed. But I read about it a long time ago so I could be wrong.

My debit card has an expiration date of 10/2012. Does that mean I'll run out of money then? Two months before Christmas??

Sandy, I think they let Satan out here in GA last year.............

Hiya, Moose!!!

Satan is already out he's living in my house and only eats my DD's pajamas and socks. This has to be why they keep disappearing. They just vanish! Maybe i will open my dryer in 2012 and find the whole stack sitting there.

And yes kitty to answer your question you will be out of money two months before christmas. This is why you should keep a checking account. "I can't be out of money! I still have checks!" Christmas is covered.

Kelly, mine expires a year before Christmas. Guess I will run out long before Christmas 2012. LOL