1. The Mayans did NOT predict the end of the world as they were not prophets. They did not predict their own demise... they again, were not prophets. They didn't care about the future, what interested them was cosmic events, the alignment of the stars, natural disasters, planetary stuff. The Mayan pictorials/hieroglyphics are not yet completely understood even by experts.

2. the bible does NOT predict 2012. In fact, in several places it is mentioned that no one knows the time of the end, not the angels, not even Christ, only God knows. You cannot prepare for the end of the world by observing world events and using them to interpret the Bible.

there are some biblical scholars who believe the date of the end is predicted via the bible code is 2060ish.

3. lots of people bring up Nostradamus. Nosty didn't predict the end of the world for 2012 (nor did he predict Y2K, nor did he predict 9/11) if you believe in Nostradamus's predictions, rest assure, you won't be alive when the end comes because Nostradamus predicts it for the year 3797 (which some believe translates to 2209) it's a code thing.

Y2K was the end of the world, 2001 was the true millenium so that was the end of the world, 6-6-06 was a bad day... when that didn't pan out 9-9-09 was suppose to be the actual 6-6-06.

There are over 200 "end of world" predictions since the beginning of time.

The Mayans believed quite litterally, that there were 3 worlds before the world we live in now, all previous worlds destroyed and recreated. Scientific proof of life even before they Mayan's age, proves otherwise.

You know when I came hee I wanted to know a little bit about what the show was not an editorial. I thought this was something that it isn't.

Doc

It's just a movie.

Please watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I

I belive him more than some quack with a website you found on Google.

Ask the Mayans of today if the world will end in 2012. They'll just stare blankly at you. 2012 is Y2K v2.0, period, and all it will ever be (and already is) is yet another scenario for the conspiracy theorists and entertainment industry to stuff their faces with cash while feeding off the fears and gullibility of those around them.

http://news.aol.com/article/world-wont-end-in-2012-mayans-insist/713074

This date is noted before the Myan's as well. In ancient Egypt as well as the bible. It is a fact that every 25 thousand years there are major astronomic changes. How can anyone say nothing will happen, were they there the last time? The sun will align with the milky way, which we now know has a black hole. How can anyone predict what will or will not occur. The moon has profound effects on our tides, and that is just a benign rock. To minimize what could occur, even just slightly, due to special effects in a movie, is ignorant.

That movie sucks and this show is dumb.

2012 is a long way away and well prob. nuke each other.

Wow...a special about the Mayan Calender...I love how original Syfy is.

could it be the MAYANS just got up one day and said
" F%$# this calendar making" let's go do some stuff LOL though if the world has to end, I'd prefer it be when its Summer here not Winter.