What draws people back to end-of-the-world predictions?

I mean, all of the “scientific” theories pointing to the world’s end in 2012 are absolutely ridiculous. Mayan scholars deny that the ancient Mayans predicted the world’s end in 2012 (more like their calendar resets after a very long cycle, the same way our calendar resets at the end of December, only over a much longer period of time), so the talk around an ancient doomsday prediction isn’t even true to begin with. Why is this theory so popular? It seems like a lot of work to base so many web pages and survival kits off goofy quasi-science.

Human nature is to realize there will be an end to our lives. The only way to hold this end from coming sooner is to do things to sustain the body. So we need food and water to survive since without either our lives will end. At one time in our distant past, humans were simply hunter gatherers and we moved along with the game. Often they would show us water as well as provide us with food. Then we started growing food to expand our diets and fill in the gaps between successful hunting expeditions. All this was to provide what we needed to stay alive.

Civilization advances but even today, all we need is food, water, and shelter to survive. All of which, before the economic meltdown, was relatively easy to obtain so we filled our spare time with luxuries, all of which we seem to have developed a psychological need for them. So now we no longer worry about food and water, we now worry about loosing our cable TV or Cablevision, Big screen TV, stereo systems, exercise equipment, fancy cars & trucks, computers, cell phones, and credit cards. To loose these things would certainly mean our sudden demise, you see. So now we need bigger threats to worry about and to actually motivate us into being needed.

People need everything bigger and better than ever any more. So after, the Cold War threat ended, we needed more threats for this motivation to kick in. So now, someone decided this outlandish idea would sell and how it does. People are so superficial that they cannot seem to think coherently nor intelligently even when threatened. They simply panic rather than to observe, study and evaluate the enemy in order to seek out its weaknesses. In this case it is the tale of the end of the world. Here we are with our life threatened and no one can think of a way to save it. However, it is all a hoax.

Let’s get some things straight:

1. The Mayans never said that the end of the world would occur on December 21st, 2012.
2. The impressive calculations of various cycles is not unique to the Maya. You may recall a group of people called the “ancient Greeks”? They did it first, and better.
3. The Mayan calendar the author is referring to is the “Long Count” calendar. It is a count of days from a given starting point. IT DOES NOT END.
4. The calculation of the end of the current Baktun is based on the “GMT” correlation, which is the most widely accepted correlation between the Mayan calendar and the Gregorian calendar. However, it is not the only correlation out there! Recently there has been some stuff in the news about how one researcher thinks that the GMT correlation is off by about 200 years.

See our pages on Why 2012?, the Mayan calendar and the Mayan Prediction for more information.

L8r

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