Also, I was under the impression that while the Mayan calendar does end on the 21st of December, 2012, that the end of the calendar did not mark the end of the world, but the end of a period.Originally Posted by Guardian XIII
You should probably research it a little more before you act like you know what you're talking about. There are multiple theories but the movie is only based off of one. To be honest though, you should research a lot more than that.I guess I jumped to that conclusion when they introduced the trailers to the "End of the World" 2012 movie which supposes that the Mayan calendar ended on the precise date the world would end. But, I guess I'm not really disagreeing with the Mayans (as I don't know what they intended by their calendar) but the author of the story on which the movie is based. I also do not believe all life on Earth will ever go extinct.I don't really agree with anything you said, but this stood out the most. Where on that calendar did it say the surface of the planet will be destroyed?
People have been waiting for the end of the world for millennia.
Early Christians thought the second coming was gonna be soon. Two thousand years later and still no returning of the Messiah.
According to Buddhist theories, we've been in mappo since the 8th century CE (roughly, since it depends who you are talking to). This is a period that marks the decline in the Dharma. Basically humans are so far from the Historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, that we can no longer practice Buddhism properly. Each school has various ways to understand this and interpret this. This period has been associated with natural disasters too, at least when it first started (c.f. Late Heian-Kamakura Period Buddhism).
Anyways, sooner or later life comes to an end. Unless we devise a means to bring forth our own undoing, which is not completely impossible, the natural course of events within the universe will lead to it.
