Ok, so there was lots of talk in the Movie thread about 2012. Here's what I know, and you guys can add to it or do whatever you want haha.

Basically, the Mayans learned how to read and track the stars, and after 200-300 years, made the Long Count Calendar. They used their math and observation skills to predict future movement of the stars, which also led them to discover that the Earth wobbles on its axis instead doing a perfect circle or whatever. The wobbling causes the stars' patterns to drift in the sky in a 5,125 year cycle. So, the Mayans predicted that the world would end at the end. The Mayans also believed that the Sun is really a God and that beheading folks in a sacrificial ceremony would keep 'em chugging along their merry way. The researchers DID say, I think, that their Long Calender did line up pretty well with the Gregorian calendar we use today. I could be wrong on that one.

There's also a belief that under the Sphinx in Egypt, underwater in/near Bimini, and near Piedras Negras (Black Rocks) in Guatemala in the Yucatan area are "Halls of Records" which contain loads of information about the end of the world and possibly treasures saved from Atlantis and some other place called Mu (I also read a theory that the Mayans and the Egyptians might have come from Atlantis originally and just happened to end up on opposite sides of the world when the City hit the bricks, which would explain their advancedness in some things. IF Atlantis existed). While there are not yet any good openings underneath, scientists and other peeps -have- found that there is a 20x40 foot "room" underneath the Sphinx. I don't know why, but there hasn't been a way to get under there yet. On the documentary I saw, the path the researchers tried was flooded and I think a wall blocking the way.

The Hall of Records in the Yucatan is like in the dead center of the rainforest, which is also infested with Guerilla soldiers. Combine that with the humidity and remoteness, and researchers have had trouble staying very long.

Anywho, do I personally think the world will end? Nah. I think it's possible that there will be a major change in the world at some point and -maybe- the continents will break apart and the world climate will change and all that fun stuff. But who's to say when it'll happen?

Sorry to make that so long!