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Originally Posted by hoaxorreal
my question is that y do all the regilions in the world like iching of china and the hinduism and islam and budhism and christiantiy and also that webbot project and ofcourse our most popular mayan culture point towards the same 2012 year.
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The short answer is: no, they don't.
The longer answer is that it's actually trivial to verify from a Christianity and Judaism standpoint. Simply read Revelations. No explicit year for the end of the world is mentioned. Like most predictions/prophesies, the only hints offered are vague and highly subject to interpretation.
Not even the Mayans believed the world was going to end in 2012. Their calendar would simply roll over when they hit the end.
And like the vast majority of predictions and prophesies, they're nearly always conveniently forgotten, or blatantly rescheduled, or outright lied about, by the time they fail to come true.
It might be a bit before your time, but this end-of-world stuff is nothing new. You can almost set your calendar to it. Every three years or so, some group of people try to wind up the rest of the world with this junk for whatever lame reason.
Ignoring Nancy Lieder (when possible), the last big one was May 2007. I may be wrong on the year, it wasn't all that memorable. Supposedly, this rare planetary alignment (with planets on both sides of the sun, mind you), was supposed to topple the Earth on its plane. I think I slept in that morning.
Before that, 2004, Y2K (and then some), 1999, I think I remember writing about one one in 1997. And I vaguely remember those weren't the first ones I'd heard about, I just didn't care enough about it to pay even that much attention.
I do remember the Earth was supposed to, and didn't, roll over at least three separate times over the past few decades.
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i mean its difficult to think of this as just a mere co-incidence that all point to same date considering all these cultures had no contact and most have many years of time difference between them.
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Even if these claims were true (which they demonstrably aren't, but we're all supposed to be too lazy to do anything but take their word for it, and mostly people don't bother checking), again, not really. Anthropologists and Archaeologists have traced the more vivid myths of religious origins right back to the recorded histories of early Mesopotamian civilizations.
If there was such an end-of-days prediction, there's absolutely no reason at all it couldn't have migrated all over Africa, Europe, and Asia in just a few hundred years.
There really is nothing new under the sun.