Mayan 2012 Predictions: A year of doom, or a year of hope?

Some doomsayers use the term 'galactic alignment' to describe a very different phenomenon, prophesying that mass extinctions are not a random event but recur every 26 million years with December 21, 2012 being the date for the next one. Amid a swirl of science, hucksterism and genuine spiritual belief, prognosticators say Dec. 21, 2012, will usher in a new era of nonviolence and sustainability or bring about TEOTWAWKI — survivalist shorthand for The End of the World As We Know It. The 2012 phenomenon has been talked over for years. The Mayan calendar predicts catastrophe and widespread natural disaster which will bring about end of the world on December 21, 2012. There have been similar prophecies by Nostradamus and movies on. December 31, 2011 Sunspots? Black holes? Comets? What will the apocalypse bring? To hear the New Agers tell it, we are doomed. But in the year running up to the next Winter Solstice, onDecember 21, 2012, the impending changeover to we.
December 21, 2012 End of the World Predictions Explained. Well, it's finally 2012, and you know what that means, the end of the Mayan calendar, but have you ever wondered why people think it's the end of the world? If so, this video by