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Q: The Mayan Prophecy: what's the Chinese take on it? What's yours?
Mayan Prophecy, time of change, December 21/22 (pretty precise, innit?), some say end of days, Mayan's said a new beginning, but what do the Chinese say? I've brought it up in class once or twice and been surprised how many students believe in it. Why's that, because of that movie? What's China's real take on the Mayan prophecy of change? What's yours? Personally I think, 'bring it on', can't possibly make things any worse.
I heard something like it is difficult to correlate their professed date to the calendar we use today (Gregorian). But anyway, with whatever date/s you choose, I am willing to bet a dollar to a doughnut that it comes and goes and not a thing happens.
I love romanticism as much as the next person, but the bad news is, ancient 'prophesies' are a load of bunk. Peeps cannot 'see' the future. 
to me, a prediction means like when you say it will be an event occurring in a future date. and as far as I know, the only thing the Mayans did was to make a calendar which stops in what will be December 12, 2012.
Why did they stop there? That will never be answered, because it could be for many reasons, from running out of ink or paper, or to getting totally tired of it, to going off to fight a war, or better things to do.
That does not means anything else in my book. It DOES NOT mean the world will end, planets will crash one into another, or life will end for all. Like it does not means that I will win the electronic lottery, or that the next President of USA will not be sworn into office.
You asked me for my take, and I just gave it to you, it is all a bunch of BS, and I am not talking about the excellent work done by the Mayans
It's crap. I studied Mesoamerican cultures in school and the Mayans did NOT believe 2012 was the end of the world. Shoddy archeology and a terrible Hollywood movie have spread the hysteria to billions of gullible people around the world. Bet it's the same people who believed in Y2K.
Most students I have joke about it but the majority don't actually believe it. At least I hope they don't.
mArtiAn:
As I understand it the Mayan prophecy was not about the end of the world, but rather was about a time of great change. They did say however that such change is always accompanied by great and catastrophic events. Myself i'm not a believer in it, but one can only hope.
The Mayans made their calendar based on measurements of time which used a span of time that calculated the position of the sun in the 12 "houses" of we now call the Zodiac. On Dec 21 (the solstice) the Sun will move from it's current "house" of Pisces into the house of Aquarius. This would have caused the Mayans to make a new calendar depicting the time for the new "age", and that calendar would "end" when the sun moved into the next house.
Has nothing to do with the end of the world. Most annoyingly, it will probably mark the long term radio rotation of the 5th Dimesion song "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine IN" from the musical Hair.
diverdude1:
I attended an original performance of Hair back in the early 70's in London.
good times..... 
mArtiAn:
Jesus, you don't really think so, do you? 'Let the sun shine in'. Oh woe, say it isn't so.
Don't think the Mayans actually said anything about the world ending though. I think that's just an interpretation made by some funda'mentalist' Christians.
