http://www.viewzone.com/endtime.html

This site explains what will be going on around the winter solstice in 2012. It's pretty long, but it's a good read. The Mayans were great astronomers, so it's possible that they knew about some of this stuff that will happen around this date.

As for me, I don't think it'll be the end of the world, but there will be a lot of cool stuff happening.

Although my faith believes in end times, it also believes that no one will see them coming: any serious attempt to predict the date will, by definition, turn out to be wrong. This makes 2012, for me, perhaps the one point when I am most certain that the end will not come, because too many people expect it.

^this

nah, the main theory is the polar shift, and those take 500 years or so to complete

2012 is all bullshit, but i do believe mankind will destroy the earth pretty soon

I highly doubt 2012 will be the end of the world. 2000 was supposed to be the end of the world and we all know that turned out to be nothing.

The end of the world is pure nonsense. But when that date comes with no event, a new doomsday will be made up.

Doomsday was created by religious zealots back in the Dark Ages of around 1000 years ago. Society on this planet have become more educated and progressed significantly over the time and few people believe in Doomsday psychobable.

The December 21 2012 date is just the last date of the Mayan Calendar.

Actually it is all a theory and there isn't a set amount of time that it lasts, if at all. The difference though is that in this instance it is refering to a polar shift of the sun's or solar system's magnetic field rather than that of Earth's.

There is a flaw with the article previously posted, and most theories on the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world with scientific evidence to back them up. If this is a reoccuring event, and life lived through it the last time(humans included let me note), why can't humans live through it again? Especially in the modern age where we are more shielded environmentally and our population has been the highest ever. The most problems I see that which includes the failure of  power and electronics because of the interferance, as well as anything in space being affected to the point of not being able to use. Yeah this is exteremely bad, but not "THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!" bad. Actually I think it would make thinks much better to encounter something like this. Call me sick, but sometimes I like to see obstacles(whether they be war or some other type) that humans and other living things have to both overcome and learn from. Otherwise the world would be very boring and we would all live the same way until our inevitable extinction. I think there are many others who would agree with me that if the world was perfect or an absolute peaceful one, it wouldn't be a world I would want to live in. There would be no motivation, and progression would become stagnant.

Yeah, he's a bit to negative in his views on things. I just thought it was interesting reading about all of the geological/astronomical/etc stuff that's supposed to happen around this time.

that post made me lol my ass off.

I don't even have to bring my opinion on the subject since it's utter nonsense but I would sure love it to happen anyway. It would be exciting.