The Long Count Calendar of the Mayan civilisation suggests that the end of time may occur on the 21st of December 2012. In spite of a lack of scientific measuring instruments by the Mayans in their studies of the movements of the stars from which this foresight is based, they had noted a one-degree shift in that movement through lifetimes of observations.
I would be sceptical of any doomsday prophecy, even this made by people whose civilisation began in 2000BC, if it were not for the fact that the year 2012 coincides with the scientifically-based prediction that sunspots (causing sun flares) will reach its highest point of development on that same year. We are going to get fried.
Knowing this, we should think that perhaps our lives would be of better use in helping others and making the world a little more bearable to live in.
