From what I was reading they didn't start counting the years till 525, Think it was a Monks ideal, they didn't use A.D. for a time after that.
About 30 years ago, I was reading something that said the calander was off by about 13 years.
I know it's hard for me to remember, how old I am sometimes, most the time  I'm just off a year or two one way or the other.
Thirteen years would be just about right for 12/21/2012.
I'm not into the dooms day thing, just doing my time , till retirement, permanentt that is. Only joking .
Hope I can dissolve all my egos before then, and float up out of dis place.
Some of those buggers are hard to get rid of, the one of revenge is troublesome now, think can see past it then pops up again.
Being betrayed by a friend, is a bad one to over come, working on this one, it's not good to have that stuff stuck in the back of your mind. At least I'm past the point of physical violence.
The ego is very trickie, once you get rid of one another pops up.

Well God Bless All, and remember things are not as bad as they seem, there worse. Only joking again.

Interesting mix of ideas here.  If the poles are due for a magnetic reversal it will be because earth has been hit by another meteorite or asteroid.  This has cause great disasters in the past and almost every tribe and race have patchy memories of "the grea flood" or "Rain from the skies" etc.  The strike in an ocean of the planet causes great tidal waves which engulf much land.  Earthquakes erupt, much hot rocks and ask rain down much loss of life.  Worst of all, the upset to the earths molten core causes the swirling motion to be disturbed. This causes the collapse of our geo magnetic field and it is thius field which prevents all sorts of nasty radiation from the Sun from boiling our gonads with lethal radiation.  However after a few hundred years the earth/moon dynamo effect re-establishes the geomagnetic  bublewhich then protects as again. That being said, scientists studying this area now believe that it was the extreme bombardmant on an unprotected earth rom the last meteor crash into the Pacific ocean which actualy mutated cro magnon man into homo sapiens so "the end of the world" might not be such a bad thing after all.!!! Especially if there is a chance that a more ethical, moral, and geberaly better kind ofhumankind was the result.  After all this current version of mankind is totally insane.  Murderously so.  Has managed to murder 100 million of his own kind in just the last 100 years!  Would the "end" of this version be such a bad thing for the sentient beings occupying the rest of the universe?  I think they would all breathe a collective sigh of relief if the world ended in 2012.
Cheers anyway,
NeoGeo

I like your take on the world NeoGeo.  

Suzi

This is a little scary. I have heard some thing about this but not quiet understanding. If this is true, what will happen to the people who don't believe or just don't know about it?

Jolyn this is not a scary thing really.  We are spirits, immortal spirits, a chip off the old block, spirit, (The Great Spirit) and we came into this world of our own choice simply to learn thinghs.  Immortal spirits can get a bit bored with knowing eveything, you know, so we decide th give ourselves amnesia about our real nature and out real home (The place of light) and we have a little adventure down here to learn stuff.  When you go to a scary movie you tend to forget about the world of daylight and traffic whizzing by outside the theatre.  For a short while you get caught up in the film and when the udead mummy leaps out of tghe screen ,wielding a bloody axe, we allscrfeam in fear.  But how real is that fear a few minutes later when we leave the theatre.  Life is pretty much the same.  We can not be destroyed we can nly EXPERIENCE stuff.
For those who dont "believe" a certain manmade set of beliefs, nothing different is going to "HAPPEN" TO THEM. Oneof the great teachers sent to us explained it this way. "LOVE God, with all your mind, heart and ability.  Secondly. LOVE your neighbour, as you love yourself."  END OF STORY.  All the tens of thousands of books written by men for the last two thousand years are simply surplus commentary on those two great teachings.  No rom for scary stuff in there, is there?  Love and Peace, NeoGeo