The mayans did not predict the end of the Earth, their calander predicted cycles of life based around zodiac signs. All the calender ending ment was the end of one cycle and that a new cycle will begin. Some take that as an end to earth. I take it as an end to Earth as we know it, I think a new time of peace and conciousness will arise. Their are many cultures outside of the Maya who have predicted this time period as a time of change. That change could possibly mean nothing more than us coming to a realization that we are going to destroy the world if we don't change, the mind becoming concious of our impact on our enviorment and us starting to change that. The cycles always ended when the planets aligned, they have aligned many times in the past already with nothing happening, the only thing you could say has happened was after each time we had an ice age period or mini ice age (This is most logical to happen if something does imo).
If the world will end on 2012 which I honestly dont believe at all so be it. I would not worry about dying I would honestly be more intrigued as to how people predicted this. If it does end in 2012, the ancient alien theory at the point to me would really really have credit to it. I dont see how they could have predicted something so extreme without some sort of future knowledge. For the world to end it would have to take something more than just the planet alignment they predicted, to me the solar rays, global warming, etc.. that would also play a part could not have been predicted just by watching the sky in ancient times.
