It's the End of the World As We Know It

I recently did a project on the vast, various December 21, 2012 Doomsday scenarios (of which for the record I don't believe in). I was curious as to what exactly the whole deal is, as well as whether or not people REALLY believe in all that crap. As it turns out people really do, but the claims of asteroids, tsunamis, and the like destroying the earth cannot be scientifically backed up, making them next to impossible (especially on December 21st of this year). The reason December 21, 2012 is the popular "Doomsday" date is because an ancient Mayan  calendar ended on this day. I won't go into detail, because I have actually done some in-depth study on this topic, but essentially all their calendar was was an extremely drawn out "cycle". We function on a 365 day calendar, one in which December 31 is always the last day of the year. Just because the year ends, that doesn't mean that the world is coming to an end. We just "start over" the next year/day on January 1st, year after year...after year. This is the exact same thing that the Mayans were doing. They did not function on 365 day cycles, instead their calendars were comprised of "Baktuns" which are periods of many many years. So after the 13th Baktun, which ends on December 21, 2012, their calendar starts over again, there "January 1" if you will. That doesn't mean that they believed that the world was going to end, they didn't count it as a curse on mankind, in fact in was actually seen as a blessing to them, the beginning of a new age.