With the release of a documentary shown in Discovery and National Geographic on January 2010, a prediction of the end of the world will be happen in 2012. The 2012 end of the world prediction is mainly based on the Mayan’s religious belief that the end of the world is coming at December 21 2012. From the scientists’ analysis of the experiments on the earth, it shows that there are pole shifts happening, and it will cause natural disasters such as earth quakes, tsunami, volcano eruption and other catastrophes associated with it. . In my opinion, this documentary is noteworthy to an audience because it shows the public awareness that natural disasters can significantly change everyone’s lives even endangering the existence of humanity. The meaning of world is rich and varied, stretching from the most concrete to the most abstract. It holds together an intrinsic connection between human activities and habitat, there is one exception exception to our usage of world, one in which we conceive a world to be independent of any mental activity of humans. It is about the end of the world in relation to the earth itself, conceived of having an existence independent of human mental activity.
The end of the world will occur only when the sun aligned directly itself between earth and the centre of galaxy. But the perfect alignment happens before in 1988 and during that time nothing happen. The time frame for it to happen takes thousands of years. At some point near the start of the Common Era, the Mayans developed a complex and chronologically-precise calendar to maintain track of time. The end of the calendar is December 21, 2012 which has led to the theories associated with the 2012 Prophecy. Some people think that this end date means that the world will end at that time and the life we know ill no longer exist. There are various theories set by all different types of belief systems that have been set forward to support this claim.   When the sun is directly aligned there is... [continues]

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