look, about the mayans is something like this ... each period of 5125 years a new cycle was born (the sun "walked" from east to west toward the center of the galaxy) ... they used to call that "the sacred tree of life", and based on their calculations the sun was exactly on the center of the galaxy... the fourth cycle ended on 3113 b.C. so if you do the calculation + 5.125 its 2012. Capiche ?
just for the record ... they confirmed that the sun is "walking" toward the center of the galaxy... but it doesn't say the world is gonna end, just that some things are gonna happen.
i don't believe in any of this, but ...
you'll see some predictions inside an pyramid from egypt (Quéops Pyramid) either, and the same thing that we see with the mayans happen with them, numbers that match exactly with our modern science ..
now, nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and those "secrets of fatima" are the other 3 "Prophets" and none of them worked with "dates"

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either way, just ignore my mistakes

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