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Short answer: No.

Longer answer: No. Don't be ridiculous.

Detailed answer: There are a few crackpots who claim that the ancient Mayans, a culture which apparently couldn't predict their own ending a couple of hundred years ago, believed that the world would end on or around the end of the year 2012 (there's some discrepancy here, because a lot of the people who have attempted to convert Mayan calendar dates to Gregorian (the kind we use) calendar dates have done so incorrectly).

The problem is that there's really no evidence that the Mayans, as a whole, actually believed this, and there's considerable evidence that they did not. It's also ludicrous to think they had anything other than a rather shaky mythology to base this on, if they did think so.

The Mayan "long count" running out of dates is, in the long run, not really any more significant than your car's odometer "turning over" to all zeros. Cars do not automatically explode when this happens; the world won't end. It's essentially just like midnight after a Saturday, when the calendar goes back to the beginning of the week and starts over again with Sunday.

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