Apocalypse or nothing of the sort shall take place.Maya year cycle is 5125 years. According to The Hindu Kali Yuga calendar began on 18 February 3102 B.C. There is only a difference of 12 years between the Hind’s beginning of the Kali Yuga and the Maya’s beginning of the Fifth Great Cycle.
Transition from the present age to a new age and values shall dawn,just as Industrial Revolution brought in change.
According to Hindus, Time is Non Liner and Cyclic.
For details refer my blog on Time, a Non Linear Theory.
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What about the rest of the 2012 story? Something is going to happen in 2012, the problem is knowing what IS going to happen and why.
Nothing is going to happen.We must not ascribe too much meaning into allegories.
Both of us will be alive(DV) to witness that.Even by scientific standards,and also Vedas,the earliest literature of the world, world goes on.Time as we are aware now(That is what we have now) is only a fleeting moment in the scale of Universe. For details may I recommend you my Blog On Time in this site or Time- A perspective in Google Knol.