“Why do people think they will survive the end of the world?”
The Mayan calendar doesn’t predict the ‘end of the world’, It’s just the beginning of a new age kind of like an Indian ‘Yuga’, a cycle.
People are making money off the ‘end of the world’ scenario and have been since I’ve been old enough to read (and that was a long time ago).
It’s gonna put a dent in Obama’s positive cult rating numbers! LOL!
I believe the Mayans believed that this present sun (the fifth one according to them) was going to be the final one. And the end of the calendar wasn’t so much the end of the world as it was the end of the sun, with then what becomes of the newly darkened earth being anyone’s guess.