If you are reading this today, it means the world did not end on Dec. 21, 2012.
According to several reports, an ancient Mayan prophecy declared that the world was going to be destroyed on this date.
The earth was not sucked into a black hole and the sun did not crash into the earth.
The Mayan prophecy was just another failed prediction of many such doomsdays.
As the appointed time came and went in several parts of the world, there was no sign of the apocalypse and many people went about their lives.
On many social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, people posted status updates about the clocks turning to midnight in the Asia-Pacific region with messages such as “The world has not ended in India. If it did, I have Internet in heaven.”
Doomsday prophets have issued thousands of these predictions since the beginning of recorded time and we are still here, reading this post that the world didn’t end again.
This in itself says a lot about how much we should believe in apocalypse prophesies.
Yet, more predictions about the world ending are being made.
NASA has predicted that there will be more solar flares in 2013, which will disrupt the earth and cause destruction.
According to NASA, the sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years.
Each cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots, which are visible dark spots on the sun’s surface.
A solar maximum occurs when the greatest number of sunspots is there on the sun’s surface. The lowest number of sunspots is called a solar minimum.
Scientists at NASA have been tracking the number of sunspots since they are often the origin of eruptions on the sun causing solar flares.
The sun has continued to get more active, with the next solar maximum predicted for 2013.
Predictions of the end of the world or great destruction on earth continue to come, but yet we are all still here going about our days.
 We should not believe these predictions and get all worked up.