The Mayan calendar does not end, only its cycle, but many people speak of the end. The end of the Maya calendar (cycle) is December 23, 2012. However, there are two correlations; this one comes from Lounsbury. Another one, from Goodman, Martinez-Hernandez and Thompson, suggests that the end is December 21, 2012.

It is very interesting that Mayans calculated dates for such a distant future. The calendar starts in the year 3114 BC - very close to the date of Krishna's disappearance, but also close to the beginning of Kali Yuga - the age of darkness (January 23, 3102 BC). If you try to fish out some correlations between the Hindu and Mayan calendar, a twelve-year difference between the onset of the Mayan calendar and the Krishna's disappearance is really startling.

Some scientific opinions suggest that a planetary anomaly may happen either on December 21, or December 23, 2012. Some other people believe that this could be the end of the world in the shape and form we have been used to live in.

Is there really such a xenophobic gap between Christians and non-Christians, or do we only participate in making it even bigger?

If the country like Germany with several thousand churches around really lived as Christ had wished, no such a thing as Nazism would have happened.

As rivers always show people their paths, there are Gangra (Hinduism, Buddhism...) religions and Jordan religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam).

In the Jordan-river religions, only Christ does command nonviolence with ubiquitous emphasis. And albeit Holy Fathers (Popes) have ruled the world for so many years, it was not so long ago when possession of Bible was a crime punished by death.

Christianity is the religion with history of wars and blood. Barbarous occupation of South America by Spaniards - conquistadors, brought many innocent Indians to death. They not only destroyed cultures in Egypt, South America; they also destroyed the Pan Slavic culture here without which it is difficult to trace the origin and thinking of the pre-Christian era of this part of Europe. But I see a big difference between "Christ" - a Perfect Teacher, and "Christians", who have often led lives of millions of people to death.

Thus, righteous teaching of Jesus is in line with anything contained in the holy Indian scriptures, but its interpretation often lacks the Christ's hallmark.

It is not Jesus that makes people xenophobic, but rather people's ignorance and various language-interpretation pitfalls. Jesus' benign words to a felon on the cross, who kindly asked Him to remember him in His paradise, say it simply (Luke 23:43): "Verily, I say onto you,today you will be with me in paradise".

Witnesses of Jehovah, who do not believe in life after death, but in a visible - materialized Kingdom of God on Earth, interpret the above sentence as follows: "Verily, I say onto you today, you will be with me in paradise". Their interpretation is that Jesus says it "today", but felon's coming to paradise is likely to happen some day...

Thus, the most important aspect in understanding the truth is when a person has ability to interpret various classifications (sentences, ideas, opinions) correctly.

Our European and US culture is Christian only by its name. Christ explicitly commands nonviolence. How can the president of the most powerful nation come out of church and start war a few days later?