Will the world really end in 2012 ?

It is very unusual of me reading some astrology blogs but a few days back in the Indiaprwire update email there was an entry by an astrology blogger (pretty unusual as well) that read “Will the world end in 2012 ?”. The blog author talks about the end of the world on December 21st 2012 as the Mayan Calendar ends on the same day. I have heard about this Mayan Calendar stuff before and also recollected reading about the same end-of-the-world theory in some other website. So just visited the astro blog and got the same set of info albeit very technical one probably taken from some other reference.
[...]The Mayan believed that there were 9 Patterns of Creation (each with a Day and Night). The road to Creation is like a pyramid with 9 levels. (in fact most of the pyramids around the world including Egypt are of 9 levels!) . Each of these 9 levels represent an immensely long period of time, with each level above of shorter duration. You can imagine this as a set of vessels - the biggest vessel is at the bottom (level 1) and a vessel 20 times smaller than that is kept inside the first vessel (level 2) and so on until we reach the 9th level.
What this means is that the rate of Creation has been accelerating! What took a million years to create at one level would take only 50,000 years at the next level and 2500 years in the next… Have you ever wondered why the world around us and our life seems to be moving faster and faster?! [...]
It is a multi-part series and this is just the first part so there might be some interesting info in further posts. Generally these end of the world theories come periodically when one passes another one pops up. But still is a great chewing material for conspiracy theorists and enthusiasts