I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked yet in the off topic forums. Maybe it was and it got knocked back a few pages, got deleted, or I just missed it. Anyways do you think the world is going to end on December 21, 2012? If you actually have no idea what I am talking about then feel free to visit THIS wikipedia link.

Personally I am 90% sure nothing will happen. I only say 90% because there's always room in my mind for the possibility of anything and everything. I definitely won't be spending any time building underground shelters stocked with as much stuff as I can find or become religious just so I don't go to hell. I've lived a good life, not very long though, and I am ready if it does actually take place.

So... if you answered yes then feel free to tell us what your end of the world plans are.

Can only hope so, amirite?

As far as the world ENDING on that specific date, I doubt it.

On the other hand, in the very near future there will be a massive and fundamental change in the way humanity interacts with the world.

End of the world as we know it.....  and I feel fine : )

It has been asked many times over the last year or so, but not recently.  I guess people have just become resigned to the fact that the end is near.

Wolfenpride, as dour as he sounds is getting at something.  The more I interact with some of the people at work the more I start to think that someone has to hit the reset button.

Do I believe in this 2012 thing? No.  It's no different then the stupid Y2K shit where people started stockpiling canned food and bullets, I'm still here and they're eating canned beans for the next 5 years.

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In all seriousness, I have a question about the December 21, 2012 date. It's based on the fact that the Mayan calender mysteriously ends on that day. Does anyone else find it interesting that the Mayans, a civilization which ended centuries ago, picked a day in an era when the human race actually is capable of wiping itself out?

While being a pretty advanced civilization for its time, it was still pre-industrial and couldn't possibly have imagined weapons any more destructive than spears and bows. If the Mayan calender had ended in say 1912 instead of 2012, although well after the fall of the Maya, it still would have been years before mankind was capable of killing itself off. So is it a coincidence, did the Mayans just make a lucky guess or is there maybe something to the date? Maybe I'm over analyzing it and there's no significance to it whatsoever.

What about year 2000? Nothing happened. 2001 however was a turning point.

nothing might happen in 2012, but since so many seem to expect something, something might still happen.

From what I remember though, the Maya Calender doesn't stop completely at 2012, it goes on to further dates into 3000

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Originally posted by grunty

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I am not! They are!

I'm not one bit worried. They also predicted that the world would end on year 2000. Almost ten years has passed and we're still alive.

No I dont think it will happen on a certain date ,but I imagine mankind will be wiped out one day .There have been several life extinction events during the earths existance, so we may not survive an asteroid hit,nuclear war,Super volcanoes erupting etc.It will happen as it has happened times before just happens over millions or billions of years,we just werent here yet to affect us.

Most people who have anything to say about 2012 besides it's bumpkiss believe it will be some kind of natural disaster.

I say it's when the dead get up and walk.  Because who wants to have an end of the world where you can't have a little fun?  You can't exactly shoot an earthquake in the head.

Had to end sometime

"moo goes the duck" should be an answer choice for every multiple choice question from now on.

Gallup poll to LSAT.  All of em.

I think there is a certain psychology with end of the worlders, whether it's Y2K, 2012, or just your basic Bible thumper that thinks they see signs of the apocalypse.

I think it's a sense of self importance, or hubris if you will.

Recorded history has been going on for thousands of years, and the end of the world has been predicted ever since.

But it didn't happen back, then, and it's not going to happen 10 thousand years from now. Nope, it's going to happen soon. Why? Because I'm here now. The world couldn't end till I was here to witness it. Yep, I'm so important that i'm living in the end of the world times.

Yep, that's when the world is going to end, while I'm alive. Because i'll be here to see it and I'm really, really important. Why would the world end if I was already dead, ten thousand years from now? It wouldn't matter then, because I wouldnt' be around to see it, and I'm what's important. Me!

Sorry, you're just not that important. You are not living in the end of times. Hate to break it to you, but you'll die, and the world will go on with out.

No, if I die the whole world has to end! I'm really, really important!

Nope, you're just another schmuck. the world won't end just because you're going to die.

The World of Warcraft?

 No the world isn't going to end just like all the computers never crashed when the year 2000 kicked in.

People seem to pick aspects of history that sound neat and ignore the other parts.

Like... the guys who predicted this also actively sacrificed humans.  So no, the world isn't going to end.  Sorry to burst your bubble.

Besides the incans or mayans or whatever the F they are, countless societies have been fortelling the end of the world.  Its how they sell their bullshit.  You better worship us because the worlds going to end and if you don't you won't get to the shiny happy place !!!!

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Yes it is going to end. I plan to set up a paypal account where people can send me all the money they won't need when it does.