Umm ya, I got it all set up for 2013 to be my year to shine!

I agree, there will definately be some people going crazy and it might be a wild day for Police maybe some lootings or even suicides, and the media will do what they do best, blow things out of proportion and get everybody worked up over it. One thing is certain though, I'm keeping my shotgun in my room on the night of the 21st and will probably spend the day indoors, the world will not end but I don't need some physco doomsayer to end mine.

Yes and No

Yes that something may happen but then again it may not happen. I believe that something may happen and the way things are going right now I wouldn't be surprised if something were to come up we shall see.

Well...

If 2012 happens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgyi57s-A4

But It won't. So, this thread is kinda redundant, lets keep it alive until December 21, 2012.

Yes I said earlier that I don't believe in it but on this program alot of people think its real because of all the disasters that happened back to back not long ago. But really I think the Earth will end in 5 billion years and humans will most likely not be around to see it.

Unless it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (i.e. large number of people causing massive chaos just prior to the predicted date of doomsday for fear of the doomsday approaching), no.

That's what concerns me. There's probably enough nuts out there that might try to get there hands on a nuke or a bioweapon or something just to make sure doomsday happens when it's supposed to.

That would be a hilarious end for life as we know it. But it probably won't happen. It hasn't happened before with doomsday theories.

The government should make shelters for every possible disaster that might happen.

Oh Rex,

That would cost them money

God forbid they don't have money!!!

The so-called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_%28social_theory%29 issue is a very interesting and complicated topic in psychology and sociology. There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy on Wikipedia specifically about the "self-fulfilling prophecies" aspect of reflexivity. Also related is the relatively well-known http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_theorem.

If doom-sayers manage to strongly convince a significant enough number of people that the world is going to end, say, in ten years, then even though the world may not actually come to an end at that time, the panic, mass hysteria and general chaos caused by those who think it will could have such a significant effect on humanity and human society that it could be, from the humanity's perspective, almost as if it did come to an end.

I know it costs money, but the government spends money on unimportant things, here in Australia the government is thinking of making a drink that will keep kids awake in school, come on man.

I do not believe 2012 will be the end of the world.

...But I dream...

Nope, not gonna end in 2012: due to budget cuts the Ancient Mayans had to push back their prophecy a few years. The new prophecy is that it ends in 2032, in line what their accountants said is financially viable for world-ending prophecies in the current economy.

2032 no I'll still be alive.

I believe that something will happen. Not necessarily the end of the human race or the world, but some kind of natural disaster or disease that has devastating effects.

What like rabies going air borne that would spell disaster.

Only one way to find out.

I'm not worried about it, if its the end can you really do anything about it?

But better safe than sorry, always good to have a few emergency stashes for when SHTF, Apocalypse or not.

Yes I don't believe it but its not stupid to get prepared just encase.

Thats pretty much a simple answer for it.

The way Ive heard it is basically a cyclical calender, so it just actually repeats after 2012.

And then they got slaughtered by the Spainiards and small pox. SO they could nto make the next version of the calender.

So it is all fear mongering based on misunderstanding.

Like others before me, I simply have to be smarmy. Yes, 2012 will be the end... Of 2011. And I invalidated the poll while I was at it by answering yes in jest. Neener neener.

Nope

but I do support the end of the world in 2011 just to prove the 2012 theorists wrong

Nope. I don't think 2012 will be the end of the world anymore than I think December 31 will be. After all, our calender ends on Dec. 31.

So when far flung archaelogists dig up our calenders, they will assume that our culture believed the world ended on Dec31, because our calender ends there, spooky.

The 2012 thing isn't anymore logical than astrology, because they're pretty much the same thing.

Do you know how many doomsday predictions there have been? Tons. Every generation experiences at least a few. So, with a track record like that, I'm not holding my breath.

If anything, it would be either a very serious disease like smallpox, or it would be a flu strain that has a different structure that can't be figured out. Both of these are sort of ridiculous because the world's scientists can have this stuff contained in a month.

It's much more likely that a natural disaster would happen, maybe not on the scale of The Day After Tomorrow, but something devastating nonetheless.

I think we will skip from 2011 to 2013, because 2012 certainly does not exist. What kind of thinking is that? Certainly not a number.

On a, slightly, more serious note, I wonder what the world will come to the day before.