You're late, the original wasn't wasn't an end of the world scenario, it was just made to seem that way because of paranoid religious peeps + the media, and every generation since the beginning of civilization thought "the end of days" was in their lifetime. Just like every generation before ours, we'll survive.

okay, here´s what i think about 2012. the real apocalypsis is that of the status quo, the way the world works, thinks...and uses it faith, the fall of religious hipocresy, the awakening of new ideas and perspectives. technology, science and religion will finally overcome their differences to become one. and take mankind to the so much waited, and delayed, evolution. no catastrphies or hollywood crap. just a new era, there might be tragedies, there might be loss...but in the end, it is only the beggining of a new era.

The only thing that makes 2012 significant is that the Mayan calendar celebrates another cycle around the galaxy. Key word being "another", as in this won't be the first "2012" we've reached.

My own personal thoughts on it is....I'm neutral. I'm trying to stay somewhere in the middle of logical and open minded. I was just curious as to what everyone else thought :3

Why do you think people like to ride a rollercoaster? Because people enjoy the thrill of being in danger once in a while. It's fun to be scared.

Since I'm around I have heard many "end of the world" or "beginning of a new era" prophesies and I have seen the dates pass. Killer comets, planet alignments, climate catastrophes, computer crashes, lethal viruses... we survived them all and we are still here.

2012 is just another random date someone invented to sell supermarket tabloids. As soon as it passes, someone will invent an new "doomsday date" to keep the rollercoast moving.

This is what the logical side of me says, because I to can remember a few other doomsdays that everyone was convinced was going to be the end that passed and absolutely nothing happened.

Completely bogus. People have been predicting the end of the world since they could tell time. The calender doesn't "end" in 2012, it just starts the next grand cycle. Unfortunately the Hist(eria)ory Channel has been making "documentary" after "documentary" based on this and other claptrap, which spreads the word further.

The Mayans are no different from any other culture that has predicted doom.

We're still here.

See you in 2013.

Actually the Mayans never predicted any doom. The 2012 comes from modern (miss)interpretations of ancient Mayan inscriptions (which were vague and contradictory in the first place)

Present day descendants of the Mayans find the "2012 predictions" ridiculous and insist it has nothing to do with their forefathers' culture and religion.

The same can be said of December 25th. That date, and what it ostensibly celebrates, has historically wandered quite a bit.

Yeah! Mankind has changed calendars so many times that basically every date we celebrate is just an approximation. Which makes some people's obsession with dates even more ridiculous.

I personally think the world ending in 2012 is baloney. A lot of people did get scared about Y2K, but we survived it just fine, so I figure that we'll still be living when 2012 rolls around. Even with such probable "warnings" some people would like to believe in as the poor economy and the terrible natural disasters (i.e Earthquake in Japan), there's no guarantee that this confirms about the world ending next year. Of course, 2012 is something predicted by the Mayans, but with the "warnings" I had mentioned, they could build up to the belief that everything will end next year.

Its a topic that gets brought up from time-to-time by various groups for various reasons :

End-of-the-world believers : there have always been people who declare 'the end is nigh!' and always will be. When the date for one apocalypse falls through, they just revise their earlier statements of certainty and pick the next nearest date. Mental illness and/or depression resulting from a recent world-changing personal crisis are the usual culprits here.

Conspiracy theorists and other tinfoil-hat nutjobs : they willingly proclaim to believe anything that seems far-fetched, particularly on a blog or to any kind of media reporter as it gets them attention.

The media : news isnt about reporting current events anymore, its about ratings : anything that will get big numbers to stay tuned into their station while they talk bullshit or buy their tabloid rag is earning them advertising money.

Established religion : even if their official position is that the end of days isnt coming any time soon, they like people to worry that it might be, since anything that gets folks worried about the sorry state of their eternal soul is going to be good for established religion.

Average person : parrots anything he reads on the internet, hears on the radio or watches on fox-news to anyone who will listen, sometimes seeking reassurance that its all BS, but often just to have something interesting to talk about, and thus doing the bulk of the work perpetuation this viral non-information.