There have been HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of "End-of-the-world" predictions. NONE have come true. 2012 will pass, and the World will not end. Some of these 2012ers (who call themselves Planet X-ers who believe that a planet X will collide with Earth) actually first predicted the world would end in May 2003 and guess what? IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! These losers will have egg all over their face when 2013 rolls around, just like those idiots in that cave in Russia who predicted the World would end in May this year. Guess what? I'M STILL AROUND!

Idiots who buy into this stuff deserve to have their lives ruined. There should be a price for BEING THAT STUPID. 2012 will not be the end of the world. 2000 wasn't, and neither will 2012.

Go ahead 2012ers. Sell all your stuff. Quit your jobs. Build shelters. Go around telling us that the end is nigh. These people have about as much dignity, credibility and respectability as those homeless dementia patients who wear signs around their neck saying "The End is Near". They are about as sane as those rambling street "prophets" who get up on boxes telling people "The End is Nigh!" They are jokes. The whole lot of them are jokes.

The magnetic pole wont switch in our lifetime, but when it does (estimated around 2600-3000) we will be in trouble, earthquakes, storms, tidal waves are going to abound for a few decandes before it settles back down. However it only happens around every 30,000 years at the shortest estimate so it may be much further away, and it wont be the end of the world unless you count your internet disconnecting as the apocalypse.

Wow, a lot of people here are repeating exactly what has been said in this thread many times before. You could just read and realize your post is redundant.. Myself, I'd like to think the theory is true, not so much end of the world as in destruction, but rather end of the world as we know it. Like others have said, something such as a sudden influx of intelligence and talent or some other major event causing a change in global society. It's probably not going to happen, but hey, a man can dream.

To all the people saying "Nostradamus was right a lot of the time", that's laregly because everything he predicted was so vague that it could mean millions of things, and he had the whole future of human history for them to occur.

The fact of doomsday happening is a little bit insane. But at the same time somebody could go back to the fact of the war. One of these days somebody is going to finally snap and shot off a nuke and if that happens it will be doomsday because everbody will be shooting off nukes

I don't recall the Mayans specifically saying "The world will end Dec 12th 2012."

They didn't use months or years as we did, so I'm fairly certain that this is just interpretation and as we all know interpretation is different for every person.

They could have meant that the world did end and was reborn 2012 B.C., they could have meant that they killed 2012 people in 12 days, they could have meant any number of things that involve the numbers 2012 and 12. Hell, it could have been 20 babies were born in 12 days.

As for all other theories, for some reason I don't see the aliens coming to greet us as the end of the world so how is that a doomsday theory? Really, it doesn't matter. Murphy's law ensures that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, so just expect the worst and be surprised when good things happen.

honestly i think nothing will happen...

even if it does... i'm in Australia, in Adelaide... we're not affected by anything!

There is a good saying for this.

"Shit Happens"

I like the meteor one the best, we get to do FFVII for real this time! Yay! Who's coming to the Northern Cave with me? :D

I personally think that nothing is going to happen.

Techincally at Y2K the world allready spun around the sun a billion times or so. Y2K was just the Earth spinning around the Sun 2000 times in the calander, and 12/21/12 is just going to be the Earth almost spining 2012 times.

Besides, the world is supposed to seize to exist at 2140, that's the year 6000 in Jewish calander. So is the world going to end at 2140? No, it's just going to stop existing because technology will become so great that we'll all be slaves to Virtual Porn.

i swear im 20 IQ points dumber by reading these posts. I wont bother to point out the thousands of other doomsday predictions, mostly because you all have mentioned them for me. oh, I dont know if 6/6/06 was mentioned, but all christians were saying the antichrist was gonna come and start enslaving everything, and nothing happened. but let me put it this way, the same time the mayans (polytheists, and NOT christian, so dont bring up god) predicted this, other people were saying the world was flat and the center of the universe. when 2012 ends, and 2013 starts, im going to be standing there laughing at everyone walking out of some D-Day bunker. if all the matter that was here suddenly decided to defy the laws of physics and cease to exist, then whoopdeefuckingdoo. lifes over. we either stop existing too, and it doesnt matter if we prepared, or we go to either heaven or hell or some other afterlife and get extremely bored after a million years because we have met everyone and ran out of things to do. (remember, material things dont follow into the afterlife, so no video games, internet, or clothes or chairs). so this talk is rather pointless. go out, get a blow job, go to work, and go have a good time instead of fucking around on here about the end of the world.

Sethran:
I don't recall the Mayans specifically saying "The world will end Dec 12th 2012."

They didn't use months or years as we did, so I'm fairly certain that this is just interpretation and as we all know interpretation is different for every person.

They could have meant that the world did end and was reborn 2012 B.C., they could have meant that they killed 2012 people in 12 days, they could have meant any number of things that involve the numbers 2012 and 12. Hell, it could have been 20 babies were born in 12 days.

As for all other theories, for some reason I don't see the aliens coming to greet us as the end of the world so how is that a doomsday theory? Really, it doesn't matter. Murphy's law ensures that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, so just expect the worst and be surprised when good things happen.

Read my long spiel to get the reason why people believe this. In short The mayan calendar ends in 2012. But they could have simply stopped carving after 13 thinking that someone else would continue when the time was closer. Instead people came along and thought the world was due to end. FOR F*CKS SAKE how were they supposed to know, i seriously think the populace at large has got stupider since Mayan times.

I trust what people who do science and testing and observation say today rather than some peasants a couple of thousand years ago. The world wont end, end of.

and if it does i wont be around for you to point this out....because none of us will be.

As for repeating earlier posts, that's what happens when people don't read back and then make half arsed arguments of their own which have to be re-thrashed out.

The only holy book which doesn't give a certain doom date is the bible in the book of revelations, and to translate it into normal english. It sais that an evil leader will rise and strip us of our rights and bear the mark of the devil on his forehead and We shall be identified by this number (Tax number anyone?) A war will be raged against him and infer the wrath of the good. The seas will boil Yadda Yadda Yadda (Neclear warfare and radiation) Really it sounds like our own undoing is our doom to normal people.

The word "theory" is being thrown around rather loosely here, I think. The connotation is a bit misleading, especially considering all of these "theories" were dreamed up by people who were obviously batshit insane.

mew905:
Mayan calendar ends on that day, and all sorts of doomsday theories spawned from it. It's just the end of a series of calendars that make up the "long run".

No, they predicted the "end of the world as we know it." Which doesn't mean we all die, just that something big will change.

But isn't it better to be insane than to be normal?

Wow.. Just because we are young, things aren't going so bad, *coughs!* And there is plenty of life ahead and teachers say it's not going to happen.. Why believe people that haven't studdied a lot about the next few years? The Truth is the world will end on DEC 22 2012! And also.. .. There are plenty of reasons why the Earth will end on 2012, including the global warming & Climate change... Even though scientists say the Sun still has the capacity to last for another 10billion years and so with the Earth...
How could they know? Send probes which will melt? They need proper proof.

Anything could Happen.
Planet X, (Nibiru) will hit Earth in Dec 22 2012. It will be the end of Human generation...

So don't keep your hopes up. I can also bet that many people will commit suicide when the day comes to avoid the pain.

Geez think properly..

Vote DoomsDay 2012.

Killer123123:
Wow.. Just because we are young, things aren't going so bad, *coughs!* And there is plenty of life ahead and teachers say it's not going to happen.. Why believe people that haven't studdied a lot about the next few years? The Truth is the world will end on DEC 22 2012! And also.. .. There are plenty of reasons why the Earth will end on 2012, including the global warming & Climate change... Even though scientists say the Sun still has the capacity to last for another 10billion years and so with the Earth...
How could they know? Send probes which will melt? They need proper proof.

Actually, yeah, noone knows when exactly the sun's life will end. They're making assumptions based on other stars. How they figure out that a red giant is something like 20 billion years old, I have no idea. It's not like they can carbon-date the stars. yeah, we can judge how fast a star is moving judging on how red or violet it is compared to our own, but again, how do we know thats not just its color? why would our sun suddenly turn red and grow 20x its size? I'm not good at astrology, I'm fairly familiar with physics though, and I love to use logic and common sense, especially when either can disprove something or someone.

Again, if people stay calm, it will be another Y2k, nothing bad will happen. However what I'm afraid of is because of all this nonsense going around on TV, the internet, and just about everywhere at this point, I'm afraid people will freak out and cause global anarchy, and kill everyone.

Oh, and I think I remember something about that whole June 6/06 thing, I just laughed. If the end comes, it comes. I doubt it'll be within our lifetime, and I look forward to living a full life without remorse or regrets. almost 20 years and I'm still goin that route :)

And finally, about that whole 2038 thing... who cares? thats pretty much identical to the Y2K 'bug' that people were worrying about. Only difference is, thats 30 years to change computer architecture and get people caught up. I'm pretty sure some kind of compatibility will be made for older programs... Thats IF the clock is based on that form of code. And besides, if you know anything about binary, 10000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 is greater than 01111111 11111111 11111111 11111111... last time I checked, the former was (if assumed four different strings) 128 0 0 0, and the latter was 127 127 127 127. I see no problem with that until that 128 wants to turn into 256, or I guess 1 0 0 0 0 (adding another string). If it's all assumed one string (which it is on that wiki page) thats still only HALF of what its capable of reaching... The wiki example shows an integer of 2147483647 just before it goes around, but 32-bit is capable of reaching up to 4294967295. Again, even in binary thats not a problem. That's a year 2106/7 rollover, not 2038... Thats also assuming starting from 1970. Calculated out with (again) only half the total integer value of 32 bit (the second binary string I listed) I come out with that magic year, 2038. If each digit (year, month, day, hour, minute) is its own string, starting from Y2k, which would assume the clocks will run out sometime around the year 2256, if PC's are even using 8-bit strings by then. Mind you that does say UNIX-based OS'es so... I dont know why, if they're so much better than windows, that would happen. Binary certainly says it wont.

The world will be fine.

Nothing will happen at their mystically appointed arbitrary time, the people who truly believe that dreck will just push back the date a few years and tell us that THIS TIME FOR REALLY GUYS. World's gonna end. No, honest. Better get your shit together.

This garbage is cyclical.

Some people just like being afraid. Makes 'em feel special to be part of the informed few.

Hey MetalKing- if you die, can I have your house?

Clearly you don't have all the facts. December 2012 is a doomsday prophecy that has been around for thousands of years, prophesized by many different cultures.

The COINCIDENCE about this is that on the EXACT DATE of December 21st 2012, the Earth will take part in a galactic event.

December 21st 2012 at 11:11 GMT, This is when the Earth and the Sun will be in exact alignment with the center of our galaxy, and our Earth will be crossing into the southern hemisphere. This could very well explain a polar shift!

The world would have ended so many times, at least the 1999 one was slightly correct.

that was the year of the first Big Brother. The entire world of television has been ruined since then.

Damn real-life television...

KenzS:
December 21st 2012 at 11:11 GMT, This is when the Earth and the Sun will be in exact alignment with the center of our galaxy, and our Earth will be crossing into the southern hemisphere. This could very well explain a polar shift!

Imagine, if you will, a ferris wheel mounted on a giant ring 4 or 5 billion miles in diameter. A marble is sitting in a seat on that wheel. That seat takes one year to complete 1 cycle. During that time, the center of the ferris wheel, the marble, and the center of that ring are aligned twice a year (bottom and top). Are you getting the analogy here?