What do you think about the predictions for 2012?

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Like most other predictions of the world ending..utter nonesense..lol

Of course it is nonsense, but I enjoyed the movie.

I’m taking a wait-and-see approach.

Since there is a new influx of jellies I won’t rant, but this is about the millionth time this question has been asked.

It’s a complete misinterpretation of the Maya calendar in the first place. The Maya did not think the world would end in 2012. But even if they did believe it, there is no reason to believe that a society that could not predict its own downfall could predict the end of the world.

With the amount of times the world has been prophesied to end I’m going to take this one with a pinch of salt.

Also, I’d like to live life more fully but I’m just too lazy.

I think it is a bunch of crap. Why would the world just end like that?

@erichw1504 I see what you did there. LOL.

Its going to right there behind 2011 and before 2013. That’s about all that’s going to happen. Its another Y2K. Remember that hoax?

No one can predict the future, just wait and see, it’s only a couple years away.

@dukeG Y2K wasn’t a hoax, it was a very real technological problem that was solved at the expense of lots of man hours and equipment investment.

The whole 2012 thing is so insanely stupid, I can’t even mock it.

If the world ends in 2012…. it will still be better than 2012.

Nonsense

@Snarp Thank you. Whenever I hear people claiming Y2K was a “hoax” I start wondering if my memories of working for the last 3 years of the decade were some kind of implanted government conspiracy in my head. :-)

It’s a bunch of hullabaloo!

Oh boy! Another 2012 question.
After about fifty of these questions on Fluther I give up. So, yes. The Mayans and Nostradamus are correct. The world is going to end. The Earth will blow up and take the International Space Station with it.
The End.

Yup.

England will win the European Cup, the Olympics will be a disaster for France!

Look at how well they maintained their empire,. If they could foretell the future, they probably better prepared for the Aztecs and Spanish.

If Sarah Palin becomes president, then yes, the world will end.

What is kind of sad about this crap, is that the Mayans never foretold that the world would end 2012. Their calendar just ends then. So, I guess some bright person went “Whoa, that must mean that we are all gonna die.”

@galileogirl I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, but just for the record, the great Maya civilization did not end because of the Spanish or the Aztecs. The sound money is on environmental degradation due to excessive deforestation and other resource extraction.

Right but Aztec and Spanish is more acceptable to the majority who believe humans can’t destroy their civilazations through destroying their environment.

Even if it were true, is there anything I can do to stop it from happening? No. So do I sit around and worry about it? Definitely not.

@ItalianPrincess1217 – Is righ on!

@galileogirl Hmm, so should I use things I don’t believe in my argument to sway people who don’t believe them? Seems this will come back to bite me. I guess that’s why I didn’t originally comment on why the Maya civilization collapsed. But hey, if they believe the world is going to end in 2012 because the Maya predicted it, I suppose no logical argument will convince them otherwise.

I have recently been in conference with His Holiness the FSM, and have been reassured that nothing could be further from the truth.

@Snarp If you think Jellies care a rat’s ass about the ecological correctness of your statements or that they will correct you in 2012 whether or not the earth is destroyed your head must be the size of Tenoctitla. The question is about a made up date for crying out loud. Here’s my prediction-the earth will end in 2047 on my 100th birthday. Remember a wise old lady has seen it in the skies and I have never been proven wrong on an end of the world prediction yet. WFI

As far as end-of-days hoaxes go, this is the lamest ever. 1666 was terrifying, 1984 was pretty good (though it did not assume the world would end), 2000 was really cool while it lasted and almost fooled some people. Even 2001 could have worked, but 2012? Nah, nobody’s buying that one.

I predict that Granola TrailMix snack bar companies will go outta business after the end of the world doesn’t occur.

Sure science has the means to predict, or at least envision major changes, but as for the end of it all, well doesn’t mankind predict the end of the world like every four years?

I don’t believe much will happen, at least, changes will be gradual, not instant, and probbaly have nothing to do with stone tablets.

Seems like such nonsense to me, and has been described as mainly an Internet hoax due to the proportions being blown on the whole subject. Maybe there IS something- but it’s probbaly nothing like what it’s currently defined as.

In other words, I find the whole thing pretty lulz.

To be very, very honest – I dont think about it at all.

I used to believe that a major castrophe, like the end of the world, would happen in 2012 until I heard about HeartMath. An article in the Huffington Post, talks about HeartMath and what it thinks will happen in 2012. It is really quite interesting- especially paragraph 5.

A long time ago I noticed an historic “bump” on a 21 year cycle.so if there is anything to my theory 2010 should be very interesting.