My husband’s assistant actually took the day off on the day the world was supposed to end. AND she told everyone why she was taking off.
Just one nail in her coffin.
I sort of hate to admit this, but my father totally believed it. He thought, I shit you not, a comet would come from the other side of the sun and crash into the earth. I tried explaining that comets don’t just jump out and yell “SURPRISE!” but I could not change his mind. I explained that there was no evidence of a Mayan prediction, that their calendar just ended, but still couldn’t change his mind. When I questioned him about it again, after Christmas, his reply was, “I thought for sure…”
He watches A LOT of History Channel, ancient aliens, ancient prophesies, Nazi occult - shit like that. He completely believes everything Erich Von Daniken has written.
I was going to start a conversation with him about Nostradamus, but the thought gave me a migraine.
I didn’t buy into it but I did find the Mayans to be a fascinating topic.
I don’t personally know anyone that thought the world was going to end, though I’ve seen plenty of them on documentaries and around the internet. I do, however, know plenty of people who believe it is an end of an era, like a transition time in human history, spiritual shift, or variations on those themes. But, at the same time, for those who believe these things, it’s not like a spiritual shift happens over night, it will be something that’ll be more apparenty over months or years.
Does anyone here remember the Harmonic Convergence?
I get a little confused at times about all these apocalypses.
Is this still the Age of Aquarius? Can someone help me tune my sitar?
I’d try but I only have the small version.
It’s a baby sitar.
Ohhhhhh! All this time I thought it was the harmonica virgins! :smack:
Oh, well. Back to my music. I’m listening to The Beatles’s Vaginal Misery Tour.
Has she introduced you to her French male model boyfriend, yet? 
Everybody gets the date the Mayan calendar ends wrong; it actually ends some 63 million years from now (see table here), or even 1.26 billion years if you continue the 20 units theme (20 Alautun). By then, the End of the World (for life) will be reality (“Thus plants using C4 photosynthesis may be able to survive for at least 0.8 billion years and possibly as long as 1.2 billion years from now, after which rising temperatures will make the biosphere unsustainable”).
Actually, we may not even have got there yet and would be still stuck in a stupidly long “dawning-of”.
One of my colleagues did this - although in her case it was just a joke that she was doing it “to spend the last day with her family”.
Unfortunately she wasn’t allowed to have her auto-reply say “If the apocalypse doesn’t happen, I will answer your request after my return” the way she wanted to. 