# Do you believe the world will end in 2012? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020 "2011-09-29T15:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/81 "2011-10-02T06:24:13Z")
My nephew had a bit of a panic over the whole 2012 thing. But he was 12 at the time and easily disabused of the notion. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Oscie\_Lipshitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Big\_Oscie\_Lipshitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Oscie_Lipshitz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/82 "2011-10-03T06:09:00Z")
I can’t believe you guys are in such denial. Psychics around the world are unable to see any events beyond 2012. As an experienced palm reader I’ve found no life lines that stretch this far. An ancient alien friend of mine who is on a first name basis with Bill Byrnes and also married to a Hopi Indian shamaness assured me refinancing my house and using the funds for making a documentary about him would earn me critical acclaim in the intergalactic film industry(.Oh yeah! Documentaries are all the rage throughout the universe and select astral planes). And Citibank satellites would be destroyed during the solar storms brought on by the alignment of the dark star and our sun as the milky way opens it’s gates. Jeez man, turn on the history channel once in a while. I thought this was a message board with some true intellectuals. If you don’t posses an AMORC registration card with current dues paid you’ll not be included in the Golden Dawn Homestead Act and ineligible for your 40 acres and a mule in the reshaped North American Continent. DO I BELIEVE IN 2012. ARE YOU SHITTIN ME? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/83 "2011-10-03T09:51:43Z")
> [@Big\_Oscie\_Lipshitz](#): > > I can’t believe you guys are in such denial. Psychics around the world are unable to see any events beyond 2012. As an experienced palm reader I’ve found no life lines that stretch this far. An ancient alien friend of mine who is on a first name basis with Bill Byrnes and also married to a Hopi Indian shamaness assured me refinancing my house and using the funds for making a documentary about him would earn me critical acclaim in the intergalactic film industry(.Oh yeah! Documentaries are all the rage throughout the universe and select astral planes). And Citibank satellites would be destroyed during the solar storms brought on by the alignment of the dark star and our sun as the milky way opens it’s gates. Jeez man, turn on the history channel once in a while. I thought this was a message board with some true intellectuals. If you don’t posses an AMORC registration card with current dues paid you’ll not be included in the Golden Dawn Homestead Act and ineligible for your 40 acres and a mule in the reshaped North American Continent. DO I BELIEVE IN 2012. ARE YOU SHITTIN ME? Heh. Nicely done. However, I think the argument that the Maya prediction can’t be right because the bible says so throws a spanner in your works. Clearly, Middle Eastern goat-herders 2000 years ago knew much more about these things than Mesoamerican farmers 2000 years ago did! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/84 "2011-10-03T12:24:03Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Does anybody buy this shit? Is someone on the DOPE running scared? Even if they bought it, it doesn’t mean they’re running scared. A couple of our truly unhinged God-is-my-copilot Dopers are probably rooting for some version of the Rapture to occur, so that they can occupy velvet cushions as lapdogs of the Almighty. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/85 "2011-10-03T23:43:58Z")
> [@spingears](#): > > **Most assuredly NOT**. > > The Bible (Belive it or not) teaches that no man knoweth the day nor the hour that the end will occur. Anyone claiming to know is a _ **false prophet.** _ Matthew, Chapter 24, to be precise. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/86 "2011-10-04T02:22:35Z")
> [@Big\_Oscie\_Lipshitz](#): > > I can’t believe you guys are in such denial. Psychics around the world are unable to see any events beyond 2012. As an experienced palm reader I’ve found no life lines that stretch this far. An ancient alien friend of mine who is on a first name basis with Bill Byrnes and also married to a Hopi Indian shamaness assured me refinancing my house and using the funds for making a documentary about him would earn me critical acclaim in the intergalactic film industry(.Oh yeah! Documentaries are all the rage throughout the universe and select astral planes). And Citibank satellites would be destroyed during the solar storms brought on by the alignment of the dark star and our sun as the milky way opens it’s gates. Jeez man, turn on the history channel once in a while. I thought this was a message board with some true intellectuals. If you don’t posses an AMORC registration card with current dues paid you’ll not be included in the Golden Dawn Homestead Act and ineligible for your 40 acres and a mule in the reshaped North American Continent. DO I BELIEVE IN 2012. ARE YOU SHITTIN ME? So we can put you down for a yes? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/87 "2011-10-04T02:52:37Z")
None of you remember when the world ended in 1987 and we all moved to this world but decided not to tell the stupid people because we thought it might upset them? No? Guess I shouldn’t have brought it up. Nevermind. Ignore me. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/88 "2011-10-05T11:59:23Z")
The calender has changed so I wonder if any of the dates are correct. According to The New Testement it should have ended over 2,000 years ago. And as for Dec. 21stof 2012 one country would end before other countries in differen time zones ended. Any can read Nostradamus’s wrtings and translate it anyway they want,most is after the fact! As an example they say Hiester means Hitler,etc. A matter of belief more than fact! ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/89 "2011-10-05T15:18:19Z")
[I think this scenario is most likely.](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/rapture) ---
**Author:** ![SeaCanary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SeaCanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaCanary)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/90 "2011-10-05T19:19:18Z")
> [@spingears](#): > > **Most assuredly NOT**. > > The Bible (Belive it or not) teaches that no man knoweth the day nor the hour that the end will occur. Anyone claiming to know is a _ **false prophet.** _ Wot 'e said. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/91 "2011-10-05T20:10:22Z")
I sincerely believe that the myth of the world ending in 2012 will end at the end of 2012. Then the easily led will find another myth to believe. There’s always another one. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/92 "2011-10-06T08:10:36Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > This. > > I do believe the world will end someday (more likely sooner than later) … but it’s pretty much a given it won’t be in December 2012. So apparently we now have a way to keep the world from ever ending. Just keep on predicting. (Actually, that’s what my pastor said he used to think as a kid.) ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/93 "2011-10-06T12:58:31Z")
Another thought;if the world ends in 2012 how could the meek inherit the earth if there is no earth left? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/94 "2011-10-07T02:50:16Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > Another thought;if the world ends in 2012 how could the meek inherit the earth if there is no earth left? I thought the cheese makers were supposed to inherit it? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/95 "2011-10-07T09:09:12Z")
> [@spingears](#): > > **Most assuredly NOT**. > > The Bible (Belive it or not) teaches that no man knoweth the day nor the hour that the end will occur. Anyone claiming to know is a _ **false prophet.** _ Answering an intellectual idiocy by quoting a religious pamphlet is not very productive in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/96 "2011-10-07T10:50:30Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > Matthew, Chapter 24, to be precise. Jesus did say,( according to the gospel writer) that that generation would not pass away until all the things he was talking about came to pass. (Matthew chapter 24, verse 34.) ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/97 "2011-10-08T20:17:09Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > Jesus did say,( according to the gospel writer) that that generation would not pass away until all the things he was talking about came to pass. (Matthew chapter 24, verse 34.) I don’t know the Greek, but apparently generation here can also mean “race.” Of course, I don’t know if that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/98 "2011-10-09T12:43:05Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > I don’t know the Greek, but apparently generation here can also mean “race.” Of course, I don’t know if that makes sense. Since Matthew wrote that, he also said there were 14 generations between David and Jesus, and named the people. I can go back to the 16 hundreds for mine and that is just 12 generations so in that case it would have the same meaning. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/99 "2011-10-11T06:41:58Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > Another thought;if the world ends in 2012 how could the meek inherit the earth if there is no earth left? How about if there were no meek either? ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020/100 "2011-10-12T12:30:55Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > How about if there were no meek either? I would guess there wouln’t be any thing left, being meek then wouldn’t be any better than a proud sinner would it? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-the-world-will-end-in-2012/598020.md?page=4)