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.
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! 
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.
Matthew, Chapter 24, to be precise.
So we can put you down for a yes?
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.
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!
Wot 'e said.
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.
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.)
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? 
Answering an intellectual idiocy by quoting a religious pamphlet is not very productive in my opinion.
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.
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.
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? 