# Do you personally know anyone who believes the world will end on Friday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435 "2012-12-18T17:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/1 "2012-12-18T17:30:17Z")
We all know that they’re out there. But do you know anyone personally that believes the world is ending? What are they up to these days? I met a True Believer about 3 years ago, but never really got a chance to talk to her about it. Probably fortunate. I have a current friend that sorta kinda believes it, but when pressed, doesn’t seem terribly concerned. She and her friends have plans for Saturday night, and she’s already planning her June vacation. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/2 "2012-12-18T17:31:08Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/3 "2012-12-18T17:44:55Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/4 "2012-12-18T17:45:34Z")
Not to sound like James Bottomtooth or anything, but I wouldn’t associate with people who honestly believed that, because presumably they are nuts in other ways as well. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/5 "2012-12-18T17:48:34Z")
Nope. And I do associate with a lot of nutty people. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/6 "2012-12-18T18:02:44Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/7 "2012-12-18T18:05:38Z")
Yup. My little sister, and she’s 12. Perfect age for that nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/8 "2012-12-18T18:08:48Z")
I believe it is a new beginning, the end of a age, which is also a start of a new age. I do suspect many lives will be changed and head in different directions then they were heading. Overall a very good thing. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/9 "2012-12-18T18:27:54Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I believe it is a new beginning, the end of a age, which is also a start of a new age. I do suspect many lives will be changed and head in different directions then they were heading. Overall a very good thing. > > Peace Hahaha, Klassic Kanic! I’m sure that the prediction, “I do suspect many lives will be changed and head in different directions then they were heading” is so unique as to be inapplicable to any other time in history. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/10 "2012-12-18T18:31:01Z")
Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/11 "2012-12-18T18:31:30Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I believe it is a new beginning, the end of a age, which is also a start of a new age. What will be the outward, physical evidence of this turning point? Or is it all spiritual? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/12 "2012-12-18T18:33:38Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I believe it is a new beginning, the end of a age, which is also a start of a new age. I do suspect many lives will be changed and head in different directions then they were heading. Overall a very good thing. Wait a minute, that already happened last Wednesday. And every other day ever. I don’t know anyone who is taking the December 21 thing any more seriously than any other failed doomsday prediction. They’re joking about it, mostly. Nobody’s madly repenting sins and giving away possessions, and nobody is stockpiling canned goods and bottled water for the zombie apocalypse. I don’t think I could remain in the same physical space as someone who truly believed it was the end of all things, because I’d get too annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/13 "2012-12-18T19:14:04Z")
I’ve read somewhere it’s a bigger deal in Asia than in our hemisphere; places like Thailand and China. Found that odd. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/14 "2012-12-18T19:16:30Z")
> [@HubZilla](#): > > I’ve read somewhere it’s a bigger deal in Asia than in our hemisphere; places like Thailand and China. > > Found that odd. Not odd, I hear about goats being tried and executed for sorcery in some places, for christ’s sake… ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/15 "2012-12-18T19:37:44Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > What will be the outward, physical evidence of this turning point? Or is it all spiritual? My take on it is some people will find themselves given what I would call divine favor, opportunities and the like will just fall into their lap and they will go on to do great things. I also believe the people ready for this know it in their heart already. As for why now as opposed to some other ending calendar? Those other ones would signify a great time for other people, so they are equally as valid for those people. Do I care to present evidence of this? no, there is no point, for each soul there is a time, and when that time is right the soul will know it in their heart. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/16 "2012-12-18T19:50:09Z")
Nobody I know. But [this Houstonian](http://www.kvue.com/news/183880711.html) recently made the news… > [@](#): > > HOUSTON, Texas — Police said a man acting suspiciously near train tracks on the northwest side of town was burying crystals to prepare for the end of the world. > > It was around 3 a.m. the Houston Police Department was called to Hempstead Highway near the West Loop. They said they found Mehrzah Malekvadeh burying orgone crystals near the train tracks. > > When questioned by police, he said he wanted to “protect” the area with the crystals. (I believe his name is Iranian.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/17 "2012-12-18T19:55:53Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I believe it is a new beginning, the end of a age, which is also a start of a new age. I do suspect many lives will be changed and head in different directions then they were heading. Overall a very good thing. > > Peace So basically it’s going to be a Friday. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/18 "2012-12-18T20:01:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > So basically it’s going to be a Friday. My take on it is to many it will appear as a Friday, and it will just go down as just another ‘end of the world’ doomsday predictions that never come true. But to those who know it will be truly a new beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/19 "2012-12-18T20:03:09Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > it will just go down as just another ‘end of the world’ doomsday predictions that never come true. Yes, but it only has to happen once. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/20 "2012-12-18T20:54:35Z")
If the world is to end soon, can it at least wait until the morning of January 2, so we can get a few extra days off before it all goes? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435.md?page=2)