# 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:** 3
**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 19, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/41 "2012-12-19T12:26:52Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s a day God has chosen for this to happen for many of His children at once. Sort of a graduation ceremony for a particular class of God’s children who are now ready to life as a child of God should - with divine favor. Doesn’t that happen every day? ---
**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 19, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/42 "2012-12-19T12:57:52Z")
> [@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 > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Doesn’t that happen every day? This is how psychics bilk people. Stupid people don’t ask themselves these questions. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/43 "2012-12-19T13:39:07Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Doesn’t that happen every day? While some do, why would you consider that the norm? How does our schools work? Do students graduate individually or in a large group? What we have on earth is a reflection of what is in the heavens. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/44 "2012-12-19T14:03:58Z")
I dated a guy years ago who believed it, and bet me that he’d buy me a new big screen TV if he was wrong. I’ve been waiting a LONG time to cash in on this bet and you better believe Saturday morning I’m going to start haranguing him to live up to his word. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/45 "2012-12-19T14:12:07Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > What we have on earth is a reflection of what is in the heavens. Only in the special case where mirrors are left lying around on the floor. ---
**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 19, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/46 "2012-12-19T14:24:38Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s a day God has chosen for this to happen for many of His children at once. Sort of a graduation ceremony for a particular class of God’s children who are now ready to life as a child of God should - with divine favor. He told you? Or is it because of this Mayan crap? You do realize that the Mayan calenedar thing has been completely debunked by those who study the culture? ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/47 "2012-12-19T15:10:50Z")
I do. I know a few, actually, all in my husband’s family. One in particular though, an Uncle, is very, very invested in it. It’s to the point that the family is concerned about what will happen if/when nothing happens. He has a history of mental illness and instability, and is very depressed. He’s a great guy and we all love him, but he’s a bit eccentric (like, doesn’t have a bank account or any sort of ‘record’ of himself eccentric). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/48 "2012-12-19T15:19:44Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > How does our schools work? Not very well, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/49 "2012-12-19T15:21:30Z")
Surprisingly no, which I find odd because I have a lot of idiot family. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/50 "2012-12-19T15:23:03Z")
Well, my bass player is throwing an end-of-the-world party on Friday. Then again, he throws an end-of-the-world party pretty much every Friday, so I kind of doubt his commitment. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/51 "2012-12-19T15:25:33Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Well, my bass player is throwing an end-of-the-world party on Friday. Then again, he throws an end-of-the-world party pretty much every Friday, so I kind of doubt his commitment. If during the party he starts handing out/allocating his possessions to the partiers… be afraid. Be VERY afraid!!! ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/52 "2012-12-19T15:29:58Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He told you? Or is it because of this Mayan crap? You do realize that the Mayan calenedar thing has been completely debunked by those who study the culture? It doesn’t work with scientific study, but by belief. God put into motion the concept of this time back when He guided the Mayans to create the calendar knowing how it would be taken on this day by His children. That’s what matters, how God spoke to the hearts. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/53 "2012-12-19T15:54:40Z")
I’m going to be pissed if the world ends on Friday. I’m got my accounting final on Thursday night and I’m dreading it and have been putting in a bunch of hours prepping for it. If all of this ends before I get to make this shit worth wile some Mayan deity is going to have an ass kicking come from me. If it’s the christian god like Kanic is implying I’ve got to give him props for being a hell of a thief. He stole Christmas from the pagans, Easter from the Jews and not he’s stealing the End of the World from the Mayans. I guess not coveting your neighbors things doesn’t apply to him. ---
**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 19, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/54 "2012-12-19T21:06:35Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > While some do, why would you consider that the norm? How does our schools work? Do students graduate individually or in a large group? What we have on earth is a reflection of what is in the heavens. So, non-believers won’t know anything has happened. ---
**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 19, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/55 "2012-12-19T21:12:20Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It doesn’t work with scientific study, but by belief. God put into motion the concept of this time back when He guided the Mayans to create the calendar knowing how it would be taken on this day by His children. > > That’s what matters, how God spoke to the hearts. > > Peace Which god are you talking about? Because the Mayans certainly believed different things than you do. And their god thought human sacrifice was just dandy. So is that what we are supposed to follow? And why not just do it without all this late night Discovery Channel nonsense? Your god is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/56 "2012-12-19T21:16:23Z")
I know one person who is pretty on edge about it, but she’s mentally ill, and into every kind of woo under the sun so she’s not really a stable personality at the best of times. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/57 "2012-12-19T21:31:17Z")
LOL. I know two. I guess I somehow bogarted someone else’s. 🙂 One is a guy who works at the local GameStop. My wife and I were joking about it while shopping and he overheard us and came up to proselytize to us about it. His wide-eyed, surefire belief in it kinda killed the conversation. The other is a guy I knew in college and am FB ‘friends’ with. He has gone so far as to sell off his possessions and give away a bunch of stuff. Unfortunately, I don’t live anywhere near him, so I have not been able to get an good deals out of it. 😃 It has been sad watching his family try to talk him down from it when he posts about it on FB, though. I am not sure what will happen when the world does not end. At least, he does not have a wife or kids to drag down with him. ---
**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 19, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/58 "2012-12-19T22:10:45Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > One is a guy who works at the local GameStop. My wife and I were joking about it while shopping and he overheard us and came up to proselytize to us about it. His wide-eyed, surefire belief in it kinda killed the conversation. He can’t believe too deep or else why be at work? Screw you guys, I’m going home. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/59 "2012-12-20T02:21:30Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > So, non-believers won’t know anything has happened. No they will go on like nothing has happened, no media coverage, no seeing the sky parted. What would be the point, God loves them too and will graduate them in due time, no point discouraging them by making them feel they missed anything because they have not, it’s just not their time, perhaps you will catch the Zulu end of age. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435/60 "2012-12-20T02:22:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Which god are you talking about? Because the Mayans certainly believed different things than you do. And their god thought human sacrifice was just dandy. So is that what we are supposed to follow? And why not just do it without all this late night Discovery Channel nonsense? Your god is weird. Doesn’t matter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-believes-the-world-will-end-on-friday/644435.md?page=4)