12/21/2012: Your opinions?

[PrincessKsMom]

Actually, I think throwing an "End of the World" party would be fun

Boy you really know how to go for that holiday spirit huh?

BTW, in case I'm not here on 12/12/12: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

[Missy1961]

Y2K Apocalypse anyone?

It's just another date. How many "end of days" or "this is the apocalypse" have there been in years' past?

First thing I thought of when I read the first post.

 

[cassie]

If anything does happen on 12/21/12 I'll be royally pissed as I'll just be retiring then I listen to talk radio in the am since I have to get up at 3 am for work. And this 2012 is a frequent topic. I doubt if anything will happen, but I do listen to what they say on the radio.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

Like others have said, there have been too many other dates that people said the world would end for me to put any faith in this one.

 

[Nancy]

no 12/ 12 /2012 is just another date. no different than if it was 12/12/1912 or 12/12/1812. How some bunch Mayans could randomly determine a date the world would end is just to me. Does make for an interesting looking movie though.

 

[lovemygoofy]

My 10 year annv is 12/21/12. I better ask for that ten year diamond on the 20th

 

[smiley]

Here's what I can tell you for sure: since I've been alive I've seen these "end of the world" dates come and go. Amazingly I'm still here and so is most of the rest of the world.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Well, maybe 12/12/12 would be a more interesting date...

That will be my birthday!!!

 

[Mysteria]

Not gonna happen because DH and I have, even after their scholarships, 2 sizable college loans to repay for DS & DD and we know better than to think somehow we're getting out of repaying them

Not going to happen.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

I am certainly not going to take an "End of the World" advice from a society that couldn't even predict their own demise.

 

[monkeybug]

Not gonna happen because DH and I have, even after their scholarships, 2 sizable college loans to repay for DS & DD and we know better than to think somehow we're getting out of repaying them

I also like the raining bacon suggestion! If that's the case I'm going to spend 12/11/12 frying eggs in preparation...

 

[Buckalew11]

I can't decide whether to not christmas shop that year or to go all out and charge like crazy! lol

 

[Piglet4Ever]

I am looking forward to the up coming movie Seriously though, I think it will be just like any other day. I think that there was more chance for something bad to happen back on Y2K and that worked out just fine right.

 

[Silent1CB]

If it were supposed to be a big bang and all over, Id agree. But I watched a thing on History the other day and ... ummm... I dont want to play!

SPOILERS PLEASE!

I didn't read the book or watch the movie, but please, go ahead & tell me how it ends.

 

[wdwfan16]

The world will end. Sell everything and have fun until then. On 12/22/12 I will now be answering my phone when you call.

 

[Aisling]

I used to at this topic, but now not so much.

Michio Kaku (you may not know the name, but you've probably seen him on PBS/Nova shows on TV) who is a theoretical physicist and professor/chairman of the theoretical physics dept at the City University of New York, as well as a bestselling scientific writer), and Neil DeGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and director of the Rose Center Hayden Planetarium in NYC, BOTH have come out recently to urge the governments of the world to look into astronomical findings that are supposed to be possibly "hazardous" to earth sometime in late 2012. These guys aren't nutjobs, but respected scientists. Whenever I heard about the 2012 end of the world talk, I always said "as soon as Kaku believes it, then I'll believe it". Well, Kaku believes something is going to happen.

One other thing, when I was in Mexico, I spoke to a Mayan professor of Theology about this. He told me that if you do the math, whatever that means, according to the Mayan calendar which has predicted other celestial events, yes something is going to happen in December of 2012. However, being a Roman Catholic, he said he sticks to his faith that "no one knows the time or the hour" of the end.

My personal opinion, based on science, it looks like there is going to be an event, and I further believe the government is working with scientists to see how "things" progress. Not that they can do anything about it.

One more thing...Planet X...the Mayans predicted that a celestial body they called Planet X (Planet translated from their word for rock)will come close to earth in 2012. The X denotes a crossing path, not a letter. And Michio Kaku's data says there is an unidentified "body" so far only detected by gravitational mathematics, that does indeed exist which appears to be on a path towards the sun. SO, supposedly, the sun is going to be affected which in turn will severly affect earth.

We shall see.

 

[teacups]

Just the thought of cannibalism makes me
Really, the documentary was interesting and freakish.

It's not that there will be a big bang and end it for all of us. That sounds nice compared to what these people are saying.

Do I believe it?
Well, I dont know. I also bought firewood for Y2K incase all the power went out and I still have that stack of wood....

I dont want to have to eat any of you kind folks though. So I hope it's false.

 

[teacups]

The world will end. Sell everything and have fun until then. On 12/22/12 I will now be answering my phone when you call.

How much will you give me for a house and a slightly used SUV?

 

[FireDancer]

I am looking forward to the up coming movie Seriously though, I think it will be just like any other day. I think that there was more chance for something bad to happen back on Y2K and that worked out just fine right.

I work in I.T. and the Y2K thing was real, but completely mis reported by the news that is more interested in fear mongering than in reporting the news. It was mirrored in the hysteria about the Conficker worm that was around this summer. The threat was real but not in the way it was reported.

The Y2K fear had nothing to do with power going out or all of the world's missiles launching at midnight. It was simply a data type issue with dates. People had to go in and redefine data types and had to change the way error handling was done on legacy systems with 2 year date codes. People saw it coming and it was fixed. There were systems that had issues, but every day there are systems with issues. Heck, patching a production server has a better chance of crashing it than Y2K did.

But the news doesn't like to report that there is nothing to worry about.

 

[redlight]

But the news doesn't like to report that there is nothing to worry about.

That's true.