RANT: some of these 2012 people drive me nuts!

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Ok, I was reading on another forum about how supposedly the earth will be inundated by water for a few hundred years starting in 2012, and then there will be a "mega ice age" for a few THOUSAND years. This is a survivalist forum, and I sarcastically said "well, there's no way to survive that, so I might as well just kill myself" and they got all mad.

Some of these 2012 true believers are just nuts, they say we should build a shelter on the top of a mountain and lay in with 10 years of food and water. I mean, sheesh, really? All it does is to create fear, so they can sell you crap to "survive". What I'm REALLY worried about is food shortages in 2012 as all the "lasters" (cute word, it was invented by somebody on a survivalist forum) panic and buy up all the food in sight so they can "survive" the Mega Ice Age.

I mean, if I'm gonna die anyway, I might as well kill myself now, right? That's my first reaction to all the "OMG the sky is falling in 2012, we need to PREPARE!" stuff. Somebody was posting about the "Toba keyhole", when the human race was reduced to 12,000 people 24,000 years ago, and said we need to be prepared to be part of the next 12,000. Hell, I'd rather be dead.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather die if 2012 means that only 12,000 people out of a world population of 7 billion live. The odds of any one person being part of the 12,000 is vanishingly small. Stuff like a second Great Depression, I can live through. But the end of the world, and 12,000 people out of 7 billion living, is not something I care to stick around and see.

Alright. I'll be the dude laughing in 2013 when nothing happens.

Saying that the world is going to end or whatever is pretty much exactly the same as looking at the calender on your wall and going "oh sh t, the world ends on the 31st of January this year!"

I don't believe that the world is going to end in 2012.

I don't think the world will end either.

What are these believers going to say if it doesn't happen?

On 21 Dec 2012 the Mayan Long Count does happen to reset to zero; some people who should know better think this is proof the world will end on that day, as if it's a Mayan 'prediction' or something. Absurd. Their method of counting days just starts over.

The Mayan calendar is to blame for the 2012 apocolypse - even though it says nothing about the end of the world. It is simply the end of the final cycle they calculated. They calculated thousands of years in advance. That right there is some foresight but NOT a doomsday prediction.

Earth is due for some sort of huge shake up. The sun is having another round of shakeups in the near future. I don't think the Japan quake was an isolated incident. Those huge quakes trigger the entire ring of fire usually. We have way too many polite volcanoes and way too many dormant ones including Yellowstone. We haven't been hit by a good size space rock in too long. There are just so many natural occurrances that we are overdue for, so just take your pick.

But will it all happen on Dec 21, 2012. Highly unlikely.