2012

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Aw, man. The world wasn't destroyed.
I'm soooo disappointed. >.>

This year is going to be fun

I threw those little pop-it things that crack when they hit the ground for awhile. ^-^

2012 is gonna have a lot for me to try out, My new beginning in high school (I'm 12, as you can see to the left) if it isn't as crap as primary. And showing the world that we'll live to see 2013 XD, but yeah, looking forward to the year.

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this is the year i graduate high school.
a little late as i am 18 alredy.
this is also the year i turn 19.
im exited about it but not as exited as i was last year.
last year my therapist died and i moved around about 10 diffrent times so it was very hard year.
this year i hope will be calmer with less drama and moving.

This year is the year that I will celebrate another Christmas and New Year's Eve, because the world isn't going to end.

12/21/12 is the date in question. It's just the end of the Mayan long count.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

This whole mayan calendar/end of the world business is getting old, really fast.
And to think we have almost a whole year to look forward to of nutjobs coming out of the woodwork preaching that nonsense.

I can't wait until 2013, just to see the look on their faces when we are all still here, and nothing is any different in the world.

The New Age type people will be very disappointed.

I'm on a survivalist board, and people there are worried that the whole Mayan crapola thing may become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, like Y2K for those who are old enough to remember The Computer Bug That Didn't Eat Civilization, as people who really truly believe in it freak out and start doing some really stupid things, like possibly mass suicides or trying to rob from the rich to fund their getaway, or maybe rioting.

For those who are old enough to remember, in 1999 stores selling barrels of unmilled wheat and cheap survival junk from China popped up everywhere, and people were buying whole pallets of food and huge generators and thousands of gallons of fuel to run them, and putting everything on credit cards in the belief that the banks' computers would quit working and nobody could track down who owed what to who, so we'd go into an instant dark age and those who prepped would be the survivors.

There wasn't rioting in the streets and only a couple mass suicides, but this time around the believers believe that all consciousness will come to an end, and that's different from a dark age, that's like every life form will cease to exist, and some people won't be able to handle not existing with a snap of the fingers and will go nuts. People may simply abandon all their possessions and await the End on a mountain, don't laugh there's a precedent, and I don't mean that old dude from California and his 5/11/11 prophecy, although that was a taste.

In 1844 followers of a guy named Miller abandoned their farms and awaited the End in the woods of the Adirondacks, and for the population of America at the time there were a LOT of them, maybe a million, and when the world didn't end they called it the Great Disappointment. Some had abandoned all their possessions, and their land, and keep in mind that these guys were subsistence farmers and if they had no land they didn't eat. And then when the world didn't end they were screwed.

So it may be like that, where millions abandon their worldly possessions and flock to the desert to await the End during which they will drown (yes, some really think that) or maybe Nibiru the evil death star will crash into the earth and kill everybody. It could get really weird. So don't be surprised.

I think I'm glad to have seen the hind end of 2011.

As for 2012, I think there's some reason to be concerned that a fair number of people will get silly and do things that might be disruptive or that will, at least, cause themselves to suffer. This is because people see this as related to ancient observations of space from the perspective of the earth, not a calendar only used by some of the people here or machines used only by some that might be affected by that calendar. For that reason, and because you can't get someone who's convinced of this stuff to let go (because many people base their whole lives on whatever they're fed - at a price they eagerly pay, of course), I try to meet people wherever their heads are about it and sort of calm them in language I think they'll understand. It may not always work, but I consider it worth a try. Besides, as always, there are things going screwy in the world, on both a large scale and a personal basis, for many people in many places. So, if the world really does blow up or wink out or whatever, which I suppose could happen at any time, all the people who predicted it would happen in 2012 will get to say, "I told you so!" (That is, if they still exist in some spiritual form or alternate dimension or something).

Hey, get on the bandwagon. You, too, could be a prophet. Just constantly predict the end of the world. If it ends during your lifetime, you get to be right! It's kind of like a lottery. You only have to be lucky enough to live at the right time, so that you can experience that ultimate disaster.

Seriously, though, many of the people spouting this stuff are people I respect for other, unrelated reasons. So, I guess anybody can get caught up in it, just like other New Age stuff. That's why I try not to get too judgmental about it. Besides, I can't prove they're wrong until after the appointed time has come and gone. For all I know, the world really will end. If so, then, hey, maybe a new Right Planet will emerge in its place. We can only hope...