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The world won't end, at least not with a bang. I agree with the reference to T. S. Eliot, we will go out with a whimper. There won't be any 'blood moon,' or 'major tsunamis to drown us,' but I'm pretty sure things (economy) are all going to go down the drain.

The entire nation (US) and the rest of the world was informed about the effects of our actions, and since we haven't taken major actions to change our ways, we are now going to pay in the next few years.

It will end when it ends. We'll all die. No one will be alive to care.

Since the world had begun, it must end. In 2012? No. That would really be too early. We have so many things left to be done. But to me something is more important than such conjectures like 2012 or 2013. By the end of the world, do we mean the end of humankind on this planet or the end of the planet as a whole? This earth is much older than man; when there was no man, nor any life, the earth was there. Man came late, and should he go early too? I am no expert on this subject, nor an astrologer to calculate. But still hope to see the summit of evolution to survive for many years more on this planet.

Doomsday--the day when humanity goes down in flames forever and the earth implodes on itself. It's been a fascinating topic since the beginning of time, but no one can predict such things. Change happens, but it happens incrementally over the course of generations. Prophets in all cultures foretell of a catastrophe that wipes the planet clean of life, but in reality, most change happens by substitution and the natural cycle of life.

The earth functions under cycles: solar cycles, lunar cycles, seasons, and tides. The earth warms and cools (see great droughts and ice ages from long before the Industrial Revolution) in a rhythm that humans don't understand. Since the Enlightenment, science has tried to make sense of these patterns and draw conclusions from them, but no one can really understand that which cannot be fully measured.

The mindset that allows people to predict dates of cataclysmic events has to manipulate and extrapolate facts from theories, rather than draw conclusions from facts. So, 2012 will be another year--no different than 2000, no different than 1962 (the year Jeanne Dixon predicted the anti-Christ would be born), and no different than 1000 (when the world was supposed to end according to prophets in Europe.)

My opinion---carpe diem---and let the end of the world take care of itself!

The Bible clearly states that no man knows the day nor the hour. There is a theory that something catastrophic will happen because of evidence that this when the Mayan calendar is set to end. Most of what you see in the media is hype I believe because there is an underlying knowledge that fear motivates the activities of some people. If you remember, during the years before the year 2000,  (Y2K) there was much hysteria over the technology and how it would react to the changing of the year and century. Nothing catastrophic happened. Our world is changing. We can see that by the way nature is responding in terms of violent weather patterns, the lost of natural resources and the changes and behaviors of animals.

You posed a great question. One that should be pondered, discussed and continuelly researched.

No. The world ends when god says it ends, in other words no one knows when the world world will end.

i hope it wont. It's just pretty much started for me.