Do you think that people will be as worried about 12/21/2012 as they were about Y2K?

I'm just astounded that people have decided this is an 'end of the world' date on the basis of a calendar devised by one particular group a long time ago, who didn't think this was the end of time, just the end of a cycle of their very complex calendar calculations! What makes Mayan mathematics more predictive (of something they weren't predicting) than anything else?

This is a good article: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsda... which explains the Mayan calendar system simply and makes pretty clear why the expectation of something dramatic in 2012 is baloney. It has good links to other useful debunking, too.

Far, far fewer people think that anything significant will happen on the 21st of December in 2012 than feared the possibility of a crash of the computers we relied on for so much as 1999 turned into 2000. To be honest, even that was pretty much debunked before it happened, but there was at least some slight basis in reality for the fears. For 2012, zilch.

I have less Concern about 12/21/2012 In Fact I have zero concern about it then about 01/01/2000 simply because the Computer Glitch problem was real but solved in Time, This 2012 Thing is not except for the possibly of Doomsday Fanatics who may wish to attempt to make the doomsday happen by their own hand, Now that can be a concern, When people are convinced that they will Die, they usually will find a way to make it happen

No. Most of the people remember Dec 31 1999, and the very anti-climatic Jan 1 2000.

It'll just be an excuse to party harder, they're not going to take it seriously. I know I'm going to have 2 New Year's Eve parties in 2012!

12/21/12 is the top of the Mayan calendar. some people have self assurance it incredibly is the day the worldwide will end. people which includes myself have self assurance that's purely an end to an era and a beginning up of yet another. people have self assurance the North and South Poles will opposite themselves inflicting a extensive shift in climate. some people have self assurance we are already seeing the signs and indications of this shift with the solar in it incredibly is top of image voltaic flare interest, each and every of the organic mess ups we've been having, and the unusual iciness and spring we are having. i think of the earth is purely dealing with a organic shift because it has occurred before. i don't think of it incredibly is the top of the worldwide and that i don't think of the alterations are going to be as dire/drastic as everybody is questioning. i'll flow to mattress on 12/21/12 and awaken as I consistently do on 12/22/12.

No, I'm not worried. I don't think that the world is going to end anytime soon. I think my great great great grand-children will long be dead before the world ends. People will always predict that the world is going to end, but nobody knows crap. I think people will become extinct and the world will still be here, and will probably return to a balance, and all the other organisms on this planet will be better for it. I think anyone who predicts when the world will end is just deluded, you can't predict it.

People are definitely more afraid of 2012.

Some people forget that Y2K wasn't a doomsday prediction, it only predicted that all computer and electronic systems would fail in 2000, causing global chaos.

Every one all ways gets all freaked out about a certain date and then the whole world gets convinced everything is going to be destroyed. Hopefully the population learns from past mistakes and realizes they will never be able to predict the end of the world. Heck it could end today.

Y2K was just about the collapse of our banking systems, etc.

2012 is about the end of the world.

The gloom and doomers will be jumping up and down for joy until it comes, thinking that the end of the world is coming!

Then afterward, maybe they will shut up, until the next doomsday threat comes along.

Wow. Just.... wow.

Only gullible idiots are afraid of these 2012 doomsday prophecies. Apparently the number of gullible idiots is fairly large.