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Wait. What?

(lol AAAAAH! Brain hurts! Brain huuuurrrrrts! )

The world will not end in 2012.
The same way the computers did not all crash and the world come to a standstill in 2000.
The same way that big science experiment on black holes or whatever didn't suck the world into itself.

Though frankly, it figures that the year London gets the Olympics back is the same year everyone thinks they're going to die.

Difference: theories are backed by facts and correlated aspects given to connect two or more given circumstances together. They are solid-foundationed conjectures meant to predict a logical outcome or to give an explanation for reason of something otherwise inhumanly capable of being measured, observed, and studied with tangible evidence. These Doomsday scenarios, on the other hand, are held beliefs based on the instable grounds superstition and (argue with me on this) fear. And seeing that you can say what you believe without something to show for it, I'd may well classify this as one of those as well...

Okay theory was the wrong word to use there. They are more guesses than anything. But so is everything else people have said about 2012.

However, I never explicitly stated that I believed in these ideas. I just said that they were things I had heard. I never said that they were what I truly believed.

For the record, I personally believe that 2012 will come with everyone thinking that something bad is gong to happen, and then pass by without a peep. Everyone will go on with their lives afterwards, just like they did after the Y2K scare in 2000.




(Now that I look at it, I probably should have worded my earlier post a little better by explicitly stating that those ideas were just things that I had heard, and not what I personally believed.)

Just to throw a point out there and go against the flow, of course, there is the possibility that it could happen. After all, as we are all quick to judge who it is that say when the world will end, counteractively, who are we -- as humans -- to say that it won't?

Meh, I don't believe it's our place to "decide" these things. Nor dwell on them. People have always battled to brave these forces, but we can never hope to control or overpower them. And although I'm sure this site has its fair share of religious, erm... intellectuals, I needn't have to get into the subject further to detail whom I believe has the power to ultimately determine our fates...

Not saying anything about you in particular, Kay, but it is indicative of the unmitigated arrogance of our species to believe that we have the power to decide the fate of the planet. Feh. Baloney. To your points, I say this:

a. Most people are frightened about pollution and "global warming" ( this nonsense, or the man-made version of it, has still never, ever been proven to exist in spite of all the hype, the rhetoric, annoying and manipulative musicians, and Al Gore) - in spite of what they may say to the contrary - because it means the probable end of the comfort zone we humans enjoy...and perhaps the end of our species. Big friggin' deal. Even IF it were true that human activity and depredations have increased the normal "global warming" shifts which the planet has experienced in the past, it is absolute gall of us to believe that we can actually kill the planet or its ecosystems forever. The Earth is a powerful, immense thing. And it has survived far worse cataclysms than anything we have thrown at it in our short time here. And it will survive long after we simpering dingbats are long dead as a species. And it will heal any damage done to it. Certainly, it might take thousands to millions of years for some aspects to disappear. But in the life of the planet itself, that is a very small stretch of time. Those time stretches only mean anything in human terms. In planetary terms, they are nothing.

b. Most people fear nuclear conflict for the same reasons mentioned above. They're afraid for their own sorry selves...their own survival. Nothing else. No matter what high-toned rhetoric they might use about "the environment" and "peace".

It's evident even in your closing statement where the priorities of humanity lay: "...we could decide to save ourselves but we decide not to." In the end, all that rhetoric boils down to "We don't wanna die. We don't wanna go extinct."

We human beings are peculiar, pathetic things. And should we live to evolve past our own greed, insecurity, hate, and indifference, we MIGHT just be the better for it. IF we survive our own ineptness and stupidity. But even if we do not, the Earth will still be here, and in time it will erase any shred of our existence from itself.