Yeah, because it didn't it work so well for the Mayans, now that they're DEAD.
Hey, one less group of psychos to deal with!

There's going to be another apocalyptic 2012 movie by Mr. Apocalypse himself, Roland Emmerich.
Oh God.

Oh damn yes, will be [url=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=9FOZsdCMizU]the end of the world as we know it, so be prepared and have good sex (and videogaming, too!) till those days :-D
Fyi:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#2012_and_the_Long_Count
- http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85819

Nah, I don't believe in apocalypse of 2012.
I do believe in apocalypse of 2077, though : ).

it's the end of the beginning, the beginning of the end.
the problem with stories, is that it's so easy for writers to switch from beginning to end and ignore the middle, or make a really crappy one.
At what point has existence reached the middle? the beginning of the end?
If you're not first you're last, if you're not in the first sentence, you're part of the ending?

I think the whole 2012 thing makes for some great post-apocalyptic fodder to base a game off of. Otherwise it sounds like yet another Y2K-style occasion.

Yet another chance to sell merchandise. "View the end of the world with our 2012 Apocalenses!"

Surely its a bit like Nostradamus, you say a few cryptic things, and then hundreds of years later people interpret them to fit things that have already happened.
I have no doubt something bad will happen in 2012, I mean, we're only in January '09 and some pretty bad things are happening right now.
Many people's worlds will end, in one way or another.
and we will all fade in time, like tears in rain....

The number 2012 is in fact a command code that aborts all active processes in any piece of software programmed after 1981.
So if you happen to be on a plane on dec 31 2011, better hope its running on a commodore.

Or, that the programmer have been smart enough to keep day/month/year data long away from the part of code that deal whit termination, (like have them as separate applications)

2008 - Assassination attempts on four heads of states. Conflict in Indonesia. That becomes one of the causes for the start of WWIII.
2010 - The start of WWIII. The war will begin in November of 2010 and will end in October of 2014. Will start as a normal war, then will include usage of nuclear and chemical weapons.
2011 - Due to the radioactive showers in Northern Hemisphere - no animals or plants will be left. Muslims will begin chemical war against Europeans who are still alive.
2014 - Most of the people in this world will have skin cancer and skin related diseases. (as a result of chemical wars).
2016 - Europe is almost empty
2018 - China becomes the new world power.
2023 - Earth’s orbit will change slightly
2025 - Europe is still barely populated
2028 - Development of a new energy source. (Probably controller thermonuclear reaction) Hunger slowly stops being a problem. Piloted spaceship to Venus deploys.
2033 - Polar ice caps melt. World ocean levels rise.
2043 - World economy is prosperous. Muslims are running Europe.
2046 - Any organs can be mass produced. Exchange of body organs becomes the favorite method of treatment.
2066 - During it’s attack on Rome (which is under control of the Muslims) U.S.A. uses a new method of weapons - has to do with climate change. Sharp freezing.
2076 - No class society (communism)
2084 - The rebirth of the nature.
2088 - New disease. - People are getting old in few seconds.
2097 - This disease is cured.
2100 - Man made Sun is lighting up the dark side of the planet Earth.
2111 - People become robots.
2123 - Wars between small countries. Big countries don’t get evolved.
2125 - In Hungry the signals from Space are received. (People will be reminded of Vanga again)
2130 - Colonies under water (advices from aliens)
2154 - Animals become half-humans.
2167 - New religion
2170 - Big drought.
2183 - Collony on Mars becomes nuclear nation and is asking for independence from the Earth. (same way as U.S. did from England)
2187 - Successfully two volcano eruptions are stopped.
2195 - Sea colonies are fully supplied with energy and food.
2196 - Full mixture between Asians and Europeans.
2201 - Thermonuclear reactions on the Sun slow down. Temperatures Drop.
2221 - In the search of Alien life, human beings engage with something very freighting.
2256 - Spaceship brings a freighting new disease into Earth.
2262 - Orbits of planets start to change progressively. Mars is undera threat of being hit by a comet.
2271 - Physic properties are calculated over, since they changed.
2273 - Mix of yellow, white, and black race. New race.
2279 - Energy out of nothing (probably from vacuum or black holes)
2288 - Travel through time. New contacts with the aliens.
2291 - Sun cools. Attempts to fire it up again are taken.
2296 - Bright flashes on the Sun. Force of gravity changes. Old space stations and satellites begin to fall
2299 - In France, there is a partisan uprising against Islam.
2302 - New important new laws and mysteries about the universe are uncovered.
2304 - The mystery of the Moon is uncovered.
2341 - Something frightening is closing in with Earth from the space.
2354 - Accident on one of the man made suns, will result in drought.
2371 - Mighty hunger.
2378 - New and fast growing race.
2480 - Two man made suns will collide. Earth is in the dark.
3005 - War on Mars. Trajectory of planets changes.
3010 - Comet will ram into the Moon. Around Earth there is a belt of rocks and dust.
3797 - By this time, everything living on Earth dies. But humans are able to put in the essentials for the beginning of a new life in a new star system.
lol all of this are from the dead baba vanga
http://russianfun.net/interesting-galleries/vanga-predictions-for-this-world/

Let us not forget.
In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find........

in the year 3,000,000 a man named Dave Lister will smuggle a cat aboard the space mining ship Red Dwarf, thus resulting in his imprisonment, soon after a radiation leak will occur killing all members aboard Red Dwarf except for the Cat that Dave Lister attempted to smuggle, the cat will soon give birth and this will lead to the first ever Cat like homosapien. An unknown amount of years later, David Lister will awake from his imprisonment, and the ships artificial intelligence will ressurect his immediate superior and room mate, Arnold Rimmer in the form of a Hologram.
These 3 men will have amazing adventures in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

I am great supporter of 2012 end of the world theory.
simple reason:
it is fun to think that the world will end almost four years from now.
I plan to have massive Mayan-Aztec themed party before 2012 Christmas.

"I lived through the 2012 Apocalypse and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

Are you sure you're a dwarf fan? That happened in the 23rd century (or 24th, he's easily confused apparently), then he was in stasis for 3 million years. That was why the cat race evolved because they had all that time & radiation