On December 21st? I know they say that people just interpreted the Mayan calendar wrong, but do you have absolutely no doubt Dec. 22 will come or do you sometimes think of the end of the world as if it could happen?

Poll.

Absolutely no doubt.

I'll use it as an excuse to get hammered with friends back home, but I don't believe in the slightest that the world will end.

about once a decade there is some societal scare like this that encourages people to live life before they die (or act like complete ass hats because they think they're going to die [or kill themselves so they can die first]).

the most recent: Y2K. why would computers listing the date as 1900 make the world end? no one knows.

in the same vein, why would a calendar ending make the world end? your calendar ends every year. plenty of lunar, fortnight, and obscure time measurements occur across various historical communities. for some reason people have latched on to Mayan calendars (images frequently misused to present Aztec calendars) as the new coming of the apocalypse.

it is wrong.

they are wrong.

I am looking forward to the suicide rates.