I don't know about the rest of you but I am immortal, I have inside me the blood of kings.
I have no rivals, no man can be my equal...you see where I'm heading with this.
Seriously though, while the world won't end for at least another 300 years or ideally when the sin dies, I am absolutely certain that no fewer than 8,000 people will kill themselves or other people on the 21st (on top of those that normally do on a daily basis) just because they needed the barest of self justification to actually do it.
On 12.12.12 some guy called 911 to tell them he carved a pentagram into his son's back. When asked why, he stated matter of factly that it was because it was a holy day. I can only imagine what the world wide idiocy committee has planned for something with a pseudo prophetic doomsday based on a complete lack of cultural understanding of the subject matter, or even proper math. Based upon the differences between the various calendars used between then and now the day in question has already long since past. Much like all the people concerned with the millennium got their panties in a bunch around midnight, when the actual 2000 year mark was another day entirely.
You give people a round number on a calendar, or an arbitrary one, and tell them its special and they will lose their shit 100% guaranteed.
They forget things like leap year, transitions from one calendar system to another, and the basic imperfection of all calendars in general to keep 100% accurate time. Which is why things like leap day exist in the first place.
Also that whole BS with basing everything around Jesus's birth and death, and then miscounting the number of years he was alive and the year he was born. According to the current pope anyways. The previous opinion was he was born on 3 B.C. I believe...which is just confusing.
Why we base our entire system of time around one guy, is extremely questionable to begin with. Not as questionable as choice to release the movie "2012" at all, let alone waaaaaaay before the year in question based upon this shit.
I'm surprised they haven't gotten it back into theaters for the 21st in a special 3D director's cut, and everyone in the audience gets their own commemorative assault rifle and 4 free mags to "spread the word."