Well, let's see. Y2K was a gigantic flop. The world didn't end there. Hell, my VCR didn't even get screwed up like they predicted it to. I did love the hilarity of people building their barracks and bomb shelters like there was no tomorrow. It reminded me of that Brendan Fraser movie "Blast from the Past" or whatever it was called.

After Y2K, there was the actual new millennium, better known as 2001. Uh, nothing really happened on Jan 1 of this day either. Jesus didn't pop up and see His shadow, or whatever these so called "mystics" predicted to happen. I'm pretty sure He was supposed to come and judgment day was to be upon us.

(TANGENT) Granted, 9/11 did happen, and in some History Channel documentary, Nostradamus supposedly predicted it. Though, I'll ask you this. What if we had actual airport security then? What if someone with half a brain thought to themself, "hmm, there sure are a lot of angry looking men of middle eastern descent buying one way tickets on cross country flights... on only 4 planes. Maybe, just maybe I should let a supervisor, or maybe some cops or hell, the FBI know about this." Or how about the other geniuses running the flight schools, "Gee whiz, it's just a tad bit odd that all this angry looking men of middle easter descent are coming to my flight school, paying in cash, and only want to know how to take off and make turns... AND NOT LAND!"

I'm sorry, but I really think that if people were a little more inquisitive and suspicious of pretty strange happenings, 9/11 could have been avoided, and Nostradamus would be wrong. (END O' TANGENT).

I don't feel that the Mayan Calendar really predicts the end of days. Granted the calendar does end, but so does your 2008 calendar. Just because you hit Dec 31, 2008, doesn't mean that 2009 will never come, just because it's not there, does it? All that this means is that we'd have to start over from the beginning of the calendar.

Mayyyyyyybe there's a geomagnetic shift, and who even knows what that might do. It might cause all electronic shit to fry, it might not. There might just be one hell of a winter solstice, where the sun is aligned with the poles of the Milky Way Galaxy. I don't really see what that would do; it just sounds like a fun fact to me. It might look cool to boot.

All in all, I don't really see the whole point in worrying about it. Just like all of the other armageddon prophecies, I feel that this one's a wee bit of a crock too. This one is just garnering more attention because the ancient Mayans have supposedly pinpointed it to one specific day. They couldn't predict their own demise, I wouldn't worry about them predicting humanity's decline. For all we know, Ugg and Crocs might just merge on that day... creating some retarded looking piece of crap footwear, something that I might call the fall of civilization.

I feel like this is like that episode of the Simpsons, where Lisa finds the angel at the excavation site, and everyone thinks that it's the second coming of Christ. It just turned out to be part of a Wal-Mart-esque shop promotion.