Why do people think the Earth is actually going to end?

Question

There are so many points of view that say there aren't and I don't see why people are just going to scare themselves over something so retarded.
Religious point of view: I'm sure SOMETHING would have been said about the world ending in 2012 by at least one of the nine profits of God.
Scientific: The earth-quake in Japan is what people say "A for warning for what's to come". Really? That's a for warning? It was the 5th most powerful recorded in history. If it really was a sign that the world is going to end, it would have been at least number 2 highest or number 1 and on land causing more destruction.
Logical sense pov: Nature has had it's ups and downs. Just because we have solar flares, and earthquakes, and a tsunami does NOT mean the world is going to end. We've had them in the past and we'll have them in the future.
The world is not ending in 2012. You really expect the Mayan's to make a calander for millions of years? The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.

Now stop pasting youtube comments saying the world is going to end, be scared, and all that ****. It ain't happening.

Answer 1

People are idiots. I'm sick to death of reading questions on here about the world ending. They just can't understand that the world is a large place and bad things happen all the time, it's just that they're being reported more than ever. They also can't seem to understand chance and that sometimes many disasters will happen close together and other times none will happen for a while. If they were evenly spaced in time... now that would be weird.

Answer 2

Because people will always create something stupid on to base to

- Y2K

- 666 etc.

Now its 2012, the reason they say it will end it's because through out the years the Mayan Calender has prophesied accurately. And well on the day December 21 2012 it marks the end. Now it does not mark the End of the Earth it just means that there will be a reverse in humanity, Some people believe that the magnetic poles will reverse. Another reason people believe in 2012 is because of the Nostradamus scriptures.

But honestly you cannot say "The world will not end in 2012" because it can, no one exactly know when the world will suddenly just Explode and everyone will die... Now the odds of it ending on that exact day are 0 - nothing.

Now another thing people are basing in "The end of the world" is not that the planet will suddenly destroy, but that the economy will start collapsing & given the fact that all this natural disasters are occurring the economy is being damaged. now That can also be concluded that the "financial world will end"

Now personally a way i believe the world will end is like in the film "The Road". but thats just me.

Answer 3

I think people "think" the world is going to end because nobody wants to die. So there scared that it will happen. But it's happened a few times now, that scientist have thought the world is going to end, so I personally don't think that it is going to end, I'm with you. Japan's horrors is just a natural course.

Out of 10 I would rate the world ending a 1. This is my opinion.

Answer 4

Actually, the world will end. The date is totally unknowable and really way out in the future. With the way humans behave, none of us need to worry because some other species will be the dominant one at that time.

Answer 5

I have found that people who think the world will come to an end secretly want it to. You are right, the Mayan calendar predicts an end of an age, the end end of everything. It is unrelated to anything predicted in the Bible. Christian people, please read your own book and quit being scared silly over everything else you read. A post on Youtube is not proof of anything.

Answer 6

Most people don't actually believe that. It's just a joke.

Answer 7

i really hope it does.