U.S. government confirms world won't end in 2012

politico44 ^ | 12/3/12 | BYRON TAU

[ColdOne]

The U.S. government is rebutting claims that the end is nigh.

"The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012," an unsigned USA.gov blog asserts.

Some New Age theorists believe that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted a late December doomsday for all of humanity. Others believe the date signifies the start of a new era. Their predictions are based on the idea that the Mayan Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 — something that scholars say is a misrepresentation.

"False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others," the government asserts in the pos

[King Moonracer]

Atlas Mayan Shrugged??? Now I have the heebie-jeebies.

[gorush]

Damn! I’ll have to be a little more careful about what I steal from the internet. I feel kind of foolish now for thinking it was humorous.

[GrouchoTex]

No doubt, now I will just party like there’s no “to-MAYA”

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It was humourous — no reason to feel even slightly foolish. I didn’t know the difference myself; until it was recently pointed out to me elsewhere.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Now, that would be prophetic!

[Ezekiel]

I’ll have to be a little more careful about what I steal from the internet. I feel kind of foolish now for thinking it was humorous.

Maya culpa.

[Average Al]

Even the Mayans couldn’t have accounted for the additional hell on earth due to Obama.

[Ezekiel]

"False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others," the government asserts in the post.

No mention of the most likely and obvious apocalyptic trigger, the one with the sister named Maya.

[melsec]

Didn’t believe in this stuff until right now - if these lot say it isn’t going to end then we are all screwed.

Signing off from under the couch,

Mel

[NormsRevenge]

maybe not,, but even the Mole People are still a little edgy, they remember last time. 8-o

[depressed in 06]

Global warming or the world will end! I will go with the Mayans, they have more credibility.