Is 2012 just a joke?

[iSeeDumbPeople]

The Mayan calendar stops on December 21, 2012.
The I-ching calendar stops in the same year.
There are also predictions that the Earth's axis will change in 2012 and that a meteorite is set to hit the earth sometime in that year.
These are sayings that practically everyone is aware of.
Could all these things really mean the end of the world or is it just a coincidence that they'll all happen in the same year?
What if neither of these calendars were discovered, do you think we would still have the same theories or would we just go about our regular lives not suspecting anything "crucial" to happen?

[iSeeDumbPeople]

I am not going to question the prediction of astronomers and mathematicians that a meteorite will hit, or that the Earth's axis will change, since that goes beyond my knowledge of mathematics.
Personally, I think the Mayan calendar had to end somewhere and it could just be a coincidence that it ended on December 21, 2012 - the winter solstice.

Also I don't recall Nostradamus predicting 2012, so perhaps there's nothing truly significant about that year.
Or maybe the fact that we're all talking about it now, is part of that maturity that is supposed to happen.

(or maybe we will find out the answer to "Life The Universe and Everything") :)

[iSeeDumbPeople]

Well the Mayans were very particular and accurate about other things in the calendar, so maybe it does mean something. But I think the date will just come and go like everything else.
And Nostradamus never predicted 2012 in his quatrains, so maybe we changed history enough that whatever the Mayans predicted just won't happen.

[Till P]

Right. And nobody says that there will come and End to the world just because the calendar ends. We will get in a new peroid of time. And perhaps somethings will change in this world. Like everyday.