End of World: 2012

Lots of prophecies for world ending in 2012 and today my co-passenger in the bus said about this, London will not see 2012 Olympics...I promised her I will call her ($$&&^&&£!^(*) in beginning of Olympics.

Now now Maya calendar has concrete dates (21-24th December, 2012) and rest all seem to be fictitious. A movie too is getting released sometimes late this year, probaly the hero will be moses of 2012.

For my point of view, if it really happens and a few survive then none of them will be atheist or agnostic any more. Can this become self fulilling prophecy. Not likely.....rather such threats will create less chaos and more peace(subsiding little of existing ones). Who will want to do misdeeds before facing His judgement.The religious people will becme more religious. Non religious ones will be anxious, a few of them will re-convert, most of them will ignore(also many religious people).

Likely scenario:
1) Environment is worsening year after year with unheard type of calamities frequently coming. Any large scale calamity at near about said duration will be treated as such. But to justify the prediction, it has to be atleast as big as to kill a large proportion of humans. Even 10% of world's population makes 8 billions and no calamity has ever touched 1 billion record.
Now environment changes might create new varieties of virus. It is said they evolve in 25 years so much so what it took humans to evolve from monkeys till date. Will there be new black death, H1N1 flu, or some other virus will make zombie out of us......

2) Nuclear wars: they can kill in billions. One or many of India-Pakistan-China-America-Russia etc. But precisely in that year. Actually it can happen any year. All the indians and chinese dead will still leave world with 5 billion out of ca 8 billions today, certainly not all of them worth living. Though nuclear war might precipitate global effects which can certainly make above prediction true. So this is worth the thought. Rekindle the India-China-Pakistan bhai-bhai thoughts. But what to do about terrorists with atom bomb, will they take command of Russian (America, China less likely) core system and shoot in all direction. Naah...but what to do if God has already decided.

The any or all of above can be true any time. Hopefully this rumour make people spiritual and peaceful. But then naysayerswill be active after 2012 bringing us back to square one. Better still would be to know if we will be alive even till then....

14/11: On the positive note, found this today: http://www.idiva.com/bin/idiva/At-worlds-end-maybe-not