Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
The world is going to end on December 21, 2012. However, Y2K is going to happen first.
..and those are just two among many. Wikipedia has a fun listing of historic apocalypse dates here, if anyone is curious. Predicting the end of the world (or the rapture, or the unsealing of the book of Daniel, etc) seems a time-honored human tradition. I guess predicting doom is empowering or something.