As for 2012 and the Mayan prophecy, it is my *firm* belief that on December 21, 2012 A.D. the planets will come into line, there will be a solar eclipse, and a solar flare all at the same time. The moon will shatter because of this, the planets wobble, and the Dark Lord Morgoth shall re-enter Arda. Then Sauron, the Balrogs, and the Ringwraiths shall all return stronger than ever and do battle with the Valar upon the Plains of Valinor till the world is destroyed and the dead return from the Timeless Halls to build the world anew.
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But seriously, is there any more evidence for the serious conspiracy theorists than my little joke? If there is I've yet to see it. In the meantime, if I want to be worried about something, there are plenty of documented threats out there, unfortunately, which sort of goes back to what
GB was saying. Alas, I don't think there is a supernatural Saviour who will come to fix all our problems, nice as that would be.
Cheesy as this sounds, we (humanity) really don't have much of a choice but to work together. We have amazing resources and technology at our disposal, yet the states of the world manage to squabble like young children of a disturbingly regular basis. If we don't address serious problems - pollution, climate change, resource depletion, disease, etc., etc. - we will like be in for a crazy time starting within the next century or two. How to get people to start cooperating is utterly beyond me though.
That's my two cents at any rate.
