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Originally Posted by Runamuck

This is what I think. End of the world as we know it....a lot of lives will be lost..but end of the world as we know it, nonetheless. Human species will still go on. That is just my opinion, though...and not trying to be argumentative about it! lol



Yeah, but doesn't mean something from space can't "self destruct" this planet before it's time.

Well the funny thing on that, is context. "We knew it." Isn't accurate. It'd be as "they knew it." So odds are, it's something that doesn't even matter to the modern day.

As for 666, that's an injoke to the writers of the bible. It spells out a name.
This is also the marginally funny aspect to religeous prophecies. Lucifer does not exist. It was created in Dante's Inferno, and is never actually in the bible. Now Satan is biblical, but he's more often refered to as God's Angel of temptation. Satan even translates to 'the adversary.'

Religion and prophecies are interesting in this regard, but politics, and socialized preachings over the years have dilluted the direct meanings and context from history.

So 2012, as far as we knew could just mean the last gene traits of the Mayans, or Aztecs, or even just some social order change. "End of the world" is a complicated figurative term that covers so much more than just the actual end of the world. Think about Teens and how every little thing is the end of the world to them, and you start to get a vague feeling of exactly how far spread that phrase covers.