by Michaela Lamb and Molly Meeks |
December 21, 2012, a day people across the country have been nervously awaiting for years. For those who have not heard the Mayan’s calendar is ending December 21, which may lead to the end of the world.
This year’s prediction is being taken a lot more seriously compared to predictions in the past. The Mayans do have a long record of having correct predictions, the mathematics used to draw up the Mayan’s infamous calendar were incredibly sound and do predict chaos ensuing.
Many do not see the “end” coming soon and especially not on the 21.
“The world is not going to end because then there would be no Christmas, and Christmas would have to occur for the year to end let alone the world. Besides with leap years, the world should have already ended,” sophomore Joel Currence said.
2012 is not the first time someone has predicted the world’s end. In the recent years there has been the Rapture, the Y2K bug, the 2000 scare, and of course the zombie apocalypse hysteria.
Each of these predictions has created a large stir in the community, prompting people to take action and prepare for impending doom. On the upside, all of the past apocalyptic predictions have been false.
2012 has been the butt of jokes as well as the premise for several TV shows and movies. Doomsday Preppers follows several families through their plans for survival in case of a breakdown in society. The movie 2012 foretold strange natural disasters occurring all over the world.
Traditionally there are three types of reactions to hear the world might suddenly cease to exist. There are the preppers, the family people, and the bucket listers.
Preppers spend their time and money preparing a plan of action for surviving the anarchy that will occur once society breaks down.
“I would go to my backyard and build something in the ground big enough for me, my family, and my closest friends to survive. Between us we would repopulate the earth. So I could be dictator,” junior Johnna Stewart said.
Some people turn to their families and try to spend their hours with the people they love.
“I would sit around in my living room with my wife and child. I would leave school and go right home if I knew it was going to happen, dodging earthquakes and whatever’s going on to get there,” history teacher Zach Werner said.
Others want to go out with a bang. They try to live life to the extreme and complete everything on their bucket list while they have time.
“I would do anything I wanted to do, but wouldn’t be able to do under normal circumstances. You know, skydiving and stuff like that,” junior Aaron Jones said.
