The end of the World cannot possibly happen on 12 December 2012, because my Feng Shui master told me that I will live to be at least 77 years, and that's way past 2012. Ha-ha!

Gosh! In my lifetime there have been at least three end of Earth prophecies and two New Age of Enlightenment predictions...all come to naught. Same planet, same morons. All still here.

Why do these stories continue to pop up? Because there's gold in those prophecies, that's why. Books, television, movies rights, and businesses of all sorts make $$$ on the gullible fools that swallow this stuff up like it's the feast of the Winter Solstace. Hey. It's a living. But there is a darker side to.....

Nutcakes can draw the weaker-minded of our society into doomsday cults; People's Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the ilk, lead by charismatic (and paranoid) people, end in mass suicide. Yes, the end of the World did come, but for those cult members only.

So, go ahead and take out that longterm loan and plan your vacation for 2013. It'll all be waiting for you on the other side of 2012.