[Suzerain of Sheol]

One of the worst apocalyptic faux-pas's in history was the Millenarianism movement around the year 1,000. Combining a number that significant to Eschatology with a populace having no reason to disbeleive a word of Revelation caused an economic and social disaster.

And that's what I hate about this sort of thing. If enough people believe in it, it can become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though one hopes the results won't quite reach "apocalyptic" in scale. I worry more about 2012 than this nonsense, for the possibility of social fallout.

You'd think, as far as we've come as a species, we could move beyond the solipsism of Eschatology. The world will end, someday, but not on any schedule convenient for us. We likely won't even around to see it, as a race.