I'm 100% sure that the world isn't going to end in 2012, but don't you have like some kind of instinct or feeling that the world will end soon? Like maybe in 10 years or 50 years.
What about your dreams.... Have you dreamed about the end of the world? A lot of people have. And I'm not that all Christian but the bible does say that in the end of times
"And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; "
Things seem really bad right now and I guess they are, but horrific things have been happening all throughout history (9/11, The Holocaust, Atomic Bomb Dropping, and the list goes on and on). However, they seem so much worse now because we're living through it.
Human civilization may end, but the world as a planet will only end when the sun explodes and that'll be in....just about 20 billion years or something like that.
I've never dreamed that the world will end. However there are plenty of crazies who claim they have and it never happens like they say, or when.
And really we cannot predict the end of the world. Who knows if some country with nuclear weapons decides to send one off tomorrow, beginning the end? Or if an asteroid is to drop into our zone next week? Well the last is impossible, we would be able to see/know that information beforehand unless it decided to troll Hollywood-movie style and pop up out of nowhere.