Hmmm... Remember 2000? When some say that technology will fail, and aliens will come to take away on their mother ship to safety (
blah-blah-blah... you know this one by now... ) Then followed by some people quoting Revelations that (
...again... same line... )
Even before that, when I was in grade school (
that's the 80's ), there's been the gossip of "the Three days of Darkness"... (
really, some people were selling 'holy candles' for such a day )
Guess what? Never happened -- all of it; a lot of people just either got disappointed, frustrated, or gone off to continue with life as it was -- like
cazq stated, no one knows when anyone of us will really 'kick the bucket' just to spend it mopping over things that aren't relevant to us -- live life, savory it, do what you can and enjoy
Minor edit: before I forget, include that during the 80's to early 90's -- Nostradamus... Again, no one knew, so a lot of... figured by now it's just another way to get everyone so worried and panicked over the unknown