2012 Apocalypse

Dream Homes for the 2012 Apocalypse

Harmon Leon | Posted 03.30.2012

Harmon Leon

The Mayan calendar predicts that 2012 will be the apocalypse: the end of the world as we know it! So start stocking up on all those bottles of water; we don't want another Y2K on our hands, do we?

The Real Hunger Games: Our Insatiable Apocalyptic Appetite

Mathew Gross | Posted 05.26.2012

Mathew Gross

Rather than being marginal, the apocalypse in 2012 is firmly entrenched in mainstream popular culture. Why? Perhaps because the apocalypse serves as a form of daydreaming escape from a world that looks radically different from just a decade ago.

INFOGRAPHIC: The 2012 Apocalypse Bucket List

Posted 03.01.2012

It's a question asked time and time again: What would you do if this were your last day/week/year on earth? Assuming the Mayans were right about th...

Are the "Strange Sounds" Videos a Hoax?

Jason Boyett | Posted 04.09.2012

Jason Boyett

The enormous online apocalypse/conspiracy community has been all a-flutter lately due to the glut of "strange sounds" or "weird noises" videos being uploaded in recent weeks.

'Doomsday Preppers' Learn Self-Defense Techniques

Posted 02.08.2012

A lot of people are terrified that, unlike Harold Camping, the ancient Mayans got it right and that the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise) will unfold i...

2012: Apocalypse... Not?

Steve Heilig | Posted 03.05.2012

Steve Heilig

Please allow me to introduce myself... my name is Apocalypse. You may have heard rumors that I am coming for a visit soon, and could cause quite a ruckus. Well, anything's possible.

Top 10 Myths About 2012

Mitch Horowitz | Posted 03.05.2012

Mitch Horowitz

The ancient Mayan people maintained a complex system of calendars, which ended with this year, 2012. This anomaly has caused many to wonder whether the great calendar-makers foresaw an apocalypse in our era. The truth is more complex.

Is The 2012 Apocalypse Real?

Jason Boyett | Posted 03.04.2012

Jason Boyett

Now that it's actually 2012, the year in which those fictional events supposedly were to have taken place, you may be wondering: Is the Mayan calendar a real thing? Were we warned? Is 2012 the end of the world?

Will the World End in 2012?

Richard Schiffman | Posted 03.04.2012

Richard Schiffman

A bit of millennialist anxiety seems realistic given the real threats of environmental holocaust, global war, and economic meltdown that loom over civilization, only I am not convinced that the Mayans possessed a crystal ball to gaze into our collective future.

Don't Fear the Mayans: It's Not the End of the World As We Know It

Greg Olear | Posted 03.01.2012

Greg Olear

With the U.S. economy in shambles, the Euro worth about as much as the Lego, a new strain of super-contagious swine flu, the Arab world in upheaval, K...

Preparedness Fatigue: If The Mayans Were Right, Mix Me A Martini

Debra Ollivier | Posted 02.28.2012

Debra Ollivier

By the time I was in my early twenties my purse was filled with paraphernalia for chapped lips, chapped hands, unruly fingernails, allergies, parking lot thugs, cuts and bruises, bad hair, bad weather, bad breath and bad karma. When I became a mother, my purse ballooned to the size of Mont Blanc. It took awhile to realize that I was lugging around not just a lot of useless stuff; I was lugging around the what-if-you-never-know culture and anxiety of Preparedness.

2012: Here Comes the Apocalpyse (Again)

Mathew Gross | Posted 03.03.2012

Mathew Gross

The idea of the apocalypse offers the promise that our chaotic times will eventually prove to have some kind of redemptive meaning -- or that, according to ancient cultures, it was all somehow inevitable, anyhow.

What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean?

Greg Carey | Posted 03.02.2012

Greg Carey

No academic interpreter of Revelation understands the book as a roadmap for the future. Instead, Revelation originally spoke to the conditions of its own time and place.

2012: Apocalypse Fatigue

Turnstyle | Posted 02.20.2012

Turnstyle

By:Noah Nelson Photo Credit: Image: NASA/Public Domain Earth: it was fun while it lasted. Today is the beginning of the final countdown. We've g...

Mexico Finds Second Reference To 2012 Among Mayan Ruins

AP | By MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.27.2011

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on ...

Porn Bunker In The Valley

Posted 11.14.2011

Got any plans for the upcoming apocalypse on December 21, 2012? This projected doomsday is based on ancient Mayan prophecy (not disgraced pastor Ha...

Mayans Not Worried About Mayan 'Prophecy'

Tony Phillips | Posted 09.17.2011

Tony Phillips

One ponders and one fears. But should one instead welcome the impending terminus of all our journeys? Ought we to embrace the arrival of comets and sun blasts and tsunamis and volcanoes and earthquakes, snakes and John Cusack's worst role in decades?

Jaweed Kaleem

Judgment Day Predictor Harold Camping Speaks Out (Live Blog)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 07.23.2011

Harold Camping, the California preacher who via his multimillion-dollar Christian Family Radio stations had convinced a few thousand followers that th...

Jaweed Kaleem

May 21 'Judgment Day' Believers React To Being Alive On May 22

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 07.22.2011

'Judgment Day' came and went on Saturday, and John Ramsey hasn't been able to sleep. The 25-year-old Harrison, N.J. resident had rearranged his lif...

'Judgment Day' Believers Face Tough Questions After Unfulfilled Doomsday

AP | By GARANCE BURKE | Posted 07.28.2011

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The hour of the apocalypse came quietly and went the same way – leaving those who believed that Saturday evening would mark the w...

Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions

Liz Black | Posted 05.25.2011

Liz Black

If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.

End Of The World Sky Photoshop Competition

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

What do you think the end of the world will look like? With talk of two suns being possible (however unlikely) even before 2012 imaginations are free...

How Will The World End In 2012?

Posted 12.22.2010

According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Considering we only have two years left of life, it is only natural to consi...

2012 Supplies One More Victory for Pseudoscience

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Cubias

2012 pillages an ancient culture, deliberately misrepresents its traditions, and then claims its all true. More important, it taps into the serious vein of crazy that we have in this country.

Jason Linkins

Fox News Chyron Highlights 2012 Apocalypse Fears

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

It seems that Fox News is keeping abreast of the issues that matter to America and not at all indulging in bizarre, paranoid fantasies. In this case, apparently "many people" believe the world is going to end in 2012.