Would it affect your retirement or saving plan?

**disneysteve** · 01-23-2009, 11:53 AM

Originally posted by falcon2006 View Post

Both the Maya and Chinese calendars ended at December 2012 (doomsday), does it affect your retirement or saving plan in any way?

Is that a serious question?

No, I don't believe the world will end in 2012.

Is that actually what the Chinese believe?

**MonkeyMama** · 01-23-2009, 11:56 AM

There are a number of ancient calendars that "end" between 2000 & 2099. A couple of dates in particular are singled out (I don't remember off the top of my head).

Armegeddon has also been predicted about a million times throughout history. (I may be an accountant but I also studied Humanities for many years).

No, it's not affecting my retirement plan.

**sweeps** · 01-23-2009, 12:44 PM

The world will end on January 19, 2038.

**jIM_Ohio** · 01-23-2009, 01:03 PM

The world actually ended on Feb 6 1969. The rest of this has been someone's really weird dream.

**GREENBACK** · 01-23-2009, 01:08 PM

The Chinese(some) also believe that drinking snakes blood and eating bear Gall bladders improves your libido.

**maat55** · 01-23-2009, 01:14 PM

Originally posted by disneysteve View Post

Is that a serious question?

No, I don't believe the world will end in 2012.

Is that actually what the Chinese believe?

The Mayan's predicted this date thousands of years ago. I never heard the Chinese did as well.

The date will past like all do. Even sweeps.

**feh** · 01-23-2009, 02:15 PM

Originally posted by sweeps View Post

The world will end on January 19, 2038.

We'll all be using 256 bits for time stamps by then.

**Joan.of.the.Arch** · 01-23-2009, 03:55 PM

Happy 4706 (I think) in two or three days (again, I think)!

Hey, how come there is no flag-of-China smilie? I wanted to insert one here.

Never heard of a predictive Chinese calendar ending in three years.

Of course, my retirement plans do not depend on whether an ancient civilization happened to have run out of paper or stone for calendar making. Just use one of those round perpetual calendars and you will never run out of years. I got one at a bank when I was a kid, but I've seen them for sale on ebay. No need to go by the Mayan calendar, especially as I would have to trust someone else's interpretation. I don't speak --eh- is it called Mayan?-- and know how easy it is to slip up when using someone else's language.

**scfr** · 01-23-2009, 06:09 PM

I have the date written on my calendar: 12/21/12 = End of era, per Mayan calendar. Please note that it's end of ERA, not end of the world.

Why does that have to be a harbinger of doom? Could it not just as likely mean the beginning of better times?

I wrote the date on my calendar just because I thought it was interesting, not because I thought it had any special significance.

P.S. - To answer your original question, no, it won't affect my savings or retirement plans.

Would it affect your retirement or saving plan?