Remember Y2K? Consider the noise surrounding 2012 and the Mayan calendar to be similar.
The alarmists and poetic New Age opportunists who promote their tall tales while tugging at your heart strings with heart-centered communications will move on to other things in 2013.
Yet another correction in the financial markets will probably take place in 2012, along with extreme weather conditions around the globe and other calamities, but none of it will be any more out of the ordinary than any other year over the past several thousand. Even if E.T.s landed on the White House lawn in 2012, it wouldnt have anything to do with the Mayan calendar.