The Five Stages of Accepting 2012

I have present these in the classic order, although they can happen in any order, and not everybody will experience all five stages. Some folk might only experience two. See Wikipedia for more information on the Kübler-Ross model

Denial

It is very easy to deny a doomsday in 2012, for there is zero evidence so far that suggests anything bad will happen. Humans (in the western world) are almost unique in that they tend not to fear anything external. While we worry about being harmed by other humans, about death & disease, we don't really acknowledge our potential demise from space and nature. We know that tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and asteroids can kill us, but we don't lose sleep over it. And when such a menace rears its head, we expect to be able to just run away, or bunker down.

Anger

After running a 2012 site for 9 years, I've noticed that many people get very upset at the idea of the world ending - but it comes out as anger. Typically it will be in form of a brief, strongly worded attack via email. "How dare you say such things, you irresponsible %^$#! Consider how children might feel if they read about it. Take it off the web now!". They'll say I should stop mentioning 2012 because it is bad science, because only God knows the day, because I made a grammatical error, because I need pyschological help and so on. I get emails like this every day. They feel compelled to tell me I am wrong, and in an angry manner. I can only imagine there are many more angry folk who do not make the effort to send me an email...

Bargaining

This might come late, maybe not until 2012 itself, but I expect that many folk will think they have left their survival plans too late, and will try to "buy their way in" to an existing bunker or survival community. Unless someone creates a business specifically to take advantage of them, they are unlikely to find any bunkers that will take them.

Depression

My personal opinion is that, deep-down, we are already sensing what is on the horizon. From here on in I predict that depression in society will grow at a faster rate than ever before. Watch for increases in violence, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, over-eating, anorexia and so on.

Acceptance

Many will turn to religion. Some older folk will say, "I've had a good innings" and just accept it. A few will just be very logical about it - appreciating that there's not a lot they can do, que sera sera.

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In order to survive, you must be highly optimistic. You must prepare well and expect to survive. By not accepting failure as an option, none of the stages of grief will apply to you. Having said that, losing your lifestyle, community, friends and family will be extremely grievous, but that process is unavoidable and can wait until after the event.

Note: At this stage nobody knows what, if anything, will happen in 2012. The above relates to what someone may feel is going to happen, whether they are conscious of it or not...

Here are some excerpts from emails I have received, and I guess I will keep getting told the same things:

Now I realize that you are more than likely not an idiot so I’m not going to treat you like one. That being mentioned, if you are in fact not an idiot you should realize the potential that you have to install fear into the many scared and ignorant people who may have stumbled over your website.

I understand that you plan to make a monetary profit from your speculations and that is why you are writing your novel. This makes you no better than others who capitalize on others fears such as bishops and priests. Find another way to make money. What you’re doing here is bordering on pathetic.

The fact that kids could read this and actually believe it, people could become depressed over it and the fact of this matter is that is so untrue.

Good Luck with your poor pathetic life. I will try and find another site with a couple more neurons available.

Please excuse me when I say that you appear to me as a blathering idiot, and that I can only presume that you are an intelligent man who has decided to exploit the less intelligent sector of society.

How about you take your website off of the internet, do some f&*king research, get slim idea of what you are talking about and sign back on.....apologize to everyone who has ever visited your site, and post something that is worth while... You are tool. You are an embarrassment, if you were Mayan they would have sacrificed you, and if you were my son I would drag you out in the street and beat you...

I not stupid and hey if the world IS going to end (which i highly doubt) then lets just say I don't give a f&*k as it will get rid of all the annoying twats and i find downright hilarious.

Do you realize that you are involved in a hoax? Is it fun to you thinking its the end of everything? do you know how many lives you ruin with fear and anxiety in the gullable mind? ...I hope this is just fun to you and that you are seriously not stupid enough to believe it. I know that there is a plan to have some of the doomsday idiots shut down and arrested. There is freedom of speach, but telling people that they will die a horrible death in four years is truly wrong.

I cant wait until 2012, when ur gonna look like an idiot.

i talked to my shrink (we have family problems) and he said to lay off of the caffine so i've been doing that but still have the nightmares. I'm trying to forget about 2012 but my parents keep on mentioning it to me opn purpose.

i just want to make a question, do you really believe this thing? because if is to joke, ok, it can be funny, but if really do, please, you got something wrong inside your mind.

If you are so sure that the world will end in 2012 will you write me a cheque that is post dated for 2013 for $5000? If the world will end in 2012 then this should be no problem for you since the cheque will never get cashed right?