Ironinically December 21st 2012 with be my mom's 47th birthday, Happy B-Day Mom! This theory is derived from two sources I can think of. The first is the Mayan calendar, according to which the fifth world (I think) will end on this exact date, therefore a new world will be ushered in, so maybe the end of the world will be a good thing? The other is from a European scholar (can't remember his name) who took the Chinese I Ching and calculated all possible outcomes of the fortune-telling technique and came up with 12/21/2012 as the last day of Earth. I watched all this on I think the History Channel. Still the Apocalypse has been prophecized(sp?) for thousands of years and we're still going. I should like to see if anything significant happens on that day though.