2012 endings: What we won't miss at all

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China was certainly <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-doomsday-arrests-20121218,0,7963235.story">fed up</a> with all the end-of-the-world guff. Most of the rest of us were too. This Meso-American doomsday prediction was found nowhere in actual Mayan texts, contexts or subtexts, but the allure of all those nifty numbers -- 21, 12, 2012 -- had the neo-apocalyptic communities agog. If you're reading this, then the New Agey cataclysm chatter was wrong. But it'll be back, I guarantee it.<br><br>

Above: People participate in a ritual in front of Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, Mexico, on Dec. 21.<br><br>

<strong>ALSO:</strong> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-ed-end-of-world-20121221,0,5700553.story">The world didn't end -- yet</a>

Mayan calendar babble

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China was certainly fed up with all the end-of-the-world guff. Most of the rest of us were too. This Meso-American doomsday prediction was found nowhere in actual Mayan texts, contexts or subtexts, but the allure of all those nifty numbers -- 21, 12, 2012 -- had the neo-apocalyptic communities agog. If you're reading this, then the New Agey cataclysm chatter was wrong. But it'll be back, I guarantee it.

Above: People participate in a ritual in front of Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, Mexico, on Dec. 21.

ALSO: The world didn't end -- yet

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