What do you think about the whole 2012 prediction?

My husband thinks that it only portends a new world order will emerge not that the world will end. But the old world will pass away to make room for a new existence. And that the calendar ended because it represented the old world.

I wonder, "Wouldn't it be funny if someone just got tired of chiseling the stone and thought, 'Aw, heck. I've done enough. I'll just stop at 2012?'" I suppose the end of the world isn't a funny matter and that the Mayans wouldn't do anything randomly.

I don't know what to make of this 2012 prediction. Guess we'll find out soon enough!