Look, the 2012 hoax is laughlable. I'm glad you are not believing that the world will end anymore. Well, like the Tyler's story helped you, your story will help other people too.

I want to learn about this 'planet X' and (hopefully) prove how it is real.

Well, "Planet X" is a big lie. You can see here a funny explanation of what is Nibiru (Planet X). In poor words, nothing. And you can see the Planet X page in 2012hoax.org here. But you can go to 'links' page and search for more references that debunks this imaginary planet, too. And David Morrison, in NASA website, debunks it too.

And, 'Bring on 2012!'

My name is Mim and for the past six months I've been terrified of 2012. At sixteen years old I had just started to discover the possibilities of my life. I want to be a digital artist or a writer. However these dreams stopped as soon as I heard of the end of the world. I was considering dropping out of school and looking for a 2012 shelter. My brother describing the 2012 movie didn't help me. I was terrified of dying, soon however I began the thought of "whats the point anyway?". I didn't sleep and was forever on the verge of being sick. Every time I asked a question about 2012, I was trolled and spun deeper into depression.
I was preparing myself for death, if the world was ending in 2012 well let's just say I wasn't going to wait that long. A friend of my was talking and joking about it, it was then I decided to do some research. The first article I came across was a BBC report about a 53 year old man packing up and moving to a mountain to try and survive 2012. Then the article spoke about how another guy was making thousands of dollars in selling survival kits online. I then read about other people and how much money they were making out of the fear for the end of the world.
This was when I started to ask myself if this was ligate or just a hoax. I soon saw other people asking the same questions and some were even talking about an ancient civilisations calendar. I began to research this and read about how this calendar predicted the end of the world. This calendar was written 300 years ago. I began to think maybe I was going to the wrong sites. Sites that were truly trolling me. Was the worlds end really based on a calendar written 300 years ago? I read wild stories about the our solar system being pulled/moved around. I read that this had never happened before, but now 2012 was coming around. Well, it was happing. The site told me that our entire solar system would be moving to the centre of space, more than likely causing an ice age and we would all die. No scientific explanations or research offered.
I then however discovered this site and started to read. I felt a smile on my lips, an interesting sensation that I haven't felt in ages. I read your story, thank you. Needless to say you have helped me, I now will be going back for my final year in school I plan to go to uni and do my best to help other people that worry about 2012. I also may even begin to explore the stars. I was obsessed with space when I was younger, this hoax has brought back this interest. Maybe I do have something to thank 2012 for. I want to learn about this 'planet X' and (hopefully) prove how it is real.
You along with this site showed me the end of the tunnel.
As facebook says:
'Bring on 2012!'

You write very well. Anytime that you want to write for us, just jump right in. I can't promise you much of anything except a warm fuzzy feeling when somebody posts in the forum saying how much we helped them.

But I was more impressed by the way everyone here is so respectful of everyone, even the woo-woos that try to come in and try to upset the balance. I have NEVER seen ANY forum that has been as respectful to all sides of an argument/debate/discussion as this one.

I have always felt that I wanted to help others through my own experiences with this (even to the extent of wanting to write a book on the topic), but never really felt the confidence or had the outlet to go through with it. What is happening here is truly special, in every sense of the word. Everyone involved deserves the highest commendation for the effort, and I'll be checking in frequently to see what other's experiences have been and (if you all don't mind) try to chime in with my limited knowledge and infinite understanding and sympathy. I know what this paranoia and fear did to cripple two years of my life. I just hope that others see what I and everyone else has written of our personal experiences and find the strength to see their own path. I may be a little more humorous than others, but that's just how I deal with things.

Please keep up the good fight here. And if there's ever anything I can do to aid the cause, let me know. While you may have not appeared soon enough to directly help me through the worst of it, you have definitely shone the floodlight that illuminated the end of the tunnel, and for that, I thank you all. From the admins and mods to the people who just present their questions and concerns, because lord knows I've had more than a few of my own.

If you don't mind, I'd like to republish this on the site under the 'Stories' section. If you would like to make any revisions to it, you would be able to do so.

Would that be OK?

My father is an amateur astronomer, and so I too have found the possibilities of the universe to be infinitely fascinating. Every year, I make it a point to go sit in his driveway with the binoculars and the telescope to see Perseid and Leonid and always have a great time with it.

I sincerely hope that this site reaches more people as time goes by. There's too much real fear and uncertainty in the world these days without the Art Bell Brigade adding to people's general sense of agitation. However, I'm a firm believer that nothing is ever as bad as they say it is when it's bad, nor is it as good when they say it's good. I'd love for more people to just find their grounding, agree to disagree, and stop co-opting the mythology of other cultures to suit their own twisted needs.

I know that got off topic, but the whole experience has made me a much more level human in all aspects of my life, not just in the realm of my irrational fear. And to those who insist on playing into this hysteria, I say embrace it in a positive sense. So that when December 24, 2012 rolls around, and you sit sown with your families for a loving and wonderful Christmas Eve, you'll know that you've just stared down ultimate fear, refusing to blink, and living your life the way you always should have.

That is an awesome story. Thank you for having the courage to step up and tell us about it, and I have no doubt that reading your story will help others who find themselves in the same situation.

Just so you know, I find the mysteries of the universe awe-inspiring, and fill me with a profound sense of wonder and curiosity. What we know is so much less than what we don't know.

I'm not an atheist myself, so there is definitely room for a spiritual life while maintaining a scientific outlook.

From what I've read on this site (and it has been ALL OF IT. Including the forum posts.), I feel like my mind was in a very strange state of fugue. For most, it sounds as though they hear about these asinine predictions and instantly decide to believe them or not. I would best equate my experience as though my mind were a cocktail party with one-hundred people in attendance. Ninety-nine of these people are conducting themselves in a quiet and reasonable manner, discussing things that most people would open conversation about in such a situation. Then there's that one a-hole in the middle of the room, bringing the party down with his crackpot conspiracy theories on this and that. You know the type. That one guy WHO KNOWS the score and is going to tell you exactly "what the government doesn't want you to know" and "could be killed for telling you." Usually, you can shut him up and tell him to leave, but in this case, someone saw fit to give him a bullhorn and turn him into Gilbert-Frakkin'-Godfrey. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that all talk of the Yellowstone super-caldera blowing, Oort cloud comets, and Planet X (which DOES exist…Marvin the Martian and Duck Dodgers told me so…) were so beyond the beyond of anything rational, yet I still found myself powerless in the face of irrational fear.

I would drive my friends Tom Cruise crazy with how much I would try to talk to them about this. Of course, no one wanted to, and I felt kind of cast off for a very long time. So, true to my personal nature, when something comes along that rattles my fragile sense of control in my life, I studied. I found books on Mayan history and after a while, something strange happened. I stopped worrying and wound up finding myself fascinated by the culture itself, and realized that there was nothing in the annals of their history (or the Aztecs, the Olmecs or the Hopi, for that matter) that would EVER indicate that they even came close to predicting some great cataclysm. Furthermore, I proceeded to take up the study of cults and abnormal psychology as well as western and eastern philosophy. These ideas are nothing new and in the modern age, it would seem that this kind of fear-mongering is more of an attempt by the tin-foil hat brigade to fight off that last wave of reason delivering the deathstroke to magic and wonder. Specifically in the "First World" as it were, seems to live in a perpetual state of technological advancement, and as such has developed an unparalleled ability to categorize, rationalize and put everything in its place. We have absolutely no more wonder. No sense of awe over anything. As a civilization, the last of our mythology has died. Killed by the indiscriminate hand of all that is intellectual.

I feel a level of empathy with those who want to believe, with all their hearts, that something, ANYTHING, will happen on December 21, 2012. In a world of instant gratification and better, faster, now-er, there's nothing left. We've caught up to the precipice of knowledge, and this seems more a way for some to maintain some sense of wonder and awe. Unfortunately, their desire to retain this has already come at a cost immesurable to the psychological and, in the extreme cases, physical damage this has caused to children and adults alike.

For myself, I've finally come full-circle. Where, like some, I would feel like I was getting over my fears and apprehension and something would come along and screw it up (I refused to go to the movies for the better part of a year because I didn't want to see a trailer for a certain Roland Emmerich movie). I was still very tenuous right up until about a month ago. Music would reference it, the news would talk about the presidential election and Sarah Palin making a bid (which would send me RIGHT BACK DOWN if she were to win), or just some random convergence of those numbers would make me stop short and my heart would skip a beat. But time has passed, I found this website, and I now have no more fear of the future. Hell, I'm even kinda looking forward to seeing that epic pile that Emmerich has laid down at our feet just for a good laugh, if nothing else.

…who am I kidding…that flick actually looks like a lot of fun now that I can take it for what it is…

For those who wind up reading this, just know that no matter how old you are, no prophesy, prediction, premonition or precognition will come to pass that can do more violence to you than what you are capable of in your own mind. It just takes time. Chances are, you won't even realize that you're doing better until well into 2013.

Keep the faith my friends. Listen to Hoax, Astro, Posh and the gang. These cats know what they're talking about. But don't just take their word for it. Look it up. Research. Not just those things that verify what you want to hear, but also the other side of the argument, so you can then successfully challenge all who try to tell you otherwise. Hell, I enrolled in a course at the community college in Meso-American anthropology and have now found a new love of history. And now I know.

And knowing is half the battle.