well, doomsday predictions are a central building block of christianity, well, the loopy southern baptists that populate my area anyways. I feel that most of it is just scare tactics.
and again, dont believe that 2012 will be a doomsday, but an awakening as a whole would be great. i spoke to guy at work about this today, the unity aspect. as soon as i said unity he freaked out an was like "one world government is horrible blah blah blah". i never said anything about that, just unity within the human race.
he then brought up an interesting point that it is human nature to want their own "space"....his quote "this is my 2x2 section, that is yours, if you come in mine i will beat you" i just cracked up laughing, so pessimistic.