I have a bit of a confession to make.

Thursday, I put out an all-call on Twitter asking our great followers (and Airlock Alpha readers) if they think the world is going to end.

After spending time I can never get back watching a preview of the upcoming Syfy documentary "2012," I really thought there was going to be more crazy talk around me. But to my complete astonishment ... there wasn't.

Read what some of our readers had to say.

SciFi4Me: There's just as much chance that the world will end in 2012 as there is for any other year - or tomorrow, for that matter.

SciFiPartyLine: No, the Earth has no idea what year it is.

CandyMaize: Haven't we already lasted past previous 'end of the world' dates? We seem to keep getting 'extensions' on that date.

celticdenefew: Oh yes! World is totally going to end. Mayans can't be wrong ... plus it makes me less guilty for not planning my retirement.

Yeah, not exactly the answers I was expecting ... and definitely a refreshing change. And now I feel much better in making this very loud and very clear: The world is not going to end in 2012.

Let's try that again for those who might be a little too high on Roland Emmerich's latest destruction trailer that shows the world ending so badly, you can turn the Potomac River into a big tidal wave to smash an aircraft carrier into the White House (I really don't make this up):

The world is not going to end in 2012.

Why? Let's go back to Twitter.

aprilhebert: Pretty sure that nobody knows when it's over! Mayans either ran out of numbers or got bored. That's all.

DVDGeeks: No psychic predictions have ever come true to any degree of accuracy. And furthermore, every time a calendar ends (on, oh, Dec. 31), we don't freak and think the world is ending. Same for Mayans.

I honestly couldn't have said it any better myself. This is the argument that I have been giving for months now, because everyone is freaked out that something finite -- like say a published calendar -- actually finited. OK, that's not a word, but you know what I meant. It ended.

My calendar ends in December every year, yet I'm not freaking out about the end times. I just go, get drunk, find a noisemaker, and watch some big lit-up ball drop in New York City. If I don't drink enough water, I might feel like the end of the world the next morning when I can't get out of bed, but I think that's a little bit different than what we have here.

In this upcoming Syfy documentary called "2012: Startling New Secrets," three yuks -- John Major Jenkins, Robert Schoch and Richard Hoagland -- are convinced that on Dec. 21, 2012, something is going to happen. I'm thinking an NFL playoff game that most likely will not involve the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but these guys think something different.

Jenkins says that there will be some crazy alignment in the Milky Way that day that will bring changes to the planet. Schoch, well, no one knows what he thinks. And Hoagland spends the entire documentary carrying around an opened laptop on Egyptian monuments. I guess he's Twittering or something, I don't know.

But these guys are convinced that something bad will happen. That humanity will be wiped out. That the Earth will tip on its axis. That Madonna will actually win an Oscar.

The documentary airs Nov. 8 on Syfy, and I would definitely encourage you to watch it, not so that you can fall for some of this baloney that has absolutely no basis in anything, but to get a good laugh at the best piece of fiction since the defense portion of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

I honestly don't know how people can get themselves caught up in crap like this. The world has been said to end so many times, that I really lost count. And let's not forget Y2K ... Nostradamus predicted a worldwide collapse because someone forgot to add two digits to computer programming. I did wake up Jan. 1, 2000, to death and decay, but that was my brain thanks to yet another New Years Day hangover. I seem to get a lot of those.

I guess I'm not surprised. CNN puts out breaking news alerts about some guy divorcing a woman with eight kids. Another couple tries to convince the world that his kid is floating around in a balloon that looks like something that came out of an old George Romero movie. And all of this is "news."

Keep crap like this for the movies. Hollywood does a great job in finding ways to destroy the world, especially major landmarks, because heaven forbid after Sept. 11, we really need to see more of that. So let's keep it there, and not waste real people's time with all this.

Because I'll tell you what I'll be doing on Dec. 21, 2012 ... waiting for Dec. 22, 2012 to arrive.

But if I'm wrong? Well one last visit to Twitter for that.

punslingerr: Yes [the world will end] because the doomsday prophecy people will finally be right ... but they won't be able to gloat about it.

Touching.