I really don't go for the "end of the world" scenario myself, or the other end of the spectrum that says we're all going to "ascend" and become 5th dimensional light beings or whatever. But I can't help seeing it as an important day in some sense, it's just been on my mind for too long. And even if it just passes uneventfully for the rest of the world I'm going to MAKE it a significant day for myself by having my first ayahuasca ceremony.

But in looking around at other people's ideas of what it all might mean, I ran across one of these new agey channeler guys who had a take on it that I could actually get behind. Rather than the solstice being some kind of cataclysm or rapture or whatever, he claims that it actually just represents a "tipping point", where our overall global consciousness goes from being weighted just slightly more on the negative side, to being slightly more positive, and that things will gradually gain momentum from there to just generally get better and better for us as a planet. I have no idea if there's any real truth to this or not, but I like the idea and hope that it turns out to be the case.

Maybe It sounds plausible and nothing to far fetched.

It could be looked at like this, Were are currently weighed right now by this whole 2012 idea, so weighed it's keeping us from everything.
And when this day passes and we realize nothing happened this could put on a more positive path.

I am starting to believe this happens, b/c for some reason we all have felt like we were living at the edge of time.
And maybe this has to happen through out civilization, b/c i am sure it was easy for us to get a little of track.

I can only hope this Day will only Bring new light, just like the day before, everyday is a new light, and another day to just be thankful.

How we have even become self conscious self reflecting beings still mind boggles me.

Another side note We are supposedly HumanBeings it's unfortunate That not all of us are human kind, I am sure the nexus family is human is all Human-kind b/c i see kindness all day. But everyone else in the world stuck in politics and thing that are not life, and just being and that's it.

All we can hope and pray for is that these people wake up!!!

I don't know about the rest of the world (actually I think the vast majority probably aren't paying much attention to the date at all one way or the other) But what you're saying here is definitely true of my own life at least. I haven't gone to any crazy extremes to "prepare" like stockpiling food and water or building a bunker or anything like that, but I HAVE left a number of things in my life sort of unifinished and up in the air until next year, pretty much just waiting to see if all the apocolypse hype turns out to create some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. And on that day I plan to be hanging out in the country with a few essentials, just in case. But really I don't think anything big will happen, just like Y2K. It's just too close to christmas for the semi-conscious masses to drop everything and go out rioting or anything like that.

This is my stance on the whole thing as well. I plan on making that day special, moreso than other Pagan holidays. I celebrate them at least in some minor fashion every year, but this one I plan on making unique.

That's exactly how I see it as well, a tipping point. Where we can look back years from now and realize, yes, that was where it all started to change. Maybe it's just hope, wishful thinking, but I do want the world to start to see things in a more positive light. I know I, and many others around me, have. And the hardships ahead will bring us closer as a species.