See the issue is the only people predicting the end of the world today was doomsday cultists, the media and idiots. Mayan calender is just a long count calender, it predicts nothing but where the stars will be in the sky. One cycle ends another starts, no different then our calenders ending at December 31 and new one starts at January 1st.
Appocalypse is purely whatever you make of what the people running the world are turning it into, that's the real danger, not any solar flare you can't do anything about or aliens invading or planets swooping in and playing Pool with the inner solar system. Natural disaster have been happening for ever, just cause mass media reports it now is the only reason more people witness them, and the earth goes through growing pains, we are just enterting a bad period maybe instead of the calm for the last 2000 yrs.
Peace... and many more years of infantilism, sissydom and the such :)