May all the big numbers fall on Ben Bernanke's bald head and smash his little City of London/ʝʊdɛօ-Masonic gold crown. Throw him over the fiscal cliff. That would be a micro-apocalypse I welcome.
The Vulgate is good ... and better than the Mayan calendar. God bless old St. Jerome.
2 Peter 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. per quae ille tunc, mundus aqua inundatus periit.
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. caeli autem qui nunc sunt et terra eodem verbo repositi sunt igni, servati in diem iudicii et perditionis impiorum hominum
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur, in qua caeli magno impetu transient elementa vero calore solventur