If you can dismiss the Bible and Bible prophecy out of hand, yet embrace ancient cultures' prophecy, quit reading, because they both tie into this.

Now, if you're still here, consider this:

The Bible states that there will be several events spanning several years in the end times. Simply put, there will be no single, ELE that comes and wipes out mankind in one day or hour.

The Mayan prophecy (and Egyptian, and Hopi, etc) point to 12/21/12 as the ushering in of change, or I suppose the beginning of 'the end'.

I am not aware of one prophecy that says we will be wiped out entirely in a day.

Here is what I am asking you to consider...

Perhaps 12/21/12 is the day that the trigger point event takes place. A treaty, an event of worldwide importance, even the birth of or the public emergence of the Anti Christ.

December 21st, 2012 may well just be another ordinary day and folks will laugh it off all the way through New Years Day and beyond. In fact, I think chances are good that it will be.
Yet I still think something epic will take place even if we do not realize it.