How to make money using 2012 december panic?

Question

How to make money using 2012 december panic?

Answer 1

Sale tickets to heaven.

Y2K all over again huh?

Answer 2

Go and loot peoples houses when they go to church to pray when 2012 comes around, after all if there stupid enough to believe in 2012 then they should be parted from their worldly goods.

Answer 3

1. Find a body of little-known ancient writing and claim you're the only one who interprets it properly.  If any professionals object, tell everyone that the objection is based on canned, government-approved education.  Mention Tesla.

2. Say that this body of writings predicts the end of the world in December 2012.  Write a book to that effect.  Include lots of irrelevant pictures and meaningless diagrams.  Emphasize how much smarter people were in the past about these things.

3. Call up the local TV news station.  Be polite.  Tell them you have important research that all the mainstream sources are too scared to touch.

4. Blame the government for covering it up.  Say you were followed on the way to the TV studio.

5. Keep waving your book.

6. There is no Rule 6.

7. If your doomsday scenario involves a rogue planet or asteroid, and astronomers ask for evidence, accuse them all of being government plants.  Mention Velikovsy.  Remind the astronomers that they don't know everything, and therefore can't be sure you're wrong; and better safe than sorry.

8. Keep waving the book.

9. Tell people you would have confirmatory evidence if only there was enough money.  Ask for donations.  Tell people you're being denied access to secret government records and secret government facilities that would be able to confirm your findings.  Ask for more donations.  Mention Cheney.

10. Laugh all the way to the bank.

EDIT:  And once again some poor insecure soul has categorically thumbs-downed all the skeptical responses.

Answer 4

say to people world is ending you dont need your money. then swim in it december 22nd  

Answer 5

ZOUNDS!!!   A 2012 question that isn't idiotic.  I wouldn't have thought it was possible.  I'm not sure there IS a panic.  There seems to be a small number of people asking the same question over and over and over again.  I'm not sure why.  Perhaps it amuses some people to just write "2012?" and stir up the rationalist bees nest.  Perhaps its a game.  People competing to get the highest word count from a 2012 post.  I'm a reference librarian and no one has ever asked me for stuff on 2012 or Nibiru or planet X.  Our YA librarian hasn't heard a word about the end of the world from any of our teen patrons.  My guess is this is a complete fabrication.  I doubt if there are more than a couple hundred people who fell for the History channel nonsense.  Perhaps my disdain for the intelligence of middle school students has been in error.

Great answer Clavius!!!

Answer 6

Sell beanies with umbrella's on the top, labeled:  Anti-Niburu Device

Answer 7

Clavius deserves the 10 points.  Brilliant answer.  I particularly liked his mention of Tesla.    

Answer 8

He he. Very cynical, but I like it.

Answer 9

Make a movie. But Roland Emmerich was faster.  

Answer 10

DON'T CAPITALIZE ON STUPIDITY . isn't it bad enought that all these chicken littles are saying the sky is falling

GOOD GRIEF

Answer 11

Sell buttons that say "The End is Near"

Answer 12

In 1910,when halley came they sold comet pills.

There are lot of people who will buy such things by advertisements.