I saw on the news a guy that spent $140K to post flyers in the New York subway stating that the world would end on May 21. Now what I think should happen is the news should go find that guy and ask him how he feels now. The national news shouldn't have been prior to May 21, the national news should be "Complete Idiot Spends 140K To Post Flyers About World Ending Yesterday" As long as our media keeps making stupid people like this guy news, it will continue to make people believe this crap.
An interesting article related to this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predicted_dates_of_the_end_of_the_world The drama won't end any time soon!
I guess if the chosen ones were lifted up to heaven, it'd be hard to realize they're gone. Not a whole lot of them here on earth who really qualify ya know?