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 in 30 years!  I'll stop saving for retirement then. 
 no, keep saving, but think about how to get into a place where you won't get washed away by the ocean flooding everything and the rain dumping petatons of water on you at the same time

also, pray that there is a Jesus and he's coming with his posse to collect the righteous 
 oh wait, so is 2nd coming something that also happens every 12,000 years? and they just take the lucky ones somewhere safe until it's all over and the cycle repeats? 
 The Hopi nation from the 4 corners region (Utah/Arizona, NM, Colorado) have the legend that they emerged from a cave in the ground and the god told them to spread out. 
 yes, "a god" in old myths is a keyword that usually refers to a human with advanced scientific knowledge and benevolent intentions, usually... some of them are not benevolent, thus shit like the human sacrifice of the aztecs and the more modern cult of kings