 Originally Posted by Scatterbrain
Well, Don Alejandro just shot himself in the foot.
I've already stated this many times before: 26 000 is the number of years associated with the precession of the Earth. So yes, this 2012 prediction is also bunk. Why? Simple:
1. There's no strong side effects from the precession. Also, the starting point for counting cycles is completely arbitrary.
2. The cycle is just approximately 26 000 years, not exactly, and in fact the value has even decreased over time. So even if the Mayans were right and for whatever magical reason the precession had an effect on us at a certain point during the cycle, they'd still be wrong about the date it'd happen in. "2012" happened decades ago.
2012 didn't happen decades ago. The precession isn't arbitrary. The Sun and the earth don't always align with the bulge of the milky way. This is something that only happens apx every 26,000 years. This is the cycle of the sun, as our sun revolves around the milky way. That is science, not myth or magic.
Don Alejandro is a great man, who only wants to spread the message of peace and love. Not doomsday and gloom.
The Mayans had the most accurate calender in ancient history. We already know their calender is not 100% precise. Does that make it any less remarkable? No. Considering the only technology they had was to look at the stars, they were greatest astronomers of their time.
The end of a cycle and the birth of the new cycle isn't something that happens instantly over night. Or on the December 21 2012. Did I say this? Did I say that Don Alejandro says this? You made a false assumption. We are actually aligned with the center of the galaxy for a much longer period than a day. The Mayans absolutely recognize this. The Mayans believe in a transition period.
The idea that we are only aligned with it on December 21 2012 is something that "white men" have taught. Not Mayans. We are in the transition period according to the Mayans. A transition period that started years ago, and could end anywhere around 2015. If anything, 2012 is the height of this transition period. But not the beginning or ending.
The effect on mankind has nothing to do with some sort of physical effect from the physical precession. That is not what the Mayans are teaching. The effect on mankind is spiritual. This is the message of the Mayans. They believe spiritual evolutionary leaps happen accordingly to these cycles. Why? Because they believe in cycles. They believe cycles are natural. They believe spiritual evolutionary leaps happen in natural cycles, as natural of the cycle of the moon onto a womans body.
It is important to understand they do not separate spirituality from nature. This means in their eyes, spiritual/cultural cycles coincide with natural cycles
Again, bad things are already happening. And will no doubt escalate. Not because of the date 2012. But because we are in the end of a cycle. Many futurists and scientists agree we are at the end of a cycle, their beliefs have nothing to do with the message of the Mayans though. But it does perfectly coincide with it.
What is this cycle futurists are talking about? Look at the start of the 1900's. Look at the year 2000. It's only a hundred years difference. Yet who in 1900 could have predicted the world in 2000? Futurists and scientists agree, no one can accurately predict the world in 2100. No one knows what technology we will have only one hundred years from now
All they can do is look at the curve, the trends and see that our technology is heading towards and evolutionary leap mankind has never seen or dreamed of. And this is precisely the problem.
The problem is if mankind doesn't evolve with her technology, then we will inevitibly use it poorly. It would be like chimpanzees driving cars. Total disaster.
And while no one can foresee the technology we will have, what they can forsee is us. We are a stubborn race. We have proven throughout our history the refusal to change until our livlihoods are threatened. How serious have we taken global warming? I mean, how many people have returned to Lousiana even though it's almost a certain gaurantee it will sink beneath the ocean?
Our refusal to change until threatened is the very cycle that is coming to an end. Why? Because this time around, we can't afford to wait. If we wait till the polar ice caps to melt to change our lives, it will be too late. If we wait till our rivers and lakes dry up to change the way we treat water, it will be too late. Our crops will fail. Americans, not just the third world, will starve . If we wait, believe it or not, to 2015 to change the way we drive..........The american economy will crash soon after.
The overall message being given to us by these scientists and futurists is the same. Mankind is heading on course with global disaster on a proportion we have never seen before.
But even more important, is the message that we can't wait for disaster to strike us.The real message is we only have small window of opportunity of time to radically change the way we live, the way we eat, the way we do business, the way we treat each other, and the way we treat the earth.
We are in that small window of opportunity of time
This small window of opportunity of time coincides with the message of the Mayans, the Hopis and others.
The parallels don't end there. According to the Mayans, the next cycle of the Sun we are entering is one that brings us closest to God. Earth will become a paradise. Paradise at hand is universal in almost all major religions.
Scientists and futurists are seeing something similiar, just without the God part. Think of every single major problem affecting mankind. Poverty. Bad business. Poor governments. Disease. War. Famine. Destruction of supporting ecosystems. Even empty and meaningless jobs that plague americans with depression. All of these problems are connected.
To really solve one problem, is to solve them all. To save the trees, you have to first save the starving. To save the starving you need to transform bad business and transform failed governments, and so on and so on.
If we want to prevent the global catostrophes that will engulf us in the next hundred years - we have to solve all world's major problems. Each and every one. If we could see this future, how would we describe it? Would we think it's paradise?
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