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Originally posted by Paul_Richard
reply to post by Jn
I was referring to the current New Age religions as they exist today and obviously not the generic definition of "new age."
You have articulated an interesting argument. Whether the projected timeframe is 2012 or 2016 makes little difference as they are so near one another.
However, I think it best that we just 'agree to disagree.'
The reason: I find The History Channel to be a much more credible source of information about the Mayans and their astrological paradigm than you or the source you cite.
Thank you.
How Not to Make a 2012 Documentary
John Major Jenkins. July 28, 2006.
Sounds like a fairly non-biased survey of ideas, theories, and scholarship. Well, it’s not. It’s 45 minutes of unabashed doomsday hype and the worst kind of inane sensationalism. The History Channel educates us only in how NOT to make a documentary about 2012. I speak from the vantage of someone who was consulted on the script content. In addition, as a researcher into Maya cosmology and the Mesoamerican calendar systems, I was also interviewed for the documentary and appear in several segments. In fact, my pioneering work was supposed to be featured. However, the original concept for the presentation morphed through a series of executive edits to result in the error-riddled and flagrant attempt at fear-mongering and sensationalism that you can view on August 3. I’m always interested in clarity in examining how these things happen, so will share the background to the production of the documentary.
Alten wrote an initial two-page treatment for the History Channel’s segment producer, and it oozed with doomsday. My work, on the other hand, examines the early Maya site of Izapa, as the likely locus of the origin of the Long Count calendar (the 2012 calendar). The monuments of Izapa are thus viable sources of information on the original formulation of “the 2012 prophecy.” I also have investigated the symbolism of the Maya ballgame and the Hero Twin Creation Myth to propose a new interpretation of the Maya World Age doctrine being based in astronomy. In brief, all evidence points to a repeating sequence of World Ages. To the extent that 2012 is the end of a World Age, the idea of a definite apocalypse and cataclysm is simply short-sighted. Instead, for the Maya, period endings great and small were always met with expectations of renewal and rituals to facilitate transformation.
alignment2012.com...
Originally posted by Jn
Nobody is denying that there are changes happening in society, what people in this thread have been saying is that because we know in advance, that we dont need to get caught up in the Fear and Hype, around said "changes".
Originally posted by Jn
Its like how the Media are putting a doom and gloom slant on 2012, this will have the effect of creating doom and gloom.
Originally posted by Jn
When infact the Mayan long count Calendar, is just that a Calendar, plotting a repeating cycle in the Suns Journey.
So the facts are not doom and gloom, but of course alot of people seem to be getting caught up in doom and gloom.
Originally posted by Jn
And probably on the run up to 2012, it looks like it is gonna be some kind of Y2K scenario, but probably even more hyped....And people said the World was gonna end as a result, so people panicked etc.
Now with the hype building around 2012, it looks like the media is yet again gonna get alot of people panicking, add that to the Financial problems, and all the other fears the media instills and you start to get a bit of a 2012 drama, building up.
Originally posted by Paul_Richard
On the other hand, the air will be ripe for revolution on a number of fronts.
Scary and exciting at the same time
We need a little revolution every once in a while, don't you think?
Originally posted by Two Worlds
This Paul Richard ?
Give us a break.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender persons often find closed doors, closed minds, and closed hearts when it comes to addressing the life of their Souls and spirits. Because so many of us have been rejected, ridiculed, and even reviled by traditional religious communities, many of us avoid investigating and deepening the lives of our Souls and spirits.
From the same site.
Sickened,
TW
Originally posted by darcon
reply to post by Jn
Trust me friend, that is not the same Paul Richards.
I also think that quote is far from what Paul Richard(the one i know), espouses.
I suppose you should edit your post now.
[edit on 3-3-2009 by darcon]