posted on Sep, 27 2007 @ 05:02 PM
Actally the OP brings up a serious point, and that is that those awaiting Disclosure are acting out a traditional Cargo Cult. These religious cults
developed in places like the New Guinea highlands after 'civilization' (I use the term loosely) arrived there. This was relatively late as far as
these things go. The highlands is surrounded by mountains. Though there was contact along the coast, the highlands was thought to be uninhabited. Very
very wrong as the highlands was one of the thickest populated and most culturally diverse areas on earth. It had over 1,000 different languages, for
example (an interesting story by itself.)
As what usually happens when a technologically superior culture meets one that is not, the highlanders went from a self-sufficient subsitence level
agricultural society to 'poor and deprived' overnight. When they saw all the 'cargo' the white man had coupled with the takeover of the island
judicially (missionaries, white man's laws, etc.) they developed Cargo Cults that had a millennial flavor. The beliefs were that the day was coming
very soon (like 2012) when cargo airplanes would arrive with all the trade goods ("Cargo" in Pidgin English), the white man and his Christian
religion would be kicked out in favor of the ancestral gods, and they would be rich forever. In many areas they built airports in the jungle and
camped beside them to await the airplanes. Of course, they did not have lasers to vector in the planes like Greer has for UFOs, but the same ideas
apply.
Those interested in this phenomenon might wish to read
The high valley by Kenneth E. Read (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1965, 266 pp.) Read was
a long-time head of the department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle and my professor years ago. His book is not on Cargo
Cults per se, but deals with the ethnography of the highlands of New Guinea and is a fascinating personal account. Another good book on the subject is
The trumpet shall sound by Peter Worsley. (New York: Schocken Books, 1968, 300 pp.) which deals more directly with the cults. And if you want
to see a really good movie on the highlands peoples, see
Dead Birds. It's outstanding!
Anyway, what goes around comes around. Just waituntil 2012 when Disclosure happens, the aliens reveal themselves, and we will enter an era of free
energy and abundance for all. Or not.
[edit on 9/27/2007 by schuyler]