An article offering some measure of antidote to the 2012 hysteria, chronicling the textual foundations of Western apocalypticism.

The difficulty with prophecies — whether based on passages from the Bible or ancient calendars, on solid climate science and economics or the visions of the Mongolian shamans Lawrence E. Joseph visited while researching his books — is that they are almost invariably wrong. Human beings are remarkably bad at predicting even relatively short-term, simple occurrences, such as the weather on Monday or the price of gold on Friday, much less something as vast and complex as the future of humanity.

Many important events of the recent past came as a surprise to most people: World War I, the stock market crash of 1929, the Cold War, the computer age, the economic meltdown of 2008, the Arab Awakening, even the Occupy Wall Street movement. Part of the problem, as Scottish philosopher David Hume pointed out in the eighteenth century, is that we are equipped with a concept of “cause” that constitutes little more than an association of things or events in the past — and projecting the patterns of the past onto the future is perilous.

We read books of narrative history and biography and get the impression that what made things happen, what shaped the story, was always sharply defined and clear, when in fact it wasn’t and more likely still isn’t. The real problem with the future is that it doesn’t yet exist, and the forces that bring it into existence are too complicated, too subtle and volatile and fractal, for us to know in advance — or ever.

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I'm not necessarily saying an apocalypse is coming, but are you/the article trying to say that history doesn't have a tendency to repeat itself? That appears to be the claim: that we misinterpret patterns in history and that it really doesn't repeat itself in some expression.

Many articles, lots of talk and speculation, lots of BS etc. We will see soon what will happen.

2012 welcome!

No-one can predict the future. But warnings of an 'apocalypse' where often right as well: the first and second world wars have been predicted by many people, for instance.

I don´t know what the future will bring, but i do know that many of the things on wich modern society is based are unsustainable. I also believe that economically, we are living in a house of cards; all the crisis we are currently dealing with, that make the news, could be solved but they could also be worsened by our governments; the collapse of lehman-brothers has lead to a series of other domino´s to fall and eventually brought us to a big monetary crisis that could lead to the break-up of the euro.

That has also been predicted by many economists. Those economists said: "first we´ll have a crisis of banks, then we´ll have a crisis of nations..starting with greece, then portugal and eventually leading to the UK and the USA".

Predictions can be wrong. Like i said: no-one can actually predict the future. But keeping the house of cards from collapsing and replacing it´s unsustainable foundations will be a major challenge.

Only one thing is certain: Changes gotta come, and they will come.

Change is always.

Shift in density/dimension
Keep a positive vibration for transportation!

From rational human to hot gas? Bahaha.

The article posits, and I agree, that history seems to repeat itself. In truth, this is only delusion. History never repeats; believing one event to be identical, or even nearly identical, to another is to fall into a mess of assumptions and cognitive biases that leave us blind to the infinite complexities of the world.

I think such theories of historical repetition are particularly suspect when they happen match up with certain ideologically-loaded stories we as a society have been reciting and promulgating for centuries, e.g. the King James bible.

From dense light into less dense light
From lower vibration to higher vibration

^Why would anybody want to go from Bass to Treble?

YOU NEED BOTH!

Also, frequencies are technically more dense when they are higher. See: Sine waves


BTW What apocalypse?

One indian sadhu friend of mine(99,9% of them are imposters or otherwise "fake", but this one had something inside, and had started his chelaship("student" of a guru) since the age of seven) who I met in small himalayan village said very casually to me that there will be a deluge on 28th of november and that he's going to the mountaintops. He stated that there will be 33 lakh (3,300 000) survivors. To believe or not, I don't know( I am not worried)... But he was no ordinary man. To sound crazier, he was talking about some kind of war, something like mahabharata, the war that happened at the end of last cycle. Mayan and indian cycles are very close, I think only 12 year difference between the start of current mayan cycle and the indian kali yuga.

We will see soon enough what happens.

Weather or not our interstellar reptilian overlords come to swoop us up, a planet collides with us and destroys Earth as we know it, or we leave our bodies for a life of pure consciousness; one thing is for sure.
We are already in the midst of global uprising and immense change, so many things are happening in the world right now that are challenging the way we think about life.
Everything from revolution to lasers to burn through the fabric of space. Granted there is always crazy stuff going on. It just seems to be at a peak right now.

We are prepared here at the Homestead. Bring it on.



PS
you'll be able to find our colony in SWWA 3,991,680 inches north of PDX, all peaceful survivors are welcome.