Cover illustration by Warren Popelier
FEZ SEZ_______________________An intro you'll need by Bobby Wildside
'APOCALYPTO NOW'_Wildside on the lowdown of the end of the world
TIMELINE_______________________A bluffer's guide to what's on in 2012
'SUPERIORITY COMPLEX' ________________India Grace on super beings
'FRIENDLY FIRE'_________________________Squizzy B's not scared at all
'OUR EVOLUTION OR OUR DEMISE' __Troy Haines likes his glass half full
'HOW TO SURVIVE THE 2012 APOCALYPSE' _____All you need to know
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Contributors
Zed, Bobby Wildside, Circusmouse, Troy Haines, India Grace, Squizzy B
by Bobby Wildside
MENTION the significance of the date, December 21 2012, and many will counter with nothing more than a blank-faced stare.
But a growing minority will tell you it's the date the lights go out for good - it's Armageddon time. Yep, that's right, it's the day the world shuts up shop and we all shoot down the plughole in some sort of metaphysical disaster. So how come you didn't know? There's even a movie about it, due for release in November.
The prediction stems from the findings of scholars who have studied the Mayan calendar, which lasts 5,125 years and ends in 2012. What has caught the imagination of scientists, environmentalists and futurologists is that this date also coincides with a galactic alignment not seen for 2160 years, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the possible appearance of Planet X/Niburu, which could cause the reversal of the magnetic North and South Poles.
Prophecies in the Egyptian Book Of The Dead, the Hopi Tribe, and the ancient Chinese system of divination, the I-Ching, also point to 2012 as a seminal moment in history.
Whatever happens in 2012, it's going to provide plenty to talk about in the run-up to that date. Let's hope it's the start of a new beginning for mankind, as some philosophers believe. Imagine if, right now, we were on the verge of a "consciousness shift" heralding the start of a much-needed change in human thinking.
The prediction stems from the findings of scholars who have studied the Mayan calendar, which lasts 5,125 years and ends in 2012. What has caught the imagination of scientists, environmentalists and futurologists is that this date also coincides with a galactic alignment not seen for 2160 years, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the possible appearance of Planet X/Niburu, which could cause the reversal of the magnetic North and South Poles.
Prophecies in the Egyptian Book Of The Dead, the Hopi Tribe, and the ancient Chinese system of divination, the I-Ching, also point to 2012 as a seminal moment in history.
Whatever happens in 2012, it's going to provide plenty to talk about in the run-up to that date. Let's hope it's the start of a new beginning for mankind, as some philosophers believe. Imagine if, right now, we were on the verge of a "consciousness shift" heralding the start of a much-needed change in human thinking.
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YOU had better pack your bags and run for the hills - that's if you believe all the hype surrounding 2012, because that's the date upon which much debate has arisen.
A quick surf on the web reveals all sorts of calamities, ranging from the destruction of the great cities and nations of the world under vast tsunamis to notions that the Earth will stop spinning on its axis and even that the magnetic poles will reverse.
What has prompted such apocalyptic predictions are interpretations of the ancient Mayan Calendar, which comes to a grinding halt on December 21, 2012.
New Agers, scholars, the religious and modern-day soothsayers are now the arbiters of hope versus doom as the explosion in 2012 doomsday thinking increases day by day.
Now, us FEZzers are a funny old bunch. Sitting around in the office, it seems we all had lots of different ideas on the possible outcomes of 2012. Some of us were planning on building underground bunkers; others are already watching for signs in the sky after reading of the Hopi Tribe prophecy which warned the end times would come when the Earth was criss-crossed by a giant spider web and a giant blue star would be seen in the sky.
What we aim to do at FEZ is examine a range of facts. It is no way an exhaustive study of the myths surrounding 2012, it's just a taster of some of the ideas, theories and the fact and fiction flying around in cyberspace.
Of course, there have been so many times in mankind's history that Armageddon has been prophesied.
Whether it's the preachers from the Bible Belt or some grotty tabloid, there is no doubting this end-of-the-world lark has got us all in its grip.
For instance, Nostradamus has seemingly predicted our demise several times. In fact, he made a career out of it, including the dates of July 1999, December 1999, June 2002, October 2005 and 2007 as the date for the final bell.
In addition, lots of Protestant Christians say the end of the world will come in the form of the Rapture: this date has been identified by the religious order The Shakers as occurring in 1792, 1843 and 1844 by the Seventh Day Adventists, the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1918, 1925, 1941, 1975, 1984 and 1994, while Jewish scholars are doubtful we'll continue to exist by 2240.
What helped sparked all the trouble is the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. Perhaps something you may never have heard of.
Well, let's tell you, FEZ was equally as surprised to discover this concept. Why had nobody told us about it?
Mesoamerica, if you were wondering, refers to the geographical area in Latin America occupied by ancient cultures who shared the same religious, artistic, architectural and technological beliefs. These people were unique in the Americas from 500 to 1519, when they came into contact with Europeans in the 16th century. Mesoamerica has been described as one of the world's six cradles of early civilisation, and the peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize are today's direct descendants of this rich culture. The Maya have been seen as a genius race, who appearing, disappeared just as rapidly. They built an extraordinarily rich civilisation in their time which has evoked discussion among some Mayan experts that Maya prophecies and their esoteric wisdom could have originated from extraterrestrial origins.
But back to the calendar. The Maya used several different calendars: for different purposes and contexts. Mayan scholars say it is better to talk of a Mayan calendrical system, rather than a singular set-up. But the one that interests us is the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The Long Count is the name given to the chronology used by the Maya to track the long-term passage of time. The Long Count consisted of 13 baktuns - periods of 400 tuns (a tun is a 360-day period). One baktun is therefore 400x360, which is 144,000 days, or 394 solar years and that the beginning date of the 13 baktuns of the Long Count would have begun on August 11, 3114 BCE, 5,125 years ago in our system, or 0.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan set-up
The Great Cycle is a 5,125-year cycle that ends on the Mayan date of 13.0.0.0, or December 21, 2012. 2012 also marks the ending of larger cycles within the Mayan system, one of 26,000 years and another of 104,000 years. All of these cycles are to converge in 2012,
But, just to confound things, there are archaeologists out there, such as Linda Schele and David Freidel, who argue that the Long Count Calendar has been misread by the all the doom-mongers and that the real end of this Mayan Long Count cycle lies some
41, 341, 049, 999,999,999, 999, 999, 994, 879 years into the future. So, perhaps we can all rest easy then?
Well, not exactly, because the Mayan Long Count Calendar has identified some other factors that could play a large part in our lives.
The most fundamental is the precession of the equinoxes. This relates to the fact the Earth's rotational axis is not fixed in space, therefore the rotational axis of the Earth undergoes a slow precession of 26,000 years. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the vernal equinox moves through all the constellations of the Zodiac over a 26,000-year precession period. Presently the vernal equinox is in the constellation Pisces and is slowly approaching Aquarius on 2012.
Also at this time, the December solstice sun shifts along the constellation extremely slowly. The Milky Way crosses through the Zodiac in Sagittarius, forming the Mayan Sacred Tree or 'crossroads' in the sky. This alignment of the solstice Sun and the Milky Way occurs in the years surrounding 2012, aligning the Earth and the Sun with the 'dark rift' (a band of black dust clouds near the Galactic Centre of the Milky Way which could lead to a reversal of the magnetic poles).
Plus, in 2012, turn your eyes to the sky (with the aid of a telescope) and you'll observe a Venus transit, in which Venus crosses between the Earth and the Sun - a pair of these occur once every century.
And it's not just underfunded scientists and dusty scholars out there revealing all the wonders of the universe that will unfold in 2012. NASA tells us there will be a peak in Sunspot activity (perhaps causing massive electromagnetic disruption on Earth), as well as the passing of Asteroid 433 Eros which pass within 17 million miles of the Earth.
FEZzers were perplexed about one very particular idea though: that of a mysterious rogue planet turning up on our doorstep in 2012. Known as Nibiru (or Planet X), this eleventh appearance, it is said by some, would be able to kick the Earth over on its axis, push Africa to the pole and Antarctic to the equator. It's all thought that Nibiru could even stop the Earth from rotating and peel the Earth's crust off just like the peel of an orange.
Named Planet X after a planet with a similar orbit in Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, there is debate over whether this is the object seen on an ancient Sumerian tablet by researchers.
After looking at all the evidence, FEZ reckons there's no archaeological or historical proof that the Mayans expected the world to end in 2012.
The Mayans made no predictions about the end of the world on that date. The fact that the carvings on their calendar only depicted the 13 baktuns taking us to 2012 may mean nothing more than they didn't expect people in the 21st century to be so interested in working out the hidden meaning behind their archaic calendar.
If their civilisation had survived the Conquistadors of Spain and the ensuing genocide, we reckon the Mayans may have turned their hands to crafting the next Long Count Calendar for the ensuing 5,125 years.
A quick surf on the web reveals all sorts of calamities, ranging from the destruction of the great cities and nations of the world under vast tsunamis to notions that the Earth will stop spinning on its axis and even that the magnetic poles will reverse.
What has prompted such apocalyptic predictions are interpretations of the ancient Mayan Calendar, which comes to a grinding halt on December 21, 2012.
New Agers, scholars, the religious and modern-day soothsayers are now the arbiters of hope versus doom as the explosion in 2012 doomsday thinking increases day by day.
Now, us FEZzers are a funny old bunch. Sitting around in the office, it seems we all had lots of different ideas on the possible outcomes of 2012. Some of us were planning on building underground bunkers; others are already watching for signs in the sky after reading of the Hopi Tribe prophecy which warned the end times would come when the Earth was criss-crossed by a giant spider web and a giant blue star would be seen in the sky.
What we aim to do at FEZ is examine a range of facts. It is no way an exhaustive study of the myths surrounding 2012, it's just a taster of some of the ideas, theories and the fact and fiction flying around in cyberspace.
Of course, there have been so many times in mankind's history that Armageddon has been prophesied.
Whether it's the preachers from the Bible Belt or some grotty tabloid, there is no doubting this end-of-the-world lark has got us all in its grip.
For instance, Nostradamus has seemingly predicted our demise several times. In fact, he made a career out of it, including the dates of July 1999, December 1999, June 2002, October 2005 and 2007 as the date for the final bell.
In addition, lots of Protestant Christians say the end of the world will come in the form of the Rapture: this date has been identified by the religious order The Shakers as occurring in 1792, 1843 and 1844 by the Seventh Day Adventists, the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1918, 1925, 1941, 1975, 1984 and 1994, while Jewish scholars are doubtful we'll continue to exist by 2240.
What helped sparked all the trouble is the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. Perhaps something you may never have heard of.
Well, let's tell you, FEZ was equally as surprised to discover this concept. Why had nobody told us about it?
Mesoamerica, if you were wondering, refers to the geographical area in Latin America occupied by ancient cultures who shared the same religious, artistic, architectural and technological beliefs. These people were unique in the Americas from 500 to 1519, when they came into contact with Europeans in the 16th century. Mesoamerica has been described as one of the world's six cradles of early civilisation, and the peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize are today's direct descendants of this rich culture. The Maya have been seen as a genius race, who appearing, disappeared just as rapidly. They built an extraordinarily rich civilisation in their time which has evoked discussion among some Mayan experts that Maya prophecies and their esoteric wisdom could have originated from extraterrestrial origins.
But back to the calendar. The Maya used several different calendars: for different purposes and contexts. Mayan scholars say it is better to talk of a Mayan calendrical system, rather than a singular set-up. But the one that interests us is the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The Long Count is the name given to the chronology used by the Maya to track the long-term passage of time. The Long Count consisted of 13 baktuns - periods of 400 tuns (a tun is a 360-day period). One baktun is therefore 400x360, which is 144,000 days, or 394 solar years and that the beginning date of the 13 baktuns of the Long Count would have begun on August 11, 3114 BCE, 5,125 years ago in our system, or 0.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan set-up
The Great Cycle is a 5,125-year cycle that ends on the Mayan date of 13.0.0.0, or December 21, 2012. 2012 also marks the ending of larger cycles within the Mayan system, one of 26,000 years and another of 104,000 years. All of these cycles are to converge in 2012,
But, just to confound things, there are archaeologists out there, such as Linda Schele and David Freidel, who argue that the Long Count Calendar has been misread by the all the doom-mongers and that the real end of this Mayan Long Count cycle lies some
41, 341, 049, 999,999,999, 999, 999, 994, 879 years into the future. So, perhaps we can all rest easy then?
Well, not exactly, because the Mayan Long Count Calendar has identified some other factors that could play a large part in our lives.
The most fundamental is the precession of the equinoxes. This relates to the fact the Earth's rotational axis is not fixed in space, therefore the rotational axis of the Earth undergoes a slow precession of 26,000 years. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the vernal equinox moves through all the constellations of the Zodiac over a 26,000-year precession period. Presently the vernal equinox is in the constellation Pisces and is slowly approaching Aquarius on 2012.
Also at this time, the December solstice sun shifts along the constellation extremely slowly. The Milky Way crosses through the Zodiac in Sagittarius, forming the Mayan Sacred Tree or 'crossroads' in the sky. This alignment of the solstice Sun and the Milky Way occurs in the years surrounding 2012, aligning the Earth and the Sun with the 'dark rift' (a band of black dust clouds near the Galactic Centre of the Milky Way which could lead to a reversal of the magnetic poles).
Plus, in 2012, turn your eyes to the sky (with the aid of a telescope) and you'll observe a Venus transit, in which Venus crosses between the Earth and the Sun - a pair of these occur once every century.
And it's not just underfunded scientists and dusty scholars out there revealing all the wonders of the universe that will unfold in 2012. NASA tells us there will be a peak in Sunspot activity (perhaps causing massive electromagnetic disruption on Earth), as well as the passing of Asteroid 433 Eros which pass within 17 million miles of the Earth.
FEZzers were perplexed about one very particular idea though: that of a mysterious rogue planet turning up on our doorstep in 2012. Known as Nibiru (or Planet X), this eleventh appearance, it is said by some, would be able to kick the Earth over on its axis, push Africa to the pole and Antarctic to the equator. It's all thought that Nibiru could even stop the Earth from rotating and peel the Earth's crust off just like the peel of an orange.
Named Planet X after a planet with a similar orbit in Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, there is debate over whether this is the object seen on an ancient Sumerian tablet by researchers.
After looking at all the evidence, FEZ reckons there's no archaeological or historical proof that the Mayans expected the world to end in 2012.
The Mayans made no predictions about the end of the world on that date. The fact that the carvings on their calendar only depicted the 13 baktuns taking us to 2012 may mean nothing more than they didn't expect people in the 21st century to be so interested in working out the hidden meaning behind their archaic calendar.
If their civilisation had survived the Conquistadors of Spain and the ensuing genocide, we reckon the Mayans may have turned their hands to crafting the next Long Count Calendar for the ensuing 5,125 years.
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Events to look out for in 2012.
January 31: 433 Eros, the second largest near Earth object on record (size 13x13x13km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019km; 16,639,090ml). NASA studied Eros in 1996.
March 22: Unless the European Council votes to extend current copyright law, The Beatles' debut album, 'Please Please Me', will fall out of copyright.
May 20: Annular solar eclipse. Path of totality runs through Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
June 6: The second and last solar transit of Venus this century.
October 21: 'Neighbours' producers plan on axing the popular long running soap on December 19.
November 13: Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
December 21: The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilisation among others, completes it's 13th baktun.
December 31: The Kyoto Protocol expires.
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March 22: Unless the European Council votes to extend current copyright law, The Beatles' debut album, 'Please Please Me', will fall out of copyright.
May 20: Annular solar eclipse. Path of totality runs through Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
June 6: The second and last solar transit of Venus this century.
October 21: 'Neighbours' producers plan on axing the popular long running soap on December 19.
November 13: Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
December 21: The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilisation among others, completes it's 13th baktun.
December 31: The Kyoto Protocol expires.
THE term 'homo superior' was first used in 1935 and attributed to British author Olaf Stapledon, which is interesting, because, around the same time, a chap in Germany was putting in motion programmes to breed his own race of such super beings. In 2012, there is conjecture that, with the enlightenment that mankind will undergo as a result of the cosmic alignment, the human race will evolve from mere 'sapiens' to 'superiors'.
So, what can we make of it; is it fact or fiction? Well, somewhat predictably, it's both.
In fiction, a majority of comics, graphic novels, cartoons, movies and games wouldn't exist if it weren't for homo superior, and without the muscle bound freakshow and the fantastical super powers, generations of male homo sapiens (and some females, too), would have to spend more time hanging out with their parents and their mates, too, (even though it's the end of the world if those same kids have to interact with each other without a keyboard or a mobile phone).
Currently, the homo superior flag is being carried by the marvelous X-Men. However, could these mutants with such a plethora of mental and physical weapons at their disposal combine to defeat the original super being, a humanoid so super, he is called, 'Superman'? The fanboys among you can debate the outcome of that battle.
Superman, it can be argued, wasn't human, so he can't be classified as homo superior. As everyone knows, he was sent from another planet to "rescue" us from ourselves. Perhaps, rather than send a 'superman' to us, a whole planet is coming our way instead, in the form of the conspiracy theorist's mysterious Planet X, or, if you are a Sumerian scholar, the equally mysterious Nibiru. Could it be that these super beings have decided that the job of saving Earth is just too big for just one of them alone, and they have all decided to come and pitch in to get the job done quicker? Yes, fanboys, it WOULD be sooo cool.
Anyhoo, back to the real world.
So, what can we make of it; is it fact or fiction? Well, somewhat predictably, it's both.
In fiction, a majority of comics, graphic novels, cartoons, movies and games wouldn't exist if it weren't for homo superior, and without the muscle bound freakshow and the fantastical super powers, generations of male homo sapiens (and some females, too), would have to spend more time hanging out with their parents and their mates, too, (even though it's the end of the world if those same kids have to interact with each other without a keyboard or a mobile phone).
Currently, the homo superior flag is being carried by the marvelous X-Men. However, could these mutants with such a plethora of mental and physical weapons at their disposal combine to defeat the original super being, a humanoid so super, he is called, 'Superman'? The fanboys among you can debate the outcome of that battle.
Superman, it can be argued, wasn't human, so he can't be classified as homo superior. As everyone knows, he was sent from another planet to "rescue" us from ourselves. Perhaps, rather than send a 'superman' to us, a whole planet is coming our way instead, in the form of the conspiracy theorist's mysterious Planet X, or, if you are a Sumerian scholar, the equally mysterious Nibiru. Could it be that these super beings have decided that the job of saving Earth is just too big for just one of them alone, and they have all decided to come and pitch in to get the job done quicker? Yes, fanboys, it WOULD be sooo cool.
Anyhoo, back to the real world.
Illustration by Warren Popelier (click on image to enlarge)
The line between fact and fiction has been blurred recently by the US military machine, which obviously thinks that the world will continue on as normal after 2012, and rather than breed super soldiers, they are looking to go beyond the physical capabilities of their current personnel, by designing peripherals that will, supposedly, enhance them to wage war on a 'super' scale. The new suit, called 'Future Soldier 2030', has been likened to the suit worn by the Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars, but doesn't look anywhere near as cool. The prototype includes a sensor activated helmet with a computer screen in the visor. The exoskeleton (for that is what it really is) contains sophisticated software and sensors that detect if a soldier has been wounded or fatigued (and KIA, presumably). Should any of those happen, a message will be automatically relayed to HQ. So, they've produced a superior soldier, but not a super being.
Throughout human history there have been many superior homo sapiens, and much like the X-Men, each one had a 'super' ability, mental or physical. Curiously, in the real world, in spite of everyone having lists of who we think are 'super', it's still pretty subjective. One person's brilliant mind is another's quack.
Einstein, springs to mind immediately, and was a brilliant theoretical physicist beyond dispute. Leonardo Da Vinci is another 'genius', often referred to as a 'Renaissance Man', which is otherwise, but less commonly, known as 'homo universalis'. Another word to describe someone like Da Vinci is 'polymath', and if one was to look it up on the 'net (Wikipedia, for example), you'd find a list of polymaths that contains NO women. This is particularly disturbing, as it is hard to believe that the human race would evolve without some input from the female sex.
There are however, some miracles that have been recorded that polymaths for all their intelligence and genius couldn’t produce, events that to disprove they took place is as difficult to prove they did. Walking on water, healing the sick, feeding thousands of people with a little bread and a few fish, shouldering burdens that no-one could imagine, and finally, rising from the dead. Maybe the person who did all these things was a ‘homo superior’, enlightened in a way that we still struggle to comprehend. Maybe this person has already walked amongst us. Maybe this person was called Jesus. Maybe we killed him.
Throughout human history there have been many superior homo sapiens, and much like the X-Men, each one had a 'super' ability, mental or physical. Curiously, in the real world, in spite of everyone having lists of who we think are 'super', it's still pretty subjective. One person's brilliant mind is another's quack.
Einstein, springs to mind immediately, and was a brilliant theoretical physicist beyond dispute. Leonardo Da Vinci is another 'genius', often referred to as a 'Renaissance Man', which is otherwise, but less commonly, known as 'homo universalis'. Another word to describe someone like Da Vinci is 'polymath', and if one was to look it up on the 'net (Wikipedia, for example), you'd find a list of polymaths that contains NO women. This is particularly disturbing, as it is hard to believe that the human race would evolve without some input from the female sex.
There are however, some miracles that have been recorded that polymaths for all their intelligence and genius couldn’t produce, events that to disprove they took place is as difficult to prove they did. Walking on water, healing the sick, feeding thousands of people with a little bread and a few fish, shouldering burdens that no-one could imagine, and finally, rising from the dead. Maybe the person who did all these things was a ‘homo superior’, enlightened in a way that we still struggle to comprehend. Maybe this person has already walked amongst us. Maybe this person was called Jesus. Maybe we killed him.
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NOWADAYS, it seems every Joe has his own theory about December 21, 2012. The hippies see it as the age of Aquarius, in which a miraculous spiritual awakening will deliver us from self destruction, the Christians are donning their Sunday best in preparation for a visit from the big JC, while the doomists reckon we'll be playing intergalactic billiards with the mysterious Planet X. And the gullible? Well....they're just lapping it up.
Whether you're making a movie or selling a survival kit, 2012 is about to become big business. And why not? Any entrepreneur who sees the easy pickings created by global hysteria is so gonna jump on this one. One only needs to google that number to get page after page of doomsday drivel. At last count there were actually 19 listings on the subject before there was any mention of the London Olympics. Everyone has an angle and they're not afraid to use it.
Take the recent infatuation with the Mayan culture. Many people are throwing around the idea we are approaching the end of days as predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. In fact the calendar does not predict this at all, it merely completes it's cycle on this date.
Religion has another take on this madness. The Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths all tell us that the current wars, famine and widespread destruction, are documented in their scriptures, heralding 2012 with the coming peril of divine retribution. It's ironic these faiths are responsible for the wars they predict. These religions are governed by faith and hide behind the cloak of God's will to absolve them. Quite tidy really.
My computer and I worked out that 21/12/12 will be a Friday and the next day with be Saturday 22 and the day after that will be Sunday 23. We'll still be the same self absorbed, greedy creatures we pretend we're not. We'll still measure our worth by the labels on our clothes, the size of our wide screens, the length of our cocks or the tightness of our pussies. We'll still hide behind our gods and label our wrong doings as their will because we're too fucking gutless to be responsible for our actions. As for the age of enlightenment, I really can't see it happening by 2012. If it's taken us this long to get so fucked up, we ain't gonna fix it in just three years.
Whether you're making a movie or selling a survival kit, 2012 is about to become big business. And why not? Any entrepreneur who sees the easy pickings created by global hysteria is so gonna jump on this one. One only needs to google that number to get page after page of doomsday drivel. At last count there were actually 19 listings on the subject before there was any mention of the London Olympics. Everyone has an angle and they're not afraid to use it.
Take the recent infatuation with the Mayan culture. Many people are throwing around the idea we are approaching the end of days as predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. In fact the calendar does not predict this at all, it merely completes it's cycle on this date.
Religion has another take on this madness. The Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths all tell us that the current wars, famine and widespread destruction, are documented in their scriptures, heralding 2012 with the coming peril of divine retribution. It's ironic these faiths are responsible for the wars they predict. These religions are governed by faith and hide behind the cloak of God's will to absolve them. Quite tidy really.
My computer and I worked out that 21/12/12 will be a Friday and the next day with be Saturday 22 and the day after that will be Sunday 23. We'll still be the same self absorbed, greedy creatures we pretend we're not. We'll still measure our worth by the labels on our clothes, the size of our wide screens, the length of our cocks or the tightness of our pussies. We'll still hide behind our gods and label our wrong doings as their will because we're too fucking gutless to be responsible for our actions. As for the age of enlightenment, I really can't see it happening by 2012. If it's taken us this long to get so fucked up, we ain't gonna fix it in just three years.
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WITH a little over 1,000 days before a date that has been the focus of numerous cultures for many thousands of years, let us pause a moment and analyse our options. Will it portend:
- Mass enlightenment, a shift to a higher level of human consciousness and the realisation of true human potential, or
- A cataclysmic event and possibly the demise of mankind?
Albert Einstein said "imagination is more powerful than knowledge" ...so let's briefly consider option 1. Imagine if the shift which 2012 promises has already begun...
- the level of our awareness was increasing, to the realisation that we are more than the sum of our experiences, the content of our mind (what we can do and can't do) and that a perfect energy was hidden inside us all - this insight helping to end personal suffering.
- instead of being lost in our "minds" and "thought", our awareness was rising above though and we learned to control our minds.
- instead of seeking love and connection through "things", "material possessions", "power" and "domination" (where it can never be truly found) we felt unlimited personal power and love through our reconnection to the same energy that makes the trees grow and that makes the birds fly.
- we were now "consciously" evolving and what we feel now is simply the next stage of evolution on the path to a more united, equal world and the realisation of true human potential.
I feel it! You can feel it too...Meditate...Suspend your mind (the constant stream of thinking) and enter the space, allow yourself to reconnect to that part of you that needs nothing, but has everything.
2012 - Who knows? But what sort of world do you want for you and your children?
You can make a difference!
2012 - Who knows? But what sort of world do you want for you and your children?
You can make a difference!
Troy Haines - iamconnected.com
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Survival tips and equipment ideas for those troublesome doomsdays.
- Stockpile fuel and dog food for the passing road warriors.
- Get lots of Tim Tams - like cockroaches they survive anything.
- Solar flare proof i-Pod case.
- Sleeping bag that doubles as body bag (be sure to zip it up tight, just in case they don't make it through the night).
- Post Pole Shift Compass.
- Special Nibiru/Planet X Viewing Mirror (note: things may appear closer than they actually are).
- Learn how to fire a big, impressive gun. You'll be the coolest person in the refugee camp and be included in all escape plans.
- Thermometer (reads up to 2012 degrees Celsius).
- Beer (for Australians only).
- "Pee-Kleen" Urine purification tablets, for that perfect post apocalyptic cup of tea.
- Sunscreen 500+ SPF
- McMurphy's Ye Olde Gunshop Apocalypse Advent Calendar (a bullet in every window).
- A stack of instructional DVDs (watch Resident Evil, Terminator, I Am Legend, Evil Dead, etc., to learn zombie and mutant fighting techniques and how to build your own weapons cache out of garden tools, a piece of string and some household bleach).
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