Not the end of the world!

2012-01-09T14:45:00.000-08:00

As the new year opened I got to thinking, all these prophecies about the end of the world we have been told about over the past decade or so. Are they even the slightest bit true?

We must first look at the source or inspiration of these prophecies, the Mayan long count, this calendar stops on or around the winter solstice this year. Depending on your religion, if you have one, you would have heard one of hundreds of calamities that are going to happen over the coming year; or if you were looking you would have found them already and you would have prepared long ago. But these prophecies are based on a linear calendar the source of which is quite probably Roman, and the Mayan Civilization was a pagan civilization and their calendar is not linear its cyclical. Their calendar can be best seen as a set of three concentric wheels the largest being the long count on the outside with the other two set concentrically inside the large one so they interlock.

As a pagan myself I had to chuckle when I saw the calendar shown in this way on a program on one of the documentary channels I currently have access to, this view of the universe seems to be fairly universal to any faith that has more than a passing link to nature. This includes the Maya who saw that the whole universe is governed by cycles be it the season or the cycle of night and day, their religion only served as a way to explain why it happened, of course it was a rather bloody affair at times but I cannot really judge as all pre-Christian religions had some sort of blood sacrifice in there somewhere. Now as it happens the Maya calendar also links up to the dawning of the age of Aquarius (though why its after the age of Pisces is a mystery to me) this new age is supposed to be an age of enlightenment, spirituality and great possibilities. This is something I honestly cannot say for sure will happen but something will have to give first for anything to come to fruition, The Long Count tells only of a great change that will come as the time of kings and centralized power comes to an end. Whether this change will be peaceful or not I again cannot say, Clairvoyance is not my strong suit but I do feel that in the coming years things will happen things are going to change and this excites me, I cannot wait to see what will happen I hope you feel the same.

What ever happens trust me we will survive and we will thrive and the world we all are a part of will do the same, though if some of the less crazed prophecies are to be believes there may be fewer of us as a species to go on to prosper.

I wish you all Brightest Blessings and best of luck in all you chose to do.
Steven

What to write.

2012-01-02T17:01:00.000-08:00

This is a new idea for me here instead of writing about an ex-girlfriend and other depressing shite I am probably going to ramble about life the universe and everything that pops into my mind over the course of my life; an example of which is the economy and polotics.

We all know that the world wide economic situation is bad but most media outlets I have access to keep referring to it as a depression when in reality it is closer to a depression on the same lines as the great depression of 1929, there are differences however between this one and the crash of '29 the cause being one. In '29 it was the unregulated stock market speculation and cheap credit while this one was an unregulated housing market exacerbated by the sub prime market in the USA, giving mortgages to people who had no hope in hell of paying those mortgages off in either their lifetimes or those of their children. The ball for the current situation was started by the rise of the New Right in the 1970s and '80s and the subsequent deregulation of the economies of the west, Now any half wit with the most basic understanding of economics could tell you that basing an economy on consumerism is a bad idea, and basing the same economy on one item alone is downright fool hardy but the right wing lessee fair attitude to the free market allowed this to happen. The willful disregard for the tragedy and subsequent world war that followed the crash of '29 was at best an act of stupidity at worst an act of criminality on a scale not seen since 1945.

This being said the current situation can be fixed, but only by Keynesian economics for the time being and a thorough enactment of the 1941 Beveridge report. The welfare state as envisaged by Sir William Beveridge can only work with a 100% employment rate and with a true living wage so the state has enough money to pay for itself and prosper.

Its strange to think that I think this way but I do, everybody needs a hobby I suppose mine just happens to be Social Sciences along with religion and politics. I'll explain more about myself as time goes on.

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Not the end of the world!

What to write.