Out of Pod Experience

a like for you good sir for linking a fragment of one of my all time favourite films made by my all time favourite director with one of my all time favourite actors

I still say Kubrick should have left in the War Room Pie Fight. There is one shot where you can still see a pie on the table in the background.

+1! My favorite movie ever, bar none.

One week is all that stands between us and uncertain doom.

NASA has released a video which is meant to be viewed after the 21st, but they released it early. HOW SUSPICIOUS.

And... only one week left to max out all your credit cards! Special deal-- no payments ever after Dec. 21!

Based on a friend's recommendation, I watched about 40 minutes of this 90-minute film on the 2012 stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w&feature=youtu.be This isn't a History Channel sensationalist doomsday mash-up. It's by metaphysical people (astrologers, students of the Vedas, etc.)

What they're saying is the Mayan Calendar didn't predict any disasters. It just predicts the end of this "age" and the beginning of another one. They say that that corresponds to the Vedic tradition, which says that the Earth/humanity go through cycles of ages. Golden, silver, bronze and iron. Golden - people have wisdom and higher consciousness. Silver - consciousness not quite as high, and materialism enters the picture. Bronze - you have good and bad inside the same family. Iron - you have good and bad inside the same individual. (This kind of parallels the golden, silver, bronze and iron ages of Greek mythology. Which makes sense, since India and Greece share Indo-European languages, so share common ancient roots). Anyway, the Vedic idea is at the end of the iron age, the world transitions back to a bronze age and eventually all the way back to a golden age. It's a back and forth rhythm that goes on forever.

The Mesoamerican (Mayan, Toltec, etc.) cosmologies also talk about humans having gone through four ages of consciousness. I've forgotten how they were labeled, but in the first age, people were courageous, wise, selfless, and were mighty magicians. We're in the fourth age now, and we're a bunch of puny, fearful, greedy, lying losers, compared to the earlier ages. (This wasn't in the film, it's from an anthropology class I took in school).

In any event, the various speakers in this film say the "doomsday" stuff about the age transition was just a lot of ignorance to start with, with media sensationalism capitalizing on it in the end. Just reporting what I saw and what I've read, but go ahead and troll/flame if you want.

I'm selling ANTI doomsday tritanium in JITA, buy now to save yourself!!!!!

It's the legacy of that von Daniken fellow from the 70's. Had a bigger influence that I would of ever thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Daniken


edit: and this film 'documentary' producer, and charlatan, of "In Search of Noah's Ark" in 1976 (which I actually saw): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783398/ He's produced most of this dreck for DECADES.

We can really really point to him and have a face for the dart throws even.

There's lots of good info on 'Ancient Aliens' but it ruins it all by including garbage. They should just stick to the facts instead of being so sensationalistic.

As for Erich Von Daniken, he only started it. There's so much credible information on advanced civilizations existing in ancient times now it's difficult to dismiss. Still up for argument whether or not they were buddies with aliens, but the idea of man's linear progression, becoming more and more intelligent and advanced, doesn't seem to match up with anything we know about ancient cultures. The Sumerian culture was the very first civilization we know of, and it appeared suddenly out of nowhere, with a legal system, government, medicine, and mathematics more complex than what we currently use, among other things. There's also these giant carved megaliths all over the Earth which are too heavy to be moved with our biggest cranes.

The Mayan/Olmec are another example. Because whether you believe in the whole doomsday thing or not, they had a knowledge of the stars which matches our own with everything modern tech can provide. They knew all about things thousands of years ago which we only discovered (rediscovered?) in the last 100 years, like the solar cycles of the sun, and various orbiting planets. All without so much as a telescope. There's even the Dogon tribe in Africa which knew about a planet orbiting a star in Sirius which is invisible to the naked eye, and on top of that they were tracking its orbit. Where do they say they learned about all that? They claim someone visited from there and told them.

Anyway, the French government has banned access to the mountain people are going to thinking they'll be safe there. And the article gives some insight into what exactly they think will happen there:



Which makes perfect sense.

Oh, and 5 days remain. This could be the last Saturday we ever know. Can't say i'll miss them much.

As an addendum to what i wrote about the Mayan/Olmec on the previous page, i'd like to add that i've found that some guy named Bolon Yokte is supposed to make a special appearance at the end of the calendar. Which i sincerely hope happens, just to blow everyones minds.

You might find this interesting. Or this for more in-depth info on their math system. And all you have to do is look into the Dresden codex to see their knowledge of astronomy. No one argues they weren't highly advanced.



All we really learned from the deep field is that there are tons of Galaxies and nebulae out there, which wouldn't have surprised any of the ancient cultures i mentioned. None of them thought they were the center of the universe like the Europeans did for so long. They all knew space was really, really, big, and we were just one planet among many.