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If you don't understand the problematics with "objective truth" you clearly haven't gone through the subject on any deeper level. Instead of talking above your head we'll just leave it right there
What is has to do with 2012? Uhm, I dunno, because 2012 was last year? The experiences I share did much occur during the latter part of that year (and during the present). That is why.
If those listening to Calleman are being "misled", the same can be said about those who listen to much of the contemporary scientific institutions. We are again closing in on the ontological outskirts here and we don't seem to be able to handle that subject in any constructive way.
I am aware that Calleman has flaws in his theories, that is why I like to form my own.
I don't think that he gave up most of his life for a scam. I think he has his own interpretation on the fragmented material available.
"Wishfully hope for"... Man, you know you come off as quite the disillusioned person, right?
Again how can I tell this is happening to others?
I can't. It is they who tell me, god dammit! What do you want more, statistics?
If you are so innerly unhappy with this thread why don't you just scoot and let us have our "baloney" party to ourselves, ey chummmp?
In short, there is no end of the LC calendar in 2012 and there were no multiple creations preceding this one, as I have argued before. People claiming that the “Maya calendar” was cyclical miss the whole point that the LC was just what the name implies, it was an endless non-repeating long count.
But one thing confuses me; you say "people like yourself", indicating that I am not the only one with this experience..! Thus validating my claim in the OP!
The only "raw nerve" here is you man.
What upsets me is surely not the values you try to impose, it is your onset that makes me tick.
You might have your "crap-o-meter" but my "troll-o-meter" is burning a hole in my pocket!
You have an arrogant attitude, use a quoting and posting technique that works as to "flood" the thread with your posts, you are even so full of yourself that you answer replies to other users than yourself (giving me the suspicion that you hold multiple accounts), you stick to the same board, you keep the same attitude in thread after thread and your whole approach with your avatar and your signature just reeks of troll all the way!
And here I am feeding you. Why?
Maybe because I haven't been nearly as active on ATS as I used to be. Reason for that: increased trolling. I don't care what others say, the climate has gotten worse here lately (come with increased number of members I reckon). This time, I wanted to return here to spread some inspiration and what did I get? Exactly what I could have expected really... However, I feel obliged to take a stand for this thread because I just had it with this ignorance and nonsense! Just because you put someone down doesn't make you bigger than them- they are just as equal. I tried to be diplomatic and makes this atmosphere breathable again but to no avail.
So what did the soda really taste like? Probably nothing at all. It is all in our minds. There is no objective taste, there is no objective reality.
quantum physics has taught just what I described above but in some sort of "objective" way; everything is a product of our perception; a proven fact that reveals what I recognize as the divinity of all minds- we are all creators of the universe, we are all part of "God".
Returning to the previous part of the discussion, I can't help but wonder why you are so obsessed with slandering this topic. Where you afraid at some point, deep down inside, that the world would come to an end? Or maybe someone close to you thought that? Was loss of money involved? If that is the case, it is totally understandable. What is not very constructive, on the other hand, is to overcompensate for that by making "in-your-face" threads, over and over again.
My concept is to bring light and motivation into ATS as good as I can. You seem to have a totally different agenda. All that negativity and hostility might (or probably will) come back to you. What station you tune in to is what signals you will receive. I give that as an advice- one fellow human being to another. Let go of the anger, it will not serve you any good in the long run.
So what is the point Stereo? Just to discredit anything that Raud says? Honestly everything that this individual has said your calling shananighans~ So what?
Leave the forum and let people who want to discuss this discuss without hearing the same responders talk about fake fake fake. Like a chld in a sand pit collecting all his toys because someone doesn't have the same views as you. You sure showed him mate~
You cannot know what I know since you can't be inside my mind. No bigge though. It's all the same anyhow.
Be it 2012 or whatever gregorian year, it is of no real importance. It is an interesting phase that I recognize and you don't. That is however no requisite for "true" or "false".
Calleman- let's just leave him out of it since that was just a sidetrack anyhow.
I don't know what more there is to say really more than to repeat: I have an experience, you don't share it. That doesn't remove the fact that my experiences are really happening in one way or another.
Originally posted by Raud
reply to post by stereologist
OK, so it is faith. Problem is- my view of what faith is probably isn't the same as yours.
Should we have another go at "how I can tell" I am not the only one?
I see, I listen, I analyse and I conclude. Something is happening in the world, something in the mind of humankind. That is my conclusion from what I already described in the thread at hand.
You don't buy into that and you don't have to. I am surely not making you either, I tried to make that clear also.
You cannot know what I know since you can't be inside my mind. No bigge though. It's all the same anyhow.
Be it 2012 or whatever gregorian year, it is of no real importance. It is an interesting phase that I recognize and you don't. That is however no requisite for "true" or "false".
Calleman- let's just leave him out of it since that was just a sidetrack anyhow.
I don't know what more there is to say really more than to repeat: I have an experience, you don't share it. That doesn't remove the fact that my experiences are really happening in one way or another.