David (guest) 18 Aug 2010 23:20
Today I was doing some work and I glanced on what was on the television, and it was another one of those banal, inane History Channel "documentaries" on 2012. Although I specialize in Philosophy, I am very immersed in the Classics and also World Religions by education. One of my enduring loves in life in the field of literature has been mythology, and I love agood history book. So reading all the trash that's been put out on Nostradamus, "Biblical" Prophecy, Mayan Astronomy, and so forth makes my blood boil because the average person in North America, let alone the United States, can debunk on their own all the lies that contribute to the 2012 hysteria.
I remember Heaven's Gate cult in the late 90's. I remember the hysteria surrounding 2000. Any student of history knows hysteria at various points of history, whether it was the Black Death or the year 1000 - and everything from primitive science to astrology and even Sibyline oracles (whose origins, especially by the medieval period, were very suspicious) and the like were dug up to attempt to pin down "the day and the hour" of the end. Many thousands of good people have had their lives disrupted either directly or indirectly by this insanity, and I pray that those who own the History Channel (Disney) don't wake up to find that the only disaster that awaits the world on December 21, 2012 and its surrounding days is the madness that they have released due to mass hysteria.
I completely agree with the mission of this site and I wanted to encourage you who are making it. There are so many people out there who know this is all trash, but so few who can explain why, much less to a mass audience. Thank you, thank you, thank you!