[halfstreet]

hey,

ive just been reading a whole bunch of posts here, and have come to a dsiturbing conclusion.

it seems that the majority of people here are "waiting for 2012" so to speak.
you all seem to believe that this will be the "time of awakening"

yet fail to understand, that the "time of awakening/ coming kingdom"
has been imminent, for every generation.
humans have always felt that "their generation" is the special one.
all generations have believed that they were "in the end times" or "on the brink of something grand"

yet....life just continues as normal.

this disturbs me deeply.
because on one hand, i want to believe in 2012, and the coming great age of peace, and connectedness.
but just studying history proves to me, that this has been a belief of mankind since forever.
so how can i just blindly accept it, knowing millions of others have, and it got them nowhere, so to speak.

so it came to me that beliefs of 2012 and some sort of 4d space/time is no different than christian dogmatic beliefs about heaven and hell. just a new package, thats all.

the other distrubing trend ive noticed is people putting off alot of things like school, and work because they believe in 2012 everything will change, and none of that will be needed.
this is wishful thinking at best.

but hey, i could be wrong. (hope i am)

but the main point i want to make is this....

meditation is about experiencing the eternal now.
forgetting past and future, because they dont exist.
only thing that exists is now!

so then, why focus on a future date so much????
why will this future date bring about change, when that change can come from now.
the only real moment that has ever, and will ever exist.

2012 is just a crutch, imo

change comes now, when we all want it.


ps some will reply saying that this time, is precisely the time that ancients were talking about, when talking about the coming ascension.
but that view doesnt hold water, when you actually study the ancient texts.
it is clear that the ancients weren't talking about a far away future date, but some day soon from their perspective. just as we now talk about 2012.

(i exclude the mayans and hindus in that analysis, as their timescales have always been "cosmic" timescale)