by vision-master » Thu 05 Jun 2008, 15:50:13
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('charliebrownout', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'T')hey are saying, white man fooked things up and if they don't change their ways (very, very soon), Mother Earth will take care of things with "The Purification" and that ain't gonna be pretty one-bit!
Personally, I feel this makes a lot of sense. I watched the three parts (plus some additional related items on YouTube).
I think the anomie, the ennui, the depression people experience in modern life is really the pain of being disconnected from each other, the earth, and the essence of what it is to be alive.
I mean, today it seems so strange to me, that we spend so much time trying to extend life (some people actually WANT to live 150 years in one worn out old body? I don't get it), but we have removed many of the things that make life worth living in the first place (strong community, family bonds, etc).
What I find so striking, is the harmony the prophecy has with true Christianity. God said "I am"...God is the alpha and the omega. The first and the last. We've been told the world would be better turned over to plough shares. Materialism, is, so far as I can see, considered a BAD thing across the board.
I've landed myself in a particular faith, but I tend to think more like a Universal Unitarian.
A stick and a seed is an honest way of life at least. There's not too much harm a person can do with a stick and a seed.
I'd rather live an honest, clean, happy 30 years than a miserable 150 any day. Also, I like children, youth. I don't want my wrinkly old ass taking up space and resources from new generations just because I've got money in the bank to pay to cheat death an extra X amount of years.
Everyone dies. The only time dying is really "sad" is when it happens before the individual has had a chance to experience life, have their own children, make their own discoveries (i.e. dying "before one's time" or in the prime of life).
I feel like I'm in a lonely minority on that point, though.
What these Hopi Elders have said is beautiful in its simplicity and common sense.
And scary as heck.