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2012 - Massive Hoax - Announcement
Stacy James
Dear friends
I started researching because I thought there was something to this whole 2012 calendar. In short and in fact there is almost nothing to it. I announce to you, after nearly 13 years of research into this topic (ironic number perhaps), from all sides of the supposed story, 2012 is a hoax. I tell you now that the 2012 galactic alignment, the one that supposedly occurs just once every 26,000 Mayan tun cycles, the one supposed to align the earths axis with the center of the galaxy, occurs quite frequently and is therefore a false and irresponsible claim. After much research into astronomy and after verifying the facts with numerous researchers in the fields of archaeoastronomy, modern astronomy and Mayan epigraphy, the facts are these.
The alignment with galactic center that will occur on 2012 is not so rare as we have been led to believe by so many Quack Mayanists such as Arguelles, Jenkins, and many many more. In fact it occurs every couple of years a few degrees off perfect, and once every couple of hundred years in exact position.
Also, the Mayas themselves inscribed the 2012 end date only once in all the 900 years history of the classic period (150-900 AD). That's right, the Mayas of the classic period, the very same Mayas who created the long count calendar and were prolific for making countless long-count date inscriptions amongst their 50+ classic era cities, they inscribed the 2012 end date only once.
What I am saying here, and you can verify all this for yourself by making a quick call to any academic professor in any of the fields mentioned above, and they will tell you that the period ending date of 2012, the one all these Quack Mayanists have called "the most import period ending on the Mayan calendar", and "the end of time", is in fact of little to no importance to the Mayas who created the calendar in the first place. Yes it's true. These are the facts.
The promulgated "rarity" of the astrological alignment in 2012 is in fact a complicated exaggeration based on utterly common astronomical facts. Therefore 2012 as it is being promoted around the world is a hoax created by clever individuals to create a mass hysteria upon which they have imposed their own personal and cynical pseudo-spiritual agendas. The prime suspect in this hoax is of course Jose Arguelles.
I make public to you these facts regarding 2012 to hopefully absolve you of any real anxiety you might have regarding this hoax. It is likely, if you do have some anxiety, it is because you have been taken advantage of due to your innocence and ignorance in the matter. What is being done here is no different than what has been done for centuries by selfish and conceited liars the world over, chief among these the various churches of the old and new world.
All the arguments you may hear to the contrary are well crafted exaggerations or bald faced lies meant to capitalize on humanities propensity for hysterical and fascination surrounding end time scenarios. All this current mania and popular culture surrounding 2012 is proof as to why the Bible, and other such documents, have been so effective and for so long in duping the masses into believing these incredible lies.
All movements of eschatological theory, such as Y2K and 2012, as well as Armageddon and all forms of Apocalypse, are based on and contain reckless ideas fashioned only to cause pandemonium and existential dread in human beings who are by their nature of self-reflection, and due to the universal affliction of misery in all its myriad forms, are deeply susceptible to any and all theories revolving around the cause and mystery of life, its meaning, and a hope for death.
I wish you all a happier and humbler Christmas than you have ever known, with the fullest knowledge we will all still be here in the decades and centuries following 2012 (barring the natural or misfortunate deaths we all come to suffer), and therefore there will be no quick fixes or dramatic supernatural escapes from the misery we all face, and the devastation we create in reacting to this existential dread. And therefore we will have to take hold of the expectation of responsibility for our actions as individuals and a species on this planet without hope of invisible support or supernatural indemnification.
That is all for now. I am still writing my novel. It will be filled with the fantasy and fiction about the Mayas we have all come to love. When it come I hope you will enjoy it as the fiction that it is and nothing more.
In order of appearance:
Meditation
Morality
Honesty
Peace
Love
Rapture
Ineffable
Sincerely
Stacy James
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In reading this piece, you might have the impression that Stacey James knows something about the Maya calendar or the history of the Maya calendar topic. The piece is filled with vacuous statements and inaccurate assessments. For example, although I am called a Quack there isn't one clear statement about what my work is actually about. Stacey's reference to the galactic alignment as being promoted to create mass hysteria is disingenuous and misleading to say the least, as I have never presented the galactic alignment in that way. Because of Stacey's crappy writing style, one gets the impression that I promote such an idea. Also, Arguelles never talked about the galactic alignment ("the alignment of the solstice sun with the dark rift in the Milky Way") --- he spoke of "galactic synchronization," a completely different concept which anyone would know if they read Brian Swimme's intro to Arguelles's The Mayan Factor. Furthermore, I doubt James has any clue about the astronomical content of the 13 dates (including the 2012 date) recorded on Tortuguero Monument 6. I can only hope that closed-minded people like James will think about prying that little brain box open a little in the coming years, because more evidence is on the way. Evidence for what? Evidence that the people who created the Long Count calendar over 2,000 years ago intended their 2012 cycle ending to indicate the rare precession-caused alignment of the solstice sun with the dark rift in the Milky Way. Hey, wait a second, that's the pioneering idea I put on the table 15 years ago. It's really sad that newcomers enjoy spewing disinformation about a topic they know very little about. A good overview of the entire 2012 story is my recent book, The 2012 Story. http://the2012story.com. Stacey might want to read it, as well as my 1998 book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 book. Then we could avoid these kinds of ridiculous conflations of my work with the b.s. happening in the marketplace, and raise the bar on trying to discuss 2012 rationally and intelligently.
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