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shadowkatMade it down south without any problems, and had a lovely day. Clear and sunny, although very windy and cold. Sigh. Packed the wrong clothes again. Hoping gets warmer as predicted.
My mother surprised me with a massage at a local spa, lunch at Hudson's (a great seafood place), and a day out shopping at the outlets...where I found some beautiful sweaters...we only did two hours worth...neither one of us likes shopping that much. But I've been trying to go shopping for myself for literally the past six months. Desperate need of new sweaters - they all look ratty and have holes in them. It's pathetic really.
Retreated to the den and my parent's computer to avoid the depressing CNN and PBS news that my Dad (information junkie that he is) loves watching. I just can't watch any more news coverage on Sandyhook or the Fiscal Cliff. Find both issues incredibly frustrating and blood pressure rising, mainly because I vehmentally disagree with the other side (Crazy Gun Rights Enthusiasts and Spoiled Bratty Rich Folks Who Don't Want to Pay Taxes). You're so frakking wrong. Why can't you see that? Ack. LOL!
At the massage this morning...the therapist learns I'm from NYC and decides to launch into a discussion about the fiscal cliff... to which I gently state..."uh this is not exactly a topic that is helping with the relaxation".
On the Mayan thing? There was a rather amusing post on Facebook or rather link - that I found about how the actual Mayan descendants (not the ancient Mayans...their descendants) were pissed off at the Guatmalian government for marketing the end of the Calendar falsely. This is not the meaning at all, they said. It's a marketing fallacy. Here's the link:
http://news.discovery.com/human/mayans-pissed-off-about-doomsday-diceit-121026.html
"We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles," Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop, told the AFP news agency.
The entire "Mayan doomsday" nonsense centers around the mistaken belief that the ancient civilization had some magical ability to foretell the Apocalypse. But they didn't. In actuality, it focuses on a calendar cycle that runs out this year. This calendar, the Long Count, is a wonderfully complex system that spans around 5,200 years and is of huge spiritual significance to the Maya people. The final cycle of the calendar -- the 13th b'aktun -- will complete on Dec. 21.
Obviously this means the world will come to an end... Right?
Wrong.
In a statement released by Oxlaljuj Ajpop, the end of the cycle simply "means there will be big changes on the personal, family and community level, so that there is harmony and balance between mankind and nature."
And they say evil marketing people don't rule the world or at the very least trying to rule the internet. Personally I think marketing and instilling fear should be a crime, but hello, free speech. and we so don't want to meander down that slippery slope. The information age's downside is it has given evil marketing people or people who know how to manipulate and spin information for their own ends - a platform. Which is fine if it is to further good, but violence, fear, and other horrible things - not so much.
In other news? Gave up on Immortal Life of Henerietta Laks finally, and picked up Jim Butcher's Cold Days which is currently reminding me a lot of either Tam Lin or a more adult version of The Snow Queen - except from the man's perspective. So will Murphy or his apprentice go on a quest to save him? Possibly not, Butcher seems to be going a slightly different direction.
My mother surprised me with a massage at a local spa, lunch at Hudson's (a great seafood place), and a day out shopping at the outlets...where I found some beautiful sweaters...we only did two hours worth...neither one of us likes shopping that much. But I've been trying to go shopping for myself for literally the past six months. Desperate need of new sweaters - they all look ratty and have holes in them. It's pathetic really.
Retreated to the den and my parent's computer to avoid the depressing CNN and PBS news that my Dad (information junkie that he is) loves watching. I just can't watch any more news coverage on Sandyhook or the Fiscal Cliff. Find both issues incredibly frustrating and blood pressure rising, mainly because I vehmentally disagree with the other side (Crazy Gun Rights Enthusiasts and Spoiled Bratty Rich Folks Who Don't Want to Pay Taxes). You're so frakking wrong. Why can't you see that? Ack. LOL!
At the massage this morning...the therapist learns I'm from NYC and decides to launch into a discussion about the fiscal cliff... to which I gently state..."uh this is not exactly a topic that is helping with the relaxation".
On the Mayan thing? There was a rather amusing post on Facebook or rather link - that I found about how the actual Mayan descendants (not the ancient Mayans...their descendants) were pissed off at the Guatmalian government for marketing the end of the Calendar falsely. This is not the meaning at all, they said. It's a marketing fallacy. Here's the link:
http://news.discovery.com/human/mayans-pissed-off-about-doomsday-diceit-121026.html
"We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles," Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop, told the AFP news agency.
The entire "Mayan doomsday" nonsense centers around the mistaken belief that the ancient civilization had some magical ability to foretell the Apocalypse. But they didn't. In actuality, it focuses on a calendar cycle that runs out this year. This calendar, the Long Count, is a wonderfully complex system that spans around 5,200 years and is of huge spiritual significance to the Maya people. The final cycle of the calendar -- the 13th b'aktun -- will complete on Dec. 21.
Obviously this means the world will come to an end... Right?
Wrong.
In a statement released by Oxlaljuj Ajpop, the end of the cycle simply "means there will be big changes on the personal, family and community level, so that there is harmony and balance between mankind and nature."
And they say evil marketing people don't rule the world or at the very least trying to rule the internet. Personally I think marketing and instilling fear should be a crime, but hello, free speech. and we so don't want to meander down that slippery slope. The information age's downside is it has given evil marketing people or people who know how to manipulate and spin information for their own ends - a platform. Which is fine if it is to further good, but violence, fear, and other horrible things - not so much.
In other news? Gave up on Immortal Life of Henerietta Laks finally, and picked up Jim Butcher's Cold Days which is currently reminding me a lot of either Tam Lin or a more adult version of The Snow Queen - except from the man's perspective. So will Murphy or his apprentice go on a quest to save him? Possibly not, Butcher seems to be going a slightly different direction.
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Date: 2012-12-22 04:17 am (UTC)