Fakkz said:
Oh the irony, burnt's thread turning into 2012 theorys.
Love it
EDIT: beaten to it.
Yes, irony can be funny at times.:?
It was not realy my intention to start a 2012 discussion. It was more an example of how genuine scientific facts, in this case the flipping of the poles of the sun and the earth, are being misused by new-age types.
If a pole shift on earth is eminent, that must be put in the perspective of the time period we're talking about, wich means it might happen in the next few centuries. So it could be tomorow or 500 years from now.
The solar cycles are way shorter. I find the idea that ancient cultures knew about this not that unlikely, since it would only require that people would keep date of relatively warm periods followed by relatively cooler periods for a longer period of time, that would allow for corrections of accidental extremes. Cultures that are highly dependant on agriculture could benefit from such knowledge.
Ofcourse correct knowledge of astronomy was often paired with all kinds of belief.
Point is that there are plenty of ancient cultures that had great knowledge on astronomy (thales, the first of the greek philosophers, for instance, is known to have predicted a solar eclips around 500 bc) and there are many monuments, like stonehenge, that remind us of this.
Studying this is serious science, but inevitably feeds the new-age industry as well.
You can always twist things in such a way, that some predicted event would be paired with the massive release of DMT through the pineal gland, wich would fulfill the celestial prophecy of us all tuning in to a different frequency, and yes i ended with this because of a childish love for irony
