<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>I pers<font size="2">onally do see cycles in everything including time. However m<font size="2">y</font> own view of a year isn't a circle like a clo<font size="2">ck, it is li<font size="2">ke a spring. <br>
<font size="2">A <font size="2">helix with future years stacked and hidden behind this year and <font size="2">previous years out of sight behind me. Which you could probably say is a perception of time that is b<font size="2">oth cyclic an<font size="2">d line<font size="2">ar<font size="2">.<br>
<font size="2">Who's to say that in the reality of things my spring of time isn't actually curved<font size="2"> around and the ends joined together? our dataset is very limited<font size="2"> and Im amazed at how well <font size="2">the</font> Myans did<font size="2"> w<font size="2">ith apparently <font size="2">so little data.</font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
<font size="2">Fashion comes around, politics is c<font size="2">yclic and we are again looking at <font size="2"><font size="2">the</font> rise of socialism. The Earth goes round, the sun goes round<font size="2">, the galaxy, the atom. <br>
<font size="2">I<font size="2">n</font> an <font size="2">apparently</font> <font size="2">fractallic</font> and cyclic universe its not so hard to <font size="2">believe that cycles are the logical choice.</font></font><br>
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<div> I have often wondered why <font size="2">the</font> human brain seems to deviate so much from the natural or<font size="2">der. Just look at how we love linearity</font>. <br>
<font size="2">Just when did we make that mental step to move from round everything to lines and right angles?</font><br>
<font size="2">D<font size="2">id we <font size="2">pick up</font> some kind of </font></font>straight lin<font size="2">e genetic mutation?</font><br>
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From: Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com><br>
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Sent: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:18<br>
Subject: Re: [ExI] mayan forecast<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>I wouldn't have expected such a visceral and widely-varied reaction to
commentary about Mayan calendar.
Anders' reply was closest to my thoughts on the Judeo-Christian
paradigm shift to linear time. Yeah, I know we're all better than the
primitives because they had rocks and silly ideas and we have
Science... No doubt our science will appear equally primitive and
quaint in another 5k years.
My takeaway from thinking about cyclic time was that our linear habits
tend to blind us to cyclic behaviors. Of course the 2012 Olympics
will remain forever in the past. Consider fashion trends though.
They don't happen once and stay dead forever. What drives fashion?
Novelty? New things are cool until that coolness is diluted by
mainstream adoption and the style goes out of fashion. We forget, we
rediscover. Retro becomes cool again because it's violated the rule
of eschewing old styles. I wasn't trying to propose that the Mayans
had it all right. I was attempting to convey (share) that they might
have had a different perspective on Life because of their different
perspective on Time.
Economics follow a cycle too. Most _want_ to believe indefinitely
enduring growth. Has anything ever delivered on that promise?
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