Why did he have to put it in the oven? Backlighting works anywhere; maybe it needed to be in a dark space. Well, the chief problem was that somebody "blew out his pilot light and made a dish."
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Just a few points, just to validate what I said...
This was on "Coast to Coast AM", and the program information is on the following page (on 11/19/00).
And, if you read through this site, you'll see that he has a little more than a mathematical interest in this calendar (things like "biorhythms"...).
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I heard this guy on an radio talk show early one morning, and he told an interesting story about the events surrounding the creation of this calendar. He actually proposed that this new caldendar was the "King of Terror" referred to by Nostradamus in the famous stanza. The date that Nostradamus referred to in this stanza ends up being May 5, 2000 (or, something like that). Interestingly, this is the date the guy claims that he got the idea of the calendar. That night, he was watching television, and he heard a newscaster saying on TV something about "the end of time..." and immediately after, the power cut off, and a few electrical poles collapsed.
His claim was that Nostradamus was not referring to "the end of time" in this "King of Terror" stanza, but an end to the way time is thought of. His theory was that people have such trouble with Math and time because it is so difficult to determine which day of the week a day in history was on. But, his necessity of finding an easy way to do this definitely drove this new calendar. It seems that he believes that people will achieve a higher state of thought if this is accomplished.
He did mention that the Mayan Calendar has the end of time in 2012, and he believes that this higher state will be achieved during this year.
My question is how does this calendar take into account the slowing of Earth's rotation and fluctuations in revolution? To me, it seems like an attempt to bring order to a chaotic system, which will always be inaccurate to some degree.
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Why did he have to put it in the oven? Backlighting works anywhere; maybe it needed to be in a dark space. Well, the chief problem was that somebody "blew out his pilot light and made a dish."
This was on "Coast to Coast AM", and the program information is on the following page (on 11/19/00).
And, if you read through this site, you'll see that he has a little more than a mathematical interest in this calendar (things like "biorhythms"...).
dinkmaster
His claim was that Nostradamus was not referring to "the end of time" in this "King of Terror" stanza, but an end to the way time is thought of. His theory was that people have such trouble with Math and time because it is so difficult to determine which day of the week a day in history was on. But, his necessity of finding an easy way to do this definitely drove this new calendar. It seems that he believes that people will achieve a higher state of thought if this is accomplished.
He did mention that the Mayan Calendar has the end of time in 2012, and he believes that this higher state will be achieved during this year.
My question is how does this calendar take into account the slowing of Earth's rotation and fluctuations in revolution? To me, it seems like an attempt to bring order to a chaotic system, which will always be inaccurate to some degree.
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