: I have noticed that the two most successful posted messages to
: the forum in terms of 'views' involved ancient prophecy.
: One mentioned Nostradamus in its title line and received
: over 2000 hits, and the second included Mayan Prophesy and
: scored well over 1000 visits. This intrigued me and it
: inspired me to write this message.

Yeah but: The Mayan post had no prophecy in it - except in
the same way that the TV weather report does. :)

It was a description of a certain cycle that rolls around
every 260 days in the Mayan Daykeeping system, and will be

here again starting Thursday. No 'foreseen events' were
mentioned in that post.

: ... why did so many people view that particular post?

It's up to 2000+ hits now, which surprises me too. :) I don't
know if it was the word "Mayan", or "Core Days" (an unusual
verbal construct we don't often run into), or the "Fasten
Your Seat Belts" part that did that. :)

: Many visitors to Rumills are expecting some catastrophic event
: to take place soon.

Not me. I'm expecting really cool stuff - my 'antennae' are
suggesting to me that "the good guys" have already won, and
'rebirth' or 'restoration' is what's up ahead - might get
messy along the way, though. I dunno.

: Our readers place little trust our
: normal media so they look for other sources of information.
: Because they are interested in esoteric sources for their
: information is in itself an interesting fact, ...

Logical too, though. If non-esoteric "normal media" is
perceived as untrustworthy, where else would one look next
except to esoteric "non-normal media"?

Esoteric only means "limited to a small group" - another way
to say that is, "not mainstream", like, "alternative medicine"
has been "esoteric" till recently. Some day we may turn that
around backwards - "medicine" would become "old-fashioned
medicine", "alternative medicine" would become just "medicine".

Likewise, as Esclarmonde points out, as more and more people
come to know about it, by definition it ain't "esoteric"
any more; it's "common knowledge" or "the general wisdom"
instead.

: My feelings and information echo many correspondents
: convictions of end times to come soon based in part on the
: state of this planet in its broadest sense. When I pose
: this question to acquaintances, " Would you like to
: come back here by reincarnation based on how things are now
: and what you judge to be our future", almost all say
: no. If I ask you the same question, how would you respond?

Sure; whatever's right. :)

Some of us may be here to "ride the ponies", and that's fine;
but some of us are here to "muck out the stables", too, and
actually find such work to be fulfilling and of service.
Those who appear to be "slumbering" at the moment may or may
not wake up. Those who do wake up are welcome "at the eleventh
hour" in the harvest fields, equally with those who had their
alarm clocks set for an earlier hour. :)

: I wonder what official monitors of this message board will
: make of this information? For now, they will probably
: smile. Later?

(Probably scared 'em pantless. :)