anyone else feel like we are right at the cusp of a tidal wave

Better put something heavy on top of it to make sure it doesn't launch itself into the DVD player before you're ready...

 

I got it out this afternoon to watch but one of the cd/dvds is missing

 

uhhh...I'll be right back...gotta run out and get a copy of Fight Club now...LOL..THANKS ZEN....

 

I have felt something too... for me, since about the beginning of August, end of July. It's just an unsettled feeling. I haven't been able to pinpoint it, but it feels like it's gonna be big....

 

It's just the stinkin' autumnal equinox. It happens every year around this time.

 

Hmm. Fight Club. That scene with the Near-Life Experience totally changed my life. "What do you wish you'd done before you died?" I was motivated to move out of my conservative Christian mother's home to another freaking state, converted to Neopaganism, got rid of my virginity, and returned to college to NOT find a husband, like I was told women's college was for.

I did wind up getting married, but I'm still in school and much happier now. Thank you, Chuck Palanhiuk, and In Tyler We Trust.

On the odd feelings, I've been watching a total paradigm shift in our culture in the past few months, especially after the market crash. There's been more emphasis on green living, self-sufficiency, and artisanship, and less on consumerism and disposability. Those pre-industrial revolution "Protestant Values" of frugality, interconnectedness, and hard work seem to be returning. A growing dissatisatisfaction with conventional religion's explanations for modern problems has led to a rise in individual spiritualism. As far as I can tell, I think this economic crisis has triggered a major cultural development. I honestly hope that it lasts a while longer. It's like a Near-Life Experience for the whole nation. . . or perhaps a large-scale Human Sacrifice.

 

Exactly

Every generation wants to be a part of something special to give meaning and purpose to their lives (apparently the millennium wasn’t enough) and so every generation since the birth of christ has predicted the second coming, or the imminent apocalypse in the hope that perhaps when they die, so will the rest of humanity

Hotwater

 

I didn't see Fight Club until after I had already had my own near-life experience, and it was a doozy...telepathic relationships, exiles, getting myself fired, a career transformation, a 1200-mile change in residence...so when my stepson recommended the movie to me and I saw it for the first time, I was thinking, "Jeezus...this is my life!" Tyler represents the spiritual part of all of us, I think - the part that, if we let it go to do its thing, would most likely turn our lives upside down and get us to do all kinds of "crazy" things we would never do otherwise. Would and did, in my case. Sounds about the same in yours. Cuz, in the words of an ancient Pink Floyd song: "All you touch and all you see/is all your life will ever be."

Yeah, maybe a major cultural development. I lived through the hippie era, which was supposed to be an MCD, and it was immediately followed by the (groan) disco decade. But the changes add up and build on each other, and each event shapes the ones to come and to some extent the evolving mindset of the general society. You generally don't know the true results for at least a couple of decades.

 

ha, that's weird, I get insanely positive and euphoric for a few weeks every year at this time.

 

Repy 2 all. I feel it to! It'sike a tidal wave of change is just arond the corner 4 all of us for the better right? NEWAGEY

 

A time of rebith is at hand!

 

I agree man! I have felt the swelling tide 4 some time now. 2012 seems to me 2 be the explosion point. Like a new conciousness about to be born. It will truely be ausome!

 

this image from the first page, http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/7132/timewaveed6.jpg , is missing. Did anyone save it? Could the creator repost it?

Thanks.

 

Weird.

I just came to this thread right now looking for that image myself.

I've lost the original, but I'll remake it.

 

This year has definitely had a rising tension, and the feeling of hurtling towards a breaking point.

 

However, I agree with the view of 2012 being the end of a cycle, rather than the destruction of the planet. If it's the end of the world, it's only the end of the world as we know it.

 

things are happening fast

 

Same. I've commented on this lately, and it seems over the past couple of years things are changing dramatically below the surface. I look forward to what the future brings.