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Working the Chairway to Heaven, Thursday 2005
My TestimonialsJune 5, 2008
This man is Awesome, a Legend in his own mind, and a good friend.
May 6, 2007
Thanks to Hoopes for sharing your brain (and heart) here in Tribeland. I'm glad you're here.
May 17, 2004
Hoopes is DPW worthy!
I met him at Interfuse doing cleanup while I partied in the middle of the road. Dammit, Hoopes, you shamed me. At least I hauled the garbage out! Great guy...He'll get yur back!
Who's Hoopes?
Recent Ravings
Re: End Times Entrepreneurialism
(in Year 2012)
"The thing that many scientists and religious people have in common is that they claim to have a monopoly on the truth."
This is the biggest misrepresentation in the whole thread. Scientists *know* that what they are saying is NOT the truth, s... read more discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 7:25 AM
Re: The Age of the Mayan Calendar II
(in Year 2012)
By the way, the term "Long Count" is used to distinguish it from the "Short Count," a truncated version used in histories recorded after the Spanish Conquest. It was based on a count of k'atuns without bak'tuns and would be similar to saying thin...
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discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 7:19 AM
Re: The Age of the Mayan Calendar II
(in Year 2012)
"what do you mean by 'Long Count dates'?"
The Long Count is a tally of days (not years) in a system of increasingly larger cycles: k'in = 1 day uinal = 20 days tun = 360 days k'atun = 7200 days bak'tun = 144,000 days The ancient Maya ... read more discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 7:16 AM
Re: The Age of the Mayan Calendar II
(in Year 2012)
Cali, dear, you haven't been one bit offensive. I tried to answer some of your questions. Could you restate the ones that remain?
discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 8:40 PM
Re: The Age of the Mayan Calendar II
(in Year 2012)
Seems to me you're the one doing the manipulating by misreading my comments and misrepresenting what I actually said. (Anyone who doubts that can read my actual words.)
I think I'm owed an apology, but I won't be holding my breath. F U V V discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 4:57 PM
Random Access Memory
The nighttime rain fell in heavy sheets on the rippling metal roof as Jorge lay on his back and dreamed of going into the city one day. He was enjoying a cool breeze in the cabin of his truck when the shuffling sound of his mother entering the house in the dark made his twilight vision dis-appear. Her presence kept even his mind from straying too far from home.
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 10:21 PM
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Silvia moved like a huge animal, breathing softly as she passed between the beds of her sleeping family. Jorge followed her slow d... read more 
Everything seemed to quietly die in that eerie instant before the roosters began their twilight crying. It was as if all the tiny creatures of the darkness were expecting the faraway flying communicado. It was a peculiar phenomenon. A sudden plunging hush like the quivering silence of a just-beaten drum. A strange hush that saturated the darkness and had no reasonable explanation. A hush to prick ears up and wonder about. Perhaps the message that stifled the forest’s humming pulse of ti...
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 10:31 PM
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A lot of my thoughts have unfolded in online musings, discussions, and disputes:
Tue, April 29, 2008 - 6:35 AM
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Hunab Ku (a dogged pursuit of the origins of that ubiquitous icon of 2012) 2012.tribe.net/thread/fb0...d167201e98e Daniel Pinchbeck on the Mayan Apocalypse 2012.tribe.net/thread/31f...1a389f1c25a William S. Burroughs & 2012 2012.tribe.net/thread/6b9...438e4d72eda 1975 & 2012 http://20... read more
... can be found in these great articles (and a podcast):
Sun, April 27, 2008 - 8:39 PM
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The Final Days, by Benjamin Anastas (New York Times Magazine, 7/1/07) www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01...orld-t.html Five Years: 2012 and The End of the World As We Know It, by Tom King (Lawrence.com, 12/10/07) www.lawrence.com/news/2007...ive_years/ The 2012 Meme: An Interview With Dr. John Hoopes, by Jan Irvin (Gnostic Media, 11/10/08) gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entr...8_... read more
NPR has been running a series about my alma mater, an urban high school in Baltimore, Maryland:
Thu, April 12, 2007 - 3:28 PM
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www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php I was in the Class of '76, back in better times... Go Wildcats!
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