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[MarkM]

Hi WillowWoman,

Kris (fellow mod) and I have just returned from watching this, and... what you said! Good synopsis, I feel the same.

A very good rollicking ol' Hollywood re-mash of all we have seen before, I was able to suspend my own preconceived notions regarding 2012 and just enjoy a standard hero/crisis/resolution adventure flick!

I am left ruminating about the superficial grafting of this tale of absolute cataclysm onto themes of the positive view of what the 2012 era really means, in terms of how many of the millions who watch this have not previously been exposed to the 'genre', so to speak.

What is a seemingly inevitable result is that - in that people are in general veterans of Hollywood presentations of really far out storytelling in the realm of the fantastic, folks in general may not necessarily be scared by this, yet be gripped by curiosity and start googling '2012'!

Here, each will find perhaps an unexpected wealth of info regarding the unique times we are living in, and many will settle in at their own comfort level - whether that is doomy-gloomy, all is lost kinda stuff or they may well discover those who are interpreting this as the greatest, most wonderful time in history. Everyone will find what they want to find.

There are those who will be moved to explore this 2012 thing, and will undoubtedly come across the positive and spiritually uplifting truth as to this whole era bearing witness to the birth of something greater and grander than has been seen here before. A movie of great potential to catalyze the masses into a voyage of self discovery. It'll be interesting to see to what extent this movie serves to bring this all into mainstream consciousness!

All is good, and going according to divine plan... Mark

[spiritual]

I just saw it today, and in my most honest opinion the movie was much better than I thought it would be. It actually has a pretty good story line and of course jaw dropping special effects. The main reason I really enjoyed the movie is because I already knew that it has negative things happening and that it talks about how the mayans predicted destruction.

But if you ignore the negative information and focus more on the story about the people
and just enjoy the effects, you will probably like the movie.

One of the parts that I liked is.


(Spoiler #1)

The part where there in the ark and the geologist says, basically, that how can we rebuild a humanity with cruelty, we have to use love, and compassion for one another. And after his speech, they listened to him instead of the other guy and they let the rest of the people in the facility including the workers, on the ship(ark).


What I'm trying to say is that out of all the negativity there are positive messages I believe that hint to the spiritual and physical evolution path rather than the destructive
one.

And when pieced together, you get messages that say if we do not wish to go down the destructive path we need to get rid of the cruelty and separatism than runs are world today. And saying that I see 2012 is just a movie that shows even if we go down the negative path, when we treat ALL people with respect, compassion, love and unity
and see that we ALL are important and that everybody's life is worth more than all the riches in the world, we will survive and move on.

2012 symbolizes the end of the material oriented world and the birth of a new one based on peace and realization. (Just in a dramatized hollywood fashion)

No matter what, just stay in the light.

[evolving]

Originally Posted by MarkM

...folks in general may not necessarily be scared by this, yet be gripped by curiosity and start googling '2012'!

I note that last night after the first night of the movie (Nov 13th), 2012 was the #1 search on Dogpile.

I also note that on Google, if you start typing 2012, you find 181,000,000 results.