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Monday 9 April 2012

Robbing the Future to Pay for the Present




   - Ronald Wright, Time Among the Maya


The ancient Maya didn't look at time the way we in the Western World do today.  They believed in temporal patterns which could not be changed.  Fortune was predetermined in a cyclical way; endings are followed by beginnings.


Of course, we don't buy that - for the most part, we believe we our destiny rests entirely in our own hands.  Funny how we seem perpetually doomed to repeat history, then, isn't it?



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