Into The Mystic
Back along in ’98, Art Bell interviewed two Hopi Elders about their prophecies and whether the End Times are upon us:
AB: Ok. I think that my first question?..if I may ask the first question?..and Robert, you’re welcome to ask one any time you’d like. I would like to ask Grandfather 1 why he has come forward in public at this time?
GF2: {Asks GF1 in Hopi language, then translates.}
GF1: {Answers in Hopi language.} It is our time to bring forth the message into the world. It has been taught to us by our Elders, from way back. That is why I have chosen to step forward and bring out the message today. There are people out there who are leading two lives?..who are there to stop us from putting forth the message, but it is the Elders, that taught us the wisdom, that are telling us to do this now for you and the rest of the world.
AB: With regard to what may be changing, Earth changes, is the time now very short?
GF2: {Asks, then translates.} It is time for the end times here, that was prophesized and through the dreams that were given to us also. Through those dreams, we are learning that we are getting very close to the end times.
Wow, isn’t that crazy? Myths and legends being treated as though they were for real? Surely no US mainstream media outlet would be so silly – would they?
Duh, of course they would.
Step forward that formerly-attached-to-some-semblance-of-reality news network CNN:
Media Matters –CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: “[A]re we living in the last days?”
Summary: With Kyra Phillips’s discussion of the Apocalypse and the Middle East conflict with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg — who share the view that the Rapture is nigh — CNN has, for the second time in three days, featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East.
For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East. The July 26 edition of CNN’s Live From … featured a nine-minute segment in which anchor Kyra Phillips discussed the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg — who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. At one point in the discussion, Phillips asked Rosenberg whether she needed “to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I’m sorry for all the evil things I’ve done,” to which Rosenberg replied: “Well, that would be a good start.” Throughout the segment, the onscreen text read: “Apocalypse Now?”
As Media Matters for America documented, the July 24 edition of CNN’s Paula Zahn Now featured a segment examining what “the Book of Revelation tell[s] us about what’s happening right now in the Middle East.” CNN re-aired this segment the next day. Media Matters also noted that Rosenberg is just one of several conservative media figures who have identified and expounded upon the purported signs of the Apocalypse to be found in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. During his appearance on Live From …, Rosenberg claimed that he had been invited to the White House, Capitol Hill, and the CIA to discuss the Rapture and the Middle East, and noted — several times — that the apocalyptic events described in his novels keep coming true.
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The Hopi end times story is just as valid as the fundies’ end-times myth, ie they’re both imaginary bollocks, but I thought the job of news organisations was to report news, not to collude in mass hysteria based on unproven superstition.
CNN is being pumped out worldwide. Do Americans have any idea how insane the rest of us think they are for believing in this shit? It wouldn’t be so bad if they kept it behind closed doors, where it belongs, but now religion is being treated as though it were real and is now apparently the main impetus of US foreign policy.
It’s bad enough the US government is run by crazies and could kill us all, but now any semblance of credibility US media may once have had in reporting is gone too. Ted Turner must be spitting feathers.
[In other news news ( as it were) a Fox live reporting crew were shot at by the Israeli Defence Force for revealing their position live on air. Hoist by their own petard…]
