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Tree of Woe's avatar

Based on this thread, I have been able to categorize my readers into several tribes based on their view of the future:

1. Hopespeakers. Things aren't going to get that bad.

2. Doomhopers. Things have to get worse before they can get better.

3. Doomsayers. Things will get worse... before they worsen even more.

4. Doomwakers. Things are already bad. Wake up sheeple, your prosperity is a lie!

I will not mention names. You know which tribe you are in. :-) Carry on with the woe, comrades.

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I could quibble over some of these items. For example, before the home mortgage deduction and FHA, this country had an awful lot of people renting. Subsidized home ownership was seen as a means of fending off communism. And trust in government has been violently low in the past as well.

But on the whole I agree. And I dare say that this could well be the Big One on the way. We are experiencing a great Falling Away that is unprecedented in Christendom. Over my lifetime the US has gone from being an especially Christian first world nation to being a crusader for sodomy. And this business of banks and other providers cutting off businesses which don't kowtow to transexuals reminds me greatly of the Number of the Beast prophecy.

Humans have the technology to implement many of the dire events of Revelations. Nukes can provide the fire and brimstone. Recombinant DNA can provide the plagues. Robotic drones could be the prophesied "stinging insects." We don't have the tech to divert an asteroid to fulfill the Wormwood prophecy, but it's on the way. There's money in them thar asteroids, and SpaceX has been busy.

There is no Temple yet to desecrate, so we probably have a few decades.

And this could be a false alarm.

I am of the tentative opinion that humans have a bit of a say in the matter of when the dire events befall. See the last chapters of Deuteronomy or the Book of Jonah for precedents.

And so I attempt to fight back against forces that resemble the prophesied AntiChrist.

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