Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[FullMoon]

In my opinion, what will trigger it will be a major global financial crisis.

Financial and political are tightly interwoven. Conditions of both are deteriorating rapidly. Starting next month all sorts of pressures will again find a release and it's quite ironic that we're hitting the 250 year Empire lifespan just about spot on. You're probably correct that it will all unravel quickly and the 90% attrition probably won't need decades. What's your thoughts on the religious and spiritual aspect of this transition time forthcoming? Will we see a renewal of faith in God and how will that affect the social structure and politics?

[Higgenbotham]

About a year ago I took my kid to a neighborhood birthday party. The men went out to the back, maybe 6 of us. After the usual BS about your yard looks good, what did you do, etc., the conversation turned to who should win the election and who will win the election. There was one guy there who seemed entrepreneurial and forward thinking. The type who is always thinking about what he should be doing that is on the forefront. He was currently teaching IT classes. He thought Trump should win and that Trump surely would win. His reasoning was that Trump is looking forward, getting ready to move the country where it needs to go. He never mentioned immigration, vaccines, or any of the pet MAGA issues that I can recall. Then at some point, maybe later, he said that he was starting a church and that the first service was going to be the next day. That got my attention, mainly because of the type of person that was doing it. It seemed to me that he was doing it because he saw an opportunity. That led me to pay more attention to what I see when driving around. Maybe a couple little churches have recently popped up or maybe they've been there for awhile; I don't know. As industrial production goes into reverse in the new dark age, many will substitute religion for lost material things. Also, and we aren't seeing it yet with covid and other hardships that I can tell, but people will at some point likely see increased hardships as punishment from God and the opportunity to get right with God. As industrial civilization goes further into reverse I would expect to see people reaching further back to old time religion that they've read about like Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God) and do it to less effect than the original.

[tim]

Also, and we aren't seeing it yet with covid and other hardships that I can tell, but people will at some point likely see increased hardships as punishment from God and the opportunity to get right with God. As industrial civilization goes further into reverse I would expect to see people reaching further back to old time religion that they've read about like Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God) and do it to less effect than the original.

John talked about how aspects of Generational Theory were in the book of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 1

What has been, it is what will be,
And what has been done, it is what will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one might say,
“See this, it is new”?
It has already existed for ages
Which were before us.

11 There is no remembrance of the [h]earlier things,
And of the later things as well, which will occur,
There will be no remembrance of them
Among those who will come later still.

Exodus 20 is the first mentioning of the Fourth Turning:

4 “You shall not make for yourself [c]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the [d]punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing [e]favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

I also watch as Romans 1 becomes more visible everyday:

Unbelief and Its Consequences

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth [m]in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident [n]within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not [o]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and [p]crawling creatures.

24 Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for [q]falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed [r]forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, 27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations [s]with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing [t]shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit [v]to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper, 29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, [w]haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

[aedens]

Anecdotal evidence suggests the Bantu Files are essentially correct in addition to GD and GGS.
Just a framework gap analasys with Glubb Pasha who a British military officer,
scholar and author who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956
is enough for a path forward.

Background view to trust.
The next 55 years the most important figure in the Middle East. 1870 survey unfettered access to everything.
His Trust with the Muslims was absolute.
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/dai ... chaeology/

The Wife just got Home and was gone before dawn to assit those who are infirm and networked to needs in Humilty.