I knew Judgment was coming, I just didn't know HOW. Which of the many terrible blows we could experience, out of the many swords of Damocles hanging over us. And though I prepared for it, I was caught flatfooted just like everyone else. Just like Jeremiah was, in fact. There was no sign he was especially prepared to have his life uprooted by the Babylonians.
But you didn't need to be a prophet like Jeremiah to understand this. You just had to LOOK. It's obvious, it was staring us in the face. Hardly anyone looked. Some who looked didn't even care.
We were devastating the Earth with our greenhouse gasses and still are.
We were devastating the land with our industrial agriculture that depends on insecticides, herbicides and fungicides that are destructive to all life especially insect, fish, bird and amphibian life. We still are.
We were more and more living cramped up together in cities, a thoroughly unnatural way of living that creates human abnormalities and encourages sin, addiction and decay. Such cities and the people in them are incapable of being self-sufficient and are massively dependent on complex systems to survive.
People falling into stateolatry, believing that fathermothergovernment would save them. That it would be their synthetic god and solve all their problems. Communism. Leftism. Because in cities NO ONE is actually self-sufficient or independent, so they rightly fear for their safety. The average person has no idea how to grow food, how to purify water, or how to build anything. Schools have created dependent employees, not independent men and women. Corporations actually promoting leftist ideas because they understand that such are in their own interests. Dependence is in their interests. Disrupting the family is in their interests. Disrupting true INDEPENDENCE of life and thought is in their interests.
They are an evil disease in their own right.
And finally, with so many people now living in urban areas and not on the land, and the necessity to engage with multiple people every day, our cities made the perfect breeding ground for pandemics.
I never thought much about the last one, perhaps why I was not as prepared as I would have liked to have been. I understand now that it was the perfect weapon, disrupting our society at every level. Just as AIDS made people afraid to have sex, this makes people afraid to even be near one another. We will be very lucky to avoid a Great Depression-scale event.
But, you know, the other shoes are waiting to drop too. There are myriad shoes waiting to drop.
I lived through the Oil Crisis in the Seventies. I lived through the 2008 Crisis. I didn't just think this was coming, I KNEW it was, but I didn't know what form it would take. Hundreds of thousands of lives were disrupted or destroyed by the 2008 Crisis. Hundreds of MILLIONS of lives will be destroyed now.
For the people whose lives were ruined, what should their estimation of this "system" be? It failed them. It always WILL fail them. The public education system failed them. The Corporations and government failed them. Their parents failed them. The "system" failed them. They failed themselves, by not understanding the real state of things. When things were good, party time. When things are bad, what can they do? Despair and die, pretty much.
We didn't even learn from the Great Depression. Our forefathers may have learned something, perhaps, but we learned nothing. What can we learn now? Debt is the enemy of Mankind. If you have land, you have a house paid for that you don't have to pay rent on, if you have a means of collecting and purifying your own water, you can survive these disruptions because they are only disruptions of the human system. Grass continues to grow, crops continue to be harvested, roofs continue to keep the rain off our heads. If you own these things outright, you can survive. Own your own land, outright, and you can grow food. Own a house, even if it is a humble shack, outright and you can have shelter. Have a well or some way of getting water and purifying it, you can drink. Gaining water, shelter and especially food in these ways can be healthier for the Earth and healthier for you. Closer to Nature, closer to natural law, closer to G-d's Law.
As I said before, G-d's judgment is essentially the application of natural law. G-d's laws are natural laws. If you bring the adverse consequences of those laws on your own head, you have only yourself to blame. G-d didn't want it, that's why he gave us His law so that we may understand it and avoid trouble. The sinner doesn't ultimately hate G-d, he hates himself. The person who goes against G-d's laws hates LIFE.
And this world system, of rent and debt and addiction and money and power, is a system of hatred for ourselves and for ALL LIFE.
I can say that I saw Judgment coming all along, which I did, but I didn't know which of those many swords of Damocles would fall.
I can tell you all this now, that you may prepare for the next even greater disaster.
But likely you will not listen.
"The people to whom I am sending you
are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them,
‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’
And whether they listen or fail to listen—
for they are a rebellious people—
they will know that a prophet has been
among them. And you, son of man, do
not be afraid of them or their words. Do
not be afraid, though briers and thorns
are all around you and you live among
scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they
say or be terrified by them, though they
are a rebellious people. You must speak
my words to them, whether they listen or
fail to listen, for they are rebellious."
~Ezekiel 2:4-7
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