Reason number 84,761 not to ever outsource your child's upbringing to schools, daycare, or other people who are not related to you.
I too feel this way.
I too feel this way.
For the record... the perception that everything we are told is a lie has been something most members of this forum (and members of its predecessor RVF) have collectively felt for over ten years now....so it could just be society playing catch up to something we have already known for a decade now.
would be curious to know if these strange perceptions of current reality being "off" can be found only in those people who took the covid shots, or also in those who didn't.
Also, don't forget during 2020-2021 they installed all those 5G towers everywhere.
For the record... the perception that everything we are told is a lie has been something most members of this forum (and members of its predecessor RVF) have collectively felt for over ten years now....so it could just be normies playing catch up to something we have already known for over a decade now.
Since AI and tech has taken over more and more daily functions, people are using their brains less and less to figure things out. For instance finding directions to a location while driving is all automated now, whereas in the past you needed to plan this a bit more. Interactions with other humans have been reduced even more in the last few years as they now have self check-outs in supermarkets, and most people order everything else online instead of going to a store. Each year we have less human interactions, and lose more control in thinking and decision making processes..
I would be curious to know if these strange perceptions of current reality being "off" can be found only in those people who took the covid shots, or also in those who didn't.
Also, don't forget during 2020-2021 they installed all those 5G towers everywhere.
This short (but infamous) scene from "the matrix" movie from the year 1999 is also relevant
I too feel this way.
I don't expect civil war, I expect collapse, more like the USSR, and then afterwards I have no idea what will happen.This has been the statement of time in memoriun.
Hell it's one of the central themes in King Lear.
It's chicken little talk.
Pretending that the US is somehow closer to the brink of civil war is copium.
I don't expect civil war, I expect collapse, more like the USSR, and then afterwards I have no idea what will happen.
I think we will keep having a gradual decline in purchasing power across the West, and a shrinking middle class. More snakes/chutes, fewer ladders in this economic game, and fewer liberties to go along, more wayward young women, deranged older women and feral fatherless youth.
This really started in the 1980s-90s, and is accelerating a bit the last 10 years. You look at Google photos of restaurant menus and see older prices from the late 2010s being listed and watch them gradually blow up year to year.
Trump is throwing just enough red meat to keep half of his base with the program, while putting most of his efforts into fighting the handful of decent politicians in DC.
I too feel this way.
Because, then they would have to make their bed... oh wait...Why do so many people choose to record their videos in the front seat of their cars?
I’m so sick of seeing it that regardless of how interesting the content may be I tune out.
I too feel this way.
Is it really?Being a 20 year old man in America in 2026 is a blessing compared to being a 20 year old man in America in 1865.
Every age has its hardships and I’m not sure it is useful to try and compare them. Ages of the past had more physical and material hardships, but the struggle with these built character and demanded innovation. Today’s age is one of material prosperity as a result of the past hardships and innovations, but this has presented different psychological, moral, and spiritual hardships, struggles and temptations. There is no such thing as the ideal age in our world, and you could probably make a case that any age was worse than another. The devil never sleeps.Is it really?
Sure you have more technology today and you can have a car and a dishwasher etc but in 1865 people did not have 30 year mortgages, could afford to get married young and have multiple children, most likely got to marry a young virgin woman who respected them and their food was natural and not filled with goyslop and they didn’t have 5G, plastics and the million other things polluting their bodies.
That's why I don't buy into the doomer thinking of being born into the wrong time. Any time you look at, there were people complaining about the same things we complain about. The more things change the more they stay the same.Every age has its hardships and I’m not sure it is useful to try and compare them. Ages of the past had more physical and material hardships, but the struggle with these built character and demanded innovation. Today’s age is one of material prosperity as a result of the past hardships and innovations, but this has presented different psychological, moral, and spiritual hardships, struggles and temptations. There is no such thing as the ideal age in our world, and you could probably make a case that any age was worse than another. The devil never sleeps.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-11:
All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
That’s actually the same verse I was thinking of when I responded, there is nothing new under the sun. I kind of like to think of our time as an opportunity to fight as the underdog, where you’re surrounded on all sides and have to dig deep to fight against demoralization and rely on strength in God. And also understanding that this is a generational fight. A realization that this may be something we may lose in our short lives on a material level, but have to carry the flame within us and pass that torch on to our children. That’s something I’m working on.That's why I don't buy into the doomer thinking of being born into the wrong time. Any time you look at, there were people complaining about the same things we complain about. The more things change the more they stay the same.
It's not about comparison, but about perspective. Thinking about a time without electricity (or antibiotics or anesthesia or novicane) and what your life would be like without it helps to put your current "hardships" into perspective and hopefully make you more appreciative and grateful for what your current society's reality does provide. We all know the current problems (which is why it's so bothersome to have them repeated ad nauseum without providing any real solutions). The world is a dark, evil place. Everyone here knows this. Let's not wallow in it. Let's decide how we are going to spiritually transcend this "reality" by getting our own house in order and hopefully moving towards a life of good works that provides some kind of benefit to others. Part of our current problem, of which I am most certainly guilty of, is that most Western humans are spending too much of their lives focused on The Self and their personal net worth, and not enough time connecting with and helping their neighbors. This is how (((The Enemy))) has gained such a foothold in our spirit and culture, by rewarding us with material pleasures when we are selfish, greedy, and living in fear.Every age has its hardships and I’m not sure it is useful to try and compare them.
This is the most relevant point in the thread. A couple of years ago I was driving down the road listening to Rush Limbaugh going off about our collapsing economy only to find out the broadcast was a 20 year-old "best of" rerun. That really pissed me off. I'm so sick of everybody making doom and gloom predictions that never come to fruition.Any time you look at, there were people complaining about the same things we complain about.