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Diverse resources, when measured carefully, seem to point towards multiple streams of converging catastrophes unlike anything we have ever seen in the history of humankind.
* PEAK OIL (physical)
* THE FOURTH TURNING (social)
* KONDRATIEFF WAVE (economic)
* BIBLE PROPHECY (spiritual)
Which of the above sciences and resources explain the below 15 trends?
1 - Rise in price of petroleum continually (cost of EVERYTHING follows)
2 - Collapse of real estate (especially on-grid types)
3 - Collapse of all fiat currencies (what we mistakenly call "money" today)
4 - Collapse of stock and debt markets (see currency and petroleum)
5 - Rising deficit of all products, ration cards
6 - Boom in commodities (especially survival and wealth storage commodities)
7 - NEW PHENOMENA - "Resource Riots" meet "Police State Lockdown" in mega-cities and suburbia.
8 - Deterioration of national sovereignty and personal freedoms
9 - Rise of global corporate+government powers
10 - Rise of human enslavement by the global elite (again)
11 - More imbedded RFID chips and other human tracking systems
12 - Escalation of resource wars (and crimes against humanity)
13 - Increase in global climate change (as we burn more dirty fuels)
14 - Escalation of disease (natural + intentionally released)
15 - Human dieback (not die all the way off, but "depopulate" from current levels *perhaps dramatically*)
... and these are all PRIMARY TRENDS, on their way towards something fearful by any measurement: physical, social, economic, and spiritual.
Join our newsgroup here ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArkBuilders_org/ ) to move beyond the symptoms of these primary trends, for example:
1 - Powerdown and relocalization and global climate change / species dieoff / carrying capacity destruction, etc... (physical);
2 - Winter cycle, social strife, division of classes, resource riots, police state, plagues from depleted uranium and bio-engineered flu, war (social);
3 - Systemic collapse of whole industries, grid-reliant real estate collapse, cascading cross defaults, a la Greenspan, of fiat currencies and paper denominated paper like stocks and bonds and bills and even gold, in the case when your investment in gold is just in a "pool", unallocated and juggled between various accounts by your financial institution (economic);
4- Great deception, spirtual blindness, the blending of and verticalization of apostate religions, forced human tracking, new rise in human slavery by the elite, mis-guided attacks against Christians world wide (spiritual).
Nobody knows the day or tie time of Armageddon, but something similar to that prophescy seems to be coming into view.
As a species, it is possible that we will meet our fiery judgement through clumsy nuclear resource wars as soon as this year. Alternatively, we may meet our fiery judgement in a billion years when the sun finally expands to engulf the earth. (see Freeze, Fry or Dry: How Long Has the Earth Got? By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html)
As Preservationists, our job is not to prophesize and wait like overly-pious modern day Pharisees. Our goal is to learn, apply, teach and continue learning some more about how to defend against and thrive within the coming convergence of disasters, which are clearly visible right before our very eyes. But in times of economic collapse, which I believe will take place first, wealth is not destroyed but merely transferred. In this case, from holders of fiat paper to holders of hard assets, commodities and sustainable commodity producing systems. Beyond that collapse, we have about 50-years of depression to endure and to manifest purpose and meaning in life during times of greatest need ever in history, as the world dies back, hopefully naturally and slowly and humanely, to sustainable carrying capacity levels.
The opposite of danger is not security. The opposite of danger is opportunity!
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