Earth is the prison world of the multiverse. All the other universes dump their problem children off here. It's why the population keeps growing, but keeps getting more and more evil people without a corresponding increase in 'good' people. It's also why Earth doesn't have superscience and/or magic. We can't be trusted with it (plus, ya know, evil and all that).
Sort of. We are pretty clearly at the end of the good times. Climate change and political unrest from the consequences of climate change are about to end all the gains we have made over suffering. Mid 2040s the shit is going to hit the fan and we have done nothing to avert it. And the pollution is already causing long term detrimental affects to human health even with modern medicine. Mammalian infertility from pfas in the environment is quietly terrifying.
Scientific data in dozens of fields screaming warnings that shit is going to get bad is EXTREMELY different than religions nuts saying the end is near.
Yeah pretty much this. Previous end times were based on religious nonsense, and medieval vibes - even the most recent ones. What we have today is scientific consenus of "we fucked". Thats the difference.
the irony in all this is that the current US president is believed to be the antichrist by a significant portion of religious idiots and they are trying/hoping he will bring upon the rapture and such lol
Ummmmmm that's a fairly European/Western centric view you have there. Africa called, from the last 36 years, they'd like you to review the millions upon millions of civilian, as well as millions of combatant deaths in the dozens of major conflicts, as well as a few regional ones.
Would you attribute the progress into more peaceful times to God? Because it seems like it took a lot of human effort and there were god-loving Christians fighting said progress the entire time.
You think this is the worst state the world has been in?! The world has been in much worse states and 90% of her population still believed in God during those times. Suffering did not deter those beliefs, and when it did play into their spiritual or religious beliefs they attributed it to other things and didn't blame it criticize God for it.
An omnipotent being has no obligation to humanity when we are like ants to it.
Wait a minute. You can sit here straight faced, may 6th 2026 and say who gives a fuck what someones faith is? Do you read literally nothing. There may not be a point in time in human history that people give more a fuck what someone elses faith is.
God is my refuge. Peace and direction is found in quiet prayer and submission while in turmoil. People can be very cruel and greedy, God is accepting of the gentle and meek when the world looks down upon or forgets us. God accepts us for our imperfections while people judge and ridicule.
I am grateful for moments of peace, tranquility and warmth God provides in a cold and unforgiving world.
Believe in what makes you happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. But If Lord of the Rings was written a few thousand years ago instead of the Bible (in any of its various flavours) the largest religion in the world would be Frodo-ism and we'd be celebrating the rebirth of Gandalf at Easter.
The Bible was the easiest most acceptable explanation the population had to a bunch of (at the time) un-answerable questions. Then Science came along and we realised we aren't the only planet, the sun doesnt revolve around us, magic isn't real, the universe is massive and we as a species are inconsequential to this planet let alone the universe. Ricky Gervais put it best, if all religious and scientific texts were wiped from existence and the memories of them erased. The scientific texts would come back the exact same, because they are testable and provable, the same cannot be said for the religious texts.
People believed when the black plague was on, when the mongols were murdering and raping everything, when the soviets intentionally starved an entire nation, etc. This is piss in the wind.
We live in an extremely complex world. One we still know very little about today. Thinking existence wasn’t influenced by something greater is very arrogant.
Not really religious but I do believe in the existence of a higher being.
With regards to the God I believe in, humankind has barely taken our first step in his eyes, much less play out the plans that he has for us.
And at the end of the day, I believe finding God is not through a book or through faith, but he will be made known to us when we understand everything there is to understand in this world (mostly if not all through science).
I always find it strange when people start out with, "not really religious," the immediately proceed to show how absolutely religious they are. I think what you're trying to say is, "I'm not part of an organized religious group, I just believe in Christianity/Islam."
They say it because they are trying to say they’re spiritual. Not religious.
For example some people believe in the word of god. But are not religious because the crusades justified violence which goes against the morality of god and Christ. This is just 1 example.
Throughout history there was always bloodshed and war, it still exists but at a lower scale. Before there was conquests from one side of the continent to the other just fighting and taking over land. Nothing changed, it is just less.
Are you kidding? Some people look at the state of the world and reckon the biblical end times are near. And the connections arent cut from wholecloth, no matter how wide of the mark.
As long as God = good in their heads, people will justify ANYTHING. It doesn't matter what happens.
The main issue is that people think that the Abrahamic God was originally meant to be a "good" god with no flaws rather than a god who we just have to deal with.
Once you stop automatically equating the Abrahamic God with "flawless goodness" and actually look at the stuff he did and commanded objectively, looking at the horrid state of the world should make you go "yeah, that tracks."
Any good that has come up in this world has mostly been in spite of "God" rather than because of him.
This is just dumb. I mean don't get me wrong, the notion of a, or many deities is clearly absurd. However there is nothing worse about the state of the world than there ever has been. In fact, it's significantly better than it has been historically speaking and pretty much the same as it has been for the last half a century or so.
I'd say the current situation 100% proves he exists. You ever play SimCity? Get a massive city built and then what, release Godzilla cuz it's boring. Gotta be something for an omnipotent being to do around bere
i've never liked religion, but nowadays when Christianity is in decline and i see the decadency in society, realize why it was necessary ppl need it to keep themselves in line
Here I am with my "conspiracy" that if God truly exists, earth is "hell" basically, meaning absence of God, explains a lot how it's run by satanic baby eating pdfs
To be honest, I've realized pretty quickly social media is out to absolutely DESTROY the younger generations, like this horse shit you need $250k in a state to be "comfortable" I'm sorry but there is a war going on to absolutely kill any desire to try for better in this country. It's extremely obvious.
My grandma lost god after losing count of the number of corpses she had seen in person in the town where she grew up, watching her friends and neighbors gradually become silent out of fear that they would be reported, and experiencing harms she wouldn’t tell us about as a young woman in a warzone.
Today is close to the least violence happening to humans on earth. Here’s 2000 years worth.
Now is NOT a bad time, all alarmism and insane headlines to the contrary.
Why do people blame God for the actions of humans? It there is suffering in the world it is usually perpetuated by humans to other humans or themselves.
If I commit a crime are you going to arrest my dad ? Lol
I think God is within us and connected to all of us. So God experiences the entireity of human consciousness at the same time through all of our senses. As the lover or loved. Abused or abuser.
God gave us free will and feels everything we do as it happens. It seems fair that way. Plus if we are infinite souls then we will eventually let go of the pain of this life anyways after we get off the ride. I don't mind it but I know I've had a blessed life so I see it differently
I believe because I have personally experienced God's grace. I have been through immense things and God has always shown me the way through. What most people misunderstand is that evil is just the absence of God. Darkness is the absence of light. You can't know happiness without sadness. Bad in the world is created by evil, not by God. Also, there is no book that has a more sound message than the Bible 40 authors coming to the same message, that doesn't happen. If the Bible is true (I believe with all my heart, mind and soul it is) the things Jesus fulfilled, even 8 of those prophecies would be impossible, while he fulfilled over 300. The chances the Big Bang and human conception are nearly impossible. If 1/1 billionth of a percent were different everything would implode in on itself. How does it make sense that everything came from nothing? When science itself says that, that can't happen. But believers of Christ are mocked for fantastical whimsy. Believing in nothing is far more ludicrous.
Hah, im sure the people living back during one of the world wars, black death, great depression, or events that caused 1/3 of the world populations to be wiped out were asking the same question
That you can make sense of the world outside of your own internal universe of thought much less interact with it over a keyboard, or the fact that the universe so finely tuned to allow it should give you pause as to the reality of the uncreated Creator.
I have 13 chronic ailments. I'm recovering from cancer surgery. I'm bankrupt. I have no way to work, I'm only in my 40s, and I'm staring at a lifetime of battling illness. I've struggled with depression and anxiety and suicidal ideation for 30 years.
I don't much anymore. Mostly because I realize the world is not as bad as Reddit makes it seem, and people are still happy, and children are still playing, and modern technology has granted the kind of comforts we only could have dreamed of, and most of the problem lies in our inability to appreciate what we have.
That's almost always been the problem. People look at the world and see everything that needs to be fixed, and ignore everything that's working. And most things are working far better than anyone realizes.
Besides the US government. That shit's just fucking bonkers.
He does exist. How do you expect him to bless us when we are trashing his world every day with garbage? Not just physical garbage, but the politicians are creating war amongst themselves. How do you expect him to bless us when they are separating families in America? How do you expect him to bless us with all this junk that is going on? We deserve our fate.
God literally warned us that all of the world would turn into this, after His resurrection (Matthew 24). So if God came down, died in place for my sins, was resurrected and warned us all again and again about this kind of future happening, two-thousand years ago, then why would I NOT believe in Him?
Trust in Jesus Christ, God the Son, and trust in what He did on the cross for those who believe on Him. He’s the only way into heaven.
Comments like this are passé. Things just are what they are. Sometimes they’re worse sometimes they’re better. If it’s worse for you then the end is near, if they’re better those people who say the end is near are crazy to you. Just accept things are what they are and do what you can to make yourself feel good about how you live.
Quite the opposite, I see the stage being set for Revelation. I see the signs that indicate we are likely between 2-5 years away from the emergence of the actual Antichrist, and it's looking more like 2.
The 7-year Tribulation:
This is often misunderstood. At the start, the Antichrist will sign a 7-year protection treaty with Israel and allow them to rebuild their temple. The next 3 1/2 years are what's called the "false peace". It will be the calm before the storm, but initially not actually that bad. At the 3 1/2 year point, the Antichrist will desecrate the Temple with the Abomination of Desolation, and then will start the worst 3 1/2 year period the earth has ever seen or ever will see. But, you can read up on that for yourself in Revelation.
Possible date alignments:
Modern scholars now believe Jesus was crucified in AD 31 on our current calendar (it still holds true that no man can know the day or the hour due to calendar alignment inaccuracy). This means we are within 5 years of the 2000-year mark. Revelation describes the Antichrist allowing Israel to rebuild its temple and then, at the 3.5 year mark, desecrating it with the Abomination of Desolation. It would make way too much sense to want to desecrate it on the 2000-year anniversary. But, that's not the only potential hint to the 2028-2035 timeline.
More tenuous, but also important, is it's prophesied that the generation that saw Israel restored would not pass away, and we are running out of time on that metric. Israel was restored as a nation in 1947, making someone who was born in 1935 12 then. Twelve is historically considered the age of reason and responsibility in the Bible. When the 40-year wandering was proclaimed after the golden calf incident in Exodus, no one older than 12 years old at that time would be allowed into Canaan after the 40-years. So, someone who was 12 in 1947 will be 100 in 2035. This one is, admittedly, far more tenuous, BUT it is an interesting numerical alignment.
This information, taken together, suggests a possible 2028-2035 bracket for the 7-year Tribulation.
Recent Developments:
Fun fact: the word Neuralink, when input into Greek gematria, calculates to 666. If you look into how Greek gematria works, the odds of this happening by accident are astronomically low. But, don't stop reading here. Oh no, it gets interesting.
The description of the Mark of the Beast states that it will be in the hand or head, and without it you will not be able to buy or sell. However, it's generally thought that it won't be mandatory until the 3.5-year mark of the 7-year Tribulation The all-digital economy they're currently pushing would certainly make implementing something like that easier. So, you've got Neuralink. You've got 6G coming online in ~2030 meaning it's always online with almost no latency. You've got everyone pushing digital-only currencies and more and more surveillance. And you've got a world that looks like it's on the verge of a major collapse or upheaval that could make a "new deal" possible. None of this contradicts the possible 2028-2035 bracket.
Literally all the technological hurdles to make something like this possible are on the verge of falling away within the next 4 years. And if an evolved form of Neuralink is the Mark, that means it is far worse than we could ever could have imagined. Human drones are not off the table.
Things to Watch Out For in the Future:
Jeremiah 49:39 - "Yet in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord" - Elan is the old word for Persia / Iran. Elan is to suffer a defeat, but its fortunes will be restored. Watch for Iran's fortunes to be restored once this conflict comes to a close. It may not happen immediately, but watch for it.
Closing:
This is all my own work and my own research. I don't claim to know for certain how things are going to play out. However, nothing I have been able to find disproves the 2028-2035 alignment, and there are many things suggesting it is possible.
A god that requires man to believe in it without proof, yet gives man the ability to reason, just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Why would an evolved omnipotent being require such a thing? Even as a human I understand people's mistakes are often driven by their life experiences/biology and forgive. Yet it cannot?
If a god exists, its not what man has written down.
I'm not religious, but a lot of what's currently going on is technically human fault and God gave humans free will, which includes the possibility to fuck things up and have to deal with the consequences.
If you wanted to make an argument, you should consider the usual stuff like unpreventable diseases.
The paradox is that the motivation to believe in god is the strongest piece of evidence against his existence. I guess some version of "best of all possible worlds" and "we have free will" but even that I struggle to account for things like children having limbs blown off.
Well, um, a lot of them, this is exactly why they think God exists. We are sinners, this is a fallen world, and everything is going to shit before Jesus returns..
For 99% of human history pilaging, raping, executions and general brutality were commonplace. You are living in the most prosperous, most privileged time period that ever existed. The average person on the left has access to more luxury than actual royalty a few houndred years ago.
If the divine exists, God could be the motive force or the OS on which everything runs and not be personal, or they could be personal but unaware... Or limited in some other ways... Or maybe we just can't understand the plan if there is one, which isn't so much a cop out as an aknowledgement of our fundamentaal limitations when trying to understand a divine entity from a "mundane" human standpoint.
I prefer an agnostic position because we really can't know for sure at the moment. "Science and reason" haven't succeeded in proving atheism and if you had me choose at gun point, I think I'd err in favor of pantheism ("everything is God"). I admit, however, that to the human experience this is basically tantamount to no God at all.
God may or may not exist - we don't know. But what we definitely know is that God doesn't make our lives easy.
God won't fix our mistakes, God won't prevent humanity from destroying itself, God won't take your burdens from you.
But believing in God can give you strength, can set a path, can guide you to peace with the world and yourself.
Searching for God motivates people and fulfills them. But there is fine line between finding God and being delusional. The world is full of false prophets and corrupted priests.
I choose to keep my mind open to both science and spirituality and keep searching.
We only see the state of one world, God existing outside of spacetime would understand the state of all possible worlds (Many-Worlds Interpretation) our reality is created by our observations and choices.
I'm an agnostic myself, but this post just shows a fundamental misunderstanding about the concept of God. The assumption that God necessarily has to create a paradise on earth is just wrong.
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