Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
 

I can't help but think we are sliding into a new Dark Ages, a collapse of reason, virtue, and common sense. I see it everywhere, in every forum of life, political, economic, religious, social...

Are we on the top of an inexorable slide into the backwater swamp of yet another failed civilization? How many centuries, how many generations, will it take for our posterity to climb back out of the pit we're slipping off into?

Critical thinking seems in short supply these days. In EVERY area. I'm only 43 years old, and I can tell you - things have changed over the last 20 years. People seem to have literally gotten demonstrably more st00pid across society.

Meh.

Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
 

The sun appears to be setting in the West.

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I wonder too... it is sad to see.

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With gay rights claiming the bible is hateful and people actually using the bible to claim God is hateful tells us the world is getting dark. People darkness is being called light, and the light is being called evil. It's not a nice world.

Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
 

I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of our current situation but not sure if I would characterize what we are descending to as the Dark Ages as it relates to the previous Dark Ages. I am really not sure how to characterize it.

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yes, it has been characterized as neofeudalism; but really it is just satan running the world in a different iteration; so now we effectively have one world currency, that is completely manipulated, and backed by force of arms. Virtually no one reading this even attempts to not use it; ergo we are slaves to it.

At the same time, we live in a miraculous period. You likely could not starve to death if you tried. Information at the touch of a button. Vast swaths of the world pop have improved standards of living; even if the improvements are debatable. So it is a matter of perspective. Would anyone here care to trade their lives for one of 500 years ago? Prolly not.

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This is off the subject but every time I see your screen name this is what I think of (clearly showing how old I am)

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http://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towa.../dp/0060573112

Read it.

http://www.cedarpark.org/wp-content/...0/gomorrah.pdf

http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/76471-1/Robert+Bork.aspx

Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
 

The former "dark ages" as some call it, was soon after the fall of Rome and by and large, was only a European problem.

Much advancement in art, technology, philosophy, mathematics, and etc. was seemingly lost during this era, until the Re-Birth, or Renaissance, when much was rediscovered.

It also refers to a time when, in esoteric mystery schools, human consciousness took a dive toward the materialistic and lost the ability to commune with the gods (or God, as one might have it).

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The problem is we are surrounded by sheeple that can't think for themselves!!!