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03-19-2016, 10:19 PM
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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.
Last edited by Esaias; 03-19-2016 at 10:21 PM.
Reason: spelling - don't want ndavid on my case
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03-19-2016, 10:50 PM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
The sun appears to be setting in the West.
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03-19-2016, 10:55 PM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
I wonder too... it is sad to see.
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03-19-2016, 11:33 PM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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.
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03-20-2016, 08:59 AM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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Originally Posted by Esaias
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.
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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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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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03-20-2016, 08:56 PM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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Originally Posted by CC1
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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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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03-20-2016, 11:02 AM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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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03-20-2016, 02:18 PM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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Originally Posted by shazeep
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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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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03-20-2016, 05:43 PM
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Unvaxxed Pureblood too
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
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~Declaration of Independence
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03-21-2016, 10:15 AM
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Re: Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?
The problem is we are surrounded by sheeple that can't think for themselves!!!
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