>>4974266 lb

My Christian tradition (Eastern Orthodoxy) never contemplated a removal of the people of God from the Earth before Christ’s return in triumph and judgment, so no secret rapture for me!

But I can’t deny the contemporary resonance of such pointers to tribulation as:

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” (Jude 18)

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.  For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,  treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. (2Tim 3:1-5)

>>4974223 lb

I should say that this place is less afflicted by rampant Dunning-Kruger effects than almost any other place on the interwebz. Anonymity is typically not cherished by the moronic egoists and narcissists of Twat and FakeBunk.

There is also a discernibly higher level of intelligence and reflection on display.

But you’re right about the galloping expertise quotient being claimed by all and sundry. Doing a few online searches and watching a video does not painlessly convey mastery of any subject matter. I see big steaming piles of intellectual rotting garbage confidently paraded as knowledge in areas in which I do have deep subject matter expertise. I’m sure others with advanced degrees see the same in their areas.

The internet generally seems to have become the surrogate for a university junior common room, where those whose knowledge and understanding seldom rises above that of a dense first year student bullshit each other for all eternity.

>>4974381

That’s not a P. It’s the chi-rho Christogram.

>>4974341

With you, fren. Wheat and weeds growing together until the eschatological harvest.

But, man, those weeds are getting Bolshy and hard to tolerate.

>>4974417

Nah, not a turncoat. Coats was, is, and likely always will be just one of the parade of unreconstructed neocon morans through POTUS Admin.

Why are they there? WTF is going on with the C_A? After all this time the IC’s STILL producing the same old cabal-directed intelligence assessments. Will it ever end?

>>4974471

Metaphors work best when they draw on the immediate daily realities of the community addressed. Farming and fishing metaphors abound in Biblical literature for obvious reasons. One needn’t push the metaphor into direct consumption. These were pre-Soylent Green societies…

>>4974511

What I continue to find intriguing, and somewhat inconsistent with the predicate for “The Plan,” is that Trump didn’t have the A-List administration team lined up to support the process from Day 1.

Something in the works for a long time with the backing of powerful domestic and international interests should have been capable of giving the guy a fucking team worth a shit, no?

And I don’t buy any of the “for optics” arguments.

>>4974533

So you think it’s all been plain sailing from the get-go? Everything preordained and perfect?

You think Flynn getting outed was intended? You think Priebus was the ideal Chief of Staff? Was Tillerson an A-lister at State?

Have you ever run anything in the real world?