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We pray every night before bed. Harness light and humor to combat the darkness and demons. Focus on what you can control and enjoy it, then watch the world poolside…

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Mar 25Liked by Paulos

S’always darkest just before the Don

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Mar 26Liked by Paulos

We made a society destabilizing mistake when we allowed the normalization of degeneracy and deviancy.

We allowed the left to decide immigrants need not assimilate because our culture was rotten.

Time to stuff the genie of chaos back into the bottle.

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IMHO there are two things going on underneath the surface. The first is financial. There’s an excess of debt but the current overlords don’t want to lose anything. One way to manipulate the situation is through war. Europe and the UK seem to want a conflict that will give them cover for the financial reset and scare everyone else into obedience. Those two things - worldwide financial fragility and the possibility of world war - would give anyone the willies.

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"The culture is stuck," you nailed it. We are all perched over an open flame right now.

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Default Friend is right. You can write all the heroics you want but they'll still just be fantasies until some hero wins big in a way that changes everything.

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Mar 26Liked by Paulos

Usually the time preceeding a revolution. The populations are extremely anxious.

So this is concerning.

Anyways I have been praying a lot. My prayers get answered so I don't feel too anxious. But I'm no fool. Justice is coming for our world if we keep this tide of sin swirling.

I think we can all feel it. Time to go to confession. Time to go before it's too late.

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It’s likely to be a lot of little somethings - say a bridge collapse over a vital waterway - something like that.

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Bridges, transformers, oil supply, food supply, banking , immigration.......

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Perhaps I'm alone in feeling a certain lightness around 2024. Maybe I'm naive but I think that it can't be overstated the extent to which the regime shot its wad in 2020, and that's not really something that you can replicate. A good example of this was the black kid who was recently shot and killed in CA. If it weren't for frog twitter making jokes about the event, I doubt I'd have heard of it. Also, it seems inevitable that Trump will win, and that the only effect of the various lawfare actions against him is a further erosion of liberal legitimacy. Lastly, it really does feel like leviathan is cracking up, which will be good for everyone in the longterm.

I'm optimistic. I think the future is going to be beautiful

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A lot of this anxiety is felt on the part of the progressive leaning normie. I am personally optimistic.

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Meh, I am about as hard right as you can get, and I feel anxious as hell about the woke/neo-con axis brewing up WWIII and potential martial law.

https://whispertrees.substack.com/p/is-malaise-as-bad-as-tyranny

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O well they should be anxious. They're gonna have to deal with something in the next decades that hasn't existed for quite some time in the West: an actual right wing. Turns out building a political coalition that demands your balls as the price of admission has consequences

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Mar 26·edited Mar 26Liked by Paulos

I believe that the feelings many of us have are related simply to the Trump saga unfolding and building before our eyes day after day, creating an immense assault on our emotions. Uncharted territory is being revealed regularly which creates the unease. Just think of the various scenarios possible between now and Jan 6 and Jan 20, 2025. The Marxists and election cheaters will throw more than the kitchen sink at MAGA. The House is simply an embarrassing mess throughout. The Senate establishment Republicans are voting for destruction, default, open borders and war. Our financial system and status as the reserve currency is about to collapse. And, finally, there are bonfires burning all over the world and seem to be out of control. The only way to not feel unease is to ignore all of it, be unaware of it, like it or be mentally unstable. We on the right are riding a dragon into a totally unpredictable future that, hopefully, will include a return of DJT to the WH and definitely will include four years of hell, regardless of the election outcome. We commoners are no longer in charge and are feeling a growing belligerence, which does not bode well for the future of our Republic and the world.

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Mar 26Liked by Paulos

Traveled the country in 2009 by RV. Met many folks like me who have had a sense of unease since 2008. That sense has not gone away, and has increased since the beginning of the year. Been prepping for it since 2008.

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My prediction for the past year or so has been that the current status quo is rigged to collapse around 2030 when the majority of the Boomers are dying off, and that the global empire we live in is going to remain in gradually decaying stasis of incrementally worsening problems until then. Multiple financial bubbles are designed to collapse around the 2030s; the American national debt, pensions, economy, and student loans. But I think we in fact have around 6 years to prepare for collapse because so much is vested into keeping the Ponzi scheme going. More than half of America is made of stakeholders in the Grand Deceit. And also for the same reason I think big changes are going to be impractical until around 2030, because people are invested in the status quo, but when this dam breaks, the world is going to open up and become extremely malleable and full of transformative possibilities.

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I sure wouldn't want to live in/around a big city these days

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Mar 25Liked by Paulos

It's the deep breath before the plunge

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The Dead Flag Blues plays eerily in the minds of all alive. They know its haunting tune even if their ears have never received the vibrations. It hangs in the either, subliminal and cold and we wait.

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Same feeling in the old world aka Europe. I wrote this about that, if you don't mind to read :)

https://open.substack.com/pub/gardenlore/p/peering-the-sinister-world-outside?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=27h634

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When you love Jesus, you wish for Him to come. Seeing the Lord's glory is what this miserable, sinful existence is preparing us for. What do you believe? In man and his rules? I shall pray for you.

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