I'm completely convinced that the whole world is under the power of the wicked one. This would include pretty much all of your politicians, pop musicians, Hollywood, the Mainstream Media, Academia, Big Agra, Big Pharma, the Military Industrial Complex etc etc.
We live in an Empire of lies, run by the Emperor of Liars.
Its scripted reality, that's all. A well orchestrated distraction to keep you confused, fearful, frustrated and divided. And eventually dead,
beyond redemption, eternally separated from God.
The only thing real in this world is The Lord Jesus Christ. They have literally lied to us about everything.
Don't watch the news for information, or believe anything they tell you. Watch the news and ask yourself, " What are they selling? What agenda are they pushing? What is it they are trying to get me to believe? "
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Manasseh. While I agree that the whole world is under the power of the evil one, that seems to be a fairly clear truth of the Scriptures, we do have to live under such conditions. The United States used to be a nation run by authorities that, while yes there were sometimes questionable deeds by those in authority over us, we have now become the laughing stock of the nations and nobody believes anyone who is in the upper levels of our present government. And issues such as the one being discussed here are exactly why most sane people have lost any respect for those governing over us. Nearly everything that comes from our present cache of leaders turns out to be spins of falsehoods and half truths. I mean really, who here believes that windmills cause cancer? That we can cure covid by coming up with some way to ingest chlorine bleach? That other countries are 'sending' us their criminals of murderers, rapists and terrorists? That stopping hurricanes is as easy as detonating some nuclear bomb?
All of our allies see us as having turned away from having any international 'friends' and now we've become a nation that is so full of braggadocio and pumped up me, me, me, me. It is now the overall encompassing attitude that the whole world owes us just for being who we are. I remember a comment made that everyone will have to pay to do business with the United States of America. Our leader goes to formal international meetings and just snubs his nose at all the other leaders and walks away and leaves such gatherings right in the middle of them because, well, we're more important and have other things more important to deal with. You can literally see the 'walking with nose in the air' attitude about everyone else. That despite President Zelensky thanking our government on many, many occasions for its help, it's never enough for our current leadership? Really? That's who we now are and other nations respect us for that? I don't see it.
But that same leader holds great respect, his own words, for now the authoritarian ruled nations such as N. Korea, Russia and China. That's never been who we were as a nation. Before, we were the nation that democratic allied nations looked up to. Not anymore. Oh yes, they are struggling with the fear of intimidation and retribution which is the attitude that our leader has proffered all of his life. But that isn't respect.
It's just a different United States today than what I've been accustomed to for the last 70 years of my life. I'm not particularly proud to be known as someone who lives in that place where everybody gets punished for speaking or doing anything that one single person says they should be punished for. I just would have never thought that living in the United States meant that anyone could be punished for having ticked off one person. Law firms punished because they participated in cases against him. Media punished because they don't support the grand leader. Even past administration officials punished, not for doing anything wrong, but merely because they don't support his vision of meanness and retribution.
That isn't the way the United States of America ever, ever, ever operated.
I hope all of this fits in with the 'societal changes' that this board is about. I certainly see it as a great societal change in what used to be the status quo of the nations and the cooperation of the United States with those nations. Today, in the United States, our leadership honestly believes that all the other nations 'owe us' for just existing as the nation that we used to be!
Oops, sorry. I just went back and checked the board I'm on and it's the 'conspiracy' threads and not the 'societal trends' threads. But these societal trends I'm speaking of flow directly from such matters as what's being discussed with the apparent falsehoods concerning the Epstein case.