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How do you think you would fare in life if you suddenly lost permanently 40 percent of your income?

How do you think a store would fare if it lost 40 percent of its customers?

And how well do you think an economy would perform if it lost over 6 trillion dollars a year, year after year?

Would war or conflicts make up the difference or significantly widen the gap?

When a plane is in an unrecoverable tailspin, would it help to hurl baggage at people on the ground or shoot the messenger?

Why would anyone want to live in infamy, hated by future generations for the harm and atrocities committed during conflicts and war?

And why would being like the Imperial Japanese or Nazis, on the losing side of history, ever make your ancestors, grandchildren, or future generations proud?  

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Once there was a tiny tree living in a big forest. It thought it would grow to be the biggest tree if it cut down all the other trees.  

He cut and cut and cut and cut.  It took him years, but he finally cut down all the trees in the forest.  He stood alone.  

But still he did not grow tall.  In fact, he was withering, slowly drying out.  His leaves started to fall, and his branches started to hollow out.  

Without his brother and sister trees to help block out the sun's rays, it became quite hot.  

Without his brother and sister trees’roots to hold on to the topsoil, the soil eroded.

Without the forest to house animals and plants, the land became barren.  

The tiny tree was dying from thirst, and its roots no longer had a foothold in the ground; soon it simply dried up, died, and fell over from the slightest wind.  

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The fable teaches that an individual, organization, state, or country cannot become stronger, taller, or bigger by cutting down others.  The result would be self-annihilation or destruction.  

We are part of humanity, a whole environmental ecosystem, and part of the global economy.  

Cutting down the biggest fruit tree will not make you a fruit tree capable of bearing fruit.  

Shrinking the global economy, where there is less innovation, will not make the country cutting down fruit trees and other trees that are customers richer.  

In fact, fewer customers and less innovation mean becoming poorer.  And depending on the level of destruction, the economy would likely spiral into depression, and stagnation becomes imminent and inevitable.

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Control freaks are sticks in the mud.   

Being stuck in a deep rut is what power and control aggressors represent: playing on a tiny square of a tiny square on a tangent-intercept chessboard, never riding the waves of life, forever standing with sticks in the mud, stuck in ruts, forcing and coercing others into their same dull and perfect constructs of the world and how it should be, like them.

How can I, a mere mortal, say this?  

Do those trying to control and hold total power over people ever consider someone else's point of view or think about any consequence other than their own desire?  

Or consider the state of the world as what is best for humanity, rather than their idea of a perfect world - a flawless, unchangeable utopia with them in absolute power and control, stuck in the mire of a foundation of unmovable rut sinking in mud?  

Or consider the state of their own souls, with no room left to grow, forever force-feeding themselves and others their grandiose delusions for the sake of controlled perfection - unchanging, unbending, and immovable, despite the ever-changing world?  

Or consider where the Holy Spirit might be guiding them, instead of blocking the Spirit with sheer willpower?  

And how to receive the Spirit or, for that matter, love, if their only desire is for power and control?  

Sad that power-hungry, control-obsessed super-rutters will never learn how to live within Life and the world, nor how to receive the love and light of the Holy Spirit.

Super sight becomes negative sight with them, seeing only what is super desired, not what is truly there; worse than normal eyes that can see the situation as it is, rather than through super mirages of future grandiose delusions and nonsensical sightings.  

Because those super rutters are never really on any part of the chessboard, except the tangent intercept of a tiny square within a tiny square.  

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Hope you haven't put any bets on the super rutters.

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What is a prophecy?

A prophecy is a message or prediction believed to be inspired by a divine source or a prophet.*

How many prophecies are there about the coming of Jesus Christ?  

Scholars estimate that the Old Testament contains between 300 and 450 prophecies regarding the first coming of Jesus Christ.*

How do we know those prophecies were real?

Because they came true at least three times.  

Just as you know something is a prediction, not guesswork, if it passes the verification test three times.

"Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.”*

Biblical scholars agree that Jesus fulfilled at least 300 distinct predictive prophecies during His earthly life, death, and resurrection.*

Therefore, we know they were prophecies from various prophets and were verified as true and fulfilled at least 300 times.

*Referenced from Google AI Jesus, prediction,  and prophecy searches.

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What Is The Truth?

 

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What is the truth?

If you ask Google AI what the truth is, it would say:

Truth means the quality or state of agreeing with verified fact or reality.

And if you are talking about being true to someone or an ideal, it means sincerity and fidelity, involving loyalty, honesty, or faithfulness.

How do you know if it is true?

You verify it.

When some truths are harder to verify, you rely on their track record, character, empirical evidence, and history.

Why?

Because “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), meaning life is cyclical, with patterns repeating in the physical world and human history.

For this reason, because human history is cyclical, we need to know the truth to face it and prevent the worst parts of history from repeating. Because this time, with doomsday weapons to herald the apocalypse, we wouldn't have to worry about history repeating itself.

So let's start with simple truths.

The timeless battle between good and evil; the ongoing struggle between constructive, moral forces and destructive, harmful ones. Or the battle to overcome fear with love and ignorance with truth and knowledge.

Each time we fail to overcome fear, succumb to blame and hate, or act out of ignorance, the worst parts of history repeat.

For example, ignorance of how the global economy works can destroy it, bringing the world back to a great depression and stagnation.

Let's look at the global market, simplified as a pie chart divided into five slices. Each slice represents a different region.

Suppose only regions C and E are productive and growing at +3 each. Regions B and D are flat at zero. Region A is in major conflict, depleting resources, with a negative economy at -2. The total for all five regions sums to four.

For some unfathomable reason, the aggressors in Region A, already in a downward spiral from overspending on ongoing conflicts, decide to borrow tactics from The Art of War and sabotage Regions C and E.

Imagine the aggressors succeed wildly in chaos, sabotage, and subversion, reducing Regions C and E from four to two each, shrinking the global market from four to two.

How could shrinking the global economy make Region A a superpower, especially if it's in recession?

It wouldn’t. Market pressures would lead to less global purchasing power, causing Regions B and D to go negative, while Region A's economy would fall deeper into recession.  

The global market would then enter a recession and, if unchecked, fall into depression.  

The truth is, throughout history, aggressors were never great administrators, preferring conquests. But robbing Peter to pay Paul, pillaging and plundering, is not a sustainable economic strategy, because once robbed blind, that's it; there is no replenishment of resources.  

And as the Nazis found out in WWII, it led to total economic system collapse and, in the end, starved millions of people.

Yet, we are seemingly willing to repeat this catastrophic and horrific part of our history over again, with these tragic results.

And for what?  

Imagined conquests in unsustainable economies?

Your soul? Your children's?

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