I guess it is a bad sign when I don’t even know where to begin. That’s how I feel about the state of our world. I have been thinking about sitting down to write this article for weeks and each time I think about it I feel overwhelmed. Where to start? The level of insanity we are witnessing currently is astounding and things are happening that I never imagined could happen.
I feel very fortunate to have lived most of my life in a world that made much more sense than the one we currently inhabit. I actually feel fortunate that I am as old as I am since I may be gone before things get really bad but my heart breaks for the younger generations that (theoretically) will be around for many decades to come. Then again, considering the speed with which things are moving these days I may well be present for whatever is coming when things finally come to a head.
For most of my life I have been deeply suspicious of the political class and others who are often referred to as “the elite.” It’s clear to anyone with an ounce of sense and even a scintilla of critical thinking ability that those people have had very little regard for us regular folks for a very long time. Perhaps it has always been that way. It was clear to me in early adulthood that they are the kind of people who care only about themselves and their own and although I always suspected that they were evil, the events of the last few years have absolutely convinced me of that fact. And I do not use the word “fact” lightly.
It is becoming increasingly clear that COVID-19 is an engineered virus. A result of tinkering by humans that is commonly known as gain-of-function experimentation. It’s pretty much what it sounds like. Humans have learned how to modify viruses and make them capable of things that they would not otherwise have been able to do. Such as being more infectious and able to make people more severely ill. How lovely. What kind of insanity fuels the desire for such things? Defenders of this lunacy claim it helps us better understand how viruses work and how we might control them. But is the risk worth it? Recent events suggest strongly that it is not.
Another interesting and important question concerns how COVID-19, an engineered and “improved” virus, was introduced to the world’s population. Did it escape from the lab in Wuhan by accident or was it unleashed intentionally? I believe convincing arguments can be made for either scenario.
Perhaps our experience with this virus over the last few years makes a pretty convincing argument that there is a lot of true evil in this world. Isn’t tinkering with a virus to make it more deadly enough to conclude that there had to be some pretty evil characters behind the scenes enabling this kind of thing? I think that is a reasonable conclusion but that’s just the opening act in this production and it gets worse.
Worse is wondering if the virus was created and released for the purpose of convincing as many of the world’s population as possible that they need a hastily-developed and extremely dangerous “vaccine” to prevent them from contracting the virus. Now there is much speculation that the “vaccines” were the real end game and are actually designed to reduce the global population. It sounds completely insane but I am more convinced than ever that this is the kind of evil we are dealing with.
A few years ago I would have scoffed at people that are now saying we are engaged in a spiritual battle. “Bible-thumping nonsense,” I would have probably said. Now, I am not so sure.
I grew up in a Christian household. My parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses but thankfully not real hardliners since I don’t believe they had the heart to deprive us of certain things like associating with the neighborhood kids, which the doctrine mandated, at least at that time. We did grow up without the most important holidays of the year such as Thanksgiving and Christmas but my parents always made up an alternate holiday for us a day or two offset from the actual holiday and made sure we enjoyed most of the typical benefits. For example, we had what they called “Surprise Day” every year where we would wake up a day or two away from Christmas to a bunch of presents waiting for us downstairs. There was no “pagan” Christmas tree, of course, and we knew that a fat guy in a red suit didn’t leave them for us, but I am grateful they saw through the haze of their ideological delusions sufficiently at the time to make us feel as though we had our “Christmas” as well.
My parents eventually came to their senses in 1975 when “Armageddon” did not show up on time, despite the obvious but not-quite-promised prediction that came down from the very top of the sect’s hierarchy leading up to that allegedly-fateful year. Personally, I could never quite believe completely that their promises and predictions would ever come true, even when I was just a young kid in elementary school. It was just a bit too much for me to imagine that Armageddon would come, cleanse the world of everything and everyone wicked and then we would all be ushered into paradise to enjoy everlasting life.
Sadly, my brother did not share my skeptical viewpoint and was apparently completely taken in by all the promises of a wonderful life in paradise that would never end. When we broke away from the JWs in 1975 it left him extraordinarily bitter and angry. I think he felt utterly betrayed and in later years he became a committed and unshakable atheist.
I surely did not have much love for the JWs after our family broke away from the sect and I became an agnostic, which I suppose I more or less was the entire time. I could just never embrace the idea that there was no possibility that God or some divine entity exists. How could I possibly know? Deciding one way or another just never made sense to me. There is too much that we do not know about life and the universe that we exist in.
While we’re on the subject, what about The Devil? Otherwise known as Satan as well as a host of other names. Could such an entity actually exist? A few years ago I would have put the chances of that a hair above zero. I think it is fair to say that the needle has moved somewhat.
The main reason I feel that there is a better chance that Satan does exist that which we have witnessed for the last three or so years. I suppose I just have a difficult time imagining that all the evil we see playing out in the world is the entirely the creation of human beings. It would make so much more sense to me if this could all be attributed to some horrifically evil and powerful spirit entity.
Believe me, this is not me concluding that Satan actually does exist but I am definitely more open to the notion after witnessing the last few years here on planet Earth. But it definitely is me admitting that I am having a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that my fellow human beings, who should care at least somewhat about the welfare of others, are alone in this grand scheme that is causing incalculable misery and suffering. And it may get much worse.