INVAR
Sword At-The-Ready
As the Chinese would say; we certainly live in interesting times.
So I thought I'd rant about these interesting times, and capitalize on the pulse this board and many others are expressing - to try and put it into words.
I suppose I could say this is ©2005 INVAR - but what does it matter? It's the truth.
TEOTWAWKI - Already In Progress
There is an awakening among many Americans that something is horribly wrong - but few can completely isolate or pinpoint exactly what that is or means. An anxiety is building among many of us who watch and prepare - and there is an unease among the willfully oblivious and the evening newswatcher that things in general are almost surreal, and that we as a nation have just walked through an unknown door to a future of uncertainty and difficulty. A lot of folks have a gut feeling, that a major shoe is about to drop that might start to unravel the entire fabric of our nation.
But no one is certain what that shoe is, or when it will drop...only that it is near. Is Rita the next shoe? An Al Qaeda hit? A stock market collapse? Housing market drop? Or will all of this fall at once like dominoes?
There are so many things stressing the fabric of the country that to list them all is like reading a laundry list of impending doom. Aside from the storm catastrophes of the last two years, there are fault lines across everything from politics, race, religion, class, sex and economics to who and what we are supposed to be as a nation and how we should conduct ourselves.
Toss in the fact we are in an undeclared war that due to political correctness, refuses to recognize our enemy as he is and to understand what is truly at stake. Add a thinly stretched military, our porous borders, and now natural disasters on a scale unknown on our homeland, and it is easy to understand why there is such a zeitgeist of worry.
It seems like a switch has been thrown in the last couple of years - and many of us are watching the next threat wondering aloud and silently if it will be the trigger of TEOTWAWKI.
The truth is, TEOTWAWKI is here - and already in progress. It is just not instant - and completely catastrophic like so many fictional accounts we have become accustomed and entertained since just before Y2K. Rita just looks to be the next deep cut.
America is past her height and zenith - and is now in a rapid decline. A decline that is picking up speed and being noticed around the world. A notice - that has awakened the world to the possibilities of a world without American dominance and influence on the world stage.
That I believe is the real zeitgeist - and we are feeling that with each successive situation and disaster this nation endures.
What all of you have been doing on this board - is to notice, chronicle, and point out the facts that many Americans are just now waking up to. We are a house of cards in every fashion imaginable - and we as a people have allowed, and contributed to our present condition, having dug up and removed our solid rock foundation in favor of one that is really nothing but stilts on sand.
We imagined a killer blow of some sort - setting a cascade of dominoes falling down, when it has been more akin to 'here a little and there a little'; death by a thousand cuts. But now those cuts are becoming frequent and deep and real pain is being felt for the first time for generations who never experienced 'tough times'.
What we are living in right now - is a time when an unseen protective hedge has been removed, and the winds of change are blowing through our midst. It was a hedge that has kept our folly and self-absorbed mismanagement and indifference from taking us out of the picture sooner.
But now, - our time is up, and I dare say the painful consequences of the last several generations is reaping what it has sown.
Our Republic is being replaced by a democracy at the demand of an ignorant and self-absorbed constituency being led by pseudo saviors hungry for power. Justice is being replaced with tyranny. Righteousness with evil. Responsibility with blame. Self-reliance with dependence. Wealth with debt. Production with consumption. Saving with credit. Logic with emotionalism. Foundation with folly.
• We have gone from the largest Creditor nation in the world, to the largest debtor nation the planet has ever seen.
• Our money is fiat paper tied to nothing of value except confidence.
• The populace has no savings rate - but is in debt itself.
• We no longer manufacture, we consume and provide services mainly engendered to entertainments and comfort.
• We import more than export.
• We grow just what food is needed for profit, and import the rest.
• Development is replacing farms.
• We are addicted to drugs and supplements for physical and mental health.
• Everything is litigated.
• Our military is stretched thin and commitments too great to maintain.
• Other nations are having to come to OUR aid in times of calamity.
Those things alone are the mechanisms by which our republic and nation can collapse and fall on their own merits. Imagine a few Katrinas, a major earthquake, another terror attack and the unspoken truth that we as a nation are not capable of coping and recovering from such things, and you begin to understand the impetus for all the anxiety you are feeling.
That is the reality we are waking up to - and what it means is that we are in the process of collapse.
The stability and prosperity of the society we all grew up in - is gone.
TEOTWAWKI
Tomorrow, is no longer certain. Another disaster seems to be brewing in the Keys - and many are wondering aloud "What's next?"
I don't think I want to contemplate 'what's next', but there is truly one key that contributes to all the woe befalling us - and that is that God, morals, religious and national principles are being removed from our society by a vocal minority, and tolerated and accepted by the majority. Sin, nonsense and debauchery are celebrated, protected and promoted, and we deceive ourselves into thinking it is more righteous to tolerate it in the name of 'diversity' than to stand on what is right. A little leaven leavens the entire lump and while we as a nation have the form of religion and character - we deny it's use and power in favor of iniquity disguised as moral superiority.
That is fact, whether we want to deny it, rationalize it, discount it or not. Our Hedge of Protection has withheld His hand from us. He did so for a few hours on 9/11 - and our national repentance was superficial and insincere. Within weeks we were back at the machinations of our decline even more fervently than before.
So now we have what we are faced with today, and instead of looking at our national character - everyone is looking to blame politicians and someone in government for how we are responding to the calamities, instead of asking why we are being plagued with them. Of course - the science and secular will focus on global warming or some other convoluted 'weather weapon' being used and again place blame outside of where it truly belongs. But then, we as a nation have been given over to strong delusion.
But taking God and religion out of the picture for a moment - all one needs to do is look at history and trends to see where we have arrived as a nation and former republic.
We have gone from vision, to struggle, to greatness, to superpowerdom, to decadence, to decline, to tyranny, and then to collapse. Same path as every other Republic that preceded us - and our Founders warned us this would happen. The same Founders being vilified, ignored and rewritten by the education Elites.
I had the recent privilege of listening to a gentlemen who spent most of his life living in the former British colonies of Africa - notably Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Ghana, and other areas of the former British Commonwealth during the hand over of British territories to the indigenous peoples clamoring for independence over the last 40 years. In each case - a relatively stable and wealthy country under British control - fell to utter economic ruin and total anarchy and dictatorship within a year or two - and sometimes months after the Brits pulled out.
The world and the media celebrated independence for these nations, and decried the colonial system - even while thousands and millions were being butchered by insane tyrants who plundered these places.
To him, the order and stability of American and British supremacy and influence in the world is giving way to the wild winds of beastly anarchy and oppression as we retreat from our global roles and shrink into ourselves. That is evidence of decline and collapse in historical context he said.
His experiences are riveting, mind-numbing and horrifying. He said he never imagined he would witness the end of the British empire in his lifetime - yet he has watched it collapse in less than 2 decades. His experiences, along with his study and knowledge of world history, trends and biblical prophecy - truly helped me to see that not only is history repeating, but that like the fall of British pre-eminence in the 50's through the 1970s, America is now in the process of rapid decline, and very soon - complete irrelevance in the globe.
Someone will take our place.
TEOTWAWKI is in progress, one domino at a time, and only now are some beginning to notice that the rest of the pieces of our national stability and prosperity are at risk.
Deep down, many of us have an unspoken understanding that we cannot cope or handle any more additional disasters and possible terror strikes - as evidenced by the aftermath of Katrina - and still maintain the way of life we have known for the past 60 years of prosperity and wealth.
That fact has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. From Jihadists to the other world powers - they realize what many of us are having a hard time grasping; that America is vulnerable, bankrupt, and unable to absorb and recover quickly from the things befalling us.
As such - we will not have the influence in global politics as we had. We will not and cannot respond to other threats elsewhere in the world while we are licking our own wounds. We no longer have the confidence of the free world to protect and bail out our interests.
We are become beholden to foreign nations, and as the injury to our gulf oil production, shipping arteries and supplies increases - our dependence on foreign sources to keep us afloat will only go so far.
That is a fact we are in decline. Add a few more hurricanes, an earthquake, terror attacks and we have collapse.
That does not mean we cease to exist altogether, but that the life of wealth, prosperity, world superiority and security our grandparents left us at the end of WWII - is gone.
TEOTWAWKI - is already in progress.
The British and American empires will be a minor abberation and blip in the course of history with the millenias of savage beastly empires that preceded us. What vile beast will take shape to replace the vaccuum we leave behind is the thing of nightmares and religious prophecies that take the world to a brink we cannot even get our minds around.
But it is coming. Perhaps sooner than any of us truly realize.
TEOTWAWKI - is already in progress.
So I thought I'd rant about these interesting times, and capitalize on the pulse this board and many others are expressing - to try and put it into words.
I suppose I could say this is ©2005 INVAR - but what does it matter? It's the truth.
TEOTWAWKI - Already In Progress
There is an awakening among many Americans that something is horribly wrong - but few can completely isolate or pinpoint exactly what that is or means. An anxiety is building among many of us who watch and prepare - and there is an unease among the willfully oblivious and the evening newswatcher that things in general are almost surreal, and that we as a nation have just walked through an unknown door to a future of uncertainty and difficulty. A lot of folks have a gut feeling, that a major shoe is about to drop that might start to unravel the entire fabric of our nation.
But no one is certain what that shoe is, or when it will drop...only that it is near. Is Rita the next shoe? An Al Qaeda hit? A stock market collapse? Housing market drop? Or will all of this fall at once like dominoes?
There are so many things stressing the fabric of the country that to list them all is like reading a laundry list of impending doom. Aside from the storm catastrophes of the last two years, there are fault lines across everything from politics, race, religion, class, sex and economics to who and what we are supposed to be as a nation and how we should conduct ourselves.
Toss in the fact we are in an undeclared war that due to political correctness, refuses to recognize our enemy as he is and to understand what is truly at stake. Add a thinly stretched military, our porous borders, and now natural disasters on a scale unknown on our homeland, and it is easy to understand why there is such a zeitgeist of worry.
It seems like a switch has been thrown in the last couple of years - and many of us are watching the next threat wondering aloud and silently if it will be the trigger of TEOTWAWKI.
The truth is, TEOTWAWKI is here - and already in progress. It is just not instant - and completely catastrophic like so many fictional accounts we have become accustomed and entertained since just before Y2K. Rita just looks to be the next deep cut.
America is past her height and zenith - and is now in a rapid decline. A decline that is picking up speed and being noticed around the world. A notice - that has awakened the world to the possibilities of a world without American dominance and influence on the world stage.
That I believe is the real zeitgeist - and we are feeling that with each successive situation and disaster this nation endures.
What all of you have been doing on this board - is to notice, chronicle, and point out the facts that many Americans are just now waking up to. We are a house of cards in every fashion imaginable - and we as a people have allowed, and contributed to our present condition, having dug up and removed our solid rock foundation in favor of one that is really nothing but stilts on sand.
We imagined a killer blow of some sort - setting a cascade of dominoes falling down, when it has been more akin to 'here a little and there a little'; death by a thousand cuts. But now those cuts are becoming frequent and deep and real pain is being felt for the first time for generations who never experienced 'tough times'.
What we are living in right now - is a time when an unseen protective hedge has been removed, and the winds of change are blowing through our midst. It was a hedge that has kept our folly and self-absorbed mismanagement and indifference from taking us out of the picture sooner.
But now, - our time is up, and I dare say the painful consequences of the last several generations is reaping what it has sown.
Our Republic is being replaced by a democracy at the demand of an ignorant and self-absorbed constituency being led by pseudo saviors hungry for power. Justice is being replaced with tyranny. Righteousness with evil. Responsibility with blame. Self-reliance with dependence. Wealth with debt. Production with consumption. Saving with credit. Logic with emotionalism. Foundation with folly.
• We have gone from the largest Creditor nation in the world, to the largest debtor nation the planet has ever seen.
• Our money is fiat paper tied to nothing of value except confidence.
• The populace has no savings rate - but is in debt itself.
• We no longer manufacture, we consume and provide services mainly engendered to entertainments and comfort.
• We import more than export.
• We grow just what food is needed for profit, and import the rest.
• Development is replacing farms.
• We are addicted to drugs and supplements for physical and mental health.
• Everything is litigated.
• Our military is stretched thin and commitments too great to maintain.
• Other nations are having to come to OUR aid in times of calamity.
Those things alone are the mechanisms by which our republic and nation can collapse and fall on their own merits. Imagine a few Katrinas, a major earthquake, another terror attack and the unspoken truth that we as a nation are not capable of coping and recovering from such things, and you begin to understand the impetus for all the anxiety you are feeling.
That is the reality we are waking up to - and what it means is that we are in the process of collapse.
The stability and prosperity of the society we all grew up in - is gone.
TEOTWAWKI
Tomorrow, is no longer certain. Another disaster seems to be brewing in the Keys - and many are wondering aloud "What's next?"
I don't think I want to contemplate 'what's next', but there is truly one key that contributes to all the woe befalling us - and that is that God, morals, religious and national principles are being removed from our society by a vocal minority, and tolerated and accepted by the majority. Sin, nonsense and debauchery are celebrated, protected and promoted, and we deceive ourselves into thinking it is more righteous to tolerate it in the name of 'diversity' than to stand on what is right. A little leaven leavens the entire lump and while we as a nation have the form of religion and character - we deny it's use and power in favor of iniquity disguised as moral superiority.
That is fact, whether we want to deny it, rationalize it, discount it or not. Our Hedge of Protection has withheld His hand from us. He did so for a few hours on 9/11 - and our national repentance was superficial and insincere. Within weeks we were back at the machinations of our decline even more fervently than before.
So now we have what we are faced with today, and instead of looking at our national character - everyone is looking to blame politicians and someone in government for how we are responding to the calamities, instead of asking why we are being plagued with them. Of course - the science and secular will focus on global warming or some other convoluted 'weather weapon' being used and again place blame outside of where it truly belongs. But then, we as a nation have been given over to strong delusion.
But taking God and religion out of the picture for a moment - all one needs to do is look at history and trends to see where we have arrived as a nation and former republic.
We have gone from vision, to struggle, to greatness, to superpowerdom, to decadence, to decline, to tyranny, and then to collapse. Same path as every other Republic that preceded us - and our Founders warned us this would happen. The same Founders being vilified, ignored and rewritten by the education Elites.
I had the recent privilege of listening to a gentlemen who spent most of his life living in the former British colonies of Africa - notably Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Ghana, and other areas of the former British Commonwealth during the hand over of British territories to the indigenous peoples clamoring for independence over the last 40 years. In each case - a relatively stable and wealthy country under British control - fell to utter economic ruin and total anarchy and dictatorship within a year or two - and sometimes months after the Brits pulled out.
The world and the media celebrated independence for these nations, and decried the colonial system - even while thousands and millions were being butchered by insane tyrants who plundered these places.
To him, the order and stability of American and British supremacy and influence in the world is giving way to the wild winds of beastly anarchy and oppression as we retreat from our global roles and shrink into ourselves. That is evidence of decline and collapse in historical context he said.
His experiences are riveting, mind-numbing and horrifying. He said he never imagined he would witness the end of the British empire in his lifetime - yet he has watched it collapse in less than 2 decades. His experiences, along with his study and knowledge of world history, trends and biblical prophecy - truly helped me to see that not only is history repeating, but that like the fall of British pre-eminence in the 50's through the 1970s, America is now in the process of rapid decline, and very soon - complete irrelevance in the globe.
Someone will take our place.
TEOTWAWKI is in progress, one domino at a time, and only now are some beginning to notice that the rest of the pieces of our national stability and prosperity are at risk.
Deep down, many of us have an unspoken understanding that we cannot cope or handle any more additional disasters and possible terror strikes - as evidenced by the aftermath of Katrina - and still maintain the way of life we have known for the past 60 years of prosperity and wealth.
That fact has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. From Jihadists to the other world powers - they realize what many of us are having a hard time grasping; that America is vulnerable, bankrupt, and unable to absorb and recover quickly from the things befalling us.
As such - we will not have the influence in global politics as we had. We will not and cannot respond to other threats elsewhere in the world while we are licking our own wounds. We no longer have the confidence of the free world to protect and bail out our interests.
We are become beholden to foreign nations, and as the injury to our gulf oil production, shipping arteries and supplies increases - our dependence on foreign sources to keep us afloat will only go so far.
That is a fact we are in decline. Add a few more hurricanes, an earthquake, terror attacks and we have collapse.
That does not mean we cease to exist altogether, but that the life of wealth, prosperity, world superiority and security our grandparents left us at the end of WWII - is gone.
TEOTWAWKI - is already in progress.
The British and American empires will be a minor abberation and blip in the course of history with the millenias of savage beastly empires that preceded us. What vile beast will take shape to replace the vaccuum we leave behind is the thing of nightmares and religious prophecies that take the world to a brink we cannot even get our minds around.
But it is coming. Perhaps sooner than any of us truly realize.
TEOTWAWKI - is already in progress.
So soon? 
