> mark of the beast

what bothers me the most about unfalsifiable predictions is that their predictive quality can only be retroactively applied, undermining its ability to be predictive at all

it relies on total ignorance of everything prior that fit, and other catastrophes that also looked like the “end times”

how was world war I not? everyone dying of mustard gas followed by famine, plague.

world war II?

the year 536?

other maladies in other countries? for many people it was the end time because their entire family and culture were killed and wiped out

I wonder if America will shake its Evangelical death cult. People are becoming unaffiliated with religion here but I feel like the mysticism is ingrained into the culture either way for another generation or two