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Hartford
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How the next 20 years will be different from the previous 2
#27044963 - 11/18/20 07:04 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fear will be one of the major drivers of the next 20 years. Fear of harm, loss, the unknown. People will try to mitigate that fear with faith in God, but it will be hard for them because there will be a famine for the words of God.
This will cause churches to morph into social clubs that protect their own rather than seek to help others. To outsiders, churches will be seen as refuges for stupid people, misfits and the elderly. And they really will be.
Middle-class houses will be much more poorly maintained and built. The dinner table will be perpetually barren. Families will be increasingly fragmented and tensions will rise. This will lead to more bad decision making.
Suicides will go up. Many people will turn to drug use and well-off people will discover new avenues of sexual fulfillment in virtual reality. This will lead to even more tension between men and women over unrealistic expectations in relationships and sorrow and despair will increase.
Rioting will increase and everyone's standard of living will go down. Minorities will find relief in Islam and wacky cults. Anti-Semitism will rise. Terrorism will increase and a new war in the Middle East will be started to combat the center of global terrorism, Iran.
Everyone's going to need a toothbrush holder and some skim milk, because there doesn't seem to be a good way to cash in on these trends, so it'll be a very humbling experience.
The best course of action you can take is to perfect an atmosphere of peace within yourself, by finding God and getting a practical skill now that is valuable like plumbing or carpentry if you want a higher standard of living than the average welfare recipient will have.
Learn to insulate yourself from the social catastrophes with a group of good friends who are virtuous and caring. But know that your ability to minister to the poor on an individual basis and maintain a spotless inner purity is the only thing that will keep you insulated from the hateful demeanor others will be sucked into.
Edited by Hartford (11/18/20 07:16 AM)
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bodhisatta 
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Hartford] 1
#27050057 - 11/21/20 08:39 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Loaded Shaman
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Hartford] 1
#27172111 - 01/27/21 01:44 AM (3 years, 1 day ago) |
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Hartford said: Fear will be one of the major drivers of the next 20 years. Fear of harm, loss, the unknown. People will try to mitigate that fear with faith in God, but it will be hard for them because there will be a famine for the words of God.
This will cause churches to morph into social clubs that protect their own rather than seek to help others. To outsiders, churches will be seen as refuges for stupid people, misfits and the elderly. And they really will be.
Middle-class houses will be much more poorly maintained and built. The dinner table will be perpetually barren. Families will be increasingly fragmented and tensions will rise. This will lead to more bad decision making.
Suicides will go up. Many people will turn to drug use and well-off people will discover new avenues of sexual fulfillment in virtual reality. This will lead to even more tension between men and women over unrealistic expectations in relationships and sorrow and despair will increase.
Rioting will increase and everyone's standard of living will go down. Minorities will find relief in Islam and wacky cults. Anti-Semitism will rise. Terrorism will increase and a new war in the Middle East will be started to combat the center of global terrorism, Iran.
Everyone's going to need a toothbrush holder and some skim milk, because there doesn't seem to be a good way to cash in on these trends, so it'll be a very humbling experience.
The best course of action you can take is to perfect an atmosphere of peace within yourself, by finding God and getting a practical skill now that is valuable like plumbing or carpentry if you want a higher standard of living than the average welfare recipient will have.
Learn to insulate yourself from the social catastrophes with a group of good friends who are virtuous and caring. But know that your ability to minister to the poor on an individual basis and maintain a spotless inner purity is the only thing that will keep you insulated from the hateful demeanor others will be sucked into.
Cultural relativity ensures that further and further levels of human decadence are heralded as breakthroughs.
Everything you said above is accurate, but could unfortunately be applied to any 20 year period in history. Everything always winds down toward authoritarianism while pretending it's going the opposite direction, then a revolution, then a reset, then a "decent" period of 100-200 years before the cycle restarts.
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Loaded Shaman] 2
#27173805 - 01/27/21 11:17 PM (3 years, 22 hours ago) |
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Poor market returns. 7% annual is going the way of the dinosaur I think. Sucks for those of us that have 401ks or IRAs or invest individually. Gonna have to pick winners on your own. No more just dumping it in the S&P 500.
-------------------- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Brenard Shaw
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Hartford] 1
#27433826 - 08/19/21 12:25 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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machines will take over, in a good and bad way. Be rich idk what to tell but itll get worse as it gets better. Like always.
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Hartford] 1
#27561683 - 11/29/21 08:12 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Terrorism will increase and a new war in the Middle East will be started to combat the center of global terrorism, Iran.
Iran is the center of global terrorism?
Iran doesn't have a single military base on any other country's soil and has never invaded another country.
Also, there doesn't need to be a new war, there's like 4 or 5 wars going on in the Middle East already.
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Oz_Salvia
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Re: How the next 20 years will be different from the previous [Re: Ice9] 1
#27570040 - 12/05/21 08:02 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ice9 said: Poor market returns. 7% annual is going the way of the dinosaur I think. Sucks for those of us that have 401ks or IRAs or invest individually. Gonna have to pick winners on your own. No more just dumping it in the S&P 500.
Perhaps so for the second half of the 21st Century. https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/report-predicts-societal-collapse-2040-b1885263
Unless something dire and prior by TPTB who intervene and prefer a catastrophe on their own terms on which they steer to advantage.
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