cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46172117
The majority of the time, I start writing and I don't know where it's going. A specific type of typo which I call a kumquat and the way my phone's keyboard's predictive text suggested a statistically aberrant word (a raspberry) planted a message about writing propaganda to prevent unsocialized young men from touching women when they start drinking, which happens to a percentage of the population! I grabbed a woman's ass once on Halloween. I don't think about the anonymous stranger that had her night ruined, I'm just a piece of shit that cringes enough internally upon remembering who I was that I would have a miscarriage, if that were possible, and it's certainly not from lack of trying!
That last bit's a joke. Everything else is true, which means, statistically, there is a young man reading these words who knows nothing about sex but porn and he will go on to hurt his first girlfriend thinking that's real, so I gotta do something drastic to prevent calamity in this humanity I'm a part of! Society...what would we do without her? Prolly die as soon as the water goes out.
Do people know that's the fourth horseman of the apocalypse? Famine, plague, war, and drought are the four harbingers that will end society, and of those, only one is certain death for all life in an area. These are things that can be predicted and plan society around, so when we see locusts en masse, that's a sign grasshoppers don't have enough food and are going through their fourth stage of metamorphosis to become migratory.
Likewise, another thing that society can be engineered around is the guarantee that there will be pariahs - those people who fell off the wagon in one way or the other to lose their network to be a loner in a sea of people by their learned nature - who can be repurposed into a role having the empathy and shaman skills of having done the work to heal themselves to help other people. What should we call these critical members of our culture who can be the brightest light in the darkness for people really out of it and lost? Diossiah? Classiah? Mossiah? We'll think of something.
Thus, if you hear me, you understand that we do not engineer ourselves around THE prophecy, but on the guarantee that certain things will happen as the immensely complex system of society, built from a relativity small number of archetypes of character, percolates for any number of years, even two thousand! Well, closer to 1600 by what we can consider "current era," but there was that period of transition where the true dharma of Christ manifested itself as it did for the Buddha five hundred years prior.
To explain that, there's these terms from Mahayana Buddhism: true dharma, semblance dharma, and degenerate dharma. The vast majority of Christians are in degenerate dharma; following Christ as an idol rather than understanding the larger message to find the occult, where things like those that were spread through the Gospel of Mary are now kept hidden from those who cannot think for themselves.
There are many security features of our culture, which IS your operating system, whether you acknowledge it or not, and it behooves those who don't play by the rules to learn where Caesar's lines in the sand end and God's ocean begins, or you may drown. Or get caught. Then you will wish you drowned!
