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Hmm ... Barn Door like Christianity? To my mind. if one thinks 'hostile' / 'opposition'. But, had a very old colleague / wise friend, and met good people of his Pakastani community. Met similar when working for lengthy periods in very tense FYROM now N. Macedonia. At one remove I also know a little about trad. Morocco. We all live in dangerous times, satanic forces on the prowl not least in our 'Western' mind? I look for friends. Nate & Helen gave of their best.

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I can barely keep up. The news of the horrific rain of bombs in Gaza does not allow for much discussion.

There was long discussion way back in peak oil's early days on JM Greer's site of those days when he pointed out the popular American habit of thinking of the future as material Progress as advertised (sort of Star Trek) and the sudden end of functional life (American, that is). Quite where this duality lies on the psychological or indeed spiritual spectrum I cannot guess. (Greerhappened at the time to be leader of an American Druid Order, but that did not invalidate his shrewd comments.

I wonder if in these deficient days the old-fashioned millenarian Christian movements of previous centuries can no longer show up? I seem to remember a lot off them went to America. Do we happen to know whether countries without that historical background entertain similar apocalyptic visions in these dangerous times? I don't know how industrialised civilisation, sort of halfway in its global rollout might extricate from the overall mess. There are and will be horrors, but it could string out over a long period like civilisations have done in the past, which I seem to remember was Greer's thesis back then.

best wishes anyway

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