![]() ![]() That’s not constructive thinking and the end isn’t for us to know. I’m not saying you should shrug your shoulders and tell yourself “ Of course the world is going to burn, it was made to burn, it’s right there in the Bible and it also says that lots of people are going to be willing participants in that process” and just go on about your day awaiting the apocalypse. While it certainly doesn’t impart a sense of optimism, I think it’s an important intellectual evolution that has to happen if you’re going to have a realistic sense about where all of this is headed. As a result, I’ve begun thinking about everything in an increasingly biblical context, which I’ve written about before in terms of the Calvinist concept of Double Predestination. I used to be afflicted such delusions, but my experiences since 2017 have cured me of them. ![]() ![]() This often leads to the misguided conclusion that by confronting someone with the staggering contradictions in their beliefs, they will then have to reexamine how they can entertain such contradictions or perhaps feel ashamed of their hypocrisy and thus reform their line of thinking and begin interpreting evidence within this new context. Probably what you also have is an itch to point these things out since they’re obvious. What makes you a dissident is that you notice various existentially important things and you also notice the contradictory beliefs that other people hold about these things. If you’re reading this and you don’t work for the SPLC, you’re most likely a dissident. ![]()
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