Whiskey, interesting bit on China’s polygamy.

Obama will throw Israel to the wolves, formally, which only formalizes the process already begun

I have to mark another prediction of John Titor as correct. I hoped he was making things up.

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Mongoose, since I mention John Titor, his take on 2012 is that it would be a very unusual event. Specifically he compared it to parting of Red Sea, but I think it was just a concept based on his understanding of the biblical reference.

A world war in comparison with the actual events associated with Exodus would look like a picnic. These events were contained in about 25 years of extreme hardship. The old Hebraic documents stipulate that at the end of this period, only every 50th man, woman or child survived, of all the people that left Egypt. There were places that had no one left alive, two cities in Hindus valley, with canalization and water distributed through plumbing–concepts that were not put in use until the last 180 years, yet they were part of the city’s planning 3,500 years ago–they were burned to a crisp, bricks melted together and vitrified.

I have to hand it to Moses, he tried to find a silver lining, and he was rather successful, choosing the love of life as a guiding principle, while many other cultures resorted to appeasement of forces that they did not understand, through human sacrifices, putting death on the pedestal, as it seemed that was what the gods were after.

Psyche of humanity suffered a heavy trauma. Little did it help that some 800 years later, there was a repeat, albeit not as dramatic in scope and casualties. I don’t think we did recover, yet, these events are imprinted in our genetic memory (or whatever mechanism is used to reach back over millennia), how else I can explain my dreams as a little child, dreams for which I did not have any points of reference in the real world around me?

You will find somewhat generalized description what happened (encompassing both events and merging them) in the Book of Revelation, once you discard some imagery that is used as a device to provide a frame of reference for contemporary readers, and other concepts that don’t fit into these two narratives and may be attempts to reference future events. The leftover core description is fairly on the mark.