Very interesting read.
Well, that would certainly bring about a goodly portion of the global population reduction for which the Left is pining.
Bump
Considering the economic depression we are in I would not be surprised to see a world war follow thereafter again.
I totally agree. Totalitarian regimes enter massive wars, internal, or external. It’s coming soon, or maybe already here.
Ping
So we know that the world of 1913 was much more intelligent then the world of 2013. Just try telling a scientist in 1913 that CO2 was a pollutant. They would have thought you were a clown. The big problem our species faces this time is that we are living in the nuclear age. And nuclear weapons and reactors have proliferated enough so that any new global war means game over in the long run. And in this situation, what do our modern clowns worry about ? Climate change.
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen and likewise of every multiple of it stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution or some kindred idea.
The second usage of 13 was in connection to Ishmael in Genesis 17:25. Abraham circumcised him at the age of 13 admitting him into the covenant to which he was a stranger in heart and which ended in his rebellion and rejection.
When we get the the Gematria numbers in names, all descendants of Adam and Seth are divisible by 8 (Hebrew letters) and in the line of descendants of Adam/Cain are all divisible by 13. We also have the 113th congress and astronomically a amazing phenomenon has put the earths/sun solar system beginning 12-21-2012 into its 13th orbit around Sirius since the dawn of time.
The Fourth Turning.
The crucial point about the world 100 years ago, then, is not that it is identical to the world today -- it isn't -- but that there was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when a globalized world, not entirely dissimilar to our own, fell apart. And it wasn't because human societies were in the grip of the uncontrollable forces of destiny or that they were particularly dumb. Most just didn't expect things to pan out the way they did. People actually living through the year 1913 did not experience those 12 months as the moody prelude to catastrophe. In retrospect, there were storm clouds on the horizon. But at the time, many people found themselves living through the best of times -- or simply had other things to think about.
ping
While 2013 might be the year of a great war, there is no real, meaningful parallel to WW I. The 20th century was all about the final desolation of the major monarchies and the establishment of new governments.
It is not over yet. Russia is still struggling. China is not yet recovered. Egypt is in turmoil.
The next great war, actually already underway for 20 years, is with radical Islam. While the west is in the throes of Repudiation, casting off religion, much of of Islam is engaged in a battle for Restoration. The west has become the enemy in order to have a bag to punch while stirring up anger and disruption at home.
The writer got his daily quota of words but they are but so much speculative balderdash.
Bert’s three R’s........ Reformation, Repudiation, Restoration. History is largely about them and the 4th..... Rennaissance