Posted on 02/25/2019 8:33:40 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
Full headline: Are America and the West headed toward collapse? New study finds startling similarities to fall of past civilizations
Predictions of Americas doom and gloom ahead are nothing new, as its always easier for us to see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full. So its not surprising that a new study has made a similar prediction.
But unlike many past analyses, a new look at an old study by historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History examined his findings and identified key elements within each past great civilization that explained why they collapsed.
In short, past great civilizations like the Roman Empire didnt die so much as they committed suicide, the BBC reports.
Toynbee was right in some respects: Civilizations are often responsible for their own decline. However, their self-destruction is usually assisted, wrote the BBCs Luke Kemp.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
Yeah and Rome had a much longer run. So did England!
Good bit of perspective there, FRiend.
Prophecies of doom are great for grabbing headlines, and often good money makers as well. Ask Al Gore or Paul Ehrlich.
Yes, governments pretending re the binary nature of sex is a sign of serious decay. Here are some other cases of governments pretending things to be true that aren't true:
Pretending that witches are real --> Witch hunts/ unjust executions.
Pretending that black people aren't fully people --> justification for slavery.
Pretending that Jewish people aren't fully people --> the holocaust.
Pretending that preborn people aren't fully people --> millions and millions of cases of death by abortion.
Pretending that homosexuality is normal --> the problems are only beginning.
Lol.
“We do not have the will to resist Islam.”
Gotta remember—
We have a book that says : Love thy neighbor
Their book says ...If your neighbor will not convert to ISLAM, kill Him !
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Im 74. Ive been seeing similar studies since I was 21...someone is always chasing that angle...a gloom & doomer (democrat).
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THE ?: How long are the death throes? We’ve not been a Constitutional Republic since Teddy began ‘conserving’ parks (some would say Lincoln via the War Between States [not a ‘civil war’...wasn’t over D.C.\same seat of power]).
Rome fell to the hordes (like the D.C. cabal of today...WIDE open and unprotected). But, unlike then, the cabal steals from the Citizenry to give out to the locusts!
Yep - but only because God has decreed it will degenerate until Jesus returns to set things right...Good will be down for the 10 count and Jesus will stop that count before Evil is declared the winner....it will get that close.
Ever wonder why the Bible never mentioned the United States in scripture? But china, Russia, middle eastern country etc, are, except the USA? We were meant only to rule as a superpower to help Israel for 242 years. In my opinion God is finished with us!! There is so much chaos around the world that it is prime for the antichrist to come and take his place as the Bible mentions! I believe we are in the latter days...don’t know if there will be a per-rapture or post-rapture... if we stay as here on this earth during the tribulation hold onto your bootstraps because we haven’t seen nothing yet ! The wrath of God will be horrific and terrible!! Come quickly Lord Jesus!!
I’m eighty and my parents and grandparents heard the droning of the end of America up to WWII and afterwards.
Then, it started again in the mid to late 50’s.
Go back to a lot of the early posts on FR, and the end was there then and now.
The challenges have been there before we became a country and after we became a country.
All civilizations begin their fall when they decide there is no morality higher than man’s ambitions.
I get that, but I dont think enough of us would have passed away.
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Normalcy Bias is high among people of a certain age. All is well!
The values inherited from Christianity and Judaism no longer have any influence on what happens in “Western Civilization.” Agnostic materialism has replaced those values.
The USA will not collapse any time in the foreseeable future. Most of Europe is in full collapse mode, as national boundaries are erased, all vestiges of Christianity/Judaism are suppressed, and the way is paved for *slam to become the dominant world view.
France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, the UK are on the brink of disaster, and they don’t know it.
The values inherited from Christianity and Judaism no longer have any influence on what happens in “Western Civilization.” Agnostic materialism has replaced those values.
The USA will not collapse any time in the foreseeable future. Most of Europe is in full collapse mode, as national boundaries are erased, all vestiges of Christianity/Judaism are suppressed, and the way is paved for *slam to become the dominant world view.
France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, the UK are on the brink of disaster, and they don’t know it.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
-Ariel Durant
I see that it is a documentary, available on Amazon Prime. I'm going to watch it tonight.
I’m amazed that, all things considered, the USA has stayed so strong for so long.
I believe technology will render equal many cultures and geographic locations. The quality of peoples lives will be determined by digits and code much more than ethics and interpersonal relationships.
I'm a few years older and I must concur. Almost every time an article like it appears it will be by a liberal democrat.
That bunch is always seeing the darkest side of everything. They can't be happy about anything and want the whole world to be in misery with them.
You cannot have 60 MILLION CHILD SACRIFICES and NOT be finished as a country!! GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!
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