I love how smart everyone is in failure prediction. I've been watching this phenomenon for 50 years since I was 4 and Nixon was president.

Reading history it's certainly doable to predict change when there are no secular constants in this world other than the One who put it all together.

I liked to ride the failure bus, too, sometimes because it's popular, they serve drinks and you might get some cheap sex. Really it is all a spell against those who strive to work for the better of mankind.

Good times make for weak men.

Weak men make for hard times.

Hard times make for strong men.

Strong men make for good times.

Bunk data. Ottoman caliphate lasted longer. Andalusia was longer. Umayyad and Abbasids longer