i should also mention that not once, but TWICE john goes to worship (prostrate) to the angel giving him the vision and the angel rebukes him saying "don't do that, we are the same as you" twice!

it also says that as time gets closer more will be revealed

my father determined by intensive research that this year would be the year in which a war would start in palestine and mark the beginning of the tribulation: *check*

i also read last year a book just published that gives ample references to some hypothesis that we might expect the return of Jesus about 2028 and suggests that it is going to be associated with an alignment between sun, moon and jupiter and the pleiades *check*

said book suggested that the reason for all this had to do with a cluster of rocks that are in a ~12500year orbit of the sun in the angle of the star constellation of taurus, in which you find the pleiades and nearby the star sirius, both of which are also very close to us relative to stars in the sky elsewhere (that's why sirius is so bright)

and that "heaven" was a colony of humans that have also been called the "atlanteans" and were probably the people running the ship that got shot down in 1943 over new mexico

the very book itself, the book of enoch, was hidden (apocryphal) and only reappeared in the 17th century out of the ethiopian orthodox church, the catholics eradicated it from europe, and this book talks extensively about the end times and leaves you in no doubt after reading it that angels are humans

I will need to research further if there are historical links with gnosticism and Darby or the Brethren, but it seems Dispensationalism has, primarily through its eschatology, let in a lot of gnostic ideas. I should clarify that Dispensationalism itself isn't necessarily gnostic (at least I cannot currently make that argument), rather it has been a theological vehicle to bring in a lot of Gnostic thought into the Church — emphasis on the spiritual over the physical, a near repudiation of the material world (this is more apparent in some circles than others), minimizing the importance of space/place specifically in worship, *just passing through* mindset, escapism and their specific views on a spiritual heaven over a robust theology of physical resurrection and a new earth, a high time preference and a lack of emphasis on building things that last, etc.

I'll add that one can unknowingly have Gnostic-like ideas as a Christian and not be Dispy or premil, but I see the fruit most often in those circles (I was once in those circles).

the U.S. military had been creating bogus personas with AI-generated profile pictures and fictitious media sites on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to manipulate social media users.

Old testy can go from dead sea scrolls straight to English now and somehow it wasn't telephone gamed into oblivion

Tbh, nobody interested in paying to watch content on social media. The only thing works best for them is ad’s monetization

To me this is the way to truly create a global public square, as Elon Musk "says" he wants.

Yeah definitely. X could do that any day I think if they wanted to.

Lack of moderation is not a feature for companies who wish to be in control of what people say in their comms channels.

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Se encuentra traducido a Castellano?

Gives an excellent context for the world we live in today, and the power structures that govern it.

The bible

Why did God invent spiders?