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To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 03:03 AM
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zachary00
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I have listened to way to many post apocalyptic audio books. So many parallel what we are going through now. After hearing about the plan to introduce a digital currency, my toes curled. Not saying they are coming true, but it is giving me some jitters.
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 03:07 AM
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Scagnetti
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Go to church and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Personal Saviour and you’ll be fine
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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Kattelyn
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Okay. Then put them down and listen to: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. By Hans Rosling.
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 03:13 AM
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zachary00
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Go to church and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Personal Saviour and you’ll be fine Oh, I'm set on that. In fact, every book has been by a christian author. Doesn't change the fact that whats happening they seem to have already written about. I guess from a christian perspective the level of concern depends on if you are premillennial (classical or historic), post millennial, or amillennial.
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 03:27 AM
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Tallgrass05
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They prey on unsuspecting minds, or minds that are open to being led down a path.
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 04:58 AM
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Bassman_78
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There’s some really good ones though. Until it starts to hit too close to home. 1984 I’m looking at you. I see them and similar writings as playbooks
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Re: To many post-apocalyptic books
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03/25/20 06:26 AM
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Mike@972
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C. S. Lewis’s words, written 72 years ago, gives perspective to the scary thing that we do not control. For today, just replace “atomic bomb” with “coronavirus.” Pull this out during the next scare and replace again. In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
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