What Is Behind the Collapse of Civilization?

Posted by Matt in February 14th, 2010 | 1 comment

Published in general, Bankruptcy, civilization, Civilized Countries, Collapse, Decline, Economic Decay, Falling Birth Rates, Family Security, geopolitics, Global Economics, Human Spirit, Journey, Multitude, Security Matters, Socialism, Sympathy, Terrorism

What if the sympathy for terrorism and the drive toward socialism, the falling birth rates and cultural bankruptcy in civilized countries, the economic decay and decline of the family all had a common cause? What if that common cause lay behind the multitude of ways that we can see civilization collapsing around us? Following that [...]

Reality Check: Dancing the Apocalypso | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in January 1st, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Apocalyptic World, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Decade, Denzel Washington, Doomsday, End Of Days, Excuse, Father And Son, Fight Scenes, Foreign Policy, Himalayas, Humankind, Mad Max, Micro View, Passionate Belief, Reality Check, Religious Believers, Roland Emmerich, World Share

Millions of religious believers around the world share a passionate belief in the coming of doomsday — and that means that the End of Days will remain a factor in politics at least until, well, the end of humankind.
As a year and a decade draw to a close, it seems to be an appropriate moment [...]

China, gold, and the civilization shift – Telegraph Blogs

Posted by Matt in November 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Financial, Aaa Club, Bloc, Blogs, Buying Gold, China Gold, civilization, Commodity, Debtors, Economic Powers, Fiat, Fiat Currencies, Gdp, Gold, Gold Story, India, Large Scale, Middle East, Morgan Stanley, Russia, Telegraph, Threshold

Mr Jen is an expert on sovereign wealth funds from his days at Morgan Stanley. The gold story — essentially — is that the rising economic powers of Asia, the Middle East, and the commodity bloc are rejecting Western fiat currencies. China, India, and Russia have all been buying gold on a large scale over [...]

Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Adult Guardian, Cataclysm, Charlize Theron, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Despair, Drift, Father And Son, Flashbacks, Movie Review, Multiplex, Nationwide, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear War, Nytimes, Sunlight, terror, Viggo Mortensen, Violence, Young Actor

The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear [...]

The Euphrates River is Drying Up

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2009 | 6 comments

Published in Middle East, Water, 102 Minutes, Asshur, Battle Of Armageddon, Bible Prophecy, Book Of Revelation, civilization, Descendants, Drying Up, Eastern Border, End Times, Euphrates River, Farmers, Four Rivers, Garden Of Eden, Gihon, God Promise, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Name, Hebrew Word, iraq, Land God, Neighbors, Nuclear Program, Nuclear War, Pishon, River Euphrates, Sign Of The End Times, Syria, Tigris, Turkey, Video Information, Wadi, Water Policies, Way Of The Kings, Year Drought

Just in case you weren’t quite sure whether we were in the end times, now we learn that the Euphrates river is drying up.
I think it’s clear to many Christians that we are in the end-times, but is a vial being poured out by the sixth angel?
In Revelation 16:12, it is prophesied that the Euphrates [...]

Surviving the Century

Posted by Matt in June 16th, 2008 | no comment

Published in general, Abc News, civilization, Civilization Collapse, Collapse, Fates, Globe, Great Civilizations, Scientists, Technology Knowledge

Scientists From Around the Globe Join ABC News in a Forum on Surviving the Century
Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse?
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Video: Collapse – How Societies Choose [...]

The Barbarians are Coming: How Our Decaying Civilization Will End, Too Enfeebled to Resist Invasion

Posted by Matt in May 11th, 2007 | no comment

Published in general, alien_cultures, civilization, different_culture, general, migrants, parasites, parasitic, philip_atkinson

The appearance of â€œterroristsâ€ is in fact an unpleasant confirmation of Professor Arnold Toynbeeâ€™s 1952 prediction that barbarian war bands would attack our declining civilization. FSM Contributing Editor Philip Atkinson offers a realistic view of our precarious predicament.
Declining Culture Vulnerable To Parasites
The impact of the intrusion of an alien culture upon a failing culture is [...]