what bothers me the most about unfalsifiable predictions is that their predictive quality can only be retroactively applied, undermining its ability to be predictive at all
it relies on total ignorance of everything prior that fit, and other catastrophes that also looked like the “end times”
how was world war I not? everyone dying of mustard gas followed by famine, plague.
world war II?
the year 536?
other maladies in other countries? for many people it was the end time because their entire family and culture were killed and wiped out
I wonder if America will shake its Evangelical death cult. People are becoming unaffiliated with religion here but I feel like the mysticism is ingrained into the culture either way for another generation or two
Talking about it being the "mark of the beast" is a strawman. What you should talk about instead to win support among those same groups of people is to explain how it isn't/wouldn't be a means of government abuse. They're worried about it backdooring personal financial freedom the same way you would worry about the government backdooring encryption.
what bothers me the most about unfalsifiable predictions is that their predictive quality can only be retroactively applied, undermining its ability to be predictive at all
it relies on total ignorance of everything prior that fit, and other catastrophes that also looked like the “end times”
how was world war I not? everyone dying of mustard gas followed by famine, plague.
world war II?
the year 536?
other maladies in other countries? for many people it was the end time because their entire family and culture were killed and wiped out
I wonder if America will shake its Evangelical death cult. People are becoming unaffiliated with religion here but I feel like the mysticism is ingrained into the culture either way for another generation or two