I know I'm the resident conspiracy nut on your blog, Kimberly, but just the other day I was discussing the Mandela effect with some friends, and stated my theory that the world already *has* ended, many, many times, from nuclear war and other causes, we just don't remember it (or maybe some of us do, through horrifying dreams - I know I've had a few, even though I was only born in the late 80s).
However, due to the non-linear nature of time, it's possible for gods or other entities to affect the past to avert possible futures (and possibly now humans or even AIs can do so, through some strange technology). What we see and remember is "the residue" (as the Mandela effect lingo goes) of the changes which had to happen to avert catastrophe. Maybe it's significant that Kit Kats used to have a hyphen in their title, or maybe it was just an unintended consequence or other changes. Maybe, through a series of improbable events, Pikachu's tail tip no longer being black prevented weaponised airborne ebola from being released. Maybe the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia logo inspired a terrorist death cult intent on dirty-bombing every major capital. (Butterfly effects, as you say) I am, however, pretty sure South America did used to be further over though, and I'm absolutely sure our hearts and kidneys never used to be in their current locations... Those definitely feel like significant changes.
Since about 2010, things have been getting increasingly weird - I think some sort of major inflection point occurred about then.
Either way, peak oil in 2018/2019 has taken out the engines of the global economy. Covid and the war in Ukraine are useful smokescreens for the time being, and anthropogenic climate change is a good way to tell people to use less fossil fuels without telling them it's because we're actually running out of them pretty fast. There are a lot of ways that a contracting economy can go south fast and spiral into chatoic civil war, but surprisingly, that hasn't yet happened, and we seem to be on a controlled descent rather than a nose-dive.
I've been meditating on this a lot, and maybe the vaxes are, to put it as a harsh extension of my plane metaphor, a way of throwing the luggage off to extend the cruise time of the now-engineless plane, easing it into a long glide and a smoother landing for the remaining passengers. I personally happen to disagree with your assessment that the Ogham was wrong on this one, and I also still think the Deagel forecasts will prove correct - we will see 50-75% population reduction, but over a much longer timescale of maybe the next 20 years - both as a steady increase in slightly premature deaths (so people die at 60 instead of 80, for example) and a moderate decrease in birth rates (odd anecdata by the way - lots of couples I know *failed* to get pregnant in 2021 or had miscarriages, but many successfully had babies in 2022. However, virtually every baby was a girl, and most were semi-traumatic births with at least one complication. Will these daughters be able to have their own babies, or successfully give birth in a world without hospitals? Who knows) Slow enough depopulation not to cause widespread panic or chaos basically, just the continuing, progressive crappification of everything and weird economic effects, such as prices going up due to fewer people in the workforce (and less fossil fuels). To some extent, "dying suddenly" may be seen as a mercy, rather than slowly starving to death from famine, or from radiation burns, or being tortured to death and eaten by cannibal raiders (yeah, I used to play waaay too much Fallout 3).
Not that I wish to absolve the clearly guilty philanthropaths of their crimes, which I am sure they will pay for in the afterlife, but perhaps many catabolic collapse scenarios were actually war-gamed and even acted out by discarnate (and crucially, benevolent, or at least non-malevolent) entities much smarter than ourselves, and this was the least worst option.
Why were humans allowed to break into the combustible cookie jar of the deep earth in the first place though? Why, to get out all that lovely locked-up carbon, of course! The earth was slowly cooling and Gaia needed to warm it up again, but meteors are terribly messy and cause a lot of collateral damage. Much better to create a versatile, intelligent, curious and above all, lazy species with sneaky little fingers, then wait a few thousand years for them to make a nice insulation blanket round the planet, and provide plant food into the bargain. We've served our purpose, and can go back to being just another species on this earth in a few millenia, when the climate is too unstable for agriculture. However, it's vitally important we don't trash the place on our way out, hence the whole "averting nuclear war"...
Mr. Crow
Ps. Someone mentioned above about an "Alice in Wonderland" feeling in 2020-2021. The strange thing about that is that Alice in Wonderland is reportedly used as a 'programming script' for MK Ultra/Monarch mind control. I know that for me too, 2020 has the kind of hazy, floaty dreamlike feel in my memories that's often reported from Monarch survivors. It's a dissociative state of de-realisation caused by the infliction of trauma on a subject. (even though I made a point of never watching the stupid daily fear-porn news bulletins) I also struggle to pick out specific memories from the year - it's all quite blurred. There are even photos on my phone which I genuinely do not remember taking or the events happening. My wife has reported the same, and we have each had entirely different recollections of what we did on birthdays, etc. Really weird.
The least worst outcome
However, due to the non-linear nature of time, it's possible for gods or other entities to affect the past to avert possible futures (and possibly now humans or even AIs can do so, through some strange technology). What we see and remember is "the residue" (as the Mandela effect lingo goes) of the changes which had to happen to avert catastrophe. Maybe it's significant that Kit Kats used to have a hyphen in their title, or maybe it was just an unintended consequence or other changes. Maybe, through a series of improbable events, Pikachu's tail tip no longer being black prevented weaponised airborne ebola from being released. Maybe the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia logo inspired a terrorist death cult intent on dirty-bombing every major capital. (Butterfly effects, as you say) I am, however, pretty sure South America did used to be further over though, and I'm absolutely sure our hearts and kidneys never used to be in their current locations... Those definitely feel like significant changes.
Since about 2010, things have been getting increasingly weird - I think some sort of major inflection point occurred about then.
Either way, peak oil in 2018/2019 has taken out the engines of the global economy. Covid and the war in Ukraine are useful smokescreens for the time being, and anthropogenic climate change is a good way to tell people to use less fossil fuels without telling them it's because we're actually running out of them pretty fast. There are a lot of ways that a contracting economy can go south fast and spiral into chatoic civil war, but surprisingly, that hasn't yet happened, and we seem to be on a controlled descent rather than a nose-dive.
I've been meditating on this a lot, and maybe the vaxes are, to put it as a harsh extension of my plane metaphor, a way of throwing the luggage off to extend the cruise time of the now-engineless plane, easing it into a long glide and a smoother landing for the remaining passengers. I personally happen to disagree with your assessment that the Ogham was wrong on this one, and I also still think the Deagel forecasts will prove correct - we will see 50-75% population reduction, but over a much longer timescale of maybe the next 20 years - both as a steady increase in slightly premature deaths (so people die at 60 instead of 80, for example) and a moderate decrease in birth rates (odd anecdata by the way - lots of couples I know *failed* to get pregnant in 2021 or had miscarriages, but many successfully had babies in 2022. However, virtually every baby was a girl, and most were semi-traumatic births with at least one complication. Will these daughters be able to have their own babies, or successfully give birth in a world without hospitals? Who knows) Slow enough depopulation not to cause widespread panic or chaos basically, just the continuing, progressive crappification of everything and weird economic effects, such as prices going up due to fewer people in the workforce (and less fossil fuels). To some extent, "dying suddenly" may be seen as a mercy, rather than slowly starving to death from famine, or from radiation burns, or being tortured to death and eaten by cannibal raiders (yeah, I used to play waaay too much Fallout 3).
Not that I wish to absolve the clearly guilty philanthropaths of their crimes, which I am sure they will pay for in the afterlife, but perhaps many catabolic collapse scenarios were actually war-gamed and even acted out by discarnate (and crucially, benevolent, or at least non-malevolent) entities much smarter than ourselves, and this was the least worst option.
Why were humans allowed to break into the combustible cookie jar of the deep earth in the first place though? Why, to get out all that lovely locked-up carbon, of course! The earth was slowly cooling and Gaia needed to warm it up again, but meteors are terribly messy and cause a lot of collateral damage. Much better to create a versatile, intelligent, curious and above all, lazy species with sneaky little fingers, then wait a few thousand years for them to make a nice insulation blanket round the planet, and provide plant food into the bargain. We've served our purpose, and can go back to being just another species on this earth in a few millenia, when the climate is too unstable for agriculture. However, it's vitally important we don't trash the place on our way out, hence the whole "averting nuclear war"...
Mr. Crow
Ps. Someone mentioned above about an "Alice in Wonderland" feeling in 2020-2021. The strange thing about that is that Alice in Wonderland is reportedly used as a 'programming script' for MK Ultra/Monarch mind control. I know that for me too, 2020 has the kind of hazy, floaty dreamlike feel in my memories that's often reported from Monarch survivors. It's a dissociative state of de-realisation caused by the infliction of trauma on a subject. (even though I made a point of never watching the stupid daily fear-porn news bulletins) I also struggle to pick out specific memories from the year - it's all quite blurred. There are even photos on my phone which I genuinely do not remember taking or the events happening. My wife has reported the same, and we have each had entirely different recollections of what we did on birthdays, etc. Really weird.