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Do You Recognize We're in a Time of Wickedness?
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Curious George
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I said no. I guess that means I am ungodly. Do you think that is a fair way to state a question?
According to multiple religious texts, there will be a time of wickedness, where the ungodly will not notice they're wicked; do you think we're in that time period?
In my opinion.
To believe you are in any more wicked time than another is simply re-affirming ones own confirmation biases. There has never been a time where wickedness wasn't tempered with equal acts of good, but you'd not know it by modern media portrayals.
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Frater Sisyphus
Contradiction, irrationality and disorder
No, but we are in a time of nativity and childlike arrogance. While we have things such as the nuclear bomb, we're not any more or less morally "wrong" or "right" then in the past billion years - that it simply our superiority complex brought on by our bias of time, as we assume that time equals both wisdom (via technology, science etc) and true human evolution (aka, we wrongly see cultures from thousands of years ago as inferior to ourselves)
Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
If the ungodly don't know they're wicked, presumably that means even the people who think themselves godly are actually wicked. Something for the sanctimonious fundiegelicals to think about.According to multiple religious texts, there will be a time of wickedness, where the ungodly will not notice they're wicked; do you think we're in that time period?
In my opinion.
No it isn't fair; I admit I'm wicked for being manipulative in trying to make people think.
Didn't ask if times are worse; just if people recognize their own wickedness, like today we see bankers, taxmen, insurancemen as being respectable for ripping people off, in the past these were seen as wicked in someway.
This is why we use multiple eschatologies, it is also included in Hinduism, and Buddhism called the time of Kali Yuga; Hopi, Zoroastrian, Taoist, and many other texts say this same thing.
In them times we knew it was wicked; now we're quite happy to watch twisted things as entertainment, and some see that as normal...
Like in my poem Questioning Attention, it is pointing out how some people like the thrill, more than the skill.
In my opinion.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Tell me what place and time in history wasn't "wicked"?
I doubt the various religious texts of the various religions are referring to the same thing. Human society has had wicked elements throughout history. I see no reason to assume our time is more wicked than past times nor do I have any reason to believe there is a more wicked time coming in the future.
When the oil runs out, if we are not prepared for degrowth, there will be mass starvation.
Oh agreed it has always been wicked, I'm just asking about how deluded we think people are in this modern era; where many think they're saints, when they're clearly ain't.
Right so now you've got power to create reality for us, and you'd do such a better job, with no one applying anything negative to you, as you're more perfect than God.
According to the Biblical texts this isn't so, as he was sent from Heaven.
In my opinion.
Perceptions have changed, and ignorance has increased, even tho there is more information available to us.
In my opinion.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
Quite the contrary on ignorance. Most people couldn't even read not that long ago. If we compare the intelligentsia of 200 years ago to the uneducated of today we'll find some agreement. Most people were free from understanding any theories requiring reading or were under the whim of those who did to pass on from them what they wanted.Perceptions have changed, and ignorance has increased, even tho there is more information available to us.
In my opinion.
faithofabraham
Member
This was the same time the gladiators fought and died with thousands cheering and jeering.
I think thru all time there are those who have delighted in the wicked aspects of life and at the same time there has always been those repulsed by it all.
Perhaps less knowledgeable about themselves and the world, and hence inferior in that respect. And even more so further back - despite what some seem to think.
And no, we are no more wicked than we ever were - if we can even use such a term.
Quite. Perhaps some seem to have some lack of knowledge concerning the spread of real information in the past compared with what they were told to think then.