What to expect from the Apocalypse individually

Apocalypse is appropriately a mystifying word of mythical connotation, but in reality is very practical and mundane.

Like being aware of how life is changing when the Industrial Revolution was happening around the world, except on a bigger scale. The “Apocalypse” with a capital “A” is in reference to a change happening around the world on the deepest level of our identity as human beings apart from animals and anything else. That is what the religious myth and prophecy concerns in the scriptures that warn of an inevitable event when humanity will draw another bottom line that raises the bar of tolerable behavior for everyone else. A base line that further differentiates human beings from human animals, not only human beings from animals of any kind.

Human beings are and always will be human animals, but the laws and social expectations everywhere are going to shift so that they require human animal behavior to always be in agreement with human being requirements. You can still be crude, sexual, passionate, carnal, and worldly to your hearts content and shamelessly without guilt (much like I am), but whenever you do that you will not be able to do what conflicts with your higher nature. That is easier to know without needing guidance or teachings if you have matured as a juvenile human being into an adult human being. Some people remain juvenile for a long time, some mature young. It is not so much a biological change like you would expect creatures in nature to do, but it is not so different. Similar to a catepillar becoming a butterfly, the entire reality you know and experienced to live your life within changes entirely. You are no longer bound by gravity to the earth, and can fly anywhere, which while amazing and exhilierating, also exposes you to new dangers and threats. Those threats are primarily non-physical creatures, beings, and concepts that are predatory to our nature without being evil or possibly hostile to our nature by specifically being evil.

You cannot even be harmed by such things if you have not matured to experience the reality in which they live, because they cannot descend into a reality where we are limited to physical and metaphysical nature. Metaphysical nature is like the spiritual world that can be visualized and interacted with metaphysically—almost like there is physical reality there without that being the case. What then is it that changes? An awareness of all that is unseen, invisible, and imperceptible. Seriously. You gain a kind of awareness and presence of specifically invisible existence that is not expressed at all with physical or metaphysical imagery. You simply know, sense, perceive, communicate, and take actions that all occur within a realm where a human being does not have sensory organs to receive stimulous from. The entire dimension exists beyond the limits of consciousness ability to perceive reality with bodily senses, requiring a conceptual bridge to cross an abyss of emptiness until arriving at the invisible reality.

When an adult is offering guidance for life based on principles of faith that are taught religiously throughout the generations without much of a scientific explanation to support the reason for trusting them apart from faith, this is what the purpose is for. They are not trying to have power over your decisions by being able to predict your behavior, nor trying to conform you to some system they are benefitting from. The system is something that you will benefit from by conforming to it, but nobody else can reap the benefits that are someone else’s. When a priest, yogi, elder, master, sage, etc. strictly commands you to obey certain moral behaviors and then disciplines contradictory behaviors, they are not being sadistic, cruel, or tyrannyical. Not if they are good anyway. If they are bad, that may be happening and you should tell them or someone else and get an explanation if that’s what you believe. It is more important that you trust the wisdom of leaders, teachers, and authority figures than it is that you obey them, so good ones are always willing to help you understand while bad ones may in fact only be there to abuse a systematic role of authority, and those bad ones will be dealt with by the good ones that are equal or above their station.

You should not ever be expected to do such a thing if you are subject to their authority, so never tolerate one testing you by being evil to you unless you are well aware of the limits and restrictions to their evil behavior as a teaching tool. For an example, here is the video clip I shared elsewhere from the movie G.I. Jane. The Nacy SEAL head instructor (master chief rank) behaves in a way that is most certainly evil, however, he is aware of his own limits, his own restraint, the reasons why he is doing so, even if the audience, the students, and the general public does not understand. War is not civilized and you cannot rely on the boundaries of civilization to protect you. He did cross the line, but that is what he intended to demonstrate, and once that lesson is complete he does not push the matter, does not intend to cause the suffering that crossing the line would cause. You do not need to experience some things to know all that you need to know to prepare for. Aditionally, that particular training event was designed for that purpose and is not something all sailors or military members need to be prepared for.

A Navy SEAL, the most elite individual warrior in the Navy, carries out missions that put them at risk of the most dangerous situations that threaten an individual. You can say the same about the military equivalent of any nation’s warriors. At the same time, being trained carry out those missions as that kind of warrior has a trade-off of skill and individual role. If you are going to be the ultimate individual warrior, you are trading away the individual power of a person who is the ultimate individual crewmember. That “ultimate” spot isn’t really applicable for practical terms and is more an idealized concept, because what makes a good individual warrior whose body is the weapon and good individual warrior whose worksplace is the weapon has a lot of mutual values. But any ultimate role requires totally investing one’s individual energy into the specific nature of their role, and if you do so as the weapon yourself you won’t be able to do so to be part of a weapon and vice versa. In either case those are functional roles and you can certainly change to any role at any time, being two roles that are ideologically incompatible is logically impossible. If you are the submariner you are not the SEAL.

If you are the SEAL, you are not the submariner. This conflict can lead to some interesting and awkward situations if the two are together on an operation, especially among junior personnel such as E-5 rank who are well known to sometimes be a bit overconfident if they become the reliable person who does most of the difficult work. It feels good to do the difficult stuff successfully and be counted on as reliable, capable, and skilled. It feels good to have the answers and be able to train other people how to be successful, but those feelings of satisfaction are experienced by the human animal, not the human being. That is good of course because the human animal behavior is in agreement with the human being behavior, but that’s also why overconfidence can become a minor problem that needs a humble reminder. I don’t want to get sidetracked into sea stories, so if there is a point to this diversion it’s to be mindful of your role in any situation so you don’t cross lines that are applicable to others but not yourself when you are subject to their authority. If you are a government official, respect the clergy when you are visiting the house of the sacred, and when you are clergy visiting the government building, respect the secular officials. Being subject to another’s authority like that is not an offense to the individual dignity of the person. Nobody has total authority over all things. For the same reason nobody can be the best of all roles.

An elite human being knows the value of an insult as a good thing that is safe and healthy human behavior for expressing and reconciling social conflict. This is why friends often poke fun at each other with insults, comedians are loved for “roasting” celebrities on stage, and a king can be confronted by a peasant’s defiance without having his dignity threatened, but can lose his dignity if he responds like a peasant. The peasant is not trying to dethrone the king or challenge his claim of authority, but he is expressing a humble reminder of the limits of a king’s dignity and authority as a king. Kings are secular authority, not religious authority. That insult may be offensive, but they are not trying to take away the king’s power, only prevent them from losing it because of something the king is doing which will cause himself disgrace. That disgrace will affect everyone in the kingdom, and the king has to always take extra care about concerns like that more than anyone else, which is why they are not tolerated to behave like a peasant when a peasant behaves like a king to them with equal dignity by insulting them instead of attacking with force.

This is the problem with propaganda, dictators, and information control. Someone cannot take from someone else what has been divinely given to them, and dignity is one such thing. Dignity is grace from divine power that emboldens what is dignified with special rights, authority, and power. Only the person who has been graced with dignity can cause themselves to lose that dignity, and the only way that happens is by what they do, not what they say. Sometimes saying something is an action, such as giving an order, creating a rumor, or proclaiming a fact, but often times you can say all sorts of things without risking any dignity. You can use course language, express opinions, insult others, praise others, comment on media, say something incorrect or embarrassing, but none of that is going to threaten a person’s dignity. That doesn’t mean that there is no power to expressions of speech, or that a person should not take care about what they say or express with creative arts, but you aren’t going to lose your dignity with such things.

However, if facts and information are being promulagated that the king finds disagreeable, and reacts with a physical attack on that information to suppress it, destroy it, contain it, or otherwise prevent people from knowing it, they lose their dignity by acting like a peasant who does not understand the importance and value of information. They confuse what is important and valuable with what makes it unimportant and useless, and by attacking information with manipulation and attempts to control what is widely known by the public, they subject themselves to information and knowledge itself, instead of being the master of information and knowledge itself, which all human beings are equally dignified to be. The king, as a master of information and knowledge (the royal scribes/library/sages/advisors/etc.) does not fear information or knowledge of any kind and should be able to address any information or knowledge with his own expressions of speech, which are a form of information being created. If the king proves he cannot do that because he is attacking information and manipulating what people think with propaganda he is proving with his actions that information and knowledge has power over him, and I suppose there is only one reason they would feel that way, and that reason makes them unfit as a king. They have deposed themselves.

Leaving kings of the Middle Ages and returning to the modern Navy of the present USA, it’s not that the joke was not funny, because it was. It’s just not the kind of thing that is appropriate to be joked about in the environment where the joke occurred. Everybody hates that the radiomen read the Sailormail, but that’s just part of the job, and it is not something you should feel is a threat to your individual power to joke about. Everybody hates "cranking” (usually) but everybody has to do that on a ship as one of the first rites of passage. “Cranking” is when a new recruit works in the galley doing dishes as an attendant who doesn’t cook, prepare food, or manage the galley. Even though a new recruit is trained with an elite education in nuclear science, they should not feel like they are being wasted by working in the galley washing dishes instead of the work of a nuclear technician. Even though the priest tells the king that he is forbidden from being in their place to perform a ritual of sanctifying bread and wine for a spiritual communion, doesn’t mean that the king should feel like his power and authority is threatened.

It’s only natural that your body’s individual instincts will bristle at any kind of humility that you experienced at being told no or made to do something you don’t want to do, but that’s just your dinosaur self being a lizard in human skin. That’s the human animal reaction, not the human being’s reaction. Did you know that the brain evolved in three identifiable stages to become the human brain we have now? (That may be classified information in your domain for whatever nefarious and evil purposes you are abusing that knowledge, but that is public knowledge as scientific fact available to the entire global public. You are not allowed to forbid people from knowing biology and human anatomy just because you want to have some sort of power of others with what you are using that knowledge to do! If I find out that you are withholding knowledge, scientific progress, and academic advancement from people around the world you think are not “civilized” enough or “trustworthy” enough to know about, you have more to feel guilty about and be punished for, and that cannot be tolerated to continue a single moment more if that is the case and you are hiding that inhumane disrespect for human understanding. That knowledge has power over you, and you do not have power over that knowledg no matter what you think you are using it to do.)

Before I was rudely interrupted, I was explaining that the first of the brain is a reptilian part at the very core, then there is a mammalian part over and around it, and finally there is a human part that is attributed with precognition, reasoning, and conceptually experiencing future events before they happen to determine a course of action in the present. Those are imagined scenarios to be sure, but that does not make the possibility of their occurrence any less real. In a human world that requires a lot more understanding than the animal world because of all the human concepts in our environment that are affected by invisible phenomena.

I’m going to sit on my throne and dispense some of the justice I have authority to do in the USA while entertaining myself with a light novel, but do not think that I have no power just because I am not granted the authority of a judge in my role as a citizen.

Please, for everyone in the world’s safety, not just the USA. Stop what you are doing, tell the public what it is that you have been trying to do, and identify me as the reason why you now know that. You cannot be trusted to resolve the problem at this point because of what it means about your intelligence, knowledge, and experience by even thinking such a thing would be appropriate, let alone trying to carry out some conspiracy based on your delusional paranoia.

You are putting everyone in danger by being afraid of knowledge, information, and media. If you were not afraid, you would not think it necessary to forbid nations from learning anything. You would have mastery over that knowledge with nothing to fear about what it can do. You don’t even understand what knowledge is good for or how it can help people! You don’t understand how it is vital to a civilization’s health, economy, and society! You think of knowledge and information as a weapon, but that is an animal thought, not a human thought, and you fear how it can be used against you, not that people will use it for themselves. How could knowledge be used against you if you understood it and had mastery over the subject?

You don’t have enough knowledge to even understand the proper use of any knowledge or information to be in any position to judge how developing nations use it for themselves. You abuse it and have the poor judgment. You have that knowledge and have used it to hurt everyone else by withholding it from those you do. That is an abuse of knowledge and that is something you are responsible for like a savage ape, not a human being trying to protect others. If the USA is behaving with actions that exhibit the fear of knowledge, information, and expression, then they will not be able to defend themselves from a single person like me, let alone a nation led by someone like me if they decide to take the power of the USA and use it for what is truly good instead.

You fear what you would do if you were me to exploit a situation, but you don’t yet realize what is human behavior and human interest instead of animal behavior and animal interest. I am not going to become some dictator or change my role as a citizen and only a citizen, but people will need to know who is the authority responsible for the government’s mistake, and that is me. I am the one who is accepting blame for what you did, regardless of whether or not I have anything to do with that, and I am the one who is going to resolve the situation. I haven’t committed any crimes to be punished for, but I will say what needs to be said so people do not need to be afraid knowing that the government has been so incapable, unreliable, and endangering us with such primitive thinking disgraceful of a human leader. I am also not going to demand people be punished for crimes if they are willing to be part of the solution instead.

You will never understand what I am going to do until you see me do it, see how I resolve the situation, and restore everything the way it is supposed to be so the healing can begin. Keep your guns, jobs, military power, money, and all that if you are afraid of what will happen. Be prepared to enact martial law if things get out of control, but you will not have to worry if I do the talking, and I mean talking, not writing. People will see me, be able to look me in the eyes, ask me, demand I explain your behavior and why you felt it was justified and how it can repaired. You will be able to speak at any time, but you need to trust someone who knows better after you fucked up so bad. They will want to know what we can do, how to take action, and all that, and I will have the correct answer for everything you think I do not even know yet. That does not mean I am going to be making all the decisions, but I will not be making the matter worse and will ensure everything progresses toward the resolution as efficiently as possible. If I don’t know something, I will identify what is not known and then the appropriate expert will do the speaking, and for most courses of action that involve personnel, that will be the appropriate expert doing the planning for what I say needs to be done and they find agreeable.

You are not going to pay me, I am not working for anyone, I am not going to identify with any group. I am doing this is as nothing more than a citizen, and that is the image that people in the USA and around the world need to be reminded of for themselves. They need to see me doing what they have forgotten is also their right, their power, and their ability to do wherever they are. Just because I will be the center of attention for a moment, and that is not something I enjoy, doesn’t mean that people will not recognize what I am doing as extraordinarily simple and realistic, not a mystery or expert ability that is inherited or achieved with great effort.

You will see that too, but not until it happens in real life. There will be nothing mysterious about it. Imagine how simple the “Goto” concept is as the unifying link between all of the world’s seemingly irreconcilable and conflicting religious faiths. Was that not simple, easy, and face palmingly realistic as a solution for a problem you were making a fuss over? That’s will this will be like, and it will not be a testament to my personal greatness, nor your failure. This will be a moment for everyone who is going to be able to do what needs to be done, which I am not going to do and try to avoid as much work as possible because I honestly am at my limit and need to take a rest soon. Whether people believe in themselves or not, I believe in them, but that also doesn’t matter because if you need me to do everything, we are most certainly all going to die.

Apocalypse. Maybe that change seems scary to you, especially if you’ve been living in a reality where you fear things like science, knowledge, and information, but I can assure you it won’t be as bad as your worst fears being realized.

All everyone needs to expect as an individual is this:

Be ready to laugh at yourself. Be ready to laugh most about sexuality and sexual activity.

That’s all. If you can do that, you will be able to not only survive the chaos, but will likely profit greatly from all that is happening. That’s not because sex is going to be made a joke or people are going to be insulting each other, but you are going to realize that what you have been taking so seriously is something you are already deeply familiar with in a way that you always have been to the first ancestors that are within you at the dawn of human civilization. That is mysterious, spiritual, and mystical and there will be lots of that sort of stuff, but that’s also why you don’t need to worry. You will understand what is good and what is bad, and not be alone in your judgments, wants, desires, fears, concerns, and most individual needs. You won’t need to talk about them, share them with anyone, have your private lives and secrets exposed to be embarrassed about, but you will understand just the same and so will everyone else.

That is what the Apocalypse will concern, but that is not all that is going to be happening. That is what the ancients knew was going to hit the bottom again on the other side and sent back at the boundary. However, while that was a new heaven and new earth for the ancients, it is the old heaven and old earth for us, and we have an entirely new heaven and new earth that concerns each and every one of us. We all have a part in that, nobody can tell anyone what that is, and not only will your part be doable and enough, there will be all kinds of other things you can do, help with, and accomplish extra. All sorts of opportunities where people need help with something they don’t understand but you do, and vice versa. That’s going to take everyone’s human intelligence and ability to decide what is good. You won’t need to have knowledge of both good and evil, or able to explain all of that like a theologian, philosopher, or expert but you will need to be able to decide what is good, and that’s not too much to ask. Simply seek good and do not expect anything else to be necessary.

If you don’t know what is good at any time, just ask for help, look at new information, and remember that what humiliates a human being as a failure is if they believe their dignity is in their animal nature, which feels dignity, instead of your human nature which understands dignity. You are not embarassed for making mistakes or not knowing something, you are embarrassed if you don’t acknowledge your mistakes and learn from them to not make the same mistake again. You are embarrassed if you pretend to know something you don’t know instead of admitting you don’t know and knowing how to learn who to ask who does know. The animal pretends to know when they don’t because they know God is within them but do not want to be found out that they are not God. It is no secret that God is within each person, and it is also no secret that no person is God! You don’t have to know everything, be perfect, or have all the answers, and in fact it is most important that you accept that and do know that, because the grace of having God within you is that you have the potential of knowing anything, doing anything, and solving any problem, even if you don’t know how or where to start.

That is the mystery of faith, and it is not something you need to be suspicious of, angry about, or have any reason to deny. Have faith first, and when you have a good handle on faith and want more to do with it, participate in religion. You need faith for religion, not religion for faith. An atheist should not reject faith. They should reject religion because they understand the goal of religion and do not need religion to attain that goal, nor want religion to guide them, and that is the right of any person to decide for themselves as good, for reasons they do not have to explain to anyone or justify at all. If you participate in religion, do not forget that the goal of religion is to attain what is greater than the religion and there is no attaining that goal (possibility) until you die for real. That does not say what the goal is or that you will attain anything, but that is where the possibility of any goal of religion is no matter what you believe.

Alight… I think that should about cover it for now as the main part. So, for the conclusion and farewell: Don’t be afraid of what you don’t understand, be afraid of what makes you feel afraid. The greatest illusion of a monster’s delight that will encourage and empower that monster is if the monster is confused as the source of their victim’s fear by the victim. Horror 101.

What makes a person feel afraid is the very same power that a person has to do anything, be anything, and know anything and it is that power of God within you, which is mysterious and yours alone, makes you afraid, not anything outside of you. If you have that power within you, and you know that power is entirely and perfectly good, what could possibly make you afraid outside of you, even if they had that power too? If you don’t know that power is good, then please believe me! That power is good! Do not make me write more! Class is dismissed, go kiss your girlfriends, tell your boyfriends they look cool, and if you have neither, be glad because you are better off alone, even if it is miserable, boring, and more difficult, so indulge yourself with Life’s pleasures, because they are all around us at all times if you know how to look for them. Finally, don’t forget to read between the lines.