Or is it the 21st?
Awhile back I wrote a post about a truck driver that drove around and masturbated who had become a porn star...one thing I neglected to mention was he wore a knitted cap...follow me on this one.
I have come to find that there are lots of men under 50(ish) who drive around in their cars and do strange stuff while wearing knitted caps.
A HUGE percentage of them are PROPHETS of some ilk...mostly self labeled truthers who want you to pat close attention to their message...doom gloom and the end of days.
They tend to talk loud and fast, they all share a similar vacant, rambling style and if you pay attention you will hear the names of YouTube gurus pop up all too often in their diatribes.
They also have a mocking, bullying edge that if you don't believe you are a part of the sleeping sheep wandering around the earth pretending to understand what's going on by refusing to accept the message.
Today I watched a bit of one fellow who seriously needs to take his meds and come down from space who carries a communion wafer around in his vest pocket that someone tried to make him eat at his grandmothers funeral-"THEY" tried to force him to eat it and drink the stuff but JESUS is SATAN and the contrails are blocking out the sky to make people unhappy and cold....
If this makes no sense to you, congratulations, there may be hope left for you...
This guy has the requisite knit cap and beard-I think its how we are supposed to recognize that he is one of the TRUTHERS and a genuine prophet.
It seems he has his car set up to whenever he gets a message that needs sending he can click on the camera and go, upload and keep driving---in snowstorms, rain and probably burning hail-just speculating on that one-burning hail usually shows up eventually in apocalypse tales.
Another fellow-also with car, cap and beard, was enjoying his LAST chicken burrito as he drove and prophesized the rapture for the 23rd or maybe the 21st but the end is the 28th for sure.
He has a less angry delivery more a sneering, mocking, better than thou quality.
There are MANY more---the king of the wacky prophets has a ZZ TOP beard and dreadlocks and looks like someone's jewfish grandpa gone Road Warrior...he, however, does not drive...he sits in a chair and pontificates but the message is not far from all the others.
First you take some old testament hell and brimstone, mix in some Nostradamus (and even Edgar Cayce) add a healthy dose of Astrology especially where you can pick the parts you like and ignore the rest and the quote from a fellow whack job or two ---seems simple.
Interestingly they often seem to have PATREON or some sort of funding links-I guess just in case the numbers don't pay they can manage to get their burritos and beverages and gas for their studios (cars).
As always my concern is KIDS who get trapped into this semi-organized drooling-a great many devoted YouTubers seem to be under 20 and looking for a cause.
Flat Earth, Niburu/ Planet X and end times seem very popular amongst the EMO, GOTH and Gamers gangs.
The videos themselves would be almost laughable if there weren't so many of them and if it weren't for the hundreds of comments they receive.
It's fairly easy to dismiss a chubby, bearded guy with a message of doom driving around looking for a purpose but when you see attached a string of comments obviously written by teens and the walking lost an ominous tone creeps in.
What if this seemingly random band of end time prophets is way more sinister?
Schools shootings, mall shootings, not much to lose if the world is ending....so much anger....so many conspiracies---dying honey bees, government suppression, chemtrails, the military/industrial complex.
These things don't get the proper attention and in the current political environment its OK to lable anything you don't agree with as fake.
Have you noticed how FAKE and DEBUNKED have become everyday parts of conversations.
It shocks me how easily people share personal information, life tragedies etc on FACEBOOK and YouTube for that matter.
I was just watching a drama play out of YouTube between two people-one a customer and the other a business owner that included some very hefty use of profanity and also crying, gnashing of teeth, threats...better that real housewives of wherever and so much fresher.
I started watching YouTube because if the travel videos, how-tos and performing arts clips.
I started looking up specific references given in videos and pretty soon like any social media they start offering you things they THINK you will enjoy.
The ravings of madmen (and women) don't affect me much...I have learned rather quickly how to change the channel and how enough can be too much.
It's only when you start hearing mainstream media, radio hosts etc quoting from the knit cap crazies that one begins to become concerned.
Just recently I heard a talk show host say that she cannot miss the postings of a woman on YouTube who mostly is convinced that Yellowstone is going to blast the guts out of the USA at any moment.
She mixes a little Bible and a little prophecy with lots of incorrect information and downright delusions (I should mention here that the YELLOWSTONE end timers are another group of crazies on YouTube).
So bottom line the Yellowstone lady is getting national advertising for her YouTube channel.
Should you ever go wandering amongst the seedy back alleys of YouTube be aware you may want to travel very quietly-if you get lured into making a disparaging comment against one of the gurus you will find yourself labeled a troll-not only that but an agent of the CIA, or a government plant....you get the idea.
A geologist made a comment on one famous Yellowstone channel that there was no science in what had been posted and he wrote several reassuring paragraphs supporting his hypothesis-he was blasted with dozens of vicious comments and anytime he attempted to defend himself or anyone else attempted to defend him they were also blasted, called names, ridiculed and threatened.
You Tube had promised just recently to add links to "MAIN STREAM" information on any post that was too far off sanity-so far I don't see any of that sort of balancing act happening.
Its much needed.
Its also very hard to complain to YouTube about a channel owner lying or twisting the truth.
I am a huge first amendment supporter but I don't think the right to free speech is supposed to include lies, slander and crowd agitation---the same law that makes shouting fire in a crowded theatre should also cover shouting doomsday in a tense, crowded country.
In the past 10 years I would say the END has been given at least a hundred dates or time frames-seems like people have been hoping for the end for hundreds of years.
My fear is that there are people who pray for the RAPTURE and believe that the end of times is a good thing because they are on the right side of religion- George W. Bush, Mike Pence and other 7% Christians are in powerful company to cause an Armageddon.
To me they are NOT to be trusted.
Believe what you want and even have conviction in your beliefs but don't force those beliefs on others and especially don't make people feel that YOU are the word and the light and if they don't believe in you they are sleeping sheep .
We don't think one small person with an agenda can have much effect on the world but the we are forced to remember HITLER the frustrated artist who became for a time the most powerful man on earth.
How many people died under MAO's persecution of the artists, educated and philosophical
Look up SAVANAROLA the rabid priest who literally burned the heart out of Europe in the name of GOD.
Jim Jones, Charles Manson, the list goes on and on.....
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