Only up from here! TR Starts @ 1:18 - Fair Use - :popcorn Final countdown: The Mark of the Beast Global System is preparing to launch the Metaverse, and you need to have nothing to do with it NTEB The metaverse is going to be the biggest revolution in computing platforms the world has seen—bigger than the mobile revolution, bigger than the web revolution.” The Antichrist is not yet on the scene, but his global Mark of the Beast System is already well underway, 😉 and in fact, quite close to being as much to be completed as you could expect to see without the Beast physically being present. I know the Church will be removed in the Pretribulation Rapture before his arrival, but allow me to take a moment to warn you about something you need to avoid at all costs – the Metaverse. “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”Revelation 13:13-15 The Internet was made public in 1994, and it ushered in a time of global connection never seen in human history, and in the 27 years since, it has revealed itself to be the Mark of the Beast system, catching the whole world in its web. But as it turns out, this unprecedented leap in technology is only the platform for something really scary if you believe the Bible, and they call it the Metaverse. The Metaverse will be a virtual world where reality will no longer have meaning, a world where fantasy, imagination and demonic spirits all meet to wreak havoc. The past 50 years of video games, avatars, phone apps, movies and television shows have all prepared you for this coming experience. Have nothing to do with it. Don’t use augmented reality devices like Microsoft Hololens, don’t use virtual reality devices Facebook Oculus, stay away from all of it. Every Fortune 1000 company will have a metaverse strategy,” Immersive video games and virtual concerts have given us a taste of this world. But visionaries say the metaverse, as this world has been dubbed, will be far more engaging and robust, not only mirroring the real world in all its three-dimensional complexity but also extending it to allow us to be and do what previously could only be imagined. Walk on the moon in your pajamas? Watch a baseball game from the pitcher’s mound? Frolic in a field of unicorns—or be a unicorn yourself? In the metaverse, tech visionaries say, just about anything will be possible. “The Metaverse is going to be the Biggest Revolution in computing platforms the world has seen - bigger than the mobile revolution, bigger than the web revolution,” says Marc Whitten, whose title is “Senior Vice President and General Manager of Create” at San Francisco-based Unity Software, Inc. Unity is building tools and services to enable people to create metaverse content. Other big tech companies are developing hardware and software products for the metaverse, or their own virtual worlds within it, including Nvidia Corp. , Roblox Corp. , Epic Games Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. “In addition to being the Next Generation of the Internet, the Metaverse is also going to be the next chapter for us as a company,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a July earnings call with analysts. “In the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a Metaverse Company.” Entering this vast new realm could mean using common devices like smartphones and computers. But tech executives say specialized glasses—similar to but less bulky and more comfortable than the virtual-reality headsets on the market today—will allow for greater immersion. We’ll also likely see a wider selection of haptic gear that lets users feel virtual objects, as well as hardware like omnidirectional treadmills that can simulate running, climbing and other physical activities. - Fair Use - We read, "We’ll also likely see a wider selection of haptic gear that lets users feel virtual objects..." Hmmm... Why would I ever want to do that? Maybe send the robot outside to shoot hoops in mid-winter and sense it dribbling the ball and scoring, and remotely feeling how cold its hands really are....? Feel its elation as it throws another 3-point swisher from far court! Imagine! The ultimate in vicarious. Sensing the robot's sweat freezing on its brow! Like they used to say in those old beer commercials with guys camping out in the woods... "Man, it just doesn't get any better than this!" However, in lieu of these substitute remote virtual reality experiences, I am really looking forward to our reality -- full of virtue! The technology now in R&D may be fascinating, but I suspect when we experience Heavenly technology, we'll say, "This is so much better than anyone back there ever imagined!" And then many of us tinkerers will muse, "I wonder how it works..." 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 -- "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." Fantasy never fulfills, faith does! TR However, fantasy fuels funding -- evidently big time. As Solomon offered in Ecclesiastes 4:4, "Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor..." Oy vey! Hopefully we'll finally stop chasing after the wind. :good: :yes: I Want to Wake People Up’—Xi Van Fleet, Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution "So I grew up in the communist China and I left China for America when I was 26. And when the Cultural Revolution started, I was a first-grader and I spent my entire school years in the Cultural Revolution. . . .And after that, I was sent to the countryside to work in the fields to receive reeducation from the peasants, like many, many urban youth. So I always say I had a full experience of the Cultural Revolution. So as soon as the CCP took over power in 1949, one of the first thing they did is to get all the school teachers together, because they were the teachers of the old China. So they were given intensive communist training to learn about Marxism, to learn about the communist ideology. So they were there to teach now the Marxist and communist values and ideologies. So ever since then, the educational system is a indoctrination meal ever since then. So the first thing they did is they dismantled the law enforcement and the court system. So they just did whatever. They even make up their own laws. . . .Even today, their crimes were never prosecuted. I think this is because they feel like they could do it, so they did whatever. Just like that Antifa, that’s why it just look so familiar to me, when I saw Antifa and the [BMM 00:16:27] activist, they knew they could do it. Same as the Red Guard. They knew there’s no consequence. There was no consequences. So that seems more extreme to a lot of people than maybe what’s happening now. So how is this like the Cultural Revolution really? Ms. Van Fleet: I think those examples or stories might be extreme, but that’s the direction we’re going to. One of the things that I noticed is people are afraid. People are very afraid. I see them, especially in my workplace. So there are the right way to talk. There is the right ideas and the others who don’t share it feel like if they tell their own opinion, they might run the risk of being considered racist. That’s the word like in China, counter revolution. It fit everyone. So anything or any conservative value cannot be shared openly. So if you were born to parents who used to own land, you were considered class enemy at birth. And you carry that label with you and you pass down to your children. . . .And does that remind us of CRT? Yeah. So you are born guilty, you are born white, then you are oppressor. And if you are born black, you are oppressed. And that’s what the environment the left is creating, creating an environment that the common everyday conversation become like walking through a landmine. Because you don’t know, whatever you say can be received as a microaggression. Mr. Jekielek: So then you start thinking about what are the appropriate speech I can use and you start conforming your speech and thinking to all those. People don’t have trust of each other. You don’t know who and when people would turn you in. And so that to me is like I would never imagine that happening in America, but it’s happening all around us, all around us. We see little girls or little children going to social media, denouncing their parents as racist. And today I heard that the head of the education department said something like it was the teacher who should determine what to be taught to the school children, not parents. And that is absolutely what happened in China. From day one, we were taught that we belong to the party and we should obey the party instruction. And the parents have nothing to say about the education. Ms. Van Fleet: I think there’s great things happening. I think finally, the parents are waking up. I think it has a lot to do with COVID because parents for the first time in their lives, were able to see what’s going on in the classroom through Zoom. And they were shocked actually. And the first thing came out of the Zoom meetings from Loudoun, if you remember, that a history teacher was a talking to a black student and showing the photo of a black girl and a white girl and ask what he sees, he said, “Two girls.” “No, what do you really see?” “Two girls, they are doing something.” “No, the answer is you should say a black girl and a white girl.” Basically, he want to really teach people to look for color first. I want to wake people up. What’s happening here in America is nothing new. It happened in China. It happened to me and this is my lived experience. And if we let it go and not stopping it, we have the same result. The result of the culture revolution as I said earlier is the total destruction of the society." Starts @ 2:03 (you might have to move the red dot over for it to play) - Fair Use - Starts @ 1:10 - Fair Use - Well here's what to expect over the next couple of months if we are still here during this pre-tribulation tribulation we are seemingly in.
From The Wall Street Journal: Since the dawn of civilization, humans have had only one world in which to live: the real one. But tech visionaries say we’ll soon have an alternative: a virtual world where our digital avatars and those of people in our communities and around the globe come together to work, shop, attend classes, pursue hobbies, enjoy social gatherings and more.
