In 1869, German physiologist Frederich Goltz demonstrated with an experiment that a frog will remain in gradually warming water even after the point of boiling (but only if you remove its head), but a (recently de-headed) frog will jump out of boiling water. I’m unsure if they tried this with frogs who still had their head, but it led to the expression, “like a frog in boiling water,” and the premise is people don’t notice gradual changes even if the gradual changes are killing us.
THE BOILING FROG
In the 1960s, the expression was used by those who didn’t want a detente (calming down) of Cold War tensions, insisting that the Soviets would so gradually strangle the West we wouldn’t know it. And in the 1980s, the term was used by survivalists to describe the collapse of civilization. It was from my friend, Kurt Saxon – the survivalist movement’s founder- that I often heard the phrase repeated. His use of the term was used to compel survival-minded people to take up residence in rural America because by the time people notice the cities are inhabitable, it will be much too late.
My friendship with Saxon was a bizarre one. As a bored but red-blooded American boy, I ordered his books on homemade “chemistry projects” that were advertised in Soldier of Fortune and other survivalist or paramilitary magazines; the same recipes that caused the congress to summon him for testimony in 1970. When my abnormal psychology professor used him as an example of an anti-government psychopath, I looked him up in Northwest Arkansas and went to meet him personally for an interview, and I interviewed him again several years later for my graduate work.
He was not as impressive as I thought he would be (he smelled of cat urine and appeared feeble-minded), but almost everything we talked about over the years came to pass (he predicted the racial unrest fulfilled in the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd riots and also predicted the government’s lock-down pandemic response, perfectly fulfilled in the Covid pandemic, to me back in 2003). Only one of Saxon’s precautions has gone fulfilled, which is the total collapse of American society. He died only four years ago, and I miss that crazy old man.
When you look around America, you can see Saxon’s predictions of imminent collapse almost everywhere you look. The present age is largely a merger of three literary tales; Brave New World, 1984, and Atlas Shrugged. As with Huxley’s Brave New World, people largely don’t care they’ve become slaves to the machine, because they’re fat and high all the time. As in Orwell’s 1984, the government has been given an all-seeing eye into our lives through technology. And as in Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, America’s infrastructure is coming apart at the seams, which we don’t talk often enough about; our roads and bridges are failing, our rail-lines are barely operational, planes are falling out the sky, our electrical grid is insufficient for our needs, our mail delivery is getting more sporadic, and even our food supply is buckling under demand.
But beyond literary prophetic allusions, we are at the stage of the apocalypse movie (they all have this scene) where a family is chatting happily at the breakfast table, or someone is driving in traffic, and the man over the radio is announcing some impending catastrophic warning sign and nobody notices or cares.
Russia has [static crackle] announced a missile [static crackle] and alien ships have [static crackle] a virus outbreak in [static crackle] the dead are coming back [static crackle]. Meanwhile, the family is devouring their pancakes like Walter White Jr., without a care in the world. That’s where we’re at right now as a culture.
As we speak, fifteen thousand homes lay in ashes in Los Angeles and nearly 100,000 people have been displaced due to a combination of gross Atlas-Shrugging government incompetence and homeless fentanyl addicts purposefully setting fires. Like in Maui, which had 3 thousand homes destroyed and displaced 3,000 citizens, water was mysteriously unavailable from municipal sources. And in North Carolina, 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Helene and 200,000 citizens were displaced while citizens worked to reach survivors while the government couldn’t be bothered to help in any meaningful way.
In San Francisco, a phone app helps residents navigate around piles of human feces in the streets. At Disney World, maps are provided to help tourists navigate around the morbidly obese who clog the sidewalks with their fat-scooters. Travelers are re-shaping America’s towns on the byways because they do anything possible to avoid going through major cities for their own safety, largely creating a voluntary quarantine of the cities. For the last four years, Americans have been forced to watch actual hordes of illegal migrants from known terrorist nations flock into America unabated. The Biden Administration funded the sex-trafficking of children, actually paying their bus and airfare to go from the border (or beyond the border) to whoever ordered them in the country’s interior (340,000 of those children have disappeared).
The scenes from the nightly news are apocalyptic. The video footage of the woman set aflame on the New York subway while she was sleeping, and who once set on fire, walked calmly in the flames during her immolation without a single care as she burned to death on her own two feet, was haunting. Women are regularly snatched off of hiking trails or parking garages and then raped and killed, but not necessarily in that order. The downtown areas of major cities are replete with blocks of zombies, standing up, but not upright, hunched over asleep, on drugs that have melded their minds and taken their humanity. Half the country refuses to leave home without a weapon, and the other half just refuses to leave their home. Our schools have become shooting galleries, our churches have been emptied, our parks have become littered with the homeless and their abandoned, bloody, disease-covered needles. America’s brains are porn addled, and half of Americans are on psychoactive prescription drugs no less dangerous than the elicit kind, and even our kids stay medicated. A hopeless malaise has set in on the populace, there’s a pervasive pessimistic view of the future, and mirroring all the post-apocalyptic movies which include the scene of people who “opted out” of their horrific existence, young people are cutting their wrists at pandemic proportions. And this is just as well, because their grandparents are climbing into euthanasia death pods and hitting the escape button.
We live in the apocalypse and don’t even know it, because the water has only gradually warmed. It’s now boiling, and we fail to see it.
If there’s anything the apocalyptic cinematic genre (which is growing exponentially) has wrong, it’s likely the suddenness of it; asteroids, nuclear bombs, or sudden Zombie outbreaks are all leading apocalypse contenders in the movies. But likely, Kurt Saxon’s theory is more accurate, or perhaps the doomsday scenario of James Wesley Rawles’ fictional (but educational) book series, which is a financial collapse so slow people fail to notice until it’s too late (I’d highly recommend you read his work). Either way, we’re the frog and we aren’t noticing that it’s currently coming down all around us.
THE END IS COMING, AND EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW IT
Call it collective consciousness if you want. Call it a hive mind. Or best yet, call it the Word of God written on our hearts, but humanity seems to know that our time is short. Even when we have very good days – like the Inauguration of Napoleon who’s come back from his exile on Elba Island – it feels more like “one last reprieve” or a “final stand” or a “grand finale.” Almost all of us are wondering when it will finally happen, whatever it is.
And with the inauguration in mind, as the man they tried their best to imprison and kill – and they last removed from office largely with a plan that included releasing a bioweapon to kill millions of people and destroy the world’s economies – one ponders what they’re capable of doing, or the lengths to which they’re willing to go. At this point, even releasing 3-foot tall Nephilim genetic experiments from anti-gravity aircraft to manufacture an alien invasion doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
I wish I was kidding, but as I’m repeatedly telling you, this world is about to get really weird. And that’s not only a gut feeling, it’s a Biblical promise that the days of Christ’s return will be like the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37), which were weird by anybody’s standard.
America’s intelligence apparatus has been theorizing the End of Time for decades. The CIA, FBI, NSA, and more alphabet agencies have classified – and declassified – the various doomsday scenarios they’ve been working on since at least the end of World War II. Probably caused by the onset of the nuclear bomb, what we know of their theories aren’t exclusive to the nuclear bomb; they have studied topics like the previously mentioned alien invasion theory, climate change, natural disasters of all kinds, plagues, famines, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and even a resurgence of giants (I’ll get to that last one, one of these days). Often seen as fruity or bizarre, the trove of documents related to their doomsday-chasing is entertaining and simultaneously terrifying. After all, these are some of the most intelligent people on Earth, who seem utterly convinced that humanity is running out the clock.
A 2020 YouGov poll showed that nearly a third of Americans believe an apocalyptic event will occur in our lifetime. That’s pretty crazy if you think about it. That’s a lot of people convinced they’ll see the end of time. Roughly a fifth of those who thought they’d see the apocalypse thought it would be a pandemic, roughly a fifth thought it would be climate change, and roughly a fifth thought it would be a nuclear war. About 42% thought they would survive a week or two, 29% thought a few days, 15% thought “almost a week,” and 17% thought they’d survive only one day.
For crying out loud, no wonder Americans are so gloomy; a third of us think we’ll see the apocalypse, and the majority think they won’t make it a week. There should legitimately be more studies into how the collective conscious apocalyptic vision affects our social psyche. It can’t be good, especially if it’s not from the Christian perspective that ends with the return of Christ and impending paradise.
A spate of news articles have hit the press in the last 72 hours, denoting the CIA declassification of an apocalypse theory that developed in 1963. Although it was declassified in 2013, few noticed until recently.
Chan Thomas was a scientist, engineer, and UFOlogist who at some point contracted his services with the Central Intelligence Agency. Although there’s no record of his services being provided to the CIA, it’s evident in their classification of his book; the CIA can’t classify a private citizen’s book unless it was written by someone who was once employed or contracted with the agency. The CIA can’t even classify a book by someone printing classified secrets, under the First Amendment, unless the individual signed away their First Amendment rights as part of their contract with the agency (this is a common requirement). I mean sure, the CIA could probably bump them off Hillary Clinton style, but they can’t just issue a security classification on a privately-published book.
Thomas fancied himself a Polymath, or someone who throws themselves into master of multiple academic disciplines. It is one with “encyclopedic knowledge,” usually denoting a photographic memory, and is considered an intellectual Renaissance Man capable of understanding two or more subjects expertly. In other words, Thomas was a smart guy.
In 1967 the aerospace company, McDonnell-Douglas, formed a research group to study UFOs, and Thomas was one of four researchers working on the project. The group’s leader said years later that he had a “tremendously innovative mind.”
It’s likely here that Thomas contracted with the Central Intelligence Agency, although it’s possible he also worked with them on the Stargate Project (1977-1995), which was a joint operation between the FBI and CIA (and other federal agencies), researching the capacity for “remote viewing.” Most famously, it was used – according to George Stephanopoulis – during Jimmy Carter’s failed attempt to release Iranian hostages.
American history is pretty weird, with the government trying to convene with evil spirits to psychically peer into foreign regimes to release hostages, but again, we live in weird times.
Thomas claimed to have ESP (he also claims to have made contact with celestial beings using ESP), so it’s possible that he worked with the CIA on this project, as well as providing insight to UFOs. In any event, he worked with them at some point, or they could not have classified his book.
The book, The Adam and Eve Story, contained 200 pages of information on an impending doomsday scenario. Making this tale even stranger, when the CIA declassified the document in 2013, it only declassified 50 pages, but redacted the rest. It’s unclear why they would do this, unless it was information they still thought useful, and still thought it would be dangerous for the public to know.
THE DOOMSDAY THEORY
The scenario, as best as can be understood from the de-classified portions, is as follows:
Drawing upon the tale of the global flood from the Holy Bible, Thomas claimed that the last cataclysm happened about 6500 (or so) years ago, and that similar cataclysms have happened every 6500 years in Earth’s history. Thomas looked to various evidences in the geological and archeological history to demonstrate this, or at the least, suggest that it was true.
The cause of the cataclysm, according to Thomas, is a sudden shifting of the Earth’s magnetic polls, which wreak havoc on the Earth. This pole-reversal causes shifting plates, tidal waves, and radiation from the sun beating down on the Earth because of disruptions in the magnetosphere. He writes…
In a fraction of a day all vestiges of civilization are gone, and the great cities – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, New York – are nothing but legends. Barely a stone is left where millions walked just a few hours before.”
Within three hours, Thomas claimed, shifts in tectonic plates would cause schisms in the Earth’s crust, causing volcanoes and hot lava to come to the surface. Winds “with the force of a thousand armies” will tear through cities.
He goes into some detail…
The Bay of Bengal basin, just east of India, is now at the North Pole. The Pacific Ocean, just west of Peru, is at the South Pole. Even Greenland and Antarctica have been thrown toward the equator, and ‘find their ice caps dissolving madly in the tropical heat.”
NASA has recently put out a statement decrying its declassification, arguing that pole reversals “only happen every three-hundred thousand years” and that it’s “not as catastrophic as [Thomas] lets on.”
According to the NASA, the magnetosphere would indeed allow deadly radiation to fall onto the Earth’s surface in dramatic fashion, but “some protection would still exist.” And to be very clear, the so-called “scientific community” has collectively chortled at Thomas’ claims, and mocked the idea that the CIA ever took his claims seriously.
You can find the de-classified book here.
Shifting poles are a reality, as I pointed out above, and it’s a topic that being discussed with increasing frequency as of late. Most scientists don’t know why it happens, but Thomas theorized that just as suns have sun-spots that release bursts of energy and heat, so too does the core of the Earth, which we’re told is burning. As you can see below, Thomas claimed that this was the source of sudden polar shifts, which is also the cause of ice ages.
DOOMSDAY SCHOOMSDAY?
We can reject some of Thomas’ premise on the grounds that it contradicts the Bible. For example, he believes the flood happened 6500 years ago, and that Adam and Eve lived approximately 11,500 years ago (he denotes two cataclysms in this time period. He also holds the earth to be 4.5 billion years old.
But the timing aside, is the rest plausible? Well, it’s certainly plausible that there’s going to be cataclysms, because the Bible tells us this. The only thing we know for sure, is that the Earth won’t be destroyed by flood (the rainbow reminds us of this, apparently demonstrating that whatever laying of our atmosphere that allowed the waters above to well-up, is now gone; or perhaps God just thinks it’s pretty and told us to think about his promise whenever we see it).
It is interesting that this book was declassified just as scientists came to a consensus that the poles were due for a flip. Was it “pre-programming” us as a warning?
At the end of the day, obviously, God’s still in charge. I don’t provide context on the CIA declassification of this document to prophesy a pole reversal. I provide it for you to consider the fact that some of the most intellectually-sophisticated people on the planet are looking for whatever it is that we all instinctively know is coming.
As I write this on the day of Trump’s inauguration, it feels as though we are on the precipice of the end. I’m not alone in this, because Christians have always hoped for Maranatha, that the Lord Jesus comes quickly. But it certainly feels as if we are hoping more for it, and expect it around the corner.
Or perhaps, Kurt Saxon was right, and it will not be sudden at all. Perhaps it will come so slowly, we won’t even be able to point to a singular event that led to the end, but a trickle of disaster here and there.
Whatever is coming, my good friends, be prepared. That means “beans, bullets, and bandaids.” But most importantly, that means you stockpile faith, that God indeed holds the world in his hands.
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