Posts by Ocean1111

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Can someone please explain this to me.....

by AlwaysBusy in

if someone has time, please look at the child abuse policy...is this true?

does anyone know anything about this site?

i am really trying to understand and find out what is truth and what is fiction.

Ocean1111

Those are all separate issues. The UN NGO and Pedophile developments can be substantiated. The 607 study will lead off into ancient chronology.

Thus I think the UN NGO is the place to start for it is the most cut and dried. And just move on to the Pedophile protection policies and in time it is pretty clear Bethel is forming their own mass liability for the national courts to act on in time.

I also think the ramifications of the UN NGO will be far more severe and swift, compared to years of national lawsuits involving the pedophile realm of judgments.

Awake! 9/8/1991 pretty much shows Bethel's method of endorsing the 3rd UN presentation while not connecting it to prophecy or fourther globalism commentary and world government in general. The next 70+ "new world order" references to that UN placement to follow 1991 through 2001, are pretty much how Bethel did its "public information" portion of their United Nations prmotional agreement, and it can be searched on the Watchtower CD, and probably why the online JW "Library" starts where the UN NGO went unofficial.

The UN dissacoiated themselves from JWs, so it was not Bethel that quit, it was the UN that had to kick them out because now JWs also reproach the UN with all the bad press that has spawned regarding this "adulterous" issue. Bethel still condones the UN NGO, does not address it officially, so many JWs do not know they should "flee" the Bethel organization, (Matt24:15), because many JWs have no idea there was a UN slumber party with the Bethel "virgin daughter".

Obviosuly Bethel hides the facts because it is serious for such disfellowshiping obsessed tyrants to also be guilty of an offense beyond mere disfellowshiping to rectify.

Thus the UN sins and the Pedophile sins cover the full gambit of Bethel's "sexual" crimes whether spiritual, or literal, and the news of BOTH came out in 2001, at the same time. The Dateline story was postponed until May 2002, because of 911.

Now honestly JWs should be made aware of this reality from its own leaders, but they fail to do so still.

"Thirdwitness", imo, is just a form of "plausible deniability" to keep some JWs in the criminal operation rather than just going home and reading the Bible and giving the Bethel windbag a break. Its only going to get worse and worse at Bethel, according to their own rules they have "sinned against God", no matter how they may want to treat their UN VD, they still have it, and they are whitewashing it for naive JWs as much as they can, yet still never doing so officially.

They plainly know MILLIONS have stumbled on this little affair, yet they act as if it is nothing. That is not a good red flag, imo.

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ordined ministers

by bobld in

the wbts leadership has specific instructions (educational material,books,etc) on how to preach,conduct bible studies and who qualifies to become an ordined minister.the prime obligation of such ministers is the kingdom preaching.*.

the fds say baptism signifies ordination.almost 8 million j.w.

are faithfully serving god as his ministers.q2 baptism says.....your dedication and baptism identifys you as one of j.w.

Ocean1111

Well the control of "ordination" is already an organized monopoly, so at one time JWs were "freedom fighters" as far as what Christendom and its massive printining press and seminary system has turned "the Bible" into, like Bethel now, just a charade.

What is interesting is Bethel turning into what they used to condemn in Christendom, that is hi-jacking the Bible for state serving purposes. To top it JWs are now UN NGO world government endorsers and promoters, so they are ordained ministers of the UN, and the whole mini-pattern of what JWs condemned Christendom for in 1921, and 1945 and their own UN endorsements, is now present right inside Bethel.

Thus it is all the same lump of leaven it seems, except Bethel is more astute at making themselves "the state" that JWs support. It is actually rather ingenious to continue to sell what is a clear case of Bathel apostasy, as "the truth", in the process, and the JWs who should be awake to such slieght of hand are instead the main puppets dancing on that hand's strings, go figure.

But in any case JWs are now ordained by an organization, they very fight they fought they have now surrendered to. Its actually kind of sad to have such a good start, with such a Christendom malaise to emerge out of, to just ferment into the same condition once again, and the GB is the central cell of that ferment and septic effect.

Man worship, once again, brings another religion into the spiritual illusion show. Imo the root probem will go down in JW history as actually an accident at first. The first seed of corruption, and the first error, was the assumption Acts 15 was an account with a "governing body". The very fact they did this to justify their own board of directors, and had to insert the word and the concept, into a text stating the opposite in all the separate parts of that emergency meeting, is a clue it is a falsehood from the getgo.

Why not just say Acts 15 has a "board of drectors"? But no, they used the term "governing body" and even made it a group title capitalized so the scam would not be so easily detected and JWs themselves aid the GB's own "lifting themselves over everyone" and condone that sham dictatorship that is secular corporatism, not anything Biblical, in fact the opposite.

And this is exactly what happens when spoiled elites end up in control of things, they end up corrupting it for profit, rather than the spiritual veneer they use as a pretense for a multi-billion dollar elite system ruled cash cow, with free JW investment and slave labor to keep it profitable. I do not know when reality will hit JWs, but due to the much smaller scale of that particular scam I think it will be well before Christendom is deconstructed.

I think Bethel will grease the wheels and open the door on more wealth redistribution to eventaully hit many corporations and religions in time, when the rainy day comes on the national finances, especially in the US and EU sovereign debt developments. JWs do not perceive just how far removed from the ministry its Bethel elites have been, especially when it went multi-million to multi-billion since 1970. JWs are dealing with corporate raiding wolves, but to them they are the lead sheep. I think in the days to come JWs will have difficulty even keeping a "Kingdom Hall" roof over their head, given the latest positioning of those local finances and padding into the core Bethel treasure trove to be pillaged in due time.

It is all too obvious to outsiders what is actually developing in JWs corporate environment. Don't blame poor JWs in my opnion, they are partly to blame true, but the real culprit is right inside the Bethel elite ranks; JWs will be their last set of victims, imo, they will leave the Bethel bones for the national litigations to clean off of what is left from the hedges scams and forced asset seizures.

The Bethel elites will double the haul in the derivatives bets on Bethel going down. A total cleaning of the JW house is what it seems to be adding up to, it will just take the proper set of global developments to allow the context of a few years duration, imo, to make it all "official". JWs will be left with a riddle, and that is all.

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Talmud and Jehovah's Witnesses law eerily similar

by runForever in

this is the summary of chapter 6 of the book sanhedrin in the talmud( judaism ).. "rules and regulations concerning the execution by stoning and the manner of heralding.

how the criminal was urged to confess before death.

the stripping off before death of the dress of a male and of a female.

Ocean1111

Yes Bethel just modifies the procedure and conceals the same hierarchy in a veneer of presumption, but the outcome is the same, and the purpose of control so others carry out the tasks is also the same.

Thus JWs venerate and enrich their well disguised oppressors, yet they are the ones beating the "sheep" they know locally, for total strangers in Bethel's aloof elites who have not one thing in common with the common JW, and also have other designs for the billion in resources, which are always also part of the purpose of the control.

Instead of helping their brothers and sisters, ostracizing those rebelling from the mind control leaves resources so the GB never has to wear the same suit or underwear twice. Thus clipping the weak sheep totally, ultimately increases Bethel's core enrichment. Rather than send a JW to rehab or counseling and helping them, Bethel funnels the JW cash and all kinds of other assets to a treasure trove well beyond the scope of the contraction of JW growth actual over-head requirement. Thus Bethel is wildly profitable by such an inquisition and the false appearence of the "holier than thou" status. Instead JWs become as cold as the icemen at Bethel, but will reap none of the profits of the operation, instead the "whole heartedly" support it and condone the Bethel spiritual criminals in the process.

JWs are now "taking pleasure in unrighteousness" in the process, some of them are rabid for the inquisition and actually feel it is right and just.

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.

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Ocean1111

If this is real, to any JW past, present and awake, they have already been testing faith by their lawless override of the ministry. So I wonder what this could be because to test JW faith, it will first have to be big enough to awaken them.

Very interesting post, hope to hear more on the latest rabbit that may come from the Bethel hat soon.

But I do feel the recent "adjustments" are preparing JWs for something more.

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answer at the hall "its all illuminate!"

by purrpurr in

i probably havnt spelt that right but anyway the other week a bro at my hall answered up saying that he had done research into the lives of these "rock and roll" stars and that he had discovered that they all belonged to a demon controled, satan worshipping secret cult called the illuminarte!

therefore we must steer clear of popular music because of the secrect demonic lyrics that it contains!!.

of course everyone nodded in agreement and the study conductor thanked him for his "fine" comment!.

Ocean1111

I guess it is "all Illuminati", INCLUDING Bethel. If we make the "illuminati" concept generic, from what I have researched, they would be international scale secretive powers with European roots. Sound familiar? At that scale and secrecy we have? The "two horned wildbeast" that would fit the generic JW theology, that could be updated to include many "secret societies' with very rich membership and industry control.

It appears the Watchtower "secret" Society is just one in that pantheon of global secrets, because they will not even comment on the obvious modern developments in the histories of this kind of research. Much of it is actually historic, it cannot all be simply shoved aside as "conspiracy" and 100% error.

Who owns the Federal Reserve? Same thing, some one owns the place, it has a board, but they are not of public record as far as I know. Yet the Fed is a historic US central banking continuum since 1790 or so. If one goes into any modern banking history course, they learn these basics unless the school is as dated as JWs.

Thus I could see avoiding "conspiracy" per se, but I cannot see a total blackout of history of major US and global institutions that Bethel regularly engages in the lack of information of. Thus "turning off the lights" of modern reality and progressive analysis of history at Bethel, is part of their own way of "illuminating" the world and JWs.

Clearly Bethel is part of the overall development. A JW "University of Dumb Down Coma" non-studies, sold by Bethel's "illuminators" as "Awake!". Yeah, right.

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This week's CHEATERS episode. 'The Watchtower Society'.

by LogCon in

this weeks cheaters episode-.

watchtower bible and tract society age 140 years, in a spiritual relationship with the other sheep class, suspected of satisfying its needs with another organization.. cheaters detectives come prepared to catch a cheater.

after setting up surveillance and gathering evidence, our detectives make a telephone call to the united nations headquarters in new york city.

Ocean1111

JWs are not "nuetral" they endorsed the UN "New World Order" initiative for 10 years (Awake! 9/8/1991), and still plug UN books and products. JWs are what we call "Neutralized", completely impotent of explaining the Bethel apostasy that co-developed fully with that little UN promotional campaign globally since 1990.

Do JWs mention it was the 3rd UN placement in their continuum of UN prophecy tracking? No. The UN fell fully OFF the JW radar. Instead they joined the UN, go figure.

That is the simple truth: Bethel is "THE APOSTATE" development, with UN ties, of most recent note. JWs now fight Bethel's war against Christ and Kingdom. (2Thess2:1-4) Its like they are tailoring JWs for the "new world", order, now.

It is just a repeating development, but pretty common in organized religion overall. Bethel is just the freshest leaven and UN call girl to come around lately, the UNewbie. But it is what it plainly is. JW organized apostasy and sell out.

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preface question:

by mohrb in

order of operations is important, so, i'll ask a question before i make assumptions and start "fixing things.".

obviously, the site heavily encourages the viewpoint of former j-dubs and others who have disagreements with the political posturing of the wbts.

i get that, and see your points.

Ocean1111

The less you go on the Web, the less likely you will discover Bethel is the apostasy.

Example, the society warns about the dangers of the internets... and this site evolves out of protest, proving that exact point that seemed so unreasonable.

So just maybe the danger is Bethel's apostasy will be exposed to JWs. Many Bethel policies are two edged swords, they say one thing, yet they serve another purpose. The Web has sources exposing Bethel as the apostate central development of our times.

The less JWs "cease becoming unreasonable" (Eph5:17) and stay in the one sided information Bethel smokescreen, the less they will see Bethel's truly lawless record gone global.

Bethel wants you to stick around for their big judgment. But Christ suggests you should NOW be on your way OUT of the organization. (Matt24:15)

This is because there is no helping congreagtions who are worshiping the Bethel "man of lawlessness" principle, the "reform" required is now beyond human, Bethel must be eradicated first, and they are themselves aiding that process, imo.

The internet contains the Bethel exposing "red pill", Bethel provides JWs the regular "blue pill" lobotomy, and Bethel is the "JW Matrix" central server.

Plain and simple: Bethel is the main "apostate" you should be considering. Their apostasy will bring ruin to the WTBTS in time. I suggest the whole bottle of red pills, you can never overdose on the truth, as bitter as it may be, believing the Bethel modern lie is going to be more dangerous in the long run. The Bethel blue pill is the real spiritual coma. (2Thess2:11-12)

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David Splane Destroys the Very Foundation of 1914- Corp. Meeting New Light

by scotoma in

jw
friends

at the corporate meeting david splane discusses the use and misuse of types/antitypes.. the main qualifier of a type is that an account must be represented in the scriptures as a. type of some future event.. he quoted schroeder who said if an account isnt explained in the scriptures as a type than you.

shouldnt use the event as a type.. splane summed up his talk by saying if the bible is silent - we must be silent.. but they go right on celebrating the 100 years from 1914 which was determined by improperly.

going beyond anything written in the bible about nebuchadnezzars tree dream.. the bible specifically refers to the immense tree as representing nebuchadnezzar.. daniel explained it and that should be the end of the matter.. .

Ocean1111

Problem is, that implies that the guys at the top know it's all bullshit, whereas the vast majority of available anecdotal evidence suggests that they really are full-on True Believers.

Yep, a perfect deception.

But the simpler truth, though hard to take, is imo the reality. Like people who question Federal Reserve policies as more damaging overall to the monetary system in the long run. No one wants to accept that yes, the controlled exit of the USDollar is part of the plan, but it must be controlled or else they cut their own engines.

Same with the sub-prime derivatives orchestration of 2008. Yes it was unprosecuted at the scale it was played out as, but no one seems to care their national institutional functions have all now been transformed. Banks are risky investment funds, governments are insurance agencies, Glass Steagall is basically "repealed", those are the simpler realities, but hard to accept.

Now billion dollar scoped expert con men, assuming a JW trusted veneer, for that kind of payout, is more believable than the former. They are either too dumb for the job, or they are in on it. The more one sees elaborate exit plan strategies in a well engineered JW "self fulfilling prophecy", the more I see experts at Bethel, playing the leader dolt hypocrite act, in a JW "anchor man" suit and tie gig. It was EASY for infiltrators and "outside contractors" to overtake the internal corporate structure of the slave labor fed JW billion dollar nest egg.

That is it is actually billions we are talking about, of course the incentive and the attraction of the long range expertise required could conceivably have come together in the WTBTS. And lo and behold the 1976 "Governing Body" Lord's of the ring Bethel dictatorial coup, on record, sure is a handy little development that sure seems to be the locus of the JW control, and the veneer of the cover, at the same time. The more one looks into it the more one sees the only answer is, Bethel's elites in the WTS and the corporations must be "in on it". "Dumb" is just the act and example for JWs to actually be the "dumb".

And there is no more backward, asleep yet overly busy and preoccupied billion dollar guards than JWs to pull this off on. It is all adding up to an opportunity to good to pass up for global level expert organized crime in the religious veneered sector, and JWs were extremely profitable because they were great slaves to add value to every dollar the slaves themselves donated. Free money! Free wealth creation! Another to good to be true blind cash cow scenario.

In any event the coming years will provide the answer at least in the true corporate future of the ministerial basis of JWs surviving or not, and how bad it will be hit. If you have guys delving in the hedges, with 900 million in four years of real estate asset liquidation, at derivatives scale magnitudes mind you, who are also setting up clear liability by Bethel policy, it lends to that same question, with a simple answer, yet that answer is the hardest one for JWs to accept.

Imo, Bethel is internally in on the score. The "prophecy fulfilling brothers!" is the perfect exit smokescreen, imo. That kind of engineering takes time and purposeful intelligence, and the score is going to be big enough to justify such expertise, and it is not uncommon in the real world and other big scores. The national sovereign debt dilemma is an example, but far larger, of another development that also indicates intelligent strategic design that benefits the global "master creditor". But like JWs, the masses in general are not keeping up with global financial issues, and in both cases gradual development makes it almost undetectable until we start placing the dots and another possible picture begins to emerge.

Imo, Bethel will go down in the overall context of national financial difficulties as they will work together on more corporations than just Bethel, and it was really a natural consolidation and absorption process of a global cycle, overall. Imo it is not "the end", it is a cycle of a number of years, but Bethel will sell that to JWs as simply "it's the end brothers and sisters!". It will be Bethel's end, the world system plods onward, and to Bethel who cares if JWs ever figure out they just got taken. In a way JWs deserve it, this is what one gets when they trust men, while claiming to trust God and Christ. Can't serve both masters.

When the smoke clears Bethel imo is the main "bad guy", but JWs will have to admit man worship and baseless assumption enabled the score overall as they fell into a handy coma overall. The beaten and abused "sheep" are probably who will break the real news to the spoiled JWs who will finally be taking their own beating.

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WT lawsuits - Gog of Magog - Coalition of Nations - Courts of Law - Bankruptcy

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

what if the society know it only has to lose one big case to lose a whole set of cases on precedent of the first case?.

this means they will lose millions of dollars in lawsuits and settlements.

which means their financial stability is under threat.

Ocean1111

Funny you should ask, but I am glad you did; not many people see what you are detecting. And imo you are detecting something very real at work in the Bethel engineered smokescreen that will aid the downfall of Bethel and the exit of its elites.

They have been "warning" the rank and file since 1958 in the King North prophecy. Meaning the thing you are getting at, is well imbibed into the JW collective mindset. Now true the USSR never has and never will fulfill the real King North meaning (even if Bethel revisits that deception with Russia), the momentum is set for Daniel 11:44, which Bethel is priming JWs will be coming on them, in part or whole.

1. Very important here, they have overly advanced JWs FOR YEARS, decades, to be now "expect Daniel 11:44 to fulfill next brothers!".

So you have seen more than a "disguise" at work, you are seeing prophecy being misapplied as well to aid the disguise. Thus also more than just an "excuse", this provides also a deep seated "self fulfilling prophecy" in JW psyche for decades to use in time to cover up the Bethel coming downfall, which, imo, will be a drawn out affair that they will use "prophecy fulfilling brothers" to disguise what is really going on.

It will be a smokescreen and you recognize what is there. All I am saying is it is far more deeply rooted in veteran JW psyche than you may realize at first glance.

2. At the Annual Meeting they alluded to King North being aligned as Gog of Magog now. They did not make the connection, they implied its possibility, and now you will have two major attack context prophecies merging. And this is no small issue in the JW psyche, this is a re-priming of the main delusion and illusion that they can use to implode Bethel, and make it look like "attack" "persecution" and most importantly "prophecy fulfilling", that will bolster their credibility while they go down.

Thus the Bethel internal "unusual suspect" is also further disguised as "prophet" not as the "lawless" engineers of the covering delusion exit plan. The Bethel criminals will be long gone before organizationally broke and scattered JWs start putting 2 and 2 together.

Therefore it will minimize awareness of who really made off with the billions in the WTBTS and corporate pillage. Now since it is a CYCLE that is just beginning, imo, they can sell the begining intrigues of that cycle, to target Bethel, to JWs as simply "the end". Once they are done with the place they will just abandon JWs in bewilderment and leave them in the rest of the cycle, which merely moves to a global financial solution, to figure out the riddle for themselves as the bitter years role by.

Thus the JW expected "self fulfilling prophecy" is engineered with a premature expectation that aids the real Bethel raid operation from being detected as actually justice coming on a criminal organization. Instead Bethel goes out for a while as "prophets" and "holy men", but in reality criminal ramifications is what is really at work from national powers at global scale in time.

And this is where you can explain reality to JWs some years from now, you have seen exactly what they are up to, imo, and what JWs are blind to by false expectations and strong delusion.

3. Now for the US and EU based Bethel pillage operations they can apply Daniel 8:25 "king fierce in countenance" "bring many to ruin" to cover that national power center intrigues as also a prophecy delusion. This is because Gog and King North will be the next "bogey man" coalition opposing US interests, so Daniel 8:25 misapplied covers the whole gambit of potential "attack". Just saying Bethel has all the bases covered for this engineered delusion.

In reality, imo, Daniel 11:42-43 is the literal scripture that is activating, but Bethel has overly advanced JWs in prophecy to Daniel 11:44, Ezekiel 38 and Daniel 8:25, for years, and now has converged it all by placing Gog as the whole container of "attack". Gog may be misapplied to King North, or Gog may be the all inclusive container of the whole "attack" front globally. We will have to wait and see.

And that three pronged well expected "attack" context, or merged front, is what deluded JWs will think is active because Bethel will CONTINUE with this hoax in the days to come. JWs will think in line with the main delusion for some time, but in reality it is just what Jesus called more "wars and reports of wars" and the post Cold War transition period ending into a global finance system, imo, Dan11:42-43.

It will NOT be the "end of the world", but that is what Bethel is promoting because there is no greater covering delusion and illusion than that premature expectation now ironed into the JW psyche since 1958 and Daniel 11's commentary in that year's "Your Will Be Done" book. Bethel has carefully continued that delusion to modern times.

btw, that same premature expectation "to the effect the day of Jehovah is here" prematurely, now from Bethel and in JWs heads, is part of the 2Thessalonians 2:1-2 warning of what will be present BEFORE the real apostasy is exposed. In that principle Bethel's apostasy and downfall will come long before the "day of Jehovah". They are what must be exposed first, because they are a classic apostasy merely distracting JWs to look for apostasy everywhere else it is not present.

So Bethel is actually going down as an apostasy, but to JWs they will be the heroes of prophecy, and that kind of mental deception will aid the process, JWs will not accept that their "holy men" are actually aiding the pillage internally. JWs will be Bethel final victims, so remember Bethel, not the average JW, is who is to really blame here.

Thus all these premature expectations and overly advanced and misapplied prophecy will aid Bethel's billion dollar exit plan. The national global litigations coming are the front end, the hedges are where the billions are going now, as we speak, the back end of the operation, imo, where most live capital and assets in cash form are being liquidated. The national judgments will just be picking the bones in the multi-million dollar range, the billions are on their way out as we speak, in derivatives scale "re-investment" in the hedges.

It is Bethel that will end long before the world system, the world system will procede to complete globalization and this cycle is the final globalization cycle, imo. Do not buy Bethel's "end of the world" hype, it is pure delusion and the main smokescreen for global exit. Bit imo big global events are coming to aid the delusion, the global scale will be unique, but it is a cycle.

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This should be an interesting book to read

by Doug Mason in

i have not yet read this book, but it should be interesting:.

"the better angels of our nature: why violence has declined", steven pinker.. the publicity blurb states:.

"believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence.

Ocean1111

Bliss sells better than doom, imo. Realism is often misinterpreted as doom. But he may be correct, haven't seen his take, but will watch the video soon.

But what if it is a "calm before the storm"?

Now on the recent talks at the Valdai Discussion Club, this statement struck me as blunt truth as to the requirement of yet more global intrigues and destabilization to come before culmination of a true global governance:

Article: Opening Session: The Limits of Governability, or Systemic Failure

"The global crisis was considered in the context of the failure to find an alternative model to global governance following the end of the Cold War. As a result, the modern world is much less stable than the world that existed during the confrontation between the two superpowers. Moreover, the destabilization is not yet complete."

http://valdaiclub.com/valdai_club/73082.html

Thus the book you mention may be describing a perceived "calm before the storm", when in reality in a global political sense a post Cold War devolution is what is really in action and still progressing, depending on how one interprets the stats. From 1830 to today, the world went from 1 billion to 7 billion, making any relation to former times of course a bit impossible at such a geometric increase as that, all under Anglo forming domination.

I'll have to see his rationale. In some empires I know of in research it gets worse as they are nearing full decline into a new empire, then it stabilizes again. I think we are in a transition to a uni-polar system that has yet to provide the climax global chaos period, for the final order to emerge and be accepted as needed, because even now it is needed. But it takes a decade to bridge that final cycle, imo. That it utilizes cyclic developments is pretty much common knowledge by many globalization experts, its just a basic principle of human civilization.

Question is where in the post Cold War cycle are we?

Either great stability is forming or world record instability, it can't just be seemingly static like this forever. Given the NATO global expansion magnitude during and since GWOT it seems they are preparing, in global military overdrive, for the instability cycle, imo. But those stats fail to make many books.

Example: It was also the most peaceful period of Sioux and Cheyenne existence with Washington in the 3 years preceding the Little Big Horn*, since the Red Cloud War of the 1860's. At the same time the Sioux peaked in their US Gov't trader provided and trade (etc) provided armaments, and it all added up for one hoe down of a show down for Crook and Custer in 1876. Classic microcosm of a "calm before the storm" example.

(1. Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed; *2. Centennial Campaign: The Sioux War of 1876
By John S. Gray)