Alright GA community, I've heard it said in regards to Covid, jab mandates and general government overreach world wide, that things will get worse before they get better. To me, this comes across as a vague platitude that offers very little in the way of real help. It's already looking pretty grim in many parts of the world. Australia and New Zealand look to be experiencing the hardest treatment from their governments, but in other places many people are being forced by their jobs to get the jab or lose their job.
All that said, I want to challenge this community and ask: How specifically will things get worse? Who do you think will be most affected by things? How would one prepare? Do you have an opinion of what will be the turning point for things to get better? Open discussion, please share your thoughts and opinions. I don't want this to be a doomer thread. Just share what you think people could realistically expect to experience over the next few months or years. I'm genuinely interested to hear what you have to say. How bad will things get before they start getting better?
EDIT: Let's keep this based on Q posts as much as possible. I'm actually fairly new to Q and have watched a lot of the videos provided by the GA mods, but still researching a lot and learning from you all. I've been with the MAGA movement since 2016 back when The_Donald was on Reddit. I started coming over here to GA back in January after the 'Inauguration'. You all provided a lot of hope when it all seemed lost.
Part 1 - how bad can things get?
It can get pretty bad anon, permanently damaged or imprisoned for life, or you could die in many of the various (even horrible and evil) ways anyone could imagine.
Part 2 - how can you prepare?
The #1 way to prepare is getting faith in God. Build a solid foundation of faith. Make sure nothing will shake it. Test your faith (this is not testing God, but your faith) by subjecting yourself to increasingly difficult things or situations. Follow the lessons of God like a scientist, read His word, understand the hypotheses, the apparatuses (love, humbleness, kindness, sharing), study the procedures (what happened), and attempt to repeat it. If you fail, look at everything, were you selfish somewhere, biased, is there something deeper you need to identify and correct? Correct and retry. Build your faith so you can stand without doubt, without arrogance, without pride, and being humble. If you encounter any problems, go back to His word, and study more - show yourself worthy. EVERY SINGLE THING YOU NEED TO GROW STRONG IS RIGHT THERE. Remember that, don't doubt it. You should be able to stand on faith even in the hardest times, because it is the solid foundation for you to grow from, as God intended. Sometimes you may face a period where God will temper your faith, maybe you will get a prolonged sickness, face a difficult loss, or even be imprisoned. Stay strong, yeah, remember this: STAY STRONG. Don't give up on Him. It might seem like you're breaking, but keep it together, and keep trusting in Him, keep remembering His word, keep looking for His hand in your life. Understand that when troubles like these come, what doesn't kill you ends up making you stronger, and He's molding you into the best you can be. So do not be ashamed to humble yourself before God.
The #2 way to prepare is to put Jesus Christ as the role model of your life. Again this is going to require you to study Him, His life, His words, the people who were with Him, His relationships with others, and with God. Every single thing you do, start asking yourself: "how can I do them more like Jesus Christ would?" He was never violent, always wise, loving and upstanding, and never was played for a fool by the wicked. Is it hard to be like that. Do not think it's easy. But like learning any skill, the more you do it, the more experience you gain, and the better you become. Accept you will be hated, accept you will be mocked, accept you may even be killed. Is it going to be hard? YOU CAN BET ON IT! But understand, if you give in to the ego side of things, the arrogant side, the dark side, the unholy side, those are steps towards following the enemy of Christ, and if you keep doing that, soon Christ won't be your role model and things will be pretty bad. So make sure He's your role model and you understand how to keep following him as much as you can NOW. You never know when some agent of the enemy will separate you from His word. But if you know Him Now, they will never separate you, and you will always have access to Him. This is the training you need NOW while you can get it, so you can remember it and share it and aid others when you need. Solidify it in your mind by practising to live like Him, and speak like Him, even if it's just a little bit every day.
The #3 way to prepare is keeping your body and mind as healthy as you can. Get off of vices, get a non-weight exercise plan in your mind (p90x3 is a good one), learn to eat right, learn to love water, find skills or hobbies you can do that brings you enjoyment, and can help others. Learn to live off the bare essentials. Learn to cope now with someone removing every appendage of your body and every sense. This way, if you go to jail, are locked up, or you are tortured, people will marvel at the strength of your mind, and your ability to bounce back and remain strong, and will look to you for guidance to train them to be strong mentally and physically too.
The #4 way to prepare is everything else. But more importantly, you will want all of your family and loved ones to understand #1, #2, #3. After that everything else goes - deal with your financial situation, getting gold/silver bars, protecting your family, getting lots of food, house protection, security cameras, guns, ammo, knives, axes, secret rooms, medicines, batteries, community contacts, etc. Understand these could all be lost in the blink of an eye and should not be your #1 way.
Anyway, take it as you will, just my 2c.
What is it with you people you have to preach sermon in every single post. Like I cant be alone here. Nice advice on alot of things but every single thing underlined with Christian rhetoric. This divides a community supposedly about the great awakening. This isnt the Great Christianing. There is more than just one or many beliefs and view points on this site but type up all that with a instant I dont care what you say because it immediately gos into trust god christ faith foundation. blah de fucking blah. Keep church to sunday and forums to exchange of ideas. Im good with some religious contexts and beliefs. I think anyone is but my GOD. every single thread and post nearly derailed by Christian zealots and soap boxing.
I understand your complaint in full. What was posted is simply my 2c to the OP's 2 questions, from my sincerest and deepest knowledge and understanding after many decades of study. It's my opinion that it is important and valuable information to have, and even some of the posts this community is built around indicates the need to have the foundation mentioned.
It's not intended to be divisive, and you are free to express displeasure to this response, just as you are also quite free to down vote things you don't like and/or move on.
Ultimately the choice of what you do, is yours completely.
I understand and did not see this post as divisive. I dont downvote or play numbers games on trvial populatiry contests on a forum of posts. I care none the less of all of this. I have recently become very thin skinned on the amount of repetitive types of posts here. I responed and post very littles here but read here alot for well over a year. I cant help but feel a tugging at derailing nearly all posts with mass amount of comments entirely driven through christian values, extended in a way of advice and injected into posts as if this is THE WAY. I have no problem with beliefs religions and any other aspect of personal choice of reconciliation with creation. However for me, it literally is like in every post nearly every 3rd response and I cant be the only one that things this derails the original topic that is covered in response to. I can say for me I see several of bible thumping responses. I dont read the thread or any info post further on as it seems to piranha frenzy into a newly bloody carcass into a dry single stump of bone of sermons, excerpts, phrases, quotations and catchy christian topics on threads not even related to this really.
What may not be of value to you, could be of value to others. Perhaps you may need to learn to thicken your skin so you don't get hung up on things that might bother you? Maybe learn to train your eye to quickly scan and focus your energies in the areas where your expertise may shine, to share what you hold that could also be of value to others during this great awakening?
You people? Who is being divisive here, it isn't the Christians, its you.