Oh no, not again

 

I do realize that many people believe (or want to believe) in the Rapture and similar things, but do the doomsday preachers believe in their own prophecies at this stage? The above clip features a collection of truly absurd "predictions" connected to - you guessed it - the solar eclipse of 2024. Well, we´re still here talking about it, aren´t we?

The speculations are centered on the United States, not on the Middle East, a more logical place for an "apocalypse" to start (both in Biblical terms and in more secular ones). The fact that the path of the eclipse supposedly passes seven towns named Salem and seven towns named Nineveh is very significant. Except that it apparently doesn´t. It seems the eclipse was also visible from towns with names like "Donald" and "Uncle Joe"...

The paths of the eclipse can apparently be patterned in shapes reminescent of various Hebrew and Greek letters, Alpha and Omega being the most prominent. And what did Christ call himself in Revelation? Exactly. The two paths cross in an area of the Midwest popularly known as "Little Egypt"...

The emergence of the cicadas makes a brief guest appearence. I´m still a bit surprised that this isn´t a bigger thing. I mean, the connection between cicadas and locusts, while far fetched biologically, seem obvious and ominous from a "Biblical" perspective. 

As per usual, nothing will happen, and then it´s off to the next failed prediction "until Kingdom come" (pun intended).  

      

Double emergence

 

Brood XIX on the attack, and this time
IT WANTS TO DESTROY HUMANITY!!!

Two groups of periodical cicadas, known as Brood XIII and Brood XIX, will soon emerge from their burrows across the Midwest. Which they do every 13 years (Brood XIX) or every 17 years (Brood XIII). Every 221 years, the two broods emerge together ("dual emergence"). 

Literally trillions of cicadas will swarm across 16 American states, driving people nuts with their nut-like stench or bugging them by simply being around. The nutty bug plague will last for months...until the creatures bug out, or are eaten by predators.

Not sure how this will affect the primary election cycle, or whether there are apocalyptic prophecies about Abbadon and Apollyon connected to this. Personally, I´m more worried about locusts than about true bugs, so there´s that, I suppose. 

Still, it´s good to know that won´t be any shortage of cicada burgers for the vegans this spring!  

A trillion cicadas will descend onto the US

Styx wants to get banned again

 

Some hard hitting truths in this one, but note the obvious contradiction between what Styx is saying here and his orthodox libertarianism. If you oppose globalism and big corporations, you can´t be a libertarian... 

There is no neo-liberal capitalism with a human face. There is only really existing neo-liberal capitalism. 

Welcome to 2021.