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Navigating the Erosion of Self: A Reflection on Individualism, Faith, and the Age of Global Uncertainty

January 15, 2024 Arlo Johnson Season 2 Episode 71
Navigating the Erosion of Self: A Reflection on Individualism, Faith, and the Age of Global Uncertainty
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Navigating the Erosion of Self: A Reflection on Individualism, Faith, and the Age of Global Uncertainty
Jan 15, 2024 Season 2 Episode 71
Arlo Johnson

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Have you ever felt like just another face in the crowd, especially in the whirlwind of 2020? Our latest episode takes a deep dive into the concept of individualism, or rather, its unsettling decline amidst global upheaval. We'll examine a prediction from nearly a century ago that now echoes with chilling relevance, as masks become ubiquitous, symbolizing safety but also a loss of personal identity. Beyond the fabric covering our faces, we grapple with the profound implications of fear as a totalitarian tool and the prophetic visions of a society transformed. The conversation doesn't stop there; we also delve into the power of faith in these unprecedented times, highlighting the Bible's enduring promise of salvation through belief.

As we navigate the complexities of the world around us, we can't help but marvel at the grandeur of creation, from the cosmic expanse to the miraculous self-healing human body. Our discussion spans the seismic cultural shift from rugged North American individualism to the interconnected global village of today, raising critical questions about the fabric of our society. Amidst these reflections, we also share personal anecdotes on how technology, like a simple interaction with Alexa, offers unexpected companionship in solitude. Whether it's questioning the efficacy of pandemic measures or the companionship of artificial intelligence, this episode promises to stir your thoughts and challenge your perspectives on individuality, faith, and our collective future.

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Have you ever felt like just another face in the crowd, especially in the whirlwind of 2020? Our latest episode takes a deep dive into the concept of individualism, or rather, its unsettling decline amidst global upheaval. We'll examine a prediction from nearly a century ago that now echoes with chilling relevance, as masks become ubiquitous, symbolizing safety but also a loss of personal identity. Beyond the fabric covering our faces, we grapple with the profound implications of fear as a totalitarian tool and the prophetic visions of a society transformed. The conversation doesn't stop there; we also delve into the power of faith in these unprecedented times, highlighting the Bible's enduring promise of salvation through belief.

As we navigate the complexities of the world around us, we can't help but marvel at the grandeur of creation, from the cosmic expanse to the miraculous self-healing human body. Our discussion spans the seismic cultural shift from rugged North American individualism to the interconnected global village of today, raising critical questions about the fabric of our society. Amidst these reflections, we also share personal anecdotes on how technology, like a simple interaction with Alexa, offers unexpected companionship in solitude. Whether it's questioning the efficacy of pandemic measures or the companionship of artificial intelligence, this episode promises to stir your thoughts and challenge your perspectives on individuality, faith, and our collective future.

Support the Show.

Speaker 1:

Good morning. October 29, 2020, 803 am Not a bad day. It's kind of warmed up a little bit. We have pretty cold weather, a lot of rain or snow. I was warming up. I think November, you know, also have to be better than October. The reason why, you know, sometimes a person gets an idea or something and it bugs them. And what bugging me today is Something I had not really realized, you know, and I read something about a guy who wrote Something I don't know his book or whatever 90 years ago, mentioned his name and everything else, and he what? What he was writing about is the loss of individualism and he said people will, worldwide, would end up wearing masks at one time, which would allow them to be stripped of their individualism and would allow Totalitarian regimes to take over and you know, I wouldn't be a democracy of any kind anymore and it would be brought in by fear. Well, I thought what, what more of a description of 2020 is that the idea of Loss of individualism is Is big. I mean, it's a big game changer.

Speaker 1:

It looks to me I didn't think about this before, but it looks to me like it's now a forerunner what's predicted, you know. I mean, how else would they really do it? You know, the people are so Manipulated, can be so manipulated by fear, that it's just amazing. I mean, if somebody will told me that before I said ah, come on, no, that's just, it doesn't have to be fear. That is, you know, shaking in your boots, fear anything. It can be just a low-level fear, or something looking back over your shoulder, whatever that drives people to do these things. And it is seems like. But if you don't conform, that's the big fear.

Speaker 1:

And that's exactly what's happening and you know People are at least somebody like me doesn't really realize what takes place to bring about all these big changes. God has predicted them. I'd you know. Most likely most people don't know how it's gonna happen, but there it is and right in front of you, and it's happening right in front of you. And the loss of individualism. That's what's happening now, right now.

Speaker 1:

And the thing is, it's not local, it's worldwide. So it's oh Well, I believe that God calls you by name. God knows your name. Satan will call you by a number. But to take over the world, to control of the whole population of the world, has to be a pretty, pretty dastardly devious system. But I think that's exactly what's taking place Right in front of our eyes. It may not happen right at all at once. Maybe we may get over this, and you know, but it will have been already proven that it can be done and all it takes is some good reason and people will fall in line immediately. You know what thing that really Worryes me is that you know, I believe what God says and I believe what the Bible says.

Speaker 1:

I don't necessarily believe what man made religion say, because I don't believe that. I don't think they're they have a power to Do that. There Hundreds and hundreds of different religions and all claiming to be right. That's wrong, it's not true. But the Bible itself and the words of Jesus has got to be true, otherwise there's nothing. So the it's always amazed me that you know, no matter how much you want to rail against something, you can't change it. So the only other thing to do is realize that this is all a plan and for sure that Jesus came to do what he did To save the people who believe.

Speaker 1:

And the funny part about it is how this can be based on belief. That's it. You can't work for it. By it you can't do anything. And that to me, that is such a strange thing. But that's the way God works, and he knows everybody's thoughts. He's created us. He knows every single cell in our body and when we are created works, we are given a spirit. God gives every single human being a spirit, the minute that can see, and when they die, the spirit goes back to God again and Wait there till it's called. So the thing is that you know, in God's view it's totally, absolutely important what you believe, the things you do as a result of your beliefs, that's different.

Speaker 1:

But to do something to get to so that God has to give it to you, that doesn't work. Now, he and this business of God, knowing who he's going to, who he's going to have in his kingdom, who he isn't I'm not too sure about that, but it does. A lot of places it looks like that's the case. That's been predetermined. But maybe it's. Maybe it's predetermined up to a point and then it's left to see. Because he leaves. He leaves human nature with choice. They have a choice.

Speaker 1:

The only time we know that being available to human beings to have a choice. They can choose Because he to have a real son.

Speaker 1:

He has a son that chooses him as his father and wants to. Yeah, when I see the, the, when I see the Direction, the things are going. It's going fast. I mean all these things that are Basically anti Christ, anti God, then get me. They've taken God out of them, worshiping in a lot of places that are trying to get rid of, trying to get rid of religion altogether, taking it out of schools, taking it out of Business, whatever, not allowed to. Some places You're not even allowed to Preach it. The soon gonna come a lot. They're soon gonna come along and call it hate speech, which they've already said, because Now you have all kinds of Things that are that God is definitely against, and people who are half way reasonable, note Now they can say oh, they don't, I don't believe a Bible, I don't.

Speaker 1:

Who could write them? A lot of them. That's not right. It's the only communication that the Creator has given to his creation and Instead the test of time. I mean so what I said couple thousand or two thousand years now or more, but it was wrote over 1500, took 1500 years for the miles of Europe. Well, only different people separately, the. You know the Idea, basically what I see so, so big. You know, just absolutely vivid is the Direction that people are taking, where they reject God. They just reject God.

Speaker 1:

They have no fear of God's judgment. That's a big problem and this generation, and maybe the generation just before this Maybe it's the last, I kind of think it's his last generation, which is usually 33 to 40 years has the ones who have rejected basically, in a nutshell, have rejected thought. I'm wearing these Dark sunglasses today because I was in the hospital yesterday and both of my eyes operated on him. I they're pretty puffy and red and I were bleeding, but then the quick bleeding now, but they're. I don't know if I'm gonna get block eyes or what, but uh, I told the surgeon in there, who's a sun deep, oofal, nice guy. I saw him, I said I was laying there and I said okay. I said I want you to give me an ironclad guarantee that these rolls that's what you're doing will last for another 86 years. He laughed and he said absolutely. Basically, he just did a thing to tighten up my bottom eyelids, which are sagging down, and he called it n and throw toppy or something like that, I don't know. Well, he said. I meant you know right, the right eye was the worst. And he said well, I'm gonna do both, but I stitch up this one and stitch up the other one. Pull them, put stitches in that, just pull them back up. I don't know if it's gonna work or not when we talk about three quarters of an hour, maybe not even that. I was in and out of there, froze both eyes, just froze them, couldn't fail thing. It's cutting away and stitching and pulling and, ah, amazing the uh.

Speaker 1:

But anyway, this idea of a loss of individualism is a big flag. It shows that we're going into a situation in this world which is going to be a one-world government for sure, and we may get by it, buy with it for maybe another few years. Depends on I think one of the big things will be is how the election goes in the United States in a couple of days. If it goes to Trump, it most likely will be held up for another four years anyway. But after that the socialists, communist people are whatever are going to get in and individualism and democracy is people call it, which is one. True, anyway, but it's, it's only it's the one that's been running the western world for the last 200 some years or more, but it's, you know, it's not perfect and, and what the thing is, that's got nothing to do with it.

Speaker 1:

God's timetable is the one that has. That's the thing. His timetable is coming, it's going to be done. It's it doesn't I. It doesn't say that on December the 24th this is going to happen. It says this is going to happen, watch for. It doesn't say when, because time is not something that God actually deals with us. He deals with it differently because he's outside of time, but everything he said will be done and there's no doubt about it. He knows the exact minute. It's going to be done, but he doesn't tell us not, and a lot of this is is.

Speaker 1:

I often say that if I asked you how many, whatever, what? How many people do you? How many people are in the in your army? If you say we have many people in the army, what is many? What do you mean by many thousand, two thousand?

Speaker 1:

The thing that I, from what I understand, is when God says many, god does not embellish anything. He never exaggerates like we do. He just says I will have many sons. Christ is the firstborn of many sons. What is that? Could be millions, billions, because things done on God scale is so horrendously big and large that it's be way beyond what we can imagine.

Speaker 1:

When I think of just the creation, I mean that's a big thing. You look at creation. You see sun, moon, star, earth, rivers, mountains, blah, blah, blah, nature. You see all that, but then you don't look at the mechanics of it. It gets smaller and smaller and smaller and more precise and more you know. You get down to atoms and neutrons and whatever. And they still have systems and you can't see them. They're so small but they all have systems. And when you look at that you say how often? What is this? Lots of mystery.

Speaker 1:

Well, take, for instance, I'm 86 years old. I've been running, this body's been running for 86 years, basically repairing itself and keeping on. The only thing you notice all the wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkle, wrinkle ranch. I'm living at wrinkle ranch, a lot of old people now. The thing is, what happens is I don't get wrinkles. What happens is I got too much skin. The skeleton shrinks and the skin doesn't. So that's just a. They should just pull it all up here, cut it off, put, tighten the whole thing up, cut it off and not get rid of the excess skin. And you look around at people. They're all got flab skin hacking here here, jowls underarms oh god, they could do night skin too all over the place.

Speaker 1:

But anyway, the main thrust of what I'm talking about today is individualism, and it's so. I could just feel it. I could just. When I heard this I just thought this guy is right on. How come he wrote this 90 years ago and just now people are realizing not that he's a great person or anything. He was just an ordinary guy who had some kind of vision of this or whatever. And it just shows that god has his own time for doing things. And it's like I was planning. I booked kind of booked a few out 11 days at port of iarta and then back to San Diego and then a cruise 70 cruise down to Mexico and back again on the conings dam hauling America, a new ship. Sounds like a pretty good little holiday actually, but I don't know if I'm going to go the way it sounds. I may not because people are fearful.

Speaker 1:

Now I personally, I don't think it would make a better difference if you wore a mask. If anyone wore masks or not. I'm pretty sure that end result would be pretty close to the same. Wearing mask doesn't stop that. I mean. It's scientifically not even possible. A mask will filter out. I think things down to what they call three microns. It's very small, but they claim, like the coronavirus, china virus, coronavirus, whatever you wanna call it is one micron, so it could easily just come in anyway.

Speaker 1:

The thing is, it's touching is most likely more important than masks. Masks are a feel good. This is how we're gonna fight things. Oh, yes, we all gotta do this, get together. Oh, you don't wear a mask on, you know, but that's fear. That's the exact fear that people have, and they can be manipulated by fear, just like that. That is how the globalists will do it. And I mean you said, as soon as I say that, you say ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. But that's most likely very, very true. One moral government is what's on the table, and that's been thwarted quite a few times. But it's there and it's coming one way or the other, and I can see the way it's gonna come. I didn't realize this before, but I can see now.

Speaker 1:

They get rid of individualism. That's a big holdup. That is what holds it back. Individuals we were blessed to be individuals in North America at least for a couple hundred years, now over 200 years. That means people could start doing things what they wanted to do. The other guy didn't do it. Well, it's fine, just don't leave me alone. I'm gonna do it my way. That's fine. They built branches, businesses, farms and it finally can start to conglominate and drift into bigger cities. Now there's less agriculture, less farming area, which means less individualism. Farming was individualism.

Speaker 1:

I grew up on a farm, a little economic unit. Ours was 320 acres, most of them were 160 acres. There was no government money of any kind or support or nothing Didn't even think about it. You looked, everything had to come from the land of that farm. It had to be grown. It was agriculture. I don't care if it was timber, grain, beef, hogs, chickens, cats, milk, whatever. It all came off the farm and we lived on the farm. That's what it was. It was an actual economic unit. It was like a little farm factory.

Speaker 2:

According to Wikipedia, a farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes, with the primary objective of producing food and other crops. It is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy cake and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fibers, myofuola and other commodities.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, Alexa.

Speaker 2:

You're welcome.

Speaker 1:

Do you hear that? Yes, that's the way I have now. Believe this or not? I have two dots on Alexa Echo and two Alexa 8-inch shows.

Speaker 2:

I didn't catch that. Please say that again.

Speaker 1:

Alexa. Stop, I live alone with Alexa so she's my only company. That's something. Do you live with a false voice and burst? That fits the times. The thing is that All this was going on. Now just turn TV on. If you watch TV Like I do, you know I usually would watch the news, whatever, but most of my watching now is on YouTube and I'll go to I'll go to both section or go to I'll go to some other deals I'll go to. I'll pick up Some people that I really like listening to, and one of them is guy Englishman named Derek Prince.

Speaker 1:

He's dead now but he Preached for many, many, many years. He's a stiff old Englishman and he was in the British Army and he was also in the universities and England. You know thanks, you know Oxford and all that and he allows, all of a sudden, he what he in the army is. When he got converted and I guess a real conversion, because he ended up on the floor and Laughing and crying, doing all kinds of things on the people in the cat and the barracks didn't know what to do, took until morning to get over it and he was changed. He said he was changed completely. He used to be pretty rough guy I guess, but he's a very nice or not nice, he's a very precise person to listen to.

Speaker 1:

Everything he does is very precise. He speaks on a subject, he doesn't wander off. You know, trying to be an entertainer I'm most preacher of. You are to entertain and put on a show. Without a big show, who gets the biggest crowd? No, that's why I like listening to him. And there's another Englishman, to David possum. He's a. He's not pretty good, he's very good. He's an English too, but I think they're both dead now and, compared to the creatures that you hear these days, subtle, just nuts, I mean nuts, I, I, I can't go for that stuff at all.

Speaker 1:

What I do believe it is, I guess, the ten commandments. That's the thing. God's ten commandments, that's basically it I believe in. You know, god said Jesus to this world world to be born here and died here. For the people who would believe in I Would believe that God did it. And God says if you believe that, I will save you from my coming kingdom, which is a Billion billion times better than this and it's eternal, forever. No material body to wear out like this one spiritual Permanence of spirit Doesn't need it, a life in it. I Don't know how that works.

Speaker 2:

I think to myself.

Speaker 1:

There's their bathrooms in there. Or you know I should need a bathroom. Yet they say the guy that can eat, they can do things, or but what happens? Spiritual food or something. And of course we can't. We can't fathom, we can only. Leave what it's what he said and leave it up to. I mean, you can use your imagination, I guess, but yeah, I've got to say something. It's like the way up the. I say those people will get pissed off with me, but I'm gonna say it, the and it's nothing I can do about it.

Speaker 1:

I thought it's the drift away from God's plan of things. For instance, it is very plain and it says in the Bible a couple different places the hierarchy of God's plan kingdom is God the Father, then it goes to Jesus Christ the son, then it goes to the man under Jesus and then the woman under the man. That's the hierarchy. That's not the way it's working, that's just and that's a rebellion against that.

Speaker 2:

Women are rebelling.

Speaker 1:

And why is it women? Why Is it? Because women are more susceptible to be manipulated that way. You know, I know it was I was gonna mention again, remind people. But the last thing basically Jesus said before he left this worth earth was do not be deceived. Watch that you are not deceived. There's deception going on like you wouldn't believe, and it appears to me that women are more susceptible to deception than men.

Speaker 1:

Up yet men Are getting very few of them anymore. I Mean I see, other than older people like me, younger people are Getting less and less male. They are getting effeminate Men, entertainers or something they sing like girls. They they're either. They either Feminine or there are some. You know a good percentage. I guess I'm not gay. That's all basically against God's will. God hates that and what's? That's what's happening and, mind you, that's exactly what he said was good. It's nothing that nothing happening that God didn't say. It's not a thing happening that God didn't say. What's going to happen, everything coming up. The next thing on our table for us is when there's certain things done. It has to be done in Israel, there has to be something happen with temples and Jewish people and whatever. I can't really say what it is all now, but that has to happen first.

Speaker 1:

And then the great deception takes place and the Antichrist comes up and rules the world for a few years, destroys basically just about everything, and then, Christ comes and destroys the Antichrist and takes over the world and runs it for a thousand years and then during that thousand years he puts everything down that's wrong on the earth, I guess, and at the very end he has another war and all the people who still reject God are destroyed. Then the earth is totally renewed. The earth is burnt to press all in fire. Heavens on the earth are both in fire.

Speaker 2:

They're perched and a new heaven.

Speaker 1:

And a new earth. I often think when I want to ask these guys to save the planet, do this global warming? Blah, blah, blah. I want to know how long? How long are you going to save it? What do you want to? How long do you want to save it? God says it's going to be God. Everything you see is going to be God, everything in a certain time. It could be whatever time it takes to get to the Millennium when Christ returns, plus a thousand.

Speaker 1:

So I don't know what happens, but it's a thousand plus whatever. And the thing is, if a person just looks at the Antichrist business coming here to take over the world and put everybody in subjection, and people will, you know people will go for it. I know they will. They just will. Because you go to the, go now, even now, to the hospital or something. People are in there trying to say get, get another week of life, give me another pill, give me another pill. What for that's ridiculous. You're not supposed to love your this life to the. You know you need to give this life up. Give it up, it's finished.

Speaker 1:

But the thing, the big thing, is there's nothing in this universe. I guess that is bigger or better news than what Jesus brought the gospel, the good news for God, the Father, to His creation, that he was going to say for those who are going to be His, is that going to be His? He's going to say, but there's lots that are not going to be. But that's the good news. All this other talk and all this stuff that people do and blab away on TV and politics, it means zero, absolutely zero, means nothing. And if we were, if we had half a brain, we'd realize that every word that God says is real. It's totally real and everything that Jesus said is absolute. Take it to the bank. It's gold, it never changes. That's the problem, not the problem. That's the thing. God does not change. People think they can say, oh well, we don't want to do that, we want to be this way now.

Speaker 2:

We are modern.

Speaker 1:

You know, and you know you want to live the way you want to live. Go ahead, doesn't matter. Of course it matters. If you say it doesn't matter, why do you say it doesn't matter? If it matters? Deception, man or man? Jesus said don't be deceived. And how easy that is and how many are going to be deceived Most likely millions, millions. That's a sad part.

Speaker 1:

There's so many people that could, and it's a thing that God has offered it as a free gift. You can buy it. You can't earn it. If you agree and you want and your desire is to be His Son, women will be sons. If they go to heaven, they're not going to go to heaven. Nobody's going to go to heaven. Heaven is coming to earth. That's plain and simple. There's like a religion talk of people going to heaven and floating away to heaven and just bonkers. What amazes me is why God would pick the earth on all planets in the universe. I've heard that the earth is situated in such a possession that it can view out over the whole of the universe. It has a special possession in the universe. Now, whether the universe is going to disappear or not, god says that it won't be a new heaven and a new earth.

Speaker 1:

If it's just heavens, that means stars or whatever. So when we hear about the big black hole leading up the Milky Way, who knows? Maybe that God is putting them in the whole universe in black hole canisters For maybe later sometime, I don't know. Anyway, I better quit right now. That's enough for today. Thank you very much If you listen. Thank you.

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