u/JaysonShaw8

If no one knows the day or the hour, including the enemy, then why does it seem like the enemy is working overtime? Obviously they are of a higher intelligence than us humans. They know things that we don’t, and they see things that we can’t. Perhaps they are able to better gauge the timeline due to being aware of what God is allowing them to do and at what point in time they are being allowed to do it? Everyone says that the reason why so many crazy things keep happening in such a short span of time is because the enemy knows he doesn’t have much time left, but what makes today any different than 12 years ago? 26 years ago? Technically the enemy has been running out of time for thousands of years.

Here is an analogy: In school sometimes there were timed tests, where if you didn’t finish, you just didn’t finish. Some people would take longer on the questions, and if they saw the clock say there was only 10 minutes left and they still had 15+ questions left, they would just scramble and write in random answers so at least they didn’t leave them blank.

It does feel like we are in a time period similar to that. Where the enemy is just throwing anything and everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. I have always said that if has taken the enemy this many thousands of years to get us to this point, and they still have not accomplished what they have set out to, then they must not be as smart as we think. But then again, God is definitely in control of the timeline.

We keep hearing about all of this secret technology that our government and military has had for 40+++ years. All this technology that has just been sitting in the arsenal for that long? Has the enemy been prepared this entire time and has just been waiting decades for God to allow them to do what they want to do? Or is the enemy trying to move quickly but also keeping their moves calculated? For the enemy to fake a Second Coming, sure they have to get society to a point where they are dumb enough to fall for it. But I feel like we as a society were already to that point over 20 years ago.

As Christians we are supposed to be longing for our forever home. And I think a lot of us are growing impatient. I feel like none of these end times things are ever going to happen. Everything is just moving along so slowly. As far as a cashless society goes, what makes today any different from the day it is actually instituted? What is holding it back? It’s like every single evil thing that is eventually going to happen, has been being tested through trials for years and years and years. Covid 19 feels like an ancient memory at this point, and before that occurred it was being planned for many years. What is the difference between “oh we aren’t ready to roll this out yet,” and “yup we are ready to roll this out?” We are getting to the point where the humans who began working on all of this stuff aren’t even going to be alive to see the fruits of their evil labor.

5 years ago the market was so much different. 100mcs sold for 34b, no matter what and no matter who was selling. Then some people started getting away with selling for 36b, but that was negligible as most people didn’t haggle too hard over it. And the market sat that way for a LONG time. And PvP was actually far more popular back in those days too, so lower demand was not the reason for the lower prices. Bentos were far more difficult/expensive to obtain, therefore many people were reserving their bentos for other purposes, such as sessions, flashes, crate items, etc. Fast forward to today and everybody and their mommas have 800-12,000 bentos sitting in their showcase. And ATA doesn’t care to do a damn thing about it. Bento anchors are a thing of the distant past. ECs and DNs cost the same today as they did 5+ years ago. The game itself hasn’t gotten more expensive, it’s the player to player market that has. Sure, there are more EC clubs today than ever before, so yes the population has grown a little..but still, that wouldn’t affect the market THAT much. It’s ATA not doing anything about these people buying thousands of bentos on the black market for super cheap. There’s even mods with thousands of bentos, the very people ATA has entrusted to enforce the ToS. Now you have people left and right with 50bcs-100bcs+ that they would have never been able to attain/obtain 5 years ago, that they get to use to bully people who could never possibly catch up to defend themselves without also breaking ToS. Heck, there’s people without even a 2 year badge who are passing up 8+ year leaderboard veterans who have been investing in their accounts for years before those other people knew the game even existed. I don’t know man, it’s just sad and depressing to see the current state of the game while comparing it to how things used to be.